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For me, synchronicity is a way of confirming the rightness of action. It is only in its absence that I realize I'm out of kilter with, for want of a better term, the collective unconscious.

Some after-the-fact storytelling is inevitable, and, in fact, very good and useful. But then we want always to be able to enrich the stories, or maybe change the stories with a fresh infusion of specificity.

God is the most important thing in our lives. I suppose that's true of everybody's lives, whether or not they want to believe it.

write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.

Donald Trump has a grand direction. He doesn't have a grand strategy. He wants to re-establish American authority and power and to relaunch the American economy.

If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society.

I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write.

Every band wants to go believe me, not everybody makes it, but they want to.

Alcohol has never caused anyone to do something they didn't want to do. It only enables them to do what they've always wanted but have instead repressed.

As actors you don't want to have one label. You'd rather have seven.

I don't know, but I think kids just want to be listened to, so I want to make sure I do that.

The last person I ever want working for me is someone who says 'that's not in my job description.

Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, "If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send a geologist or do you want to send a robot?" Well, the real answer is, you can send 100 robots for the price of sending one geologist, so let's send 100 robots to 100 different locations, and then we would all benefit. So that's the answer you would get. And I agree with that answer.

It’s a huge thing, this Shift, just as big as I imagined. My brain doesn’t want to think anymore; all of a sudden it wants to do.

The Tea Partiers don't want all regulations eliminated. They just want laws that can be understood and regulations that aren't going to destroy businesses, or leave deserving veterans without a source for a mortgage loan.

Sometimes...I just want to run away from it all

I learned that if you're going to be a troublemaker, you don't want a ton of witnesses, because there's inevitable fallout from living like you're in 'Lord of the Flies.'

I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.

Some people say they want things, but when push comes to shove they don't do what is necessary to achieve it.

I dont want to repeat my mistakes.

Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!

I've never been that person who wants a Rolls Royce or wants to live in a mansion or what have you.

You cannot earn money from any artistic career. You have to spend all the time if you want to develop, and keep presenting shows that are always better, always new.

Don't ever become so preoccupied by who you want to be that you forget to be who you are.