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If you want criticisms, read the dissenting opinions of the Court. That will give you criticisms.

We want to live forever, and we're getting there.

A family, like a canoe, must be steered or paddled, or it won't take you where you want to go.

I feel the producers really exploited my lack of talent at this time. I looked like an idiot up there. I want to be good, not something that people will laugh at.

I got an agent. He said, what do you wanna do, and I said, I want an Oscar nomination. That's your job, that's what I'm paying you for. And I got it.

You become technically proficient whether you want to or not, the more you take pictures.

If you want others to follow, learn to be alone with your thoughts.

Clearly, there are a thousand and one scenarios for how someone can slip through the cracks. I'll walk down the street and see a homeless person, and I'll want to stop them and say, How did this happen? Where's your mother? Are you physically ill? Mentally ill?

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses - which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you're playing a cartoon character.

I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.

I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.

The man that found the 726-carat diamond in Africa, received $350,000 for it and wants to buy a farm and silk hat. Well, I can understand a man perhaps being eccentric enough to want to own a silk hat.

It's the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

People want just taxes more than they want lower taxes. They want to know that every man is paying his proportionate share according to his wealth.

I guess the verdict is in - I am not a sociopath. It's not effective or productive not to be nice. It would undermine the goals I want to achieve on any given day.

I don't want to interact with people but I do get lonely.

The kids are the ones that have a clarity about what they want. They don't have any wisdom, but they do have a clear understanding about what they want to have happen.

If we want to raise young adults who know how to solve problems, we must let them have problems to solve while they are still adolescents.

The chance you had is the life you've got. You can make complaints about what people, including you, make of their lives after they have got them, and about what people make of other people's lives, ...but you mustn't wish for another life. You mustn't want to be somebody else.

For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.

The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.

My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.

I start every day by wanting more for others than I do for myself. I think that is how God works, and that is how I think we have to work.