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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.
- Irrelevant
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always said, 'I don't want to be irrelevant.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is really want, rather than need, that drives the process of technological evolution.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
- Negotiation
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation - and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Why on earth do we want closer connection with England? We have little in common with English people except our language. We are fast becoming an entirely different people.
- Creative
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- Nov 07, 2020
While I'm here on this planet, I really want to create art and do creative things.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be in a movie with 20 minutes of dialogue and then stand around while the robots start explosions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we want to boost border security, we have to help law enforcement agencies beef up their resources to meet this demand. We cannot have one without the other.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be defined as the Asian leading man. I want to be the leading man. Henry Golding.
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- Nov 07, 2020