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I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

I just want you to know who I am.

The information we need is not available. The information we want is not what we need. The information we have is not what we want.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

Anybody who tells you to have a fallback plan are people who had a fallback plan, didn’t follow their dreams, and don’t want you to either.

I don't want to be boring. But that's not always easy.

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don't understand the assignment, I told her she doesn't understand life.

​W​e're so used to having everything we want at our fingertips so I think that when things get tough it's ​difficult ​for people to persist through that.

I don't do nothing I don't want to do.

You always want to do something different. I enjoy the process. I like making movies, and it's increasingly hard to find a movie you'd want to make.

Jazz is not about getting and playing whatever notes you want. It is about reworking themes in a manner that sounds good, that can be followed by the other musicians and that the audience enjoys. You cannot do that without first acquiring skills.

I've never known what I've wanted to do. I've never planned anything in my life.

Agnostics cannot understand Christ for the same reason a thief find a policeman -they don't want to.

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

Don't underestimate the value of beginning a headline by naming the people you want to reach.

The best headlines are those that appeal to the reader's self-interest, that is, headlines based on reader benefits. They offer readers something they want - and get from you.

Just look around, in life, there's people who want to date people who look like themselves, and there are people who are just looking for a good fit. And a lot of times, a good fit is someone different than yourself. I'm not one to get too hung up on outside appearances. I find people attractive for more subtle reasons than just the way they look.

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

If you want a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium

I know what I believe, I know what I want to do, and I'm just comfortable saying it, and laying it out there.

You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.

The offers were, like, a lot of money - maybe not for other actors, but definitely for me. But I don't want that power. I don't want $20-million power.

What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.

I'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.