Want Something Quotes

• When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 30, 2014

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• If you really want to do something, you'll find a way. If you don't, you'll find an excuse.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 02, 2017

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• If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Funny, Wise

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

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• If you want something done, ask a busy person.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Strong Women, Iron, Independent Person

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• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• When you want something so bad and when something great happens, I think it's instinct that you say, 'This is gonna be the moment that's gonna change everything. Everybody is gonna see me a different way.'

  Joan Smalls

  Thinking, Different, Way

  "Puerto Rican model Joan Smalls breaks down color barriers, one runway at a time" by Emanuella Grinberg, www.cnn.com. September 7, 2012.

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• God gave us cats so that we would have an example of how we treat Him-mainly that we totally ignore Him as we go about our lives, but when we want something we will start to purr and figuratively rub ourselves against His legs to gain His attention for our wants.

  Jeff Miller

  Cat, Legs, Gains

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• Certainly I'm passionate and driven and quite relentless when I want something.

  Demi Moore

  Passionate, Driven, Relentless

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• If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.

  Anna Quindlen

  Elude You, Elude Us, Literature

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.260, Ballantine Books

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• Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Letting Go, Ideas, Genius

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• I don't want something special. I want something beautifully plain.

  Anne Lamott

  Design, Special, Want

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• I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Running, People, Way

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• My advice to an aspiring actor would be to never stop learning or working for what you want. Nothing comes easy, ever, if you want something, you have to work for it. By working for it I mean work on your craft, learn from people who have something to teach. It's just like anything else, practice makes perfect.

  James Lafferty

  Mean, Practice, People

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• I'm husband hunting. Now, I know all the men are going to be gay but at this point, I need a new gay husband. Or, a new lesbian assistant. If you want something done, tell a lesbian and the she'll chop down a tree. Something like that.

  Judy Tenuta

  Husband, Gay, Men

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!'

  Rihanna

  Beautiful, Mean, People

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• The worst thing to happen at the Oscars would be if nothing happened. You want something unscripted, something to riff on, something kinda out there.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Would Be, Oscars, Worst

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• If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.

  Michael P. Anderson

  Fun, Mean, Air

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• If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.

  Lucille Ball

  Life And Love, Work, Done

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• If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.

  Marlon Brando

  Blood, Giving, Hustle

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• When you want something bad enough, you work your butt off for it.

  Kelly Rowland

  Want, Enough

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• I find it strange the way human nature wants heroes and yet wants to destroy their heroes. It's a kind of mass insecurity people want something to look up to and get a buzz off but, at the same time, want to destroy it because it makes them feel insecure.

  Danielle Dax

  Hero, Insecure, People

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• When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something... but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, that is when we join the fashionable madmen.

  Joan Didion

  Thinking, Moral, Deceiving

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Apr 18, 2013

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• It is exhausting knowing that most of the time the phone rings, most of the time there's an email, most of the time there's a letter, someone wants something of you.

  Stephen Fry

  Phones, Knowing, Email

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• It's very important for the parents of young autistic children to encourage them to talk, or for those that don't talk, to give them a way of communicating, like a picture board, where they can point to a glass of milk, or a jacket if they're cold, or the bathroom. If they want something, then they need to learn to request that thing.

  Temple Grandin

  Children, Glasses, Giving

  "Q&A: Temple Grandin on Autism & Language". Interview with Vikki Valentine and Jon Hamilton, www.npr.org. July 9, 2006.

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• My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head.

  Rita Rudner

  Sarcastic, Fake People, Husband

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