Wants Quotes

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends.

No man should have a political office because he wants a job.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Every actor wants to direct.

If a remake is not good, no one wants to see it and, again, it doesn't hurt the original.

Bill Gates wants people to think he's Edison, when he's really Rockefeller. Referring to Gates as the smartest man in America isn't right... wealth isn't the same thing as intelligence.

Any woman can fool a man if she wants to and if he's in love with her.

No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you have a pre-existing medical condition, you, you can be deprived of coverage. No one wants to go back to a situation where, if you get seriously ill, you can get thrown off your insurance. Seniors don't want to go back to paying more for their prescription drugs.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

No one wants to see a tattoo on a stomach.

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

I think no athlete wants to end his career on an injury.

All God wants of man is a peaceful heart.

But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.

And this speaks to the larger problem that no one wants to talk about: the restoration of the Roman rite is a precondition for a long-term fix for the problem.

You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down to you. Ultimately, that's what every driver wants.

Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.

There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

Freedom, morality, and the human dignity of the individual consists precisely in this; that he does good not because he is forced to do so, but because he freely conceives it, wants it, and loves it.

The United States is for a two-state solution. The United States wants to see the Israelis and Palestinians come together.

My work is to reach people with ideas, hopes, dreams, encouragement, insight, and revelation. That's what an actor wants to do.

Of course I'm schooled in the old school method: taking what I think the director wants, then reworking it through my own brain and heart.

Everybody wants to defeat the defending champs.

A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.

Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon.

The philosophy behind much advertising is based on the old observation that every man is really two men - the man he is and the man he wants to be.

Labor also wants shorter hours and a say in how work shall be done.

One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing.

One must work and dare if one really wants to live.

In the theatre the audience wants to be surprised - but by things that they expect.