Want Me Quotes - Page 23

• If some woman tells me how she feels about something, my immediate assumption is that she wants an answer, or that she wants me to solve her problem. In fact, all she wants to do is share, or show how she feels.

  Fred Ward

  Facts, Answers, Want

  12 Copy quote

• I can still remember. I was ill, and I was seven, and my father didn't want me to just read children's books. He came with Conan Doyle. I tried, and I liked it. I think the first I read was 'The Sign of the Four'; 'Study in Scarlet' was the next one. Then I guess I stayed home a few extra days from school to read.

  Henning Mankell

  Children, Father, Book

  4 Copy quote

• I'd love to be an artist always, but if no one wants me, I'd love to write songs for other people, be a manager, nurture new talent.

  Adele

  Song, Writing, Artist

  5 Copy quote

• The only, the only possibility would be if the Republicans are in the majority and they can offer me something that would be especially advantageous to Maine. Somebody said, 'You may be a committee chair.' I don't think so. I don't think anybody would want me that much.

  Angus King

  Thinking, Majority, Would Be

  "Senator Angus King knows that being a man without a party comes with perks" by Ben Terris, wapo.st. October 20, 2014.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Before I had a son, I used to look at my father's example: he left me, he left my mother. When I had a son, I got caught in the same situation that his mother don't want me to see him. I started looking at my father in a different light.

  French Montana

  Mother, Father, Son

  "French Montana: Homecoming" by Zach Baron, www.thefader.com. September 25, 2012.

  39 Copy quote

  Show source

• You would not want me on your football team.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Football, Team, Want

  4 Copy quote

• It's a delicate thing for me, with how involved I am in social media and being a part of people's lives in a way that they want me to.

  Vera Farmiga

  Media, Delicate Things, People

  "BATES MOTEL Season 3: Vera Farmiga and Co-Showrunner Carlton Cuse". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 16, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Want, Argument, Intellect

  The Vicar of Wakefield ch. 7 (1766)

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• There will always be a battle between the sexes because men and women want different things. Men want women and women want men.

  George Burns

  Funny, Sex, Humor

  27 Copy quote

• If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Expectations, Want, Way

  4 Copy quote

• Coach wants me to shoot, and he tells me never to lose my aggressiveness. That's most important.

  Allan Ray

  Important, Want, Aggression

  4 Copy quote

• It was fantastic for me to see the cheering and clapping and it showed maybe not all of them want me out of a job!

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Jobs, Cheer, Want

  9 Copy quote

• You want me to act like we've never kissed, you want to forget; pretend we've never met , and I've tried and I've tried, but I haven't yet... You walk by, and I fall to pieces.

  Patsy Cline

  Relationship, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  Song: I Fall to Pieces

  27 Copy quote

  Show source

• Don't invite me if you don't want me.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Want, Invites

  4 Copy quote

• I love to know that in all parts of the world, people want me. I need the attention.

  Thalia

  People, Needs, Attention

  4 Copy quote

• Unfortunately, overall, movies are a conglomerate. People buy and sell people in this business, which can get really ugly unless you have the right set of values and understand why you're doing it. Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already gotten to that point, and seen all the yuck stuff - which is probably why they originally didn't want me to act.

  Laura Dern

  People, Ugly, Get Real

  4 Copy quote

• We believe in the wrong things. That's what frustrates me the most. Not the lack of belief, but the belief in the wrong things. You want meaning? Well, the meanings are out there. We're just so damn good at reading them wrong.

  Rachel Cohn

  Believe, Reading, Meaning Well

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.82, Knopf Books for Young Readers

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.

  Ronald Reagan

  Moving, California, Want

  4 Copy quote

• Is there any other industry [than the press] in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

  Rupert Murdoch

  Country, Media, Giving

  4 Copy quote

• My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.

  Walter Mosley

  Father, Mistake, America

  Walter Mosley (2003). “What Next: A Memoir Toward World Peace”, p.12, Black Classic Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My mother didn't want me to be in fashion. She was in the fashion business, so was my brother, and she thought it was too crazy for me. She wanted me to be married with children, to be independent, yes, but not to have a crazy life.

  Donatella Versace

  Mother, Fashion, Brother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Marine Le Pen may want me dead, that's possible, but she must not count on my co-operation

  Jean-Marie Le Pen

  Marine, May, Want

  13 Copy quote

• Whenever somebody tells me they want me to stop singing, I'm gone.

  Mavis Staples

  Singing, Gone, Want

  5 Copy quote

• Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

  Chris Lilley

  Expectations, Fans, Want

  "Chris Lilley is the man in the comic mask" by Greg Callighan, www.theaustralian.com.au. April 30, 2011.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you suddenly want me to act with Son Dongwoon one-on-one, forget it!

  Yoseob

  Son, Want, Forget

  5 Copy quote