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"I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know."
"Jack Aubrey is a tremendous tower of strength and you always want to read about him."
"I want to hear the word 'cherish' about 5 times."
"I don't know why women want any of the things men have when one the things that women have is men."
"If I say that I love you but I do want personal time, or if I don't want to do PDA, it's not that I have something against you."
"Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?"
"The superior man is distressed by his want (lack) of ability"
"If I'm not doing the work I want, I usually suffer a psychological allergic reaction and get ill. It niggles when things get out of my control."
"And it is you, spirit--with will and energy, and virtue and purity--that I want, not alone with your brittle frame."
"I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off."
"Did you ever see so many pee-wee hats, Carl?" "They're beanies." "They call them pee-wees in Brooklyn." "But I'm not in Brooklyn." "But you're still a Brooklynite." "I wouldn't want that to get around, Annie." "You don't mean that, Carl." "Ah, we might as well call them beanies, Annie." "Why?" "When in Rome do as the Romans do." "Do they call them beanies in Rome?" she asked artlessly. "This is the silliest conversation."
"Two-point-seven percent unemployment equates to -- everybody who wants to work is working. It equates to full employment."
"I always treat myself to one meal on Sundays when I can have whatever I want. Usually it's pizza, which is my favorite indulgence."
"Customers want high quality at low prices and they want it now."
"The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it."
"I know there's a farmer out there somewhere who never wants a PC and that's fine with me."
"If people really want to find you, they find you."
"I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar."
"God knows what we are going through when we grieve, and He wants to assure us of His love and concern. He also wants us to turn to Him and bring our heartaches and burdens to Him."
"It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have all one wants."
