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If you really want to receive joy and happiness, then serve others with all your heart. Lift their burden, and your own burden will be lighter.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

~ Garth Brooks

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

~ Bette Davis

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

~ Tamara Ecclestone

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

~ Florence Griffith Joyner

I want to host a religious show. I'm sure nobody will be wanting the 11 o'clock spot on Sunday morning. I think we should really get some of our own preachers and preach that gay is good. And we'd have a great choir.

~ Kate Clinton

The Marines are like my West Highland Terrier. They get up every morning, they want to dig a hole, and they want to kill something.

~ Thomas P.m. Barnett

I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians do this and they get a bit mangled and bitter. I just refuse to do that. I refuse to be angry or bitter or complain, and I remain open. I may sometimes be a bit too open but I'm not going to change that one bit.

~ Nick Clegg

I don't care if you get up in the morning and don't wash, don't put any make-up on, don't do your hair, even, but you have to have clothes if you want to look different.

~ Vivienne Westwood

Even if it wasn't always morning in America during the years of his presidency, Reagan's eagerness to insist that it was tapped into a longing among voters. They didn't want to picture themselves turning down their thermostats and buttoning up their cardigans. They wanted to strut again. Reagan opened his arms and said, 'Walk this way.'

~ Nancy Gibbs

It's a privilege to serve the poor, to be servants of noble Africans, but I better belong in the rehearsal room or in the studio with my band. That's where I want to be and I still wake up in the morning with melodies in my head.

~ Bono

I would like to know that when I read the paper in the morning, it's telling me something that actually happened, and I think the vast majority of journalists want the same thing.

~ Alan Alda

I never leave anything until the morning. I put my jumpers, scarves, and shoes out the night before. You never know what is going to happen. You don't want to get stressed.

~ Mary Berry

If I want to get work done, that's usually about 3 in the morning.

~ Marc Andreessen

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

~ Marcel Duchamp

I try to make films that I find exciting. It makes me want to get out of bed at five in the morning, have my make-up done and play for the rest of the day.

~ Kristin Scott Thomas

Beverly Hills is too intimidating. Everyone's got lovely teeth, so you don't want to smile. Everyone's ripped, so you start working out at 4 in the morning and eating egg white omelets.

~ Rob James-Collier

As a producer, the most important call you can get is on Saturday morning, when the Friday-night grosses come in. As a director, you want your film to be successful. But your outlook is a bit different. You become very conscious of the reviews.

~ Irwin Winkler

Training is full-on. Some days I really don't want to get out of bed and hit that track again. Sunday and Monday morning sessions are always horrible. But who really looks forward to going to work on a Monday morning?

~ Jessica Ennis

Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.

~ Jack Dempsey

I want parents to teach that academic intelligence is essential, but so is financial intelligence.

~ Robert Kiyosaki

When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'

~ Brian Eno

We want to build intelligence that augments human abilities and experiences.

~ Satya Nadella

Here's the thing: I think the media underestimates the intelligence of the moviegoer. We need to be fulfilled. People want to sit down and think, and I try to make people think.

~ Lee Daniels

I do not - I never believed it's better to kill a terrorist than to detain him. We want to detain as many terrorists as possible so we can elicit the intelligence from them in the appropriate manner so that we can disrupt follow-on terrorist attacks.

~ John O. Brennan

I want to exude strength and intelligence.

~ Portia De Rossi

When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.

~ Robert M. Gates

I spent over 10 years in the Central Intelligence Agency, serving overseas, serving in the Middle East. And let me tell you, if you're a terrorist and you want to come to the United States, the worst possible way to do it is as a refugee. You'll go through a year and a half to two years of vetting.

~ Evan Mcmullin

I don't want to talk about intelligence matters. I will say, however, that intelligence-community estimates should not become public in the way of this city and in the way of Congress.

~ Warren Christopher

I just want to be successful. I'm not going to sit here and be like, 'I want to win a Grammy' or whatever; if that comes, that's awesome. But I just want to be successful and provide for my whole family and get my family out the hood.

~ Lil Uzi Vert

When I'm, like, 30, I want to go off the map, have a family and live in Malibu with a farm, and just raise my own chickens.

~ Kylie Jenner

Right now I just want to chill for a while. Take a hiatus from all the craziness. To clean my house, see my family. Just see some movies and pick some strawberries.

~ Lauren Ambrose

Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance. Period, end of story.

~ Barack Obama

There's a schizoid streak within the family anyway so I dare say that I'm affected by that. The majority of the people in my family have been in some kind of mental institution, as for my brother he doesn't want to leave. He likes it very much.

~ David Bowie

I grew up in a pretty large family. We were really close-knit, so I definitely want to have lots and lots of children.

~ Anne Hathaway

I think those who invest in mutual funds want someone else to do the thinking for them. But the fact that they can move the money around the family of mutual funds just through a phone call lets them feel that they can play tycoons.

~ Ron Chernow

I want to make sure my family's straight.

~ Lil Wayne

Every family is dysfunctional, whether you want to admit it or not.

~ Shailene Woodley

I do want to have holidays and see my family and friends.

~ Jason Clarke

You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family.

~ Eddie Van Halen