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Not everyone out in a storm wants to be saved

If liberals want to send tens of millions of dollars down the drain, I have no problem with that.

I still want to do what I want to do, but we also have to think about some sense of protecting the business that's out there as well.

I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort of stayed with me, really.

I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.

Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.

A lot of people are doing something about their weight, but by their own reckoning, it isn't enough to get the results they want

I don't want to get into the 'who's a hostage-taker' discussion here, but what is the estate tax? It's a double tax on death. Economists will tell you that it's really not a tax that soaks the rich, but it's a tax on capital that deprives business investment and therefore job creation.

When you know who you are, you know who you are. That's the real dangerous thing in Hollywood, because they all want to create you and mold you.

Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.

One thing I know is that I don't want to be a director for hire, making genre films.

Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it.

I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.

I don't want a job in the administration; I think I'm more effective carping from the sidelines.

Frightened, I jump up from the bank, the struggle begins anew. Bitterness has returned. I am not Pan in the reed, I am merely a human being and want to climb a few steps, but really climb them.

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

No one wants my painting because it is different from other people's peculiar, crazy public that demands the greatest possible degree of originality on the painter's part and yet won't accept him unless his work resembles that of the others!

In the clubs, the entertainment and the restaurant business are at war with each other. You get crowds that are not the greatest, and it becomes like a babysitting job, rather than doing what you want to do. I have a more deliberate pacing in my act, and having a half interested audience is death. They have to hear what I'm saying for it to pay off.

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

I want to keep playing at the kind of level where I'll get respect from everybody.

All I've ever wanted, since I was a child, was to do something wonderful.

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

I'm very curious about David Bowie's new record [2016]. I'm very, very... I'm just incredibly curious, I want to see what's happening with that. I don't really know who else is putting out records, we've had our heads buried working on ours. I haven't really been paying much attention lately.

I want my clothes to make you smile!