Want Quotes - Page 384

For me, I want a president who is more than a symbol, someone who has ideas that I align with.

[When] you're a writer, you know that a lot of times you have to sneak up on yourself in order to achieve what you want to achieve, and sometimes you don't even know what it is until you've done it.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

There's nothing - I've bought everything I want. I don't like yachts or anything; you know, I'm not a yacht person, and I've got pretty much the nicest plane I'd want to have.

I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into.

When we describe what the other person is really like, I suppose we often picture what we want. We look through the prism of our need.

It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry and stop holding on to some form of discrimination that it's just isn't fair.

I have no problem being 53. Why would I want to be 35 again? I want to discover who I am in my 50s. And if I tried too hard to look younger, it would seem that I was uncomfortable with who I am, wouldn't it?

I don't have a Facebook, I never have. I don't have Twitter, I never have. I think my parents are very protective, so they didn't want us to have any more exposure. But Instagram is a photo that you control. And you can talk to your fans, or talk about the movies you do - slices of your life. It is what you make it.

Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you.

[On Ronald Reagan:] The President doesn't want yes-men around. When he says no, we all say no.

I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner.

That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.

[We need to push] for what we want, not just what we can get.

People will always be around to tell you you're no good or you're wrong or unwise to keep doing what you want to do. They're wrong. They're always wrong. Keep going.

If someone wants to transmit a high-quality service with no interruptions and 'guaranteed this, guaranteed that,' they should be willing to pay for that.

For me, in terms of personal satisfaction, the mission's already accomplished. I already won. As soon as the journalists were able to work, everything that I had been trying to do was validated. Because, remember, I didn't want to change society. I wanted to give society a chance to determine if it should change itself.

I learned to discipline myself to do things I didn't want to do

What mankind wants is not talent; it is purpose.

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame - to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a hell.

It takes a kind of shabby arrogance to survive in our time, and a fairly romantic nature to want to.

When I finally put my guitar in the case the last time, I want to be remembered just as a singer, not as a country singer or pops singer - just a singer.

As a runner on a film, you are the lowest of the low, and yet you have incredible access to everyone. I can totally imagine that for actors in the middle of a Hollywood bubble, all they really want is a sense of normality, and that gopher can be a tap for that.