“If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. Just make sure you clear the bold move with the people whose lives it's going to affect. Like George Washington, had to get all those guys who the British killed to agree to die. Neil Armstrong, had to crank a couple of elbows into Buzz Aldrin's face mask to make sure he got on the moon first. And Christopher Titus, well, he worked his dad for five grand. Ha ha. Who can't support who ? I know, it's complicated.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFirstsWellsEnoughFacesMovingGuyDiesSupportClearFiveCoupleDadMoonAgreeComplicatedBritishMaskWant SomethingElbowsBuzzArmstrongCrankBold Moves Author:Christopher Titus
“Even if you get a joke right you've done it a thousand times and sometimes there's times where it just doesn't work or someone doesn't agree with you. And I want to show that. I have had more hecklers because that's part of comedy is arguments, you know?” IfsKnowsWantSometimesDoneShowsComedyThousandJokesArgumentAgreeHecklers Author:Godfrey
“Whether it's your personal life or career, people feel they have carte blanche to everything that goes on in your life. I don't agree with that, but I do feel I have to share my thoughts on those things with people instead of totally avoiding it. I want to put it out there the way I want to put it out there.” PeopleWayWantFeelsCareersShareGoes OnAgreeAvoidingPersonal LifeMy ThoughtsBlanche Author:Faith Evans
“Gary Bauer has done great things, ... I want to promise you again, you may agree with me, you may disagree with me, but I will do great things.” WantMayDonePromiseAgreeGreat ThingsDisagreeYou AgainGary Author:John McCain
“But I also want to change the dynamics of this debate, which has kept us gridlocked into positions which caused people to shoot at abortion clinics and other Americans to view it as the only issue in American politics, ... There are areas we can agree on. ... We need to work together to eliminate abortion.” PeopleWantNeedsTogetherViewsIssuesPositionAreasAgreeDebateAbortionWorking TogetherAmerican PoliticsDynamicsClinic Author:John McCain
“Hatemongers like Media Matters take innocent statements like mine, Rush Limbaugh's, John Gibson's, and Bill O'Reilly's and make them offensive by posting them on the Internet, allowing the general public to hear words that were meant for people who already agree with us. Hey, Media Matters, you want to end offensive speech? Then stop recording it for people who would be offended.” PeopleWantEndsMatterWould BeMediaMinesInternetSpeechAgreeBillsStatementsInnocentHeyAllowingOffensiveOffendedGeneral PublicBill O Reilly Author:Stephen Colbert
“I have trouble getting approvals from my heath insurance company for basic antidepressants. And I have the best plan my agency has. I can't get high off this stuff! I'm not going to sell it! Getting my medication is critical. It's me saying, "I just want to live." And their response seems to be, "We agree that it's a matter of life and death; that's why we're declining it." Every time I get a cold, I have Tylenol with codeine coming out the wazoo. But the medication I need to live? Nah.” WantNeedsI CanMatterSeemsStuffCompanyPlansTroubleColdAgreeSellsResponseCriticalAgencyLife And DeathComing OutApprovalMedicationGetting HighInsurance CompaniesAntidepressantsTylenolCodeine Author:Jenny Lawson
“The only thing we all agree on, virtually every poet in this country, is that this Administration is really frightening, and we want something done about it.” WantCountryDonePoetAgreeAdministrationFrighteningWant Something Author:Sam Hamill
“I mean, on virtually every major issue before this country that is the natural purview of the federal government, it's important to have some specificity about what you're going to do if you want to be the president. And so I agree that, up until this point, it hasn't been a huge factor.” IfsWantMeanImportantCountryGovernmentPresidentNaturalIssuesHugeMajorsAgreeFactorsFederal GovernmentSpecificity Author:Marco Rubio
“Apple doesn't have to write code, which equals speech, when it doesn't agree with what the government wants to do. And it's not that the government can't make you do anything you don't want to do.” WantWritingGovernmentSpeechAgreeCodeApples Author:Laura Sydell
“I think we can all agree this is a very important election [2016]. We don't want to see Hillary Clinton become the president of the United States.” ThinkingWantImportantStatesPresidentUnitedUnited StatesElectionAgreeClinton Author:Mitt Romney
“I think we can all agree [Bashar] Assad is a bad and evil actor, but I'm not so sure that we want the Islamic rebels to be in charge of Syria either.” ThinkingWantEvilActorsAgreeIslamicRebelSyriaAssad Author:Rand Paul
“There are many people who are so inclined to say "no" that the "no" always precedes whatever we say to them. This negative quality makes them so disagreeable that, even if they do what we want them to or agree with what we say, they always lose the pleasure that they might have received had they not started off so badly.” PeopleIfsWantMightLosesPleasureQualityNegativeAgreeDisagreeable Author:Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable
“Of course there are collaborations. But in official meetings with Western diplomats from the US and the European Union, the major issues of our relationships are simply not discussed. The topics are on climate change or any other issues they want us to agree with them on. But they never discuss how we could develop an equal relationship. They should stop using pompous orchestrated summits and begin a serious dialogue with small meetings.” WantShouldCoursesIssuesSeriousEqualMajorsAgreeUnionsMeetingsClimateWesternClimate ChangeDialogueOfficialsCollaborationOur RelationshipTopicsWant USummitEuropean UnionDiplomatsPompous Author:Yoweri Museveni
“Justice [Sonia]Sotomayor said, "Let's talk - you want to talk about the tax power."And I got like a 10-minute run on the tax power. And, boy, was I glad I did because I was able to get across this idea that, yes, this is a narrower ground on which you can affirm it. And I think everybody agrees. I think even the dissenting justices ultimately in the case agreed that, if Congress had expressly called it a tax, it would be indisputably constitutional.” IfsThinkingWantSaidIdeasWould BeRunningAbleJusticeBoysCasesMinutesTaxesAgreeCongressGlad Author:Donald Verrilli Jr.
“We agree: Brussels can't regulate everything. I'm driven by something else: There are forces in Europe that want to generally give national policy priority over a common European approach. We have to prevent this.” WantGivingForceCommonPolicyApproachEuropeAgreeDrivenPrioritiesBrussels Author:Martin Schulz
“I think people who agree with Donald Trump have repeatedly made the case that he should be able to say whatever he wants to say, it's time someone did that. But as we go and speak to the kids, the young people who are reading March, we see the fear, we hear them tell us how scared they are.” PeopleThinkingWantShouldMadeKidsAbleYoungReadingSpeakCasesTrumpAgreeScaredMarch Author:Andrew Aydin
“Now it is firstly a matter of a clean divorce, because citizens and companies need legal certainty. Can there be a new partnership with the United Kingdom one day? All 27 Member States would have to agree to that. And the United Kingdom would first have to reflect on what it wants itself.” WantNeedsFirstsMatterStatesUnitedCompanyCitizensOne DayMembersAgreeCleanDivorceKingdomsCertaintyPartnershipUnited Kingdom Author:Jean-Claude Juncker
“I try not to be mean for the sake of being mean, and if I do do a joke or a tweet or something that is at someone's expense - and those are my fine lines; obviously they're there - I want it to be something that's pretty much across the board we all as a society agree this is bad.” IfsWantTryingMeanLinesFineJokesAgreeSakeBoardsExpensesTweetBeing MeFine LinesBeing Mean Author:Brad Williams
“[Hillary Clinton] has been a woman in the public eye for decades now. She's been insulted, demeaned, and attacked for all this time, and she still wants to lead this country - and fight for the things she believes in. Not only do we agree on the issues, but I really think she's the right person to get things done.” ThinkingWantBelievePersonsHas BeensStillsCountryDoneEyeFightingIssuesAgreeClintonDecadesThings DoneRight PersonInsultedPublic Eye Author:Chrissy Teigen
“I think all of us would agree that a lot of Christian radio sounds the same. A lot of music that comes out of Nashville kind of has a little bit of the same vibe. Because I don't live in Nashville, I surround myself with a culture and an influence that's outside that bubble. So when the church hears it, it's refreshing, and when the world hears it, it sounds like something they want to listen to.” ThinkingWorldWantKindLittlesChristianCultureBitsSoundChurchInfluenceLittle BitAgreeRadioSurroundBubblesLike SomethingRefreshingNashville Author:Dominic Balli
“I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or would not agree to. So in that regard, I'm kind of the opposite of a lobbyist.” WantKindMembersOppositesRegardAgreeCongressConstituentsLobbyists Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I agree with people who say we want more income equality; we want more consumer protection; and we want sounder banks. I agree with all that.” PeopleWantAgreeProtectionIncomeConsumersSounderConsumer Protection Author:Jamie Dimon
“I've already written a section in the annual report for next year explaining why I think in one case that the figures on our balance sheet as calculated are wrong. But it's the standard way of doing it. It's holy writ. The SEC wants us to do it that way, and we'll do it that way, and I'll explain why I think it's wrong and shareholders can read it and see whether they agree with my logic or don't.” ThinkingWayWantYearsNextCasesWrittenFiguresBalanceHolyStandardsLogicAgreeReportsSheetsSectionsWant UExplainingNext YearAnnualsShareholdersBalance SheetsAnnual Reports Author:Warren Buffett
“Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't want to deal with these guys because they're too conservative," or "We don't agree with them on social issues."” PeopleWantSaidStatesGuySocialDealsPartyIssuesAgreeConservativeSocial IssuesMinnesotaCaucus Author:Collin Peterson
“People can make arguments from the Bible if they want to. But I want them to see that they should also give arguments that all reasonable citizens might agree to.” PeopleIfsWantGivingShouldMightCitizensArgumentAgreeReasonable Book:Collected Papers Source: Collected Papers
“I just think it's weird that Donald Trump wants to be an executive producer of a TV show while he's President of the United States. I agree with Newt Gingrich. He doesn't have to do that.” ThinkingWantStatesShowsPresidentUnitedUnited StatesTvsTrumpAgreeProducersExecutivesTv ShowsNewts Author:Claire McCaskill
“I do not want to speak about our cooperation with Japan now. Thank God, we have had no such problems there. Nor would we want any to arise in the future. Therefore, everything needs to be pre-calculated, and we need to agree upon everything in advance.” WantNeedsProblemSpeakAgreeAriseJapanCooperationThank GodAgree Upon Author:Vladimir Putin
“We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us, that in this age of non-state actors who can amass great power, I want my government - and I think the German people should want their government - to be able to find out if a terrorist organization has access to a weapon of mass destruction that might go off in the middle of Berlin.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantNeedsShouldStatesHelpingGovernmentMightAgeAbleActorsMiddleProtectWeaponsMassDestructionOrganizationAgreeAccessTerroristBerlinWeapons Of Mass DestructionMass DestructionGreat Power Author:Barack Obama
“Many people think you shouldn't stop kids from being kids, and I agree, but no one wants the worst case scenario on their hands. Better safe than sorry I say.” PeopleThinkingWantHandsKidsCasesWorstSafeAgreeSorryScenariosBeing A KidWorst Case Scenario Author:Raheem Jarbo
“Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being.” WantNeedsHumansLongDifferencesHuman BeingsForgetAgreeMethodRecognitionWants And NeedsAfros Author:Malcolm X
“I'm not a politician, and I do not think I am as effective in this way as people who actually prepare for it - is to focus on technical reform, because I speak the language of technology. I spoke with Tim Berners-Lee, the guy who invented the World Wide Web. We agree on the necessity for this generation to create what he calls the Magna Carta for the Internet. We want to say what "digital rights" should be. What values should we be protecting, and how do we assert them.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayWantShouldGuyValuesSpeakLanguageTechnologyFocusRightsGenerationsInternetPoliticianAgreeWideReformDigitalSpokesThis GenerationWorld Wide WebMagna Carta Author:Edward Snowden
“The agreement is fundamentally that we want to try to resolve this. The agreement is that ISIL is a threat to everybody, and we need to come together to find a way to fight ISIL. The agreement is that we want to save Syria, keep it unified, keep it secular. So surely in those very fundamental principles on which we could agree.” WayWantNeedsTryingTogetherFightingPrinciplesAgreeFundamentalsThreatAgreementResolveSecularSyriaUnifiedFundamental PrinciplesIsil Author:John F. Kerry
“I’m just some white guy in California, and nobody in Flint is going to pay any attention to what I’m saying. I don’t blame them. Nor do doctors want to publicly agree with me, because nobody wants to downplay the effects of lead poisoning. I get that too. I can already imagine the number of tweets and emails I’m going to get demanding to know why I think Flint is no big deal.” ThinkingKnowsWantI CanBigsGuyWhiteDealsNumbersPayAttentionImagineEffectsDoctorsAgreeBlameCaliforniaEmailBig DealTweetPoisoningWhite Guys Author:Kevin Drum
“We agree with that goal [to secure our border] and will be working with [Donald Trump] to finance on construction of the physical barrier, including the wall on the southern border. The law is already on the books. I voted for it, like, ten years ago, but nothing has gotten done and now we have a president who actually wants to secure the border and we are all in favor of doing that.” WantYearsBookDoneLawGoalPresidentWallTrumpTenYears AgoAgreeIncludingFavorsFinanceSecureBordersBarriersSouthernConstruction Author:Paul Ryan
“We want to have trade agreements that give us a level playing field, get other countries to respect the rule of law, intellectual property rights, lower their taxes to our barriers, that`s good for us, and that is something that I do believe that President [Donald] Trump agrees with.” WantGivingBelieveCountryLawPresidentLevelsRightsFieldsTrumpTaxesIntellectualAgreeTradePropertyBarriersAgreementOther CountriesRule Of LawProperty RightsPlaying FieldsIntellectual PropertyTrade AgreementsLevel Playing Field Author:Paul Ryan
“"Openness" [story] ultimately asks this same question - can a relationship survive complete honesty? As a romantic, I want to say "Yes, of course!" But, over time, I've come to agree with Dan Savage.” WantStoriesCoursesAsksHonestyAgreeOpennessSavagesComplete Honesty Author:Alexander Weinstein
“When movies tend to start to preach to me, I tend to shut them off, whether I agree with the message or not. I don't think the job of art is to preach, I think it's to ask questions and make people aware of differences and different ways of looking at things. That's what I want to do, anyway. Whether I'm successful or not, that's up to history.” PeopleThinkingWayWantArtDifferentJobsAsksDifferencesSuccessfulMessagesArt IsAgreeDifferent Ways Author:Nick Damici
“Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, "If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send a geologist or do you want to send a robot?" Well, the real answer is, you can send 100 robots for the price of sending one geologist, so let's send 100 robots to 100 different locations, and then we would all benefit. So that's the answer you would get. And I agree with that answer.” IfsWantWellsDifferentRealAnswersBenefitsScientistAgreeMarsLocationRobotsGeologist Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I agree with the basic principle that anybody who wants to serve in our armed forces and make sacrifices on our behalf, on behalf of our national security, anybody should be able to serve. And they shouldn't have to lie about who they are in order to serve.” WantShouldAbleLyingOrderForcePrinciplesSacrificeSecurityAgreeNational SecurityBehalfArmed ForcesBasic Principles Author:Barack Obama
“They say you have to get and stay sober for yourself, and of course I agree with that, but I've really appreciated the added stakes of having someone relying on me for survival. My daughter makes me want to do right. That doesn't mean I won't relapse again. It's happened to me before. But she adds a layer of love in my life that I've never known.” WantMeanCoursesKnownHappenedSurvivalDaughterAgreeAddMy DaughterStakesLayersSoberAppreciatedRelapse Author:Joshua Mohr
“Human beings want to be free and however long they may agree to stay locked up, to stay oppressed, there will come a time when they say 'That's it.' Suddenly they find themselves doing something that they never would have thought they would be doing, simply because of the human instinct that makes them turn their face towards freedom.” WantHumansMayLongWould BeFacesTurnsHuman BeingsAgreeInstinctLockedOppressedLocked UpNatural Instinct Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“Eddie Murphy said once in an interview that nothing is offensive if it's funny. I sort of agree with that, but if something's funny and you're the subject of it, sometimes it's more offensive. If someone's insulting you, you want them to sound like an idiot.” IfsWantSaidSometimesSoundSubjectsAgreeIdiotInterviewsOffensiveInsultingMurphy Author:Artie Lange
“We're saying this to both countries: We want a two-state solution. We want a Jewish state of Israel and alongside an independent Palestinian state. Unilateral measures are not helping at all to bring about this cause, and we agree that we wish to cooperate very closely on this, because as we both say, time is of the essence.” WantTwoCountryStatesHelpingWishCausesSolutionsEssenceIndependentAgreeIsraelPalestinian Author:Angela Merkel
“When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.” WantActorsFunMy OwnHavensDirectorsConceptsAgreeCome Up Author:Jack Nicholson
“It is true that as you have children, there are a good many months when you don't want to be working full-time. I agree that that's an issue.” WantChildrenIssuesMonthsAgree Author:Sandra Day O'Connor
“The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.” WantNeedsBelievePersonsTodayIndividualTalkingStepsMessagesShotsAgreeDon't BelieveEmpoweringNot TalkingPower Of OneTalking Politics Author:Glenn Beck
“And Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values, like you work hard for what you want in life. That your word is your bond; that you do what you say you're going to do. That you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don't know them and even if you don't agree with them.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantHardValuesHard WorkLike YouDignityTreatsAgreeRaisedWhat You WantBarackDignity And Respect Author:Michelle Obama
“My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.” IfsWantWholeChangedIgnoranceAgreeRuinsDisagreeAgree To Disagree Author:Katy Perry
“My deal is have a flat, simple tax. And - Americans want - Americans I hope - aspire to be - be wealthy. I hope they aspire to have a better quality of life. And we have this class warfare that's going on now. And I don't agree with that. I'm interested in people getting to work.” PeopleWantSimpleDealsQualityClassTaxesAgreeFlatsWealthyWarfareAspireQuality Of LifeClass WarfareBetter Quality Of Life Author:Rick Perry