But anonymity is very important to me, and I don't want to be recognized in public more than I already am.
I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years.
Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.
When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.
I don't want my personality to overshadow my talent.
After the Soft Boys I just didn't want to work with any more guitarists.
I have always said I've had a big personality, and I've always said I'm a pushy broad, and I've always said I want to get things done.
I don't want to be unapproachable.
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.
I don't want to tell people what I make. It's a lot more than I ever dreamed of as a kid. I never think about it.
I actually started writing publishable stuff the day I decided I'd actually like to write something I'd like to read, and stopped trying to think what does everyone actually want.
I want to make films that make a difference. I want to be out and hope that that will make things better for gay people and for myself. I hope one day I can start to make the kind of projects or be involved with kind of projects that can really make a difference.
It is statistically proven that the strongest institution that guarantees procreation and continuity of the generations is marriage between one man and one woman. We don't want genocide. We don't want to destroy the sacred institution of marriage.
I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.
If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.
Women are so much in love with compliments that rather than want them, they will compliment one another, yet mean no more by it than the men do.
I'm more cerebral than I want to be.
We want to bring better products to Vietnam. My hope is through changes in lifestyle and the products we consume, it will affect the people and change the way they are thinking.
If people want to believe that the organic food has better nutritive value, it's up to them to make that foolish decision. But there's absolutely no research that shows that organic foods provide better nutrition.
I don't want to send them to jail. I want to send them to school.
I'm all about accessing our resources; I'm all about those jobs. But I want to make sure I'm not expensing one for the other.
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
People are looking for stability in a shaky world. They want something they can get hold of that's firm and sure and an anchor in the midst of all of this instability in which they're living.
I want people who will stand up to me. People who are not afraid to say exactly what's on their minds, even though that's probably not what I want to hear. That's what I want.
I was living in London and I thought, 'There's nothing here for me anymore.' I don't want to become this actor who's going to be doing this occasional good work in the theater and then ever diminishing bad television. I thought I'd rather do bad movies than bad television because you get more money for it.
I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
I don't want to stay on the road for the rest of my life. I have two kids.
And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.
I would like a man now who is rich, and who can give me a boat - a sailboat. I want to own it and let him pay for it. My first love is the sea and water, not music. Music is second.
The American people do not want ambassadorships or any other position handed out to save a party money.
I never want to make a child worried or afraid, and I don't think I do. My pictures are born from the belief that children are far more capable and aware of social complexities than we give them credit for.
One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
Whenever I date a guy, I think, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
