All the filmmakers I've worked with have taken my desire to educate myself very seriously.
I've always wanted to be an actor. I've never planned on the acting and the stand-up feeding each other; they've always been separate desires.
It was also during my tenure of office that the Japanese Government agreed to the conclusion of a Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and signed it, pursuing a policy in harmony with the avowed desire of the people.
Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.
First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.
In my heart, my first desire was to be a dancer. I always wanted to dance and I danced from the time I was 7 till I was well into my 30s.
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.
Paul: Sex and alcohol. Fuels the desire kills the performance, according to the Bard.
Stella: I never listen to you when you're being morbid.
Peter Falk: To smoke, and have coffee - and if you do it together, it's fantastic.
Homer, the aged poet: What is wrong with peace that its inspiration doesn't endure?
From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.
The older I get and the longer I live in New York City, the more I have the desire to go elsewhere and be surrounded by nature.
In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature.
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.
It is the sincere desire of the writer that our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the bible, particularly the New Testament or the Christian religion.
The real issue is not talent as an independent element, but talent in relationship to will, desire, and persistence. Talent without these things vanishes and even modest talent with those characteristics grows.
The desire to economize time and mental effort in arithmetical computations, and to eliminate human liability to error is probably as old as the science of arithmetic itself.
As an athlete, you choose your sport and are drawn into it but your passion should never be driven by fame and fortune but a desire to create something special that people will always remember.
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way.