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"I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it."
"I want the people to work less for the government and more for themselves. I want them to have the rewards of their own industry."
"When your focus is social change and not financial change why wouldn't you want to share that openly? Innovation only succeeds when it's shared."
"What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness."
"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to go there right away."
"I think every actor wants to be an FBI or cop at one point."
"I want to keep my fan base supplied with a steady chain of music."
"'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."
"That is my major preoccupation, memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it."
"Be of good cheer, for you will never want, for the bullet was meant for me, though it hit you."
"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."
"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."
"Contentment comes not so much from great wealth as from few wants."
"I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend."
"If you focus upon whatever you want, you will attract whatever you want. If you focus upon the lack of whatever you want, you will attract more of the lack."
"We want to have certainties and no doubts- results and no experiments- without even seeing that certainties can arise only through doubt and results only thorough experiment."
"It's clear that policymakers and economists are going to be interested in the measurement of well-being primarily as it correlates with health; they also want to know whether researchers can validate subjective responses with physiological indices."
"When you're acting on TV, you want to keep it real."
"The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me how to make my music."
"Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy"
