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Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.
Ann Druyan
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It's not that I wanted to be an actor; it's that I didn't want to be a dancer! I was trained in traditional Chinese dance, and after working so hard it seemed unfair to just disappear into a group.
Ziyi Zhang
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For families, for parents that don't want to feed their kids GMOs, in the private marketplace there has grown up an abundant market.
Ted Cruz
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A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?
Oscar Wilde
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Probably right at the end of JAG, I would love to have a child or two. I ultimately want to have two kids.
Catherine Bell
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God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.
Mahalia Jackson
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You go through your career and you find people and cast who you love and you go through and keep them and you never want to let them go because you have a great repertory with them.
Will Gluck
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There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.
Aaron Paul
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I'm in a great situation because I know what kind of player I want to be, I know where I'm going to be, and I know what I have to do to get there and I'm around the right guys.
La'el Collins
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If someone asked me to do something I didn't want to do or didn't think was right, I wouldn't do it.
Carlene Carter
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I'm not giving up my history and what I've done in my music because I love it and I'm very proud of it. I just want to open it up for more people.
LL Cool J
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I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.
Captain Beefheart
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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
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I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.
Maksim Chmerkovskiy
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You sometimes use the excuse, 'I'm a writer, dammit, I can do anything I want,' but that doesn't work.
Sam Shepard
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The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God
Yann Martel
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I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.
Barry Jenkins
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We've got to realize what we're playing for. Now's the time to want it.
Brad Wilkerson
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Find the thing you want to do most intensely, make sure that’s it, and do it with all your might. If you live, well and good. If you die, well and good. Your purpose is done
H. G. Wells
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You wouldn't want to be called a sell-out by selling a product. Selling out was frowned on, whereas now you can major in it at business school.
Alan Alda
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Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.
Ann Druyan
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I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.
Sara Zarr
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If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
Oprah Winfrey
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An Olympic gold medal is something that almost seems like a fantasy. Yes, of course I want it, since I was a little kid, before I even knew what the World Cup tour was.
Hannah Kearney