Wants Quotes

Since the departure of good old-fashioned entertainers the re-emergence of somebody who wants to be an entertainer has unfortunately become a synonym for camp. I don't think I'm camper than any other person who felt at home on stage, and felt more at home on stage than he did offstage.

The Giants are looking for a trade but I don't think Atlanta wants to depart with a quality player.

With Sean Penn, he wants to be surprised. He doesn't necessarily want what he's written, although we'll do what he's written. He likes the danger of acting.

I've achieved what every artist wants, which is that some of their work will outlive them.

One wants to be together with one's family. That's what families are about.

The patient's autonomy always, always should be respected, even if it is absolutely contrary - the decision is contrary to best medical advice and what the physician wants.

Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. If you want to sell books, you have to write about the interesting lawyers - the guys who steal all the money and take off. That's the fun stuff.

I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill.

Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

I believe in letting a guy live the way he wants to if he doesn't hurt anyone.

So many shows out there dumb-down the country. It's so admirable to be part of a show that wants people to think.

So China will be having to make some choices as to whose side it wants to be on. Hopefully, this will be the beginning of a major improvement in our relationship with them, if they choose correctly.

The Champions League is the competition everyone wants to be in.

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy.

You will encounter many distractions and many temptations to put your goal aside: The security of a job, a wife who wants kids, whatever. But if you hang in there, always following your vision, I have no doubt you will succeed.

The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.

As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

Being a salesman and an actor were not that dissimilar: It is a good lesson in covering up your feelings. No one wants to buy from someone who looks depressed.

I've been too productive for too long, and despite what anybody wants to strip away from me, I am influential. I am.

Prior to being allowed to enter the profession, prospective teachers should be asked to talk with a group of friendly students for at least half an hour and be able to engage them in an interesting conversation about any subject the prospective teacher wants to talk about.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

Well, basically, when you get SNL, everyone wants to take a meeting, just in case you end up being good.

Now, if someone wants to spit on me, I just roll up the window of my BMW 540i.

If Romney wants to make me responsible for ObamaCare, I've said I would be proud to be responsible for it.

I think that anybody that stays in school, gets good grades, pays the price, I think we are wealthy enough in the public and the private sector in America to make sure that every child in America that wants to continue their education, they should be able to do that.

You know what I really love? The CD players in a car. How when you put the CD right up by the slot, it actually takes it out of your hand, like it's hungry. It pulls it in, and you feel like it wants more silver discs.