"I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them."
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"The thing I've always liked about performing is that I decide what I want to wear, whether I want to comb my hair."
"If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting."
"I just always enjoy it; if you really enjoy what you do, you don't want to stop."
"I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do."
"I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything."
"I want to bring accountability to the federal government. I want the federal government to respect the states."
"More American companies are getting bought by foreign firms or they`re becoming foreign firms or they`re outsourcing. Right now the tax code says if you want to make something in another country and re-import it back into America, go ahead and do that. We don`t want to incentivize that."
"We want American families to feel more confident in life. We want the next generation to know that yes, the best days of this country are still ahead of us."
"On behalf of every Republican and every Democrat in Congress, on behalf of the whole House, I want our friends in the Jewish community to know that we stand with them."
"We want free trade but we want free trade that is good. We want free trade that levels the playing field."
"I want to build a studio in my backyard. The interest rates are low now, so who knows"
"I make films and do the publicity and interviews, but then I want to get away from it all and be on my own."
"But at the age of 44, I sure hope to be a better businesswoman. I want to get the music straight to my fans."
"If you want to understand love, first learn about freedom."
"Once someone asked me, "What do you want to be your epitaph?" So I said, "Paulo Coelho died when he was alive."
"My brained warned me, but my heart didn't want to take its advice."
"I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books."
"Never asking a direct question, even though the other person can guess what it is you want to know."
"You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring."