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Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.

What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.

And then she finally said yes. And we have been married, I want you to know, for 51 years.

Someone had told me about a house in Wandsworth, southwest London - 21 Blenkarne Road - with an incredible garden, so I went and had a look. I walked in and just said, 'I want it.'

You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.

I want to feel that every trip I make has enhanced me as a person.

I don't want or need to gain respect with what I do off the court. I want respect for what I do on the court.

Popular culture is simply a reflection of what the majority seems to want.

A lot of performers don't want to leave the circuit, the European opera house circuit, partly because most singers don't sing many concerts, or at least not while they are in their prime.

I don't want to make any huge decisions before I really know what I'm doing and am sure of myself.

I want to make wines that harmonize with food - wines that almost hug your tongue with gentleness.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.

Americans have always had an ambivalent attitude toward intelligence. When they feel threatened, they want a lot of it, and when they don't, they regard the whole thing as somewhat immoral.

He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.

I'm not jealous of anybody, because I'm going to live my life the way I want to live it. I'm not going to be like, 'Oh my God they have this, I want that.'

People want what they want, for as long as they want it, then tastes change and something else works.

I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument that history is interesting.

I don't want to play fat cops for the rest of my life.

What is the art world? I never really understood. I started doing this stuff to do what I want to do. Not to be this or that.

You are the master of your environment. You've got your own head, your own mind. So once you figure out what you want for yourself, you have to create the proper environment to make sure you can live out all the things you want.

If you really want to tell stories, do it and don't be dissuaded.

A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.

The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

Throughout school I appeared in all sorts of productions and deep in my heart of hearts I knew that was what I want to do more than anything else.

The future is like heaven-everyone exalts it but no one wants to go there now.

I want do some kind of action movie, car chases and explosions.

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at one point, I'll walk away from show business. But I don't want to walk away empty-handed.

I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

I want my teammates to know I have their backs.

There's got to be a backbone, there's got to be a skeleton to the whole way I perform, but you never want to hit the same note twice during a performance, I think. I think it's always got to be fresh so it doesn't bore me, and I always want to go out on edge.

I've always been so apathetic. I figured, OK, maybe the world is going to fall down around me. Now I want to make a better world... that's motherhood.

I feel it's in people's nature to want to stop evil and embrace the good.

I'm my own person, and I want people to know me for who I am.

I was determined to carve out a music of my own. I didn't want to copy anybody.

Congress seems to want to cure every ill known to man except unconstitutional government and high taxes.

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

Hawaiians want change, and if the Democrats don't offer change, Hawaiians are going to vote for the Republican who offers change.

Nobody wants to end up super rich and famous - but divorced. I'm always clear on that and try to stay on the right side of the line.

Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

I want to be known as a great businessman,

Iranians are very proud and don't want to become a pariah state like North Korea.

The office is the laboratory and meeting your users is like going into the field. You can't just stay in the lab. And it's not just asking users what they want, it's about seeing what they're doing.

I don't want people to remember me going through the motions.

From day one when you're singing, you're dreaming about making that first album and making your break into whatever music you want to break into.

There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.

I don't know of any of us that want to see any kind of default happen.

I don't speak up if I'm working. As a model, no one pays me for my opinion. I want to wear whatever will make a great photo, whether I like it or not. But if the shoes are too small, I will complain!

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.

You never really want anything you can easily have.

I won't have a traditional marriage; I don't find the value in that anymore. But I am such a hopeless romantic and I really want love and I want a committed relationship, so I am going to reinvent marriage for myself.

My existence is about making movies, so I've just got to rock and roll with the punches. You want to make movies on telephones, I'm there.

I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.

I want to be clear. No company is too big to be prosecuted. We have zero tolerance for corporate fraud, but we also recognize the importance of avoiding collateral consequences whenever possible.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

Personally I just want to win a championship.

The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.

I'm learning something all the time. That's the way I want it to go, and that's the way I'll go until I am no longer on this planet.

I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

Modern records are all made with virtually identical gear, software plug-ins and everything. Everybody wants everything to sound like the last thing that was popular because they're chasing their tails.

I will continue modeling until they don't want me anymore basically because I do love it very much.

I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.

I want to be the most eligible bachelor in New York City.

Surely, you go to the theater because you want to have a great evening in the theater.

I think it's important to be honest with yourself about what you want and it's important to be honest with your partner about what you need.

If you tell me I can't have something then that just makes me want it more.

A lot of these kids I think are more content just to be on Facebook and the computer than they are to actually go out. They just really want to get a picture to post to their buddies, and that's about it.

Everybody says before reviews come out, 'Oh, reviews don't matter,' just in case they're bad; everyone want to brace themselves.

I always write the pieces I want to write.

I really want to work with Emma Stone; she is adorable.

In the Mexico we want, there is no room for corruption, for cover-ups, and least of all for impunity.

Artists need some kind of stimulating experience a lot of times, which crystallizes when you sing about it or paint it or sculpt it. You literally mold the experience the way you want. It's therapy.

You can wear whatever, be whatever, do whatever you want.

I want love, because love is the best feeling in the whole world.

I want to break down some of the stigma associated with mental illness.

I want to make a name for myself.

There are actors who aren't on the cover of magazines but still decide what work they want and when they want it. I want a family one day. So I dream of really being able to decide when to work and when not to.

I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.

I just choose the scripts I want to work on. I don't know why. It's not something conscious or that I'm doing on purpose.

Toy companies aren't interested in ideology, they want to sell toys. If they would sell a toy that both boys and girls would buy, it doubles profits.

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

I never felt hard done by and never wanted for anything, but I grew up in a wealthy area where I saw people being handed things on a plate. So it made me want to earn some money and be able to buy things for myself.

I tend to just do whatever I want on an album and try to make it work. I'm just adventurous. It's most exciting to be at the edge of your abilities. I want to see how far I can push things.

I've never been to Thailand and I've only heard good things about it. I really want to make my way there.

Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth.

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

Well, all I can say is, it's a day-by-day program, and so I'm very worried about relapsing, but I don't know. I don't want to use. I don't want to go back to that place because nothing good came of it. It was super dark; it's not nice.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

I don`t want to dress up a picture with just my face.

You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.

If you want to stop illegal immigration, you have to make it so that - so that the people that hire the illegal immigrants will not be in a position to hire them.