"I would not want to live in any other period."
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"The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones."
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"Look for the truth, it wants to be found."
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"I'm not an academic; I'm just a bookish Joe who gets passionate about certain writers and suddenly wants to read everything they've ever written and find out why they wrote it."
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"I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do."
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"I always want to sleep on the third date."
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"Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen."
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"[Our employees] do it not because we pay them more, but because they want to be part of something."
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"Whoa!!! I heard I offended one of my all time favorite artists Ray Price by my statement “Nobody wants to listen to their grandpas music."
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"I was sick of the way my lyrics had been extrapolated, their meanings subverted into polemics and that I had been anointed as the Big Bubba of Rebellion, High Priest of Protest, the Duke of Disobedience, Leader of the Freeloaders, Kaiser of Apostasy, Archbishop of Anarchy, the Big Cheese. Horrible titles any way you want to look at it. All code words for Outlaw."
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"Abe said, where do you want this killing done? God said, out on highway 61."
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"A significant number of pages and sentences that the administration wants to keep in a classified status have already been released publicly, some of it by public statements of the leadership of the CIA and the FBI."
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"My life anuh fi me alone... My life a fi people... Fi help plenty people... If my is for me alone mi nuh want it"
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"yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music"
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"I want to see the stats for how many crosses there have been; it's been incredulous"
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"People seem to want to read more nonfiction than fiction."
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"I'm no communist.I'm a tax cutting Conservative. But I want a capitalism that is fairer to forgotten people."
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"I want London to be a competitive, dynamic place to come to work."
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"I want to win and I want to be in office."
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"Everyone just wants to hear the exact jokes that apply to them and want to - everyone wants a perfectly crafted joke for them."
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