"All that I need now is someone with the brains and the know-how to tell me what I want."
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"People's wants are not fixed; they generally want what others in their chosen comparison class appear to be enjoying and what advertising presents to them as attainable for them and as bringing happiness."
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"I want to keep my private life private."
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"I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down."
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"I want to extend condolences to the families of those who died in the service of the United Nations."
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"I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way."
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"I always had this thing, when I was younger especially, I didn't want to do movies that much. I found they took a lot out of you and they were exhausting for me in a lot of ways."
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"I understand the directors much more. I was always rebelling against them when I was a youngster, I didn't want to be told what to do. I had no identification."
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"I get to thinking about my life, and it sometimes makes me want to make it interesting."
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"I'm thinking of slowing down on modeling and branching out to other things. I want to pursue some new and old dreams and start making them happen."
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""Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy."
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"Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything."
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""She's a very charming and delightful creature," quoth Mr. Robert Sawyer, in reply; "and has only one fault that I know of, Ben. It happens, unfortunately, that that single blemish is a want of taste. She don't like me.""
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"I want to make films that are worthwhile, on some level, but also very entertaining."
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"That's the exact concept behind the music: to take that kind of, I guess whatever you want to call it, jazz sensibility - but not have it be about solos."
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"We know the power of the U.S.. We do not fool ourselves about this power. We say that the U.S. government wants us to pay a very high price for this unstable peace we enjoy today. And the price we are in a position to pay is only - comes only to the frontiers of dignity, not beyond."
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"We put no condition of any kind to the U.S., we don't want it to change its system, we don't want racial discrimination to cease in the U.S., we put no conditions to the establishment of relations."
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"If you want to read anything nasty about me, just go to the backpacker websites. There's this kind of elitist branch where they really believe that I had no business going backpacking."
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"I don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed."
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"One of the significant reasons why women who are trafficked and forced to work as prostitutes often don't want to come forward is because they're worried they'll be deported. If the police are certain that a woman has been trafficked and forced into prostitution, then perhaps we should automatically allow her citizenship."
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