The magic of playing has to do with how much everyone wants it to succeed. If you have five players in a situation where the music is being improvised and one is determined it is not going to succeed, it won't succeed even if one of the musicians takes control.
The trouble with being a ghostwriter or artist is that you must remain rather anonymously without credit. If one wants the credit, one has to cease being a ghost and become a leader or innovator.
If a person wants to enjoy attention, he will create situations to get it.
Progressives want a different sort of media than what the Right wants.
It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it.
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.
If America wants to retain its position as a global power, its president must listen to the people and show strong leadership at this turning point in human history.
Everybody wants to be known. Everybody's a Kardashian.
I don't want to fight anybody that just wants to hold you and try and eat the time.
I think one wants lots of different lives.
It's hard to be a clubhouse guy without being a great guy. I mean, the nature of the job is, you know, you're picking up dirty clothes and you're doing all the tasks that the players - that nobody else wants to do.
Nobody wants to be on food stamps, but when my family lost everything, we were grateful for it. I was grateful the program was there so I could concentrate on my schoolwork and not on my empty belly. We were grateful that we had the support we needed to roll up our sleeves and rebuild our lives.
Being put in a group, I hate that. I don't think anyone likes it. Everyone just wants to be their own person.
Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball.
Everything in horror film is about transgression, and the young audience wants to touch something that is forbidden and is, by function, anti-establishment. It is a way for young audiences to express rebellion and also to deal with very modern fear but in a very playful way, in a very symbolic way.
I'm always training to fight the best fighters in the world, and if the UFC wants me to fight Georges St-Pierre, then I will fight him.
Folks across the spectrum wants more efficient management of their tax dollars.
It is difficult to help a man without hurting his pride. Everyone wants to be a giver and not a receiver.
Barack is at a level where he can't - no matter how much he wants to or how much we want him to - he's not going to come take out our garbage, so to speak. He can't be the garbage man and the president. He can't be the mayor and the alderman. He can't fill all those roles. So I always push for local, local activity on the political scene.
Even though reality TV is very manipulated, it's all manipulated so that something real happens. And so, our job in this era is to make that real thing happen, because nobody wants to see any more manipulated, pre-planned performances. That era is over.
I have parents come up to me and say, 'I don't know who you are, but my kid wants his picture taken with you.'
Nobody wants to buy a $60,000 electric Civic. But people will pay $90,000 for an electric sports car.
You don't have control of the car, but you can drive it. Life takes you where it wants you to go and where you need to go.
When you're a politician, someone always wants something from you, so they're constantly telling you how smart or great you are, and that can warp people! Exercising humility is important to me. My friends back home treat me like the same person I was when I was waiting tables.
I think there's a part of a woman that wants to be the thing that breaks a man down.
If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Everybody wants to take responsibility when you win, but when you fail, all these fingers are pointing.
I am sure it will be mentioned and debated but from my standpoint I know who is in the Hall of Fame. A lot of them don't belong in the Hall of Fame. If someone wants to debate me, check the stats.
I don't think there's any question that the UFL or any other league that wants to challenge the NFL can have an impact. The demand for professional football is off the charts.
When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.
I can understand where the oil company wants to deduct the cost of drilling a well. That's one of the tax breaks for oil companies - the subsidies - they get to deduct the cost of the well the year you drill.
You don't have to worry about whether the car is set up right or not, you know it is, and it's down to you. Ultimately, that's what every driver wants.
Hollywood is lacking realness in their female characters. I don't think I'm the only one who thinks that and wants to change it.
When you try to figure out what the religious right is, it ultimately comes down either to one man, Pat Robertson, or anyone who believes in a higher being and wants their taxes cut.
Mark Winchester has left the band. He's decided that he's tired of the road and just wants to concentrate on his career in Nashville. I don't blame him at all. He'll certainly be missed.
