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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.

If I get married, I want to be very married.

I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.

As far as playing, I didn't care who guarded me - red, yellow, black. I just didn't want a white guy guarding me, because it's disrespect to my game.

My husband doesn't know what my songs are about - even when they're about him. He's very British in that way. He doesn't ask, and he doesn't want to be told.

If you dream the proper dreams, and share the myths with people, they will want to grow up to be like you.

Rihanna is a very talented person. One of those people who are able to do whatever they want with great results.

If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.

I love sports. I love animals. I love kids. I want to save the world. So how do I combine all those things? I don't know.

If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go.

Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

Before I had kids I'd go out on the road for months and months at a time, but now I don't think I'd want to do that anymore, because I'd miss too much time at home, so it's just a matter of monitoring how much work that I do and how much time I'm on the road.

Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.

After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.

I never want to be pretentious.

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

Taxes are not good things, but if you want services, somebody's got to pay for them so they're a necessary evil.

I want women to be liberated and still be able to have a nice ass and shake it.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

I don't want to look like Connecticut, no offense, I don't want to look like Oklahoma, I don't want to look like California. I want to be uniquely Texas. And that's not to diss anybody else.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.

It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.