Most kids still can grow up to be anything you want--unless they want to grow up to be SpongeBob.
Basically, you and I as citizens, the listener as a citizen, we don't want - we want the people who run banks - I think this is safe to say - we want them to take risks but to bear the burden of those risks.
It will be a significant speech with many elements to it, but I don't want -- I want to be clear that the President is focused very much on steps we can take together -- Congress, the administration -- to grow the economy and create jobs at this important time in the American economy.
But I think that in the modern world, you've got to look not - if you want to go for - if you want to - if you simply stand still, you're going to end up going backwards because that's the way the world is.
So I think that's why the President felt strongly about including the authority for rate review, and I think that's why the American people want -- the American people want someone to be on their side looking into this.
But the lawyers acting for Haiti's cholera victims say they don't want charity - they want justice.
We want to increase the amount of the Pell grant so that it catches up with inflation and we want to -- we want more young people to be eligible for the Pell grant program.
But I want you -- I want you to understand, this is not about me. (Applause.) This is not about me.
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Working with Barbara Mikulski and others, we want to -- I want to sign the Paycheck Fairness Act into law so women can fight for fair pay.
That's why I said I didn't want to -- I want to make sure that I'm not being unfair to your proposal, but I just want to point out that I've read it.
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And I want to -- I want you to remember and I want you to remind everybody else those three simple words that summed up our last campaign and that will sum up our spirit as a people: Yes, we can.
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We invite them because we want them -- we want to say to them and to boys and girls across America that if, despite all the obstacles these women of courage face, if they are still running for office and running organizations and serving their communities and their countries, then surely you can find a way to follow your dreams.
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Ben - my son, Ben Taylor - said, Mom, I want to hear you - I want to hear you play these the way you did when you wrote them, and with any new thoughts and any new emotions that come into play now because, obviously, times have changed and years have gone on between the time that you first wrote them.
The only thing I don't want -- and here I am listening to the American people, and I think they don't want either -- is for Washington to continue being so Washington-like.
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Dr. MADHI: I didn't want to reveal my identity because my family was living in Iraq and I didn't want it - didn't want to appear that I'm connected to the Western media because my fear on my family, not really on my life.
"We don't want disposable songs - we want a 20 minute record, " he said.
Other people are critical because they feel that the protesters, the antis, have kind of seized the moment, and I want to play - I want to play a clip from a town hall meeting that Congressman Barney Frank held in Dartmouth.
You should be able to give as much money as you want, anytime you want and to any candidate or cause you want--as long as the information is posted within a day or two on the Internet.
So we want to multiply these stories -- we want to multiply your story -- all over the country.
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And we need to invest in education. (Applause.) We want tomorrow's workers -- we want Arizona's workers -- to have the skills they need for the jobs like the ones that will be opening up here.
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You know, I'm going to -- on the last question I think I -- hold on a second, I think I want to call on -- I want to call on a young person.
Now Josh, the I'm-going-to-be-a-reporter-someday crew member, and Michael, the I-really-want-to-be-a-rock-star prompter operator, were around me, wearing the same expression you'd have after witnessing a car wreck.
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The Galaxy S and S II certainly weren't the company's first phones (or its last) to reflect that whatever-you-want-sir philosophy, but they drew attention to the problems it created.
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Amazon ( AMZN) Prime, the ship-all-you-want-for-one-annual-fee deal, and various other free shipping offers, have both boosted sales and saddled the online retailer with rising costs in recent quarters, producing a loss in the third quarter.
Dubai, too, the land of if-you-want-an-island-you-just-build-one.
Ellison knew when he acquired Sun that the explosion of the global Internet economy, the customer-engagement economy, the real-time-and-always-on economy, the Big Data economy, or the whatever-you-want-to-call-it economy, would trigger analytical and transactional workloads for Oracle customers that would crush traditional, non-optimized hardware and software combinations.
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But as magazines and newspapers and books and business offices and schools make their inexorable leap into the digital future, there's nothing wrong with acknowledging just how nice the tactile, comforting, here-when-you-want-me world of words and pictures on paper has been, even while recognizing and appreciating the marvels of the new way.
So, what I want to say to every kid, every young person -- what I want all of you -- if you take away one thing from my speech, I want you to take away the notion that life is precious, and part of what makes it so wonderful is its diversity, that all of us are different.
Some House Democrats are still very miffed at some things that you said recently and they want to know -- they want answers from you.
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