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"I'm constantly watching satirical news programs, and just - I never want to be in a situation where someone could yell out a topic and I will have absolutely no opinion on it whatsoever, or just not even know it exists."
"I kind of want to know a little bit about everything."
"I don't want to be mean. I try not to be."
"I was always the funny guy. Everyone wants to hang out with the funny guy."
"I remind myself that I don't have the ability to completely manipulate reality to be exactly what I want it to be."
"If I am lucky and find material that is interesting to me, I want to make it."
"The next release of mainline is going to have a lot of the advanced features people want, by the way."
"I'm going to outplay you. That's the mentality I have, and you should want to outplay me."
"Act as if you were already the person you want most to be."
"The present Constitution, with a few alterations of a trifling nature, is just as good as we want; and if it is sustained on this land of Joseph, it will be done by us and our posterity."
"As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you."
"How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?"
"I still do television. I don't care. I just want to work. I love to work. I want to do 500 movies."
"I've never considered myself a leading man, don't look like one, don't want to be one."
"I'm wearing three hats; I'm acting, producing, and directing. I was very involved in developing the script, too. But to me, that is very liberating. To me, the lower the budget, the more I want to be involved. I want to be more in control of my own destiny when there isn't much money involved, because you don't have the experts who can control your destiny."
"The prospects were depressing: Adulthood meant that I'd have to stop having fun and do something I didn't really want to do for the rest of my life – which was apparently a considerable chunk of time."
"If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'."
"I don't want to make a record like in the '50s or the '60s or the '70s. I want to make a record like today, that`s right now."
"I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope."
"I want a thousand guitars . . ."
