
„I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?“
— Ned Vizzini, buch It's Kind of a Funny Story
Quelle: It's Kind of a Funny Story
„I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?“
— Ned Vizzini, buch It's Kind of a Funny Story
Quelle: It's Kind of a Funny Story
„I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.“
— Stanley Kubrick American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor 1928 - 1999
— Aldous Huxley, buch Schöne neue Welt
Variante: I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.
Quelle: Brave New World
— Robert Fogel American economist, historian 1926 - 2013
Robert Fogel in: " Early Retirees Turn to Volunteer Work http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4970476," at npr.org. October 23, 2005.
— Richard Rohr American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest 1943
Quelle: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 93
— Mike Tyson American boxer 1966
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zd0_VgK8DU4&mode=related&search=
Miscellaneous
„I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.“
— Gertrude Stein American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays 1874 - 1946
Quelle: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
„What do you want, that I should start crying, ‘Oh, crisis, we have a crisis!’ Do you want that?“
— Sheikh Hasina Prime Minister of Bangladesh 1947
When a journalist asked whether she believed the election had thrust the country deeper into political instability. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/12/world/asia/matriarchs-duel-for-power-threatens-to-tilt-bangladesh-off-balance.html (January 15, 2014)
„Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want?“
— Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965
— Fernando Pessoa, buch Das Buch der Unruhe des Hilfsbuchhalters Bernardo Soares
Ibid., p. 122
The Book of Disquiet
Original: Serei o que quiser. Mas tenho que querer o que for. O êxito está em ter êxito, e não em ter condições de êxito.
„How do I know that I don’t need what I want? I don’t have it.“
— Byron Katie American spiritual writer 1942
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
„What I want you to take seriously is what we have to do for the youth.“
— Tupac Shakur rapper and actor 1971 - 1996
1990s, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Atlanta (1992)
— Andy Warhol American artist 1928 - 1987
'What is Pop Art? Answers from 8 Painters', Part 1, G. R. Swenson, in Art News 62, November 1963
1963 - 1967
— Slavoj Žižek Slovene philosopher 1949
Quelle: The Plague of Fantasies (1997), Chapter One: The Seven Veils of Fantasy, p.9
— Jeff Buckley American singer, guitarist and songwriter 1966 - 1997
From Grace EPK (Electronic Press Kit)
„I don't want you fellows sitting around asking me what to do. I want you to tell me what to do.“
— George Marshall US military leader, Army Chief of Staff 1880 - 1959
To his staffers, as quoted in General of the Army : George C. Marshall, Soldier and Statesman (1991) by Ed Cray, p. 591
— Jack LaLanne American exercise instructor 1914 - 2011
In "Jack LaLanne dies at 96; spiritual father of U.S. fitness movement, LosAngeles Times"
— Hilary Hahn American violinist 1979
Why Violinist Hilary Hahn Will Never Just Stick to the Classical Repertoire (2012)