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- Nov 07, 2020
Want Quotes
On desire, ambition and the pull of what we want.
These quotes cover a range of wants: professional ambitions, creative goals, and the pressure to keep meeting requests from others once some success arrives. For more on ambition, see our Just quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was the director of Central Intelligence in the early '90s, I tried to get the Air Force to partner with us in building drones. And they didn't want to, because they had no pilots.
- Opera
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had been warned by other directors that opera is hell. The singers don't want to do what you want.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be a better player, and there is no other way of showing it other than on the pitch. It is not a question of which team I play for.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to assure you that working in transition period is an ungrateful job for any honest government.
- Straight
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- Nov 07, 2020
KERS definitely helps on a straight when you want to overtake somebody who doesn't have the system.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are all these things I want to do when I don't have to finish a book. But I have to keep writing because I keep having children.
- Nov 07, 2020
People say 'I want to be rich'. The question is, 'Are you willing to do what it takes?'
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to remind people that the Nazis weren't able to take the Jews to the crematoriums immediately. The German people wouldn't have allowed for it. Instead, the Nazis had to change public opinion. They marginalized the Jewish people, disparaged them, and made them objects of contempt.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I don't want to see is our political system corrupted by gambling money, especially casino gambling money.
- Nov 07, 2020
We never want to hear the customer say, 'You have nice sunglasses, but I can't find jeans in my size.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020