Want Him Quotes - Page 10

• I don't want my dad to say, 'My daughter is an actress on a TV show.' I want him to say, 'My daughter cares about people.' I would love to know that I'm a role model in Hollywood.

  AnnaLynne McCord

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.

  Bear Bryant

  Football, Real, Player

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• If I were reincarnated, I'd want to come back a buzzard. Nothing hates him or envies him or wants him or needs him. He is never bothered or in danger, and he can eat anything.

  William Faulkner

  Hate, Envy, Bird

  1956 Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• Peter [Facinelli] would be so good at doing that. I want him to do the Beyoncé biopic.

  Robert Pattinson

  Funny, Want, Would Be

  "Best of Robert Pattinson's audio commentary". "Twilight" DVD, ew.com. March 21, 2009.

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• Is it not arrogance or narrow-mindedness to claim that there is only one way of salvation or that the way we follow is the right way? I think not. After all, do we fault a pilot for being narrow-minded when he follows the instrument panel while landing in a rainstorm? No, we want him to remain narrowly focused!

  Billy Graham

  Thinking, Arrogance, Want

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.304, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• First I'm going to thank Don because when you thank your husband at the end of the speech they play him out with the music and I want him to know that everything I value most in our lives you've given me.

  Meryl Streep

  Husband, Play, Speech

  Meryl Streep's Academy Awards Acceptance Speech, aaspeechesdb.oscars.org. February 26, 2012.

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• I was going with someone for a few years, but we broke up. It was one of those things. He wanted to get married, and I didn't want him to.

  Rita Rudner

  Years, Heartache, Want

  "GRAB BAG -- When Napoleon Got Too Big for His Britches" by L.M. Boyd, www.sfgate.com. August 13, 1995.

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• At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.

  Georges Bataille

  God, Men, Order

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• Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.

  Bernard Malamud

  Writing, Ideas, Reform

  "Reflections of a Writer: Long Work, Short Life". The New York Times, March 20, 1988.

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• It was a play of opportunity. It's certainly something that he can do. He has the wherewithal to do that. It's a concern when we are backed into our own endzone. The reality is I want him to take that advantage. It's like leaving a net untended and you're supposed to pass, but damn you got to take a shot. Certainly represented what we wanted to happen.

  Les Miles

  Opportunity, Reality, Damn You

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• We never want Him. We say, "Lord, give me a fine house." We want the house, not Him. "Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him].

  Swami Vivekananda

  Health, Men, Giving

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.451, Manonmani Publishers

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• That said, let me add that Joan and I never want him to be a child actor. We both feel that it takes away their childhood and puts untold pressure on children.

  Dwayne Hickman

  Children, Childhood, Add

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• Abortion is murder in the womb...A child is a gift of God. If you do not want him, give him to me.

  Mother Teresa

  Children, Giving, Abortion

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• Basically, at some point, one day maybe you can expect to hear some of my music. I haven't really done that yet because my younger brother is a musician and really talented and I want him to come out with his music first.

  Stephen Dorff

  Brother, One Day, Musician

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• Know this! They (false prophets) are the judgment of God upon a wicked defiled people who although they have a knowledge of God they do not want him. And so God sends them the teachers that they themselves desire.

  Paul Washer

  Teacher, People, Wicked

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