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The children of each generation are taught to want what they are taught they must not have.

Cynicism is the last refuge of those who don't want to do the work of creating a better society.

You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy. Make yourself perfect and then just paint naturally.

If you want to thrive in today's economy, you must challenge the status quo and get the financial education necessary to succeed.

I have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.

The hardest thing about being famous is that ... in a conversation everybody's agreeing with what you're saying. ... You need people who can tell you what you don't want to hear.

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

Before you put pen to paper, before you ring for your stenographer, decide in your own mind what effect you want to produce on your reader — what feeling you must arouse in him.

I hope some day to meet God, because I want to thank Him for the flowers.

I want nothing from You but to see You.

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

The money is what made me miserable. I want to be free of that stress.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. "Don't bother us with politics," respond those who don't want to learn.

Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

I can never accomplish what I want - only what I would have wanted had I thought of it beforehand.

The list of things about which we strictly have to be agnostic doesn't stop at tooth fairies and celestial teapots. It is infinite. If you want to believe in a particular one of them - teapots, unicorns, or tooth fairies, Thor or Yahweh - the onus is on you to say why you believe in it. The onus is not on the rest of us to say why we do not. We who are atheists are also a-fairyists, a-teapotists, and a-unicornists, but we don't have to bother saying so.

The space for what you want is already filled with what you settled for instead.

If you want to bless me you can bless my bottom, for it is sticking out of the hole.

see the things that you want as already yours

I want to get out of the major opera houses.

I don't want to record anything unless it can be great and genuinely interesting.

It is our responsibility to learn how to speak to an audience that is less informed about music, to give it a reason to want to come and see us instead of going to the movies.

I want to live a full life - period.

The things we want are transformative, and we don’t know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation Never to get lost is not to live.