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Related Business is war. I go out there, I want to kill the competitors. I want to make their lives miserabl... KEVIN O'LEARY I want to do whatever I can to survive. SAM SIMON You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there. J.D. SALINGER I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of the... CAMILLE PAGLIA I think there's something wrong with me - I like to win in everything I do, regardless of what i... DEREK JETER I don't want to know about my biggest idols. I don't want to read their autobiographies, I d... MEG WHITE I don't want to sit around the house. I want to be out there. I want to go to practice. I want t... PAT SUMMITT I just want to win. I'm a team guy. I just want my team to do well. BEN SIMMONS I want to rip out his heart and feed it to Lennox Lewis. I want to kill people. I want to rip their ... MIKE TYSON Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I want to rip out his heart and feed it to him [Lennox Lewis]. I want to kill people. I want to rip ... MIKE TYSON I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me. DAVID ORTIZ I want to do things that terrify me, unless they're going to kill me. ORLANDO BLOOM I want to go where I'm the difference. I want to make something out of nothing. I want to be the... DAK PRESCOTT I don't want to know movie directors. I don't want to be close to them. I don't want to ... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just wa... PRINCESS DIANA It's an unbelievable market. I've had sellers call and say they want to double the asking rice for t... BARBARA DIXON I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie... JAKE GYLLENHAAL I'm not ambitious. I don't want to get anywhere, I don't want anything more. I sometimes... ARUNDHATI ROY I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. Whe... CARLI LLOYD I don't want to quit smoking. I am convinced that if I quit smoking, the world would go to hell. MARJANE SATRAPI I want to make music, I want to act, I want to sing, I want to do something that doesn't make my... CARA DELEVINGNE I don't want yes men around me. I want everyone to tell the truth, even if it costs them their jobs. SAMUEL GOLDWYN I walked in thinking, 'I have ten movies under my belt and now they want me to go back to making... ORLANDO JONES We're talking about being relevant again. I want the Sixers to be on people's tongues again.... DOUG COLLINS I don't want anybody thinking I do not want to recognize anybody for their accomplishments, ... That... FRANK BRUNO I want to win an Oscar. I want to be known for more than, like, going out. For being the 'party ... LINDSAY LOHAN I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth... PATRICIA REILLY GIFF Then finally I said, 'Okay, well, I want to know all the details. I want creative input. I want ... KATE MOSS Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF Because I want to be remembered. SHERMAN ALEXIE Every time I go out there, I try not to fear anybody. I always want to earn the respect of my teamma... JONATHAN PAPELBON I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're l... BONNIE BASSLER I want you with me, my dearest. Not just as a friend, though also as that. I want you as my wife. I ... ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND It was miserable. I made no secret about that. We have too many good players on this team to accept ... MICHAEL YOUNG It's, like, bigots want to embrace me, and I politely take their arms from around my neck. I don... ISAIAH WASHINGTON I don't want to do 'Hamlet.' I don't want to do Robert Redford roles or Mel Gibson r... GENE WILDER I don't want to have one hit, one song of the summer, and then have me disappear forever. I real... ALESSIA CARA I want my girls to see their relationship with me as a place of refuge, a place they can retreat to ... HILARY FLOWER I like joy; I want to be joyous; I want to have fun on the set; I want to wear beautiful clothes and... DORIS DAY I want to make a big statement in this game. I want to go out there and make a statement. ERNIE SIMS I want to go out and chase greatness. That's all I want to do. J. J. WATT If I decide I want to go canoeing, I've got a canoe. If I want to take my dog with me, nobody te... BURT SHAVITZ I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars. DAVID MACKAY Sam, I want that to be us. I want to stand up in church in front of our family and friends and make ... P.J. FIALA I try to not to think about the pressure. I don't want any more pressure on me. I just want to pitch... ADAM WAINWRIGHT I want to tell my jokes. I want to have time with my children. I want to entertain people. And at on... DAVE CHAPPELLE I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them ... SAMUEL GOLDWYN I want to do my best for them, and I want to want to help the team do well in 2007, BEN AINSLIE When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that m... MARIAN ANDERSON When I'm awake, I don't want to go to sleep. I don't want the hassle of turning the ligh... ROBBIE WILLIAMS I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're goin... TAYLOR KITSCH I just want to be successful. I'm not going to sit here and be like, 'I want to win a Grammy... LIL UZI VERT I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share mu... ZACH BRAFF I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love th... GLADYS KNIGHT I don't want my reputation to take me over, I just want to be judged on my songs. I want people ... JEFF BUCKLEY I want make more records with my sister. I want to go on the road. I want to tour around the world. ... AJ MICHALKA I want to go to Italy and France; those are my two places. And I really want to go to Greece. I'... MARY LAMBERT I just can't stand the fact that they're going out on their own - I love having my kids arou... TIM DALY I want you to love me.” I said softly. “But if not, then I want to be the closest thing to you l... J.J. MCAVOY We want him out there. We want their full team out there to play, so you earn what you win. PHIL JACKSON I think women want freedom. They want to be empowered. They want hope. They want love; they want all... RIHANNA I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as... DANNY BOYLE We're open people. I don't understand these Hollywood people who don't want to put their... GIULIANA RANCIC I just want to win the state championship. That's always been my dream. I just want to win it for my... GWEN DELK It's beyond my control who's going to cast me or how you're going to pigeonholed, so for... BRADLEY COOPER I don't want to be entertained. I don't want visuals or musicals. I don't want a vacatio... ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ In creating my YouTube videos, I don't want to speak for my audience and the people I represent;... TYLER OAKLEY I don't just want to go out there and do my job - I want to excel at it. I hold myself to a high... CLAY MATTHEWS III You definitely want your kids to understand their heritage, but I don't want my kids to just foc... KEVIN HART I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself. I want to avoid ... EMMA WATSON Pretty excited to get to Boston. Great city and great team; they're in the race. They want to wi... DREW POMERANZ I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their ... HENRY KRAVIS I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someo... PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them t... EMINEM I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England. ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) I don't want people who are in poverty, in pain, or suffering, to suffer because it's for th... PENN JILLETTE I don't want to scare them. I don't want their heads spinning. JOHN CALIPARI I think that we need to get along together if we want to survive in the twenty-first century. SARAH POLLEY I don't want to say, 'I want to cure cancer.' It's such a grand thing. People have b... EVA VERTES I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want to write music, I want to play music,... DEREK HOUGH I don't want to be on a team of all superstars. I just want to be on a team that can win. Money isn'... ALEXA TEJADA I believe so much in the power of performance I don't want to convince people. I want them to ex... MARINA ABRAMOVIC I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is ... ALBERT EINSTEIN It's such a cliche thing to say. I want to choreograph, I want to direct, I want to act, I want ... DEREK HOUGH I'm ready to do what I want to do. I finally have grandchildren and I want to be with them and go to... PAT JEPPE If someone doesn't want me working their club, they're not going to hear from me again. I... TIG NOTARO “I write a sentence not because I want to change someone, but because I want them to make their de... MARK LAMBERT If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children... F. MURRAY ABRAHAM I want to make movies that pierce people's hearts and touch them in some way, even if it's j... RUSSELL CROWE I don't want to govern the Palestinians. I don't want them as subjects of Israel or as citiz... BENJAMIN NETANYAHU I always want to win because I never want to sit out on the sidelines outside. KEVIN DURANT I am not a fake. I am natural. I am just being Caster. I don't want to be someone I don't wa... CASTER SEMENYA I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive.... MALCOLM GLADWELL I want to play for a championship team. I want to win a championship. RICHARD JEFFERSON We've got to get better on a lot of things, but this is a building block. It's a process, but I don'... DAVID GREWE I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern. KARL LAGERFELD I'm going to continue doing what I want to do. And if it means I want to go and make a big movie, if... JAKE GYLLENHAAL I don't want the money. I don't want the drama. I just want to do my show. I want to have fu... DAVE CHAPPELLE I want to dunk on Kevin Hart. ANSEL ELGORT
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It's impossible to figure out why some work out and ... JENNY O'CONNELL If you work really hard, and you're kind, amazing things will happen. CONAN O'BRIEN Lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, from mercy rather than manipulatio... MARY O'MALLEY What the hell is that?" he asked. "Magic mushrooms." "I've always wanted to try those," he... HEATHER O'NEILL I've always been a pretty good researcher," said Bronwyn modestly.Oh, so that we sha... DANIEL O'MALLEY The plates of the continental shelf - the world itself - had shifted, and their first concern was pu... STEWART O'NAN The weirder you're going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When ... P.J. O'ROURKE The Universe and Spirit do not understand limitations...PEOPLE invented limitations! JENNIFER O'NEILL Not only have we not done the good things that God really wants us to do, but in fact, we’ve done ... ERIN O'RIORDAN Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last him the rest of his... FLANNERY O'CONNOR You have to quit confusing a madness with a mission. FLANNERY O'CONNOR By subsidiarity is meant the principle that responsibilities should be devolved to the lowest viable... DENIS O'BRIEN For me it is the virgin birth, the Incarnation, the resurrection which are the true laws of the fles... FLANNERY O'CONNOR The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth. FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dr... FLANNERY O'CONNOR We lost our innocence in the Fall, and our turn to it is through the Redemption which was brought ab... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Satisfy your demand for reason but always remember that charity is beyond reason, and God can be kno... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Faith is what someone knows to be true, whether they believe it or not. FLANNERY O'CONNOR Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them. P.J. O'ROURKE I have been told by the third grade teacher that my daughter Poppet is reading at middle school leve... P.J. O'ROURKE My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. FLANN O'BRIEN When all else fails, there's always delusion. CONAN O'BRIEN You would not want to be responsible for someone else’s happiness, so please do not hold someone e... JENNIFER O'NEILL The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw ev... JOSEPH O'NEILL I was always the girl growing up who just wasn’t quite like the rest of them. I liked working hard... R.B. O'BRIEN You don't know. When I'm out there at night I feel close to my own body, I can feel my blood moving,... TIM O'BRIEN They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these wer... TIM O'BRIEN I was a coward. I went to the war. TIM O'BRIEN To generalize about war is like generalizing about peace. Almost everything is true. Almost nothing ... TIM O'BRIEN Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mat... TIM O'BRIEN Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like bein... TIM O'BRIEN Together we understood what terror was: you're not human anymore. You're a shadow. You slip out of y... TIM O'BRIEN It wasn't a question of deceit. Just the opposite; he wanted to heat up the truth, to make it burn s... TIM O'BRIEN In any war story, but especially a true one, it's difficult to separate what happened from what seem... TIM O'BRIEN It was my view then, and still is, that you don't make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course,... TIM O'BRIEN He wished he could've explained some of this. How he had been braver than he ever thought possible, ... TIM O'BRIEN And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever. That's what stories are for.... TIM O'BRIEN What sticks to memory, often, are those odd little fragments that have no beginning and no end... TIM O'BRIEN It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to d... TIM O'BRIEN you're never more alive than when you're almost dead. TIM O'BRIEN