I'm in show business... I want to hang out with Janet Jackson, not Jesse Jackson.
Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.
It's especially important since September 11 for people to be trained for the unexpected. We want to try to make sure people are safe.
I want to live 50 more years. I'm 33 years old... and I want to live to at least be 80 and see my kids grow up and see my grandkids. That's important to me.
I don't do this for the money, I don't do it for record sales, I don't really care about that, I just want to make beats.
Many fiction writers eventually want to feel that their work forms a single, unified entity.
If ever you want to get rid of somebody you don't want to talk to, just mention God. They're out of there.
You could be a kid for as long as you want when you play baseball.
Most Israelis do want to keep Israel safe. The question is how do you do that.
If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.
You can learn Elvish, if you want. It's a language like Italian and English. You can learn to read it, you can learn to write it, and you can learn to speak it.
I don't want people to sit and process the song. I want them to just let them bathe over them.
I could almost say it is my religion. I guess that sounds pretentious, but I want to live and breathe cinema.
Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.
There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do bookstores that handle both audio and video. And some of the stores want to have the CDs available at the same time. So that part looks real good.
One of the things we want to do is find ways, first, to impress these parents how important it is to have children in a situation where they can respond to them and, second, to bring intergenerational relationships into play.
We want to connect all these musical worlds together. We just improvise; we know straight away if its going to work or not. They're not covers - I hate the word cover. We do a transcription: mix it up, put our own spin on it. I think people will be surprised how powerful our show is.
The overwhelming majority of Americans want decent and civil political dialogue, and candidates for office and elected leaders must continue to call for calm and unity, even when there are intense differences of opinion.
He who does not want does not act.
Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
You know I want to sing for people, I want to jazz people up I want to make new music that they've never heard.
If you're working on a movie, you want it to be projected on the largest tapestry possible, and the sound to be perfect, and for that kind of communal experience of the movies to take place for it.
If you want a midget to look like a baby, don't put a cigar in his mouth.
I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists are all about. For them, it is a religion. They believe in trees and animals, not God.
People say I'm extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?
Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
A lot of industry groups have said they support a federal law. They don't want to have to deal with 50 different state laws.
At my shows, I want to be totally sharp and focused on every single song, on every single thing that I do, and plus, I have to because I'm, like, caking someone and have to run back and mix the next song... and I have so much fast, quick reflex timing.
Too many companies think they want to do a video blog to sell merchandise, but if you turn your site into QVC, you lose. I have an audience that trusts me. It's about building a global brand - not selling four more bottles of Pinot Grigio.
The problem with too beautiful a view is that it's alright for the mulling stage. But for the writing stage, you want to be somewhere without a view, especially if it is very different from what you're writing.
The thought of being President frightens me and I do not think I want the job.
I can understand how some people might resent me for having the audacity to continue playing music, but it'd take a lot more than that to stop me from doing it. I started Foo Fighters because I didn't want to retreat.
I'm just saying, and I'm going to say it enough times: I want to play Bernie Mac.
I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
I consider that France does not have to submit to the calendar of the United States, so I want France to leave the integrated command of NATO.
I don't have an anti-Hollywood feeling. It's just I'm a New Zealander. I was born in New Zealand, and it's where my house is, and my family goes to school there. My interest is to remain in my homeland and make films. I don't really want to relocate myself to other countries in the world to work.
