"Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly."
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"Freedom is choosing your responsibility. It's not having no responsibilitie s; it's choosing the ones you want."
"You don't want anybody walking into your house and taking a Gatorade out of your refrigerator, you've got to get in there and protect it."
"I want to follow in my father's footsteps, but do it better."
"When you compete against everyone else, no one wants to help you. But when you compete against yourself, everyone wants to help you."
"You've got to have a problem that you want to solve; a wrong that you want to right."
"Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there."
"I want to be like Bruce Springsteen or something, making songs that are relevant."
"I know what I want when I start a marathon: to win! But what do you want? Make sure you're clear in advance and don't go out too fast."
"She wants you to be a god," I told him. "I know." His face twisted with embarrassment, and in spite of itself my heart lightened. It was such a boyish response. And so human. Parents, everywhere."
"No one knows you better than you know yourself. Do the thing you want. Don't wait for someone else"
"An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be."
"Time is a created thing. To say 'I don't have time' is to say 'I don't want to.'"
"I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am."
"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."
"No woman in my time will be prime minister or chancellor or foreign secretary - not the top jobs. Anyway, I wouldn't want to be prime minister; you have to give yourself 100 percent."
"I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen."
"Britain does not want a return to boom and bust."
"The trouble with forgiveness is that some people don't want to be forgiven."
"Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like."