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I have always said that I want Malawi to attain growth that should not just be seen in GDP, but in the growth of opportunities for all, protection for all, and equality for all.

~ Joyce Banda

We want order and security, and we want liberty. And we want not only liberty but equality as well.

~ David Souter

I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. That means equal rights and benefits, and that's what we need.

~ Christine Gregoire

Do people really want liberty, equality, fraternity? Is it not some manner of speaking?

~ Krzysztof Kieślowski

If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.

~ Nancy Friday

S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.

~ Simon Fuller

I see it as more of a teenage activity than, you know, she's only 11, but you know, I think it's great that she knows so many girls who want to play music. And I see it more as a teen activity than I do as going into music.

~ Kim Gordon

Well, I could do it for a day, but I wouldn't want to be a teenager again. I really wouldn't.

~ Jamie Lee Curtis

I didn't want to be the typical teen idol. I didn't want to be Leif Garrett. I didn't want to be Shaun Cassidy, David Cassidy or Parker Stevenson. I wanted to do my own thing.

~ Willie Aames

The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

~ Lorde

I don't want to just be in the normal kind of teen movie.

~ Stephen Dorff

I don't want to be a 'teen star' because so many people don't ever grow out of that.

~ Lacey Chabert

When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.

~ Jimi Hendrix

I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.

~ Priyanka Chopra

Disco is music for dancing, and people will always want to dance.

~ Giorgio Moroder

Music is my main goal, but I'm not going to rush a record out. There are so many actors who have come out with albums these days. I don't want to do it because it's the thing to do. I want to wait until the time is right.

~ River Phoenix

I want to run for the Senate from Tennessee. Not now, but when I'm 50, when music dies down a little bit. I know lots of artists and actors have those delusions of grandeur, but ever since I was a kid, it's been of interest to me.

~ Tim Mcgraw

I want my music to do the explaining.

~ Demi Lovato

I'm free from holding personal anger because I can express what I want through my music.

~ Yoko Ono

My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.

~ B.o.b

I want to be ripped apart by music. I want it to be something that feeds and replenishes, or that totally sucks the life out of you. I want to be dashed against the rocks.

~ Jeff Buckley

I want to make music that will make the blood surge in your veins, music that will get people up and dance.

~ Alex Kapranos

But recently I began to feel that maybe I wouldn't be able to do what I want to do and need to do with American musicians, who are imprisoned behind these bars; music's got these bars and measures you know.

~ Sun Ra

I always tell the fans, 'Screw it! Like what you like. Listen to what you want.' Insisting that one type of music is better than the next is snobbery, and I have no time for that. Check out all the music that's out there. There's great stuff you're probably missing.

~ Corey Taylor

I do promotion when it is necessary, but I always want to get back to the music.

~ Enya

I just want to sing, I want to work on my music, I want to make my movies, that's all I want to do.

~ Marc Anthony

I didn't want to go out and change anything. I just wanted to make the music that was part of my background, which was rock and blues and hip-hop.

~ Kid Rock

I don't need anybody to market or promote me. If people don't want to hear this music, then it's not for them. You cannot please everybody.

~ Lauryn Hill

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

~ Christian Nestell Bovee

Drugs, sex, booze, all the stuff that we wanted to do. The problem was that we didn't want to learn the top 40 'cause most of the music was awful and we had this other idea about what we wanted to do.

~ Wayne Kramer

With age, you get to a place where you don't want to knock people out. You just want to give people a hug.

~ Vin Diesel

The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

~ George Foreman

I never was that boy who loved gangster films, but when I was growing up, I was obsessed with the detective Dick Tracy. It was one of my favourite movies as a kid, and he really inspired me. I would have loved to be part of that golden age of Hollywood in the 1940s. It made me want to become an actor.

~ Ryan Gosling

We, after a certain age, after college, are so consumed about what we want to achieve in life, and we fiercely are ambitious and we go after that, but sometimes we tend to take all our loved and dear ones for granted.

~ Ranbir Kapoor

Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

~ Miriam Makeba

I still have my teeth. I don't want to lose them at age 61 in some hockey game.

~ Jim Flaherty

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

~ Bernard Meltzer

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

~ Charlie Chaplin

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

~ Bertrand Russell

If you can ensure happiness and public order, the country will go ahead well, just like what all Thais want.

~ Bhumibol Adulyadej