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The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Racism springs from the lie that certain human beings are less than fully human. It's a self-centered falsehood that corrupts our minds into believing we are right to treat others as we would not want to be treated.

I think directors should be confident in their leadership capabilities. I think directors should be confident in what they want to do.

I think suicide is sort of like cancer was 50 years ago. People don't want to talk about it, they don't want to know about it. People are frightened of it, and they don't understand, when actually these issues are medically treatable.

One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.

All film directors, even the ones using 3-D today, want you to look at what they chose.

If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's.

A lot of things you want to do as part of daily life can now be done over the Internet.

I say what I want to say and do what I want to do. There's no in between. People will either love you for it or hate you for it.

No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

We don't want to turn the safety net into a hammock that lulls able-bodied people into complacency and dependence.

Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

We have convinced over one billion members of the Islamic faith that we are prejudiced against their religion, that we would deny them freedom of religion, that we want suppress their culture and invade their governments.

You need a particular talent only to want to please. I don't have this talent.

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.

Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually surprised at the resurgence of the impulse to come back and do it all over again.

I just want to live happily ever after, every now and then.

I don't want to be the person digging my own grave.

I love to play golf, and that's my arena. And you can characterize it and describe it however you want, but I have a love and a passion for getting that ball in the hole and beating those guys.

I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

Ladies, if you want to know the way to my heart... good spelling and good grammar, good punctuation, capitalize only where you are supposed to capitalize, it's done.

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

I hope that what you take away from my album is not just the music - which I did want to be fun, and I did want it to be about individuality, but please also take away from it that there's no dream that's too big.