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We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

~ Anne Sullivan

Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.

~ Q-Tip

I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.

~ Lisa Unger

I don't want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

~ Ernst Fischer

I'm giving into my tendency to want to blur and blend the lines between art and life, and privacy and sharing.

~ Lia Ices

My daughter loves to do art stuff. As a father, I like to play with her. We break out the big pads of paper and the glitter and all the stuff. She likes to do what she likes to do. I want to do something, too. So I've just started using her same materials - a lot of crayons, a lot of sparkle, charcoal, pencils, markers and glue.

~ Stone Gossard

I do not want art for a few any more than education for a few, or freedom for a few.

~ William Morris

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

~ Aaron Siskind

I want to try and be as involved in the art of filmmaking as possible. I feel that the only way to really do that is to take on as many roles as possible, whether it be as an actor, an editor, a director, a cinematographer.

~ Joe Swanberg

I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art. The only thing the artist can do is be honest with themselves and make the art they want to make. That's what I've always done.

~ Jeff Koons

Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.

~ Duke Ellington

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

~ Thomas Sowell

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

~ Harry S Truman

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

~ John F. Kennedy

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

~ Nelson Mandela

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

~ David Lloyd George

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

~ Calvin Klein

I keep telling these millennials it's all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They don't care about whether or not someone is gay. They don't care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. They're going forward, not backward.

~ Donna Brazile

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

~ Orson Welles

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

~ Herbert Hoover

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.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

~ Ron Conway

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.

~ Ted Cruz

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

~ John F. Kennedy

Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man.

~ Terry Bradshaw

I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.

~ Elie Wiesel

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

~ Bill Gates

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

~ Steven Wright

On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.

~ Ted Cruz

I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter.

~ Sylvia Plath

Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of.

~ Justin Trudeau

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.

~ Peter Steele

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

~ James Woods

The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.

~ Dave Brat

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

~ Estelle Morris

One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.

~ Thomas Mallon

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

~ C. Northcote Parkinson

I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.

~ Michael Joseph Kelly

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

~ Oprah Winfrey

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

~ William Hazlitt