"I don't want to say the wrong thing, which I always do. I think I do better when I sing."
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"If I thought about it, I could be bitter, but I don't feel like being bitter. Being bitter makes you immobile, and there's too much that I still want to do."
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"Free speech is my right to say what you don't want to hear."
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"The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place."
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"Very often we don’t go elsewhere because we are looking for another person. We go elsewhere because we are looking for another self. It isn’t so much that we want to leave the person we are with as we want to leave the person we have become."
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"Of course you want to be rich and famous. It's natural. Wealth and fame are what every man desires. The question is: What are you willing to trade for it?"
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"I always want to stay focused on who I am, even as I'm discovering who I am."
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"Worrying is like praying for something you don't want to happen."
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"If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure."
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"If you want to be loved, start loving others who need your love....If you want others to sympathize with you, start showing sympathy to those around you. If you want to be respected, you must learn to be respectful to everyone, both young and old....Whatever you want others to be, first be that yourself; then you will find others responding in like manner to you."
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"It is true that we aspire to our ancient land. But what we want in that ancient land is a new blossoming of the Jewish spirit."
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"Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion."
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"Each thing we see hides something else we want to see."
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"I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
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"To me that's a reflection of love, when someone can see you enjoying yourself, and want to participate, or want to encourage, or want to help you to do something that you enjoy."
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"I Want To Ride My Bicycle I Want To Ride My Bike I Want To Ride My bicycle I Want To Ride It Where I Like"
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"Obviously I am not happy but they can throw what they want at me, I will come back stronger."
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"Bisexuality means I am free and I am as likely to want to love a woman as I am likely to want to love a man, and what about that? Isn't that what freedom implies?"
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"If you want to know what a man is really like, take notice of how he acts when he loses money."
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"It comes down to consistency-if you want to be a great shooter, you have to shoot the same way every time."
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