"If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable."
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"It is my baby and if I want to bring it out to play again, I will."
"Now, I don’t want any of you youngsters to worry — you’ll still have your Potions master when I’m through with him, never fear!” “Wouldn’t it be good if they finished each other off?” Ron muttered in Harry’s ear."
"I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter."
"When you’re young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that’s what you want to do, stand out."
"I want to be a society vampire, you see."
"the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation."
"If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival."
"I don't believe there's a certain age where you can't say and feel and be who you want to be."
"I am because we are. We all bleed the same color. We all want to love and be loved."
"I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation."
"I’ve always taught pitch selection, but I just want my guys to be aggressive on their pitch."
"Dope and diamonds, dope and diamonds, that's all that I want"
"I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest."
"So the unwanting soul sees what's hidden, and the ever-wanting soul sees only what it wants."
"Did he say:"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!"?No,indeed!He said:"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick" -Pippin Took"
"True Wealth is being able to do what I want, when I want. If I can do that, I am wealthy."
"My hero wants to belong too, but he doesn't want to give up all the things he came to value in the west."
"Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them."
"It is one thing to want money-everyone wants more-but it is something entirely different to be worth more!"