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Women don't have to listen to their inner-critic and hold themselves back; they can unleash themselves and reach their best potential if they put their effort into it. That's what I want my daughter to do.

You want to make people laugh and by virtue of that please them, but when you're instructed to make people laugh and please them, you're too resentful to do it.

I want my world to get bigger and not end up in a small corner.

It's very noble of President Obama to want to stay at the helm and maybe go down with this sinking ship.

Life needed a fast forward button. Because there were days you just don't want to live through, not again, but they kept coming around and you were powerless to stop time or speed it up or do anything to keep from having to face it.

I would never intentionally want to hurt someone's feelings.

I know most of the photographers in Ireland. And if I don't want my photograph taken, they will leave me alone.

I was lucky on 'Arli$$.' I basically got to do whatever I wanted because HBO is great for that.

It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.

I've always been very skeptical about marriage, because I only want to do it once; I want to do it the right way.

What we want to tell, we wish our friend to have curiosity to hear.

Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.

Want of tenderness is want of parts, and is no less a proof of stupidity than depravity.

Where you have nothing, there you should want nothing.

I have a respect for Elvis and my friendship. It ain't my business what he did in private. The only thing I want to know is, 'Was he my friend?', 'Did I enjoy him as a performer?', 'Did he give the world of entertainment something?' - and the answer is YES on all accounts. The other jazz just don't matter.

When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.

You've always got to be smart enough to go 'Well they're going to have to bring some of their own in'. We don't want to be a monopoly where we get shoved out, it has to be symbiotic.

I used to get headaches in 3D movies, and I didn't want the movie to give people headaches.

If you want to kill time why not try working it to death.

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education.

I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.

When it becomes hard for me not to eat bad food, I try to think about what I have to do and what is ahead of me and what I want to achieve.

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us.

I want people to know you can live a life that is less aggressive and still have success.

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don’t want to.