"I live art, I respect people, and I've found what I want to do in life - I've found what makes me happy."
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"...it's almost natural because when you're an artist you know what you want. And then if you're able to mentally turn that into being a CEO, now you know what the artist wants. That's kinda how I did it."
"I want Americans to enjoy food. I want them to celebrate food. I want them to, on occasions, to have big cakes and great things. And I want them to indulge."
"Adam did not want the apple for the apple's sake; he wanted it because it was forbidden."
"I cannot remember a time when I did not want to go to Africa to study animals."
"We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I want others to be enslaved by objects, not me."
"There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others. I want to build myself."
"You are this, which does not satisfy, so you want to be that. If there were an understanding of this, would that come into being? Because you do not understand this, you create that, hoping through that to understand or to escape from this."
"If you want to have more, you have to become more."
"Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want."
"Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?'"
"I want it to sound like an orange."
"If God didn't want man to hunt, He wouldn't have given us plaid shirts."
"The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all."
"Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities."
"Fundamentally, we all want the same thing. We want to love. We want to be loved, and we want to matter."
"I just want to do God’s will."
"I want to suggest some of the things that should begin your life's blueprint. Number one...should be a deep belief in your own dignity. Your worth and your own somebodiness... Always feel that you count. Always feel that you have worth, and always feel that your life has ultimate significance."
"When I became a winner, I said, 'I figured it out, but if I'm wrong, I'm getting the hell out, because I want to save my money and go on to the next trade.'"
"The ways are two: love and want of love. That is all."