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We like our current shareholders and don't want to entice anyone to become one. It would help current shareholders to hear our CEOs [of the Berkshireoperating subsidiaries], but we promised them they could spend 100% of their time on their business. We place no impediments on them running their businesses. Many have expressed to me how happy they are that they don't have to spend 25% of time on activities they didn't like.

I don't invest in what I don't understand. And I don't want to understand Facebook.

If people tell you what you really don't want to hear what's unpleasant-there's an almost automatic reaction of antipathy. You have to train yourself out of it.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one in our pathetic little pre-apocalyptic timebubble wants to be labelled "sad" - it's like being officially declared worthless by the state. So we muster a grin and go out on the town in our millions.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

Enjoy the elastic present, which can accommodate as little or as much as you want to put in there. Stretch it out, live inside of it.

If you want great tranquility/ It's hard work and a long walk

He wants you all to Himself to put His loving, divine arms around you.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

People get tired of the same old sound. They want something new.

If I could reincarnate as another player, I might want to reincarnate as Thierry Henry at the top of his game.

Because sometimes you have to suffer without the things you want now so you can have everything you need later.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

Who are we, if not measured by our impact on others? That’s who we are! We’re not who we say we are, we’re not who we want to be - we are the sum of the influence and impact that we have, in our lives, on others.

We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy.

I make films for myself, first and foremost, just because it is such a personal experience, and it's something I really have to want to do and feel connected to.

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

When people know I wrote 'Thelma and Louise,' they don't want to mess with me.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.

I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

He cannot "tempt" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles.

The very condition of having Friends is that we should want something else besides Friends. Where the truthful answer to the question "Do you see the same truth?" would be "I see nothing and I don't care about the truth; I only want a Friend," no Friendship can arise - though Affection of course may. There would be nothing for the Friendship to be about; and Friendship must be about something, even if it were only an enthusiasm for dominoes or white mice. Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

I want God, not my idea of God.

Everyone wants peace, inside and outside, and we would all have it if we knew how. Now we know how. It begins with you.