"I want my music to leave an indelible mark."
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"Whoever I hang out with, I want to be able to laugh with. I just want to be able to have a good time... And they have to like my dog. If they don't like my dog, they're out."
"I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that."
"In ‘life,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my work. In ‘work,’ I don’t want to be reduced to my life."
"Some people want to go forever, I just want to burn off hard and bright."
"Life in the theatre isn't necessarily when you get money from performing. It isn't when you sign a contract. It isn't even when you are in a play. It's when you understand it. If you understand it, you'll know why you want to act."
"If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last."
"You want to be upper class, you want to be first class, but when the plane crash, everybody dead."
"I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."
"I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier."
"We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries."
"Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them."
"I despair about the lack of proper respect shown for the piano. If you want it to sound like a traffic jam, go out in the street and forget the piano. That's not a piano sound."
"I want each album to say something different and be accepted better than the last one but I don't have any point to outdo any particular album of mine."
"You have within you all the power you need with which to get whatever you want or need in this world."
"George Foreman is easier and has the bigger name and have you noticed that Foreman never calls me out or ever mentions my name? He is afraid of me like most fighters are and most people want to forget about Larry Holmes, like he never ever existed."
"I don't want to look sloppy, because then I feel sloppy"
"I want to state that there will be friendship between Bangladesh and ourselves. And not a one-sided friendship, of course - no one does anything for nothing; each has something to give and something to take."
"The only reason people die, is because EVERYONE does it. You all just go along with it. It's RUBBISH, death. It's STUPID. I don't want nothing to do with it."
"If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true."