"I used to want to pack as much as I could into my life, but now I realize it's more about quality of life than quantity."
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"Any man in Hollywood will meet me if I want that. No, make that any man anywhere."
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"I'm not trying to kill you, I only want to make you stronger"
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"I don't want to die. I think death is a greatly overrated experience."
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"I always did sing. It's always been something I love to do but it has also been the most private and most secret thing that you don't really want to let the world in on."
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"Before we can build the world we want to live in, we have to imagine it."
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"When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the light off, putting my head down and then all the thoughts. I don't want all those thoughts... thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts feed on thoughts and I'm: 'I don't want this'. I have to knock myself out to go to sleep."
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"I don't want to end up like my mom. That's my biggest fear in life."
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"I think it's wrong to write in a totally esoteric language when you want to talk about things which interest a multitude of women."
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"I don't want anybody shooting, but I can't stop it."
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"This, then, is the ultimate paradox of thought: to want to discover something that thought itself cannot think."
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"Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead."
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"Your life can be anything you want it to be."
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"People are social beings and want interaction and social learning is the primary form of learning, just as word of mouth advertising is the highest form of advertising."
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"I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once."
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"We never cease wanting what we want, whether it's good for us or not."
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"I just don't feel comfortable anymore with the kind of attention that I'm getting. It's purely the numbers of people that want a bit of the Cure or want a bit of me."
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"The things that you know more about than you want to know are very useful."
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"I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product."
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"Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size doesn't matter, when you want some friendly patter from a pal who is true."
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