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Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

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.

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.

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's out there.

I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in my life. And I think having another person that you make such a purposeful bond with has given me the opportunity to see how that can be with all the other aspects of my life.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.

I wanted to express myself. I wanted to be creative and I didn't want to worry about someone bossing me around in the process. You have to struggle no matter where you are to get to where you're going, so I'm like, working it honey!

If someone decides to be a musician now, it means because there is no hope of money at the end of it, it means they really want to be a musician. And if someone is writing now, there is no hope for money at the end of it.

If you want to be happy, be.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

But I also want to have a family with children one day, which is very important to me.

So, for instance, let me make this clear: You know I signed a statement. I will not raise taxes on anybody. I don't want to raise taxes on the American people.