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I don't want to go to Hollywood.

People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

I want to go out at the top, but the secret is knowing when you're at the top, it's so difficult in this business, your career fluctuates all the time, up and down, like a pair of trousers.

Really try to follow what it is that you want to do and what your heart is telling you to do.

I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it.

Sometimes you have to go places with characters and emotions within yourself you don't want to do, but you have a duty to the story and as a storyteller to do it.

A major source of objection to a free economy is precisely that group thinks they ought to want. Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.

I'm not quite that difficult, even though maybe I'm a little bit bossy. But you know, in order to get things done, you do have to be a little bit bossy sometimes or tell people what you really want. Otherwise, things just don't get done, do they?

It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it.

I can do whatever I want.

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

Onstage, I don't want to be thinking about my outfit, I want to think about what I'm doing, so I'll try to dress as comfortably as possible.

Yes, it's a man's world, but that's all right because they're making a total mess of it. We're chipping away at their control, taking the parts we want. Some women think it's a difficult task, but it's not.

The writing process, the way I go about it is I do whatever the beat feels like, whatever the beat is telling me to do. Usually when the beat comes on, I think of a hook or the subject I want to rap about almost instantly. Within four, eight bars of it playing I'm just like, 'Oh, OK. This is what I wanna do'.

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

Obama is a statist. He's an authoritarian. He doesn't want to govern; he wants to rule.

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call anybody back. If I go to hell, it will be a small closet with a telephone in it, and I will be doomed and destined for eternity to return phone calls.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

I am a sensitive writer, actor and director. Talking business disgusts me. If you want to talk business, call my disgusting personal manager.

I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.

I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent.

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.