Want Something Quotes - Page 2

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

  Kelly Rowland

  Want, Enough

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• I want to work for a company that contributes to and is part of the community. I want something not just to invest in. I want something to believe in.

  Anita Roddick

  Inspiring, Believe, Commitment

  "There Was Nothing Like This Dame" by Rory O’Connor, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 12, 2007.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Son, if you really want something in life, you have to work for it. Now quiet, they're about to announce the lottery numbers.

  Matt Groening

  Funny, Life, Humor

  "Fictional character: Homer Simpson". "The Simpsons". Season 4, Episode 1: "Kamp Krusty", www.imdb.com. September 24, 1992.

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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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• Woman's influence is powerful, especially when she wants something.

  Josh Billings

  Love, Powerful, Comedy

  Josh Billings (1972). “Uncle Sam's Uncle Josh: Or, Josh Billings on Practically Everything, Distilled from Josh's Rum and Tansy New England Wit by Donald Day”

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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 to be true badly enough, you can rewrite it that way, in your head. You can even start to believe it.

  Jodi Picoult

  Believe, Way, Enough

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.525, Simon and Schuster

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• You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time." Thank you. Do you want something?

  Neil Gaiman

  Thinking, Lakes, Rose

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

  Demi Moore

  Passionate, Driven, Relentless

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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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• 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 don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Success, Believe, Thinking

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

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• You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Educational

  "The Entrepreneur of the Decade Award". Inc. Magazine, April 1, 1989.

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