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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
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
- Better Things
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard and it had metal hinges. It was kind of faux industrial looking, and I used to carry my books in it rather than a backpack. I didn't want to have normal student accoutrements.
- Nov 07, 2020
You don't go to war with the President you want, you go to war with the President you have.
- Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want an international trade deal that advances the interests of our own people, then perhaps we don't need a 'fast-track' but a regular track: where the president sends us any proposal he deems worthy, and we review it on its own merits.
- Cliche
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to admit that I was falling into a cliche.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm just Jeffree. Everyone calls me he/she/whatever they want to call me; I'm an alien.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never - when I go into a project, I don't think too much about if there's a lot of other sci-fi books out there or horror books or whatever. I just tell the stories I want to tell, and I think that is evident on the page.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020