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Her business manager said, you know, Gilda [Radner] left you that house. That's when I decided to stay and test it out. And after about a month, the roots grew, and I didn't ever want to live anywhere else for the rest of my life - travel, yes, but not to live anywhere else.

I simply did not want my face to be my talent.

I want to be dictator.

My constituents don't want more refugees. I'm not ashamed to represent these voters. I'm proud of it.

I don't know who I am. Or maybe I do know who I am and I just don't want to be her anymore.

Sometimes, you know, I just feel like I want a Coke, and I drink a Coke.

When I am told (by those who confuse predestination with God's providence) that God already knows who will be saved and who will be damned, and therefore anything we do is useless, I usually answer with four truths that the bible spells out for us:God wants that everyone be saved; No one is predestined to go to hell; Jesus died for everyone; and everyone is given sufficient graces for salvation.

No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.

All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment.

If an architect wants to strengthen a decrepit arch, he increases the load laid upon it, for thereby the parts are joined more firmly together.

Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

Does it mean this, does it mean that, that's all anybody wants to know. I'd say what any decent poet would say if anyone dared ask him to analyze his work: if you see it, darling, then it's there!

Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.

I wouldn’t want to be faster or greener than now if you were with me O you were the best of all my days!

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

Nobody wants to live with a person who'll never be happy.

I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

Marriage is a very difficult relationship for nearly everyone and I'm sure you shouldn't do it if you want a quiet little easy life.

I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.

Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary.

I want the brain to intervene between the observation and the mark.

Everything that we want is downstream... And you don't have even have to turn the boat and paddle downstream, just let go of the oars, the current will carry you.

After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.