What I Want Quotes

It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it won't make your soul pretty.

Your kids inevitably want to move where they had their vacations when they were younger.

Music has an intrinsic value that touches Americans - they love their music, and want more.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.

It's like anything in life, visualizing the old man you're going to become: As long as you have a clear picture of that - the life you want to lead - eventually you'll probably get there.

Greed may not be good, but it’s not so bad either. You humans think greed is just for money or power, but everyone wants something they can’t have.

For every person seeking greatness, there are hundreds more charged with safeguarding mediocrity. If you want to be wealthy, stop taking financial advice from broke people.

Dallas Mavericks want me as a bald-headed 5' 8" guard with a 95" vertical. Vince Carter respect my legs, ask Shawn Kemp.

Don't forget that the most effective form of child abuse is giving a child everything they want.

Don't shrink to meet the expectations of others, grow to become the person you want to be.

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

I deeply regret the damage my original case caused women. I want the Supreme Court to examine the evidence and have a spirit of justice for women and children.

Life is a lemon and I want my money back.

This hole in my heart is in the shape of you. No one else can fit it. Why would I want them to?

Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

It’s nice to be able to try and build the life you want for yourself.

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.'

Never take over the world to tamper with it. Those who want to tamper with it are not fit to take over the world.

I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.

The first actor I ever saw was The Lone Ranger. I thought: "That's what I want to do."

As an artist, I want to interpret my feelings

True' and 'false' are the evasions of people who never want to arrive at a decision. Truth is something without end.

Who wants to see 3 aging old racists on stage, anyway?

Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'

Most people know who I am. Then I get the people who don't know who I am and just want to take a picture with a guy with muscles. I get more people that know me than anything.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved.

Freedom and relationship are polar opposites - they both exist on the same continuum. You DO want a relationship - and you DO want freedom - what you really want is BALANCE, you want wholeness.

The world is a mess and I want to laugh because all I can think is how horrible and beautiful it is, that our eyes blur the truth when we can't bear to see it.

Climate change is the perfect pseudoscientific theory for a big government politician who wants more power. Why? Because it is a theory that can never be disproven.

DMT seems to argue, convincingly I might add, that the world is made entirely of something, for want of a better word, we would have to call magic.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

I can never be Michael Jackson or do what he did, but he is definitely a good inspiration: I want to give the kids that feeling.

You can win all the tournaments you want, but the majors are what you're remembered for. It's how you're measured as a champion in our sport. The majors are where it's at.

Vegas is great, isn't it, man? This is the greatest place on Earth. Lookit; you have everything you could want; adult movies...this is a nice neighborhood!

Acting as if you were what you want to become and know you can become is the way to remove self-doubt and enter your real-magic kingdom.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

UFO's attitude toward the subject is very similar to mine. It's not an advocacy; its philosophy is more I want to believe this, but I want it proved.

I am my own person. What I'm doing, I'm happy with it. I'm doing what I want to.

If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently.

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

I am an eternal optimist. Being happy is a choice. And you can make that choice every day, if you want to.

Give what you want to receive. If you want happiness, make others happy.

This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you—the fear just leaves

It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.

Too many young musicians today want to win polls before they learn their instruments.

Life wants to support you. But first you need to be open to life.

Forget the audience, make what you want to see

I have a lot of nervous energy. Work is my best way of channelling that into something productive unless I want to wind up assaulting the postman or gardener.