Want Something Quotes - Page 14

• The world meets nobody halfway. When you want something, you gotta take it.

  Sylvester Stallone

  World, Halfway, Over The Top

  "Over the Top". www.imdb.com. 1987.

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• I have the same problem as Marilyn. We attract people the way honey does bees, but they're generally the wrong kind of people. People who want something from us - if only our energy. We need a period of being alone to become ourselves.

  Montgomery Clift

  People, Energy, Doe

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• If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us.

  Ice Cube

  Animal, People, Giving

  "Ice Cube talks Are We There Yet?, xXx 2, life in the hood and more!". Interview, movieweb.com. January 20, 2005.

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• More than sex. More than money. You know, life is not endless is it? Cash, cars, cocaine, and girls. It's more than that. And there is a spiritual dimension to people...we are driven to want something more.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Girl, Spiritual, Sex

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• I think we all want something to knock us on the head and change our lives.

  Neil Burger

  Thinking, Want, Our Lives

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

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• There's a high point in your career, and then people get bored; they want something else to come along.

  Peter Temple

  Careers, People, Bored

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• If you really want something , you can have it if you're willing to pay the price. And the price means you have to work better and harder than the next guy.

  Vince Lombardi

  Mean, Pay The Price, Guy

  Vince Lombardi (2003). “What It Takes to Be #1 : Vince Lombardi on Leaders: Vince Lombardi on Leadership”, p.114, McGraw Hill Professional

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• If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Kilts, Scottish, Ifs

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• I would like whispering with someone who is like me. But no one is.I think it is because my sizzle doesn't match anyone else's. I want something to happen so bad that it sizzles inside of me. It never stops, but it also never fits any of the choices presented.

  Sarah Bird

  Thinking, Choices, Whispering

  Sarah Bird (2012). “The Gap Year”, p.70, Simon and Schuster

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• A general philosophy of the female characters in my films is they all want something to believe in, and not having anything.

  Woody Allen

  Philosophy, Believe, Character

  "Woody Allen & Cast Interview". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com. October 1, 2010.

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• I don't understand shopping, it doesn't make any sense to me. As guys, we decide we want something and then we go out and buy it. Women go to the store having no idea what they're going to buy, or what they're even doing, it's like a whole different sport. It's like going to a football game to maybe watch a game. I don't get it.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Sports, Football, Shopping

  "What Happens In Vegas - Ashton Kutcher interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Often, if there's something that I want to do, but somehow can't get myself to do, it's because I don't have clarity. This lack of clarity often arises from a feeling of ambivalence - I want to do something, but I don't want to do it; or I want one thing, but I also want something else that conflicts with it.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Feelings, Clarity, Conflict

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• The audience. They see the name Mel Brooks, they want something really funny. They don't want to be moved; they don't want to be taught any lessons. [...] I get more letters for Twelve Chairs and Life Stinks than I get from any other movies, because people actually agree with the philosophy, or were moved, or they love the movie.

  Mel Brooks

  Philosophy, Names, People

  "Mel Brooks on how to play Hitler, and how he almost died making Spaceballs". Interview with Steve Heisler, www.avclub.com. December 13, 2012.

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• Whatever the best scripts are and you just want to play roles that you can really sink your teeth into. That's always the goal no matter if it's a good guy or a bad guy, or a comedy, or a drama. It doesn't matter, you just want something that's substantial you can sink your teeth into and that you haven't done before, something that's really going to challenge you.

  Stanley Tucci

  Drama, Play, Goal

  Source: collider.com

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• A lot of our happiness is derived from experiences, not from buying products. People are twice as happy buying experiences as products. People are happy buying experiences. They don't want something that's commoditised.

  Ruzwana Bashir

  People, Buying, Products

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• Do we want something more from our car? ... To perhaps be a partner, a coach, someone that can use their understanding of the situation to help us reach our potential.

  Chris Gerdes

  Technology, Car, Understanding

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• I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.

  Alicia Keys

  Morning, Nice, Rooms

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• If you want something you have to wait.

  Lemar

  Waiting, Want, Ifs

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I do a lot of reading on Buddhist philosophy, and a Buddhist nun named Pema Chödrön talks a lot about acceptance. It's one of the main tenets of Buddhism - accepting that what is, is. The root of our suffering is when we just don't want to accept a truth. We want something to be different than it is.

  Sara Bareilles

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Reading

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'm the kind of person that when I really want something, I wish for it. I wish on shooting stars. I wish on lots of things.

  Picabo Street

  Stars, Wish, Shooting

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• And it hurts so much to want something you can't have.

  Johnny Depp

  Hurt, Want, It Hurts

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• It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

  Aaron Eckhart

  Men, Enough, Seems

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• My wife wants something foreign for Christmas - like a Mexican divorce.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Divorce, Wife

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• I want to tell people how to live spiritually. After you've bought all your houses and your clothes, you want something bigger.

  Tina Turner

  Clothes, People, House

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• I don't go cheap on anything, but I'm not a shopper. If I want something, I look at it, decide what it is, but it will usually be the best product. I've got a pair of loafers that I still wear that I got in 1957.

  T. Boone Pickens

  Looks, Pairs, Being The Best

  "Q&A with T. Boone Pickens". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. June 19, 2011.

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