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I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you.

If we are honest and fair, then we are known by that. If we are not, alas, we are known by that as well. What we want to do is do right, but you have to say it, you have to show it, and not stop.

Love is like a roller coaster. When it's good, you don't want to stop and when it's not... you want to throw up.

I want to have a career that lasts 60 years, not six.

Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

I want to see me to the end working, living for myself. Ripeness is all.

You can start making up any kind of story if you want to.

I personally don't like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

I want it to go on, but I want us to go out on top.

I want to be able to take care of my family.

As a photographer you have to do things you don't want to.

The New York action painters want their pictures to jump off the walls and chase you down the street.

The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.

Often, when I want to consult my impulses, I cannot find them.

The sentimental want to be thrilled by everything.

As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.

There is never a sudden revelation, a complete and tidy explanation for why it happened, or why it ends, or why or who you are. You want one and I want one, but there isn't one. It comes in bits and pieces, and you stitch them together wherever they fit, and when you are done you hold yourself up, and still there are holes and you are a rag doll, invented, imperfect. And yet you are all that you have, so you must be enough. There is no other way.

The more anybody wants a thing, the more they do think others want it.

[On the Irish:] Strange race ... Don't know what they want, but want it like the devil.

Besides, you want the unvarnished and ungarnished truth, and I'm no hand for that. I'm a lawyer.

[The writer] wants both to do the best possible work and also to reach the largest possible audience. The result is a fairly normal condition of discouragement.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.

I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.

I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know, whoever I was, I was alive for a little while.