- 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
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
It means that the silver coins of the United States at whatever ratio is fixed, and I want the present ratio that we have now, 16 to 1, maintained precisely as it is.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The gesture of taking the watch from the pocket and looking at the time is very elegant for a man, but if I was going to create a pocket watch, I wanted it to be very modern. I didn't want to do old-fashioned.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
You can read about it all you want, but there is no substitute for just doing it.
- Plants
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the auto plants in Detroit would just sit around the table and say, 'What do we gotta do to make this thing work?' Instead of, 'I want this and I want that,' they might make it.
- Love Songs
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want my last chapter to be the guy who sits at the piano and sings love songs.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I listened to the greats: Winters, Mel and Carl, Nichols and May, Pryor, Carlin, Klein, Berman and lots of Lenny Bruce albums. But once I started doing fairly well, I didn't want to hear anybody's jokes or premises.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to create something like Sony. Not in terms of manufacturing products but creating something that is innovative, makes money, improves peoples' lives.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever story you want to tell, tell it at the right size.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020