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The last thing family and friends want is for you to spend money on them that you don't have or that you can't really spare.

~ Suze Orman

I grew up in a big family with a lot of kids around, and I definitely want to have children as well.

~ Heidi Klum

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.

~ David Ogilvy

At a certain point I'm going to want to have a family.

~ Gwen Stefani

I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.

~ Patrick Warburton

I'm always going back to one thing - my family... It's my family, my religion, my fighters. Put them in any order you want.

~ Lou Duva

I don't want to do architecture that's dry and dull.

~ Frank Gehry

Architecture is a negotiated art, and it's highly political, and if you want to make buildings, there is diplomacy required.

~ Thom Mayne

I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

~ Robin Lord Taylor

Clothing has been called intimate architecture. We want to go beyond that.

~ Issey Miyake

Architecture is a living thing. If I want to leave something to the future, it has to be able to change - but retain something of the ethos that we built up over 50 years.

~ Richard Rogers

Even though I build buildings and I pursue my architecture, I pursue it as an artist. I deliberately keep a tiny studio. I don't want to be an architectural firm. I want to remain an artist.

~ Maya Lin

The process I go through in the art and the architecture, I actually want it to be almost childlike. Sometimes I think it's magical.

~ Maya Lin

As a viewer, that's work I respond to - work that I know is singular in some way. If I'm being challenged by something on screen, if I don't quite know why it's happening, I want to know I can do the work of pulling it apart and that there'll be something satisfactory about it. If the architecture is sound, you can be lyrical in execution.

~ Shane Carruth

What people want, above all, is order.

~ Stephen Gardiner

I want to abolish time, especially in the contemplation of architecture.

~ Piet Mondrian

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

~ Michael Graves

Architecture to me is whole. I cannot say I only care about this 25% and the other 75% I let go... it's just I want to work the way I want to work. In my shop, you can order certain things and other things you cannot. They are not available.

~ Peter Zumthor

You need a prince to make a town in an intellectual sense. Developers want to make money. If they cared about architecture, they'd become architects. I've had so many projects that never came off because they had no sponsor, and not because they were utopian. I just want to build a town that's normal.

~ Leon Krier

Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

~ Ian Smith

Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence.

~ Nelson Mandela

I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.

~ Rand Paul

I want there to be another independence referendum at some stage. I want Scotland to be independent, but I wouldn't choose to have it happen because England votes to come out of the E.U.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

Independence doesn't mean you decide the way you want.

~ Stephen Breyer

I want to emphasize the fact that the independence of Kosovo should and will be recognized.

~ Ibrahim Rugova

A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.

~ Ferdinand Mount

When I saw 'Independence Day,' I said, 'I want to be like Will Smith.' I want to do something like that. If he can do it, maybe one day I can come close to a set like that.

~ Cory Hardrict

I didn't want kabobs, Afghan music, and rules that required girls to be carefully monitored. I wanted mac and cheese, country music, and independence.

~ Azita Ghanizada

I want to keep learning, keep exploring, keep doing more.

~ Jessye Norman

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

~ Frederick Douglass

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

~ Heston Blumenthal

It's only through listening that you learn, and I never want to stop learning.

~ Drew Barrymore

If we want to recruit and retain high-quality teachers, it starts with a fair wage, adequate working conditions, and the resources and support to succeed. Remember: teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions.

~ Randi Weingarten

The willingness to keep learning is, I think, the most important thing about trying to be good at anything. You never want to stop learning.

~ Emile Hirsch

If we want boys to succeed, we need to bring them back to education by making education relevant to them and bring in more service learning and vocational education.

~ Michael Gurian

My message going forward is that I want to remind everyone in the aviation industry - especially those who manage aviation companies and those who regulate aviation - that we owe it to our passengers to keep learning how to do it better.

~ Chesley Sullenberger

I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books - but you do your own learning in your own way.

~ Salman Rushdie

I just don't want to stop finding things interesting. I don't want to ever stop learning. I want to be a weird encyclopedia of bizarre knowledge.

~ Brie Larson

When I exercise, I like to take lots of different classes because I want to really apply myself and feel like I'm learning a new skill. Not that I ever want to have to demonstrate any of those skills!

~ Zooey Deschanel

Learning what you don't want is how you know what you do want.

~ Robin Wright