What You Want Quotes - Page 20

• You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

  Mike Epps

  People, Want, Knows

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.

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• You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

  Tom Petty

  Inspirational, Believe, Want

  Song: Refugee

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• Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.

  Ray Dalio

  Real, Men, Play

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• The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

  Lukas Foss

  Writing, Creative, Letters

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• I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Discovery, Opposites, Childhood

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• Be who you want to be, do what it takes to be that way, and in time, you will have what you want in life.

  Darren Johnson

  Want, Way

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• Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.

  Nick Kroll

  Trying, Want, Comedy

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• You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Philosophy, Eye, Want

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• When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?

  Joey Tempest

  Thinking, Independence, Done

  Song: A Place to Call Home

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• Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Jobs, Actors, Want

  "Rachelle Lefevre: I still struggle to look comfortable manhandling people". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 02, 2011.

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• Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

  Cecil Murphey

  Inspiration, Writing, Want

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• Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: 'Something is important here, otherwise I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want?' And then simply turn your attention to what you DO want. In the moment that you turn your attention to what you want, the negative attraction will stop, and in the moment the negative attraction stops, the positive attraction will begin. And in that moment, your feelings will change from not feeling good to feeling good.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Feel Good

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• Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.

  Jeff Probst

  Rocks, Want, Rock N Roll

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• Actually, I started to become an actress because I met someone who was just a friend and I found his life wonderful, I thought, Oh my god, you can travel, you're free, you can do what you want, you're the boss. And then I met an actor and I was in love with him.

  Lea Seydoux

  Boss, Just Friends, Actors

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• When the answer doesn't come, it's not supposed to come yet. Don't make eternity try and conform to what you want. That's desire. desire leads to frustration.

  Frederick Lenz

  Wisdom, Buddhism, Frustration

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• It's more like Christmas, you know, when you get a shot in that looks great and it's exactly what you want. It's a great feeling, and there's nothing like it.

  Zack Snyder

  Feelings, Want, Looks

  "Exclusive: Zack Snyder Talks 300". Interview with Todd Gilchrist, www.ign.com. November 9, 2006.

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• I find that once you start helping others, it makes you feel better about yourself. It helps you figure out what you want to do with your own life.

  Lance Bass

  Feel Better, Helping Others, Want

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• You can teach almost anyone determined to learn them the basics required to write sentences and paragraphs that say what you want them to say clearly and concisely. It's far more difficult to get people to think like a writer, to give up conventional habits of mind and emotion. You must be able to step inside your character's skin, and at the same time to remain outside the dicey circumstances you have maneuvered her into.

  Anne Bernays

  Giving Up, Character, Writing

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• The incremental approach to change is effective when what you want is more of what you've already got.

  Richard Pascale

  Change, Want, Approach

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• Begin doing what you want to do now.

  Marie Beynon Lyons Ray

  Short Life, Life Is Too Short, Procrastination

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• Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees.

  Ernest Mandel

  Self, Organization, People

  Ernest Mandel (1994). “Revolutionary Marxism and social reality in the 20th century: collected essays”, Humanities Press Intl

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• Regardless of what you want to call it, guys need some type of spirituality they can grab onto. If it's Christianity, which is a very structured approach, or if it's something that's a little more open-ended... like, Zen's something you can make yourself a part of. You can interpret it for yourself, like Taoism and stuff like that.

  Barry Zito

  Guy, Taoism, Needs

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• What you want is for music to love you back. That's why you pay your dues. You want to feel like you belong and are part of this symbiosis, metamorphosis, whatever you want to call it.

  Tom Waits

  Love You, Want, Pay

  "Tom Waits gives the devil his due". Interview with Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2009.

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• Sometimes, life isn't about what you want to do but what you ought to do.

  Chetan Bhagat

  Want, Sometimes, Ought

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• If you really know what you want out of life, it's amazing how opportunities will come to enable you to carry them out.

  John Goddard

  Opportunity, Want, Knows

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