Want Quotes - Page 211

Most of what I want simply slips away like water flowing through a net, and always what remains are only vague, elusive fragments of images... that sink into countless strata in my mind.

To want to be what one can be is purpose in life.

Motherhood is the only thing in my life that I've really known for sure is something I wanted to do.

Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

People who actually have money don't want to talk about it. They want to talk about everything else.

The mainstream media has its own agenda. They do not want to print the facts. They have an agenda, they have a slant, they have a bias. It is outrageous to me.

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

I always want my options to be open.

The best roles you have to fight for. You have to really want to do it and you have to go after it.

The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.

You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'

I just want to be married, or just engaged. Basically, I just want a ring. And the tax break.

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

The thing is, you don't even want to be mad about someone calling you fat because who the f--- cares? Like if somebody tells me, 'Oh, you look curvier.' That should not be a diss. The fact is, we live in a time where that is a diss. It's horrible we can be like, 'You look so skinny,' and someone's like, 'Thank you!' That's horrible. That's equally as horrible to me. So the time we live in, it's upsetting.

Men are very tough, very critical of me. I think they expect you to basically just be a picture. They don't want to hear you speak.

There are no impediments now to corporations. None. And what they want is for us to give up. They want us to become passive. They want us to become tacitly complicit in our own destruction.

I'm a dude, obviously, and when I'm not in a relationship, I don't do laundry until I want to. But if I live with a girl, you have to do it when she wants to or when we want to, which sucks.

We did that often, asking each other questions whose answers we already knew. Perhaps it was so that we would not ask the other questions, the ones whose answers we did not want to know.

From biscuit to brides, if there is anything their children really want, parents have a problem.

I hide my documents in many different places on my computer, because I often write things that I would never want anybody to read, at least unedited, and I'm paranoid that someone might figure out what the password to my computer is and maliciously read my Word documents. So a lot of the time I lose things I've written and/or completely forget about them.

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

There has never been a master plan. Anyone who wanted to do it, we fired because it takes on a life of its own and doesn't cover new reality. We want people taking into account new information.

Don't accuse anyone with the temerity to question your sad supernatural fantasies of having a 'closed mind' or being 'blind to possibilities'. A closed mind asks no questions, unthinkingly accepting that which it wants to believe. The blindness is all yours.