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We always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want and not as they are.

Believe that if Allah wants you to know something, someone will tell you.

No one has ever described the place where I have just arrived: this is the emotion that makes me want to travel. It is one of the greatest reasons to go anywhere.

Normal! He thought. Normal! I don't want things to be normal. Normal is always being left out, never belonging.

Charles Burchfield would look at what you were working on and not say anything for several minutes. Then he would very sensitively respond - "Well, have you thought about?" or "Might you consider?" I respected that so much because I thought he was so sensitive to my work, and didn't want to offend me, but in the right way to encourage me.

I found at this point that effective acting wasn't what I wanted to do, that I didn't want to make effects, that I wanted, as it were, to leave an impression of a particular kind of human being.

I want to be happy; why do I do things that make me unhappy?

So where did these cravings come from? I concluded it's the baby ordering in. Prenatal takeout. Even without ever being in a restaurant, fetuses develop remarkably discerning palates, and they are not shy about demanding what they want. If they get a hankering, they just pick up the umbilical cord and call. 'You know what would taste good right now? A cheeseburger, large fries, and a vanilla shake. And if you could, hurry it up, because I'm supposed to grow a lung in a half hour.'

I wanted to make a lot of good pitches.

If stealing a few saltshakers was wrong I didn't want to be right.

It's like if you're an astronaut and you've been to the moon, what do you want to do with the rest of your life?

I still want to be the guy who can get on the subway and check out the freak on the subway.

Everything is about to disappear. You've got to hurry up if you still want to see things.

I want to be around a really long time. I want to be a thorn in the side of everything as long as possible.

Ultimately, I want to make everyone horny.

I don't want to get rich - just live good.

That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job.

If you want it bad enough, you'll get it.

If you want to change the world, you change the world of a child.

I wanted [Martin] to be a really decent human being because I didn't want to depict the cliché that a woman becomes a lesbian because her husband is terrible to her.

There's something about me that makes a lot of people want to throw up.

Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another

I want to go as far as it will take me. I would love to go pro, but if that doesn't happen, I am a gourmet chef and would like to open my own restaurant.

Braque always said that the only thing that counts, in painting, is the intention, and it's true. What counts is what one wants to do, and not what one does. That's what's important.

If we're free to do what we want, why does government always have a plan for us?