"If you want to have more, you must become more."
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"You want to set a goal that is big enough that in the process of achieveing it you become someone worth becoming."
"If you really want it, you need to really work for it."
"When producers want to know what the public wants, they graph it as curves. When they want to tell the public what to get, they say it in curves."
"God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God."
"If I was making a tea advert, I would want to communicate about tea is that it can console you, it can start your day, there is the warmth and the ritual, and you can share it; you make someone a cup of tea and you offer it to them."
"Everybody in the world wants the same thing...to be needed...a job that he/she can do well...to love somebody...Everybody...There's no mystery."
"I want feelings to be expressed, to be open, to be natural, not to be looked on as strange. It's not weird if you feel deeply."
"I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with."
"I want to feel my life while I'm in it."
"I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges."
"I want to play for years."
"My nature is to get instant gratification. On stage, I can feel everybody's anticipation. I know what they want, I know what I'm going to give them, I know when I'm going to give it to them, I know when they want it."
"I want someone to attack me. No weapons. Just me and him. I like to beat men and beat them bad"
"I just want to be humble at all times."
"I want your heart, I want to eat your children."
"The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past."
"You want to know how I started playing trumpet? My father bought me one, and I studied the trumpet. And everybody I heard that I liked, I picked up things from."
"I want to be distinguished from the rest; to tell the truth, a friend to all mankind is not a friend for me."
"The president has the right to select who he wants for the Supreme Court. He doesn't have to get it cleared from Congress, Senate or anybody... No president before this has come under this kind of scrutiny ... before the committee hearings even begin."