“I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story
“I want to live but I want to die. What do I do?”
Ned Vizzini book It's Kind of a Funny Story
Source: 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 (1928–1999) American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and editor
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Variant: I want God, I want poetry, I want danger, I want freedom, I want sin.
Source: Brave New World
Robert Fogel (1926–2013) American economist, historian
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 (1943) American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franciscan priest
Source: Everything Belongs: The Gift of Contemplative Prayer (1999), p. 93
“I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.”
Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays
Source: Everybody’s Autobiography (1937), Ch. 3
Mike Tyson (1966) American boxer
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zd0_VgK8DU4&mode=related&search= <br class="br">Miscellaneous
“What do you want, that I should start crying, ‘Oh, crisis, we have a crisis!’ Do you want that?”
Sheikh Hasina (1947) Prime Minister of Bangladesh
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 (1965) American writer and novelist