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If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

What I want you to understand, is the full evil of those who claim to have become convinced that this earth, by its nature, is a realm of malevolence where the good has no chance to win. Let them check their premises. Let them check their standards of value. Let them check - before they grant themselves the unspeakable license of evil-as-necessity - whether they know what is the good and what are the conditions it requires.

Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.

The only thing I've ever wanted to do in my entire life is to be on Broadway.

I have someone that cooks for me... that's the best thing ever. I just want to show up and I want my house to be like a hotel... so I want to have a couple of options... I like to have a couple of options.

[I want to be] Something that really touched you - and as far as image and change goes, I just really want a lot of people to respect my music and treat me... [as] inspiration.

To be clear, we the Department of Education want curriculum to be driven by the local level. We are by law prohibited from directing curriculum. We don't have a curriculum department.

I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.

Money is a guarantee that we can have what we want in the future

Nothing is ever enough when what you are looking for isn't what you really want.

I love making music and performing for my fans, and I want to be happy and doing what I love still. I'm not taking a moment of this for granted, and if I'm lucky I'll be able to keep doing this. I love it. I'm very happy.

I know what I want, and where to go.

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

I don't want to be anything else other than what I am. I can say that with passion. No regrets.

Michelle Pfeiffer in Tim Burton's 'Batman' was one of the most inspiring - I saw that and I was like, 'I want to be her, I want to do that.'

I'm one of those people who really wants to do everything. And if I had enough time, I really would.

Some people say that success equals money, but frankly, I don't think success is money at all ... Success is being the best at whatever you want to do well at.

I have so much in my life. I want to be of value to the world.

The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.

When people are convinced you want something FOR them rather than something FROM them, they are less likely to be offended when you challenge them.

In Washington, a confidential assistant is someone who, if you don't want to know something, you go and ask him and he won't tell you.

Tell me what you want, and then I'll put in what I want... after I'm done with my codependent providing for you, I'll get a little for me too.

If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

Republicans don't want anyone having more fun than they do, and the Democrats don't want anyone making more money than they do. Libertarians want you to make money and have fun.

I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated