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Mammals are sentient beings that want to live and are afraid to die. Evolution vouchsafed us all with an instinct to survive, reproduce and flourish.

...I really want to believe. I find the goodies offered by Christianity extremely attractive. But I am damned (again!) if I am going to sell my evolutionary birthright for a mess of religious pottage.

We want to annoy the whenever we can. The best thing we can do with environmentalists is shoot them.

The minute it gets to a runway, you're tempted to do some high jinks. I don't want to show something I won't produce. I want people to wear the clothes I show.

Children are the only ones who don't want anything of me.

The myth is that if housing prices go up, Americans will be richer. What banks - and behind them, the Federal Reserve - really want is for new buyers to be able to borrow enough money to buy the houses from mortgage defaulters, and thus save the banks from suffering from more mortgage defaults.

When making a film, I'm never concerned about whether the theme is new or whether it's been done before in cinema or not. I'm led to make films if there's a theme that interests me or I experience something in my own life that confronts me with something that I want to deal with.

I would want to teach my children someday that they should strive to be successful.

Architects love to rethink a project - that's what we do. If something is successful, like a house or a kettle, in this case, it's a great compliment when someone wants another one.

Through music I either tame my demons or unleash them and allow them to be what they are. I don't want the music to be about provocation, I want the music to bring you to a place where you feel at home

People can say what they want in the Labour Party.

Everything I put my name to and take part in, I want to be good. That's not saying it will always happen. But I want to make bold choices.

Know what you want to do, because if you don't know what you want to do, you'll get stuck.

When you're 18, you escape if you want to. Sixteen, you're still really depending on the people around you. You can't drive, and you can't support yourself. You can't legally be responsible for yourself.

If you want to become humble, the first thing you have to admit is that you are proud.

I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me.

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

If that person doesn't want to be in your life, just let him or her leave.

The shell must be cracked apart if what is in it is to come out, for if you want the kernel you must break the shell.

He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

Some artists want to confront. Some want to invoke thought. They're all necessary and they're all valid.

Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery.

God serves the choosy. They know what to want.

I didn't write my poems because I wanted to, they were wrung from me. I had to write them.