- 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
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
All over Africa, people are wearing what Americans once wore and no longer want. Visit the continent, and you'll find faded remnants of secondhand clothing in the strangest of places.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If we combine both, intelligently, however, according to our means, we give wisely and well.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's absolutely essential that we have the same safeguards that straight couples do. But I want more than a 50 percent chance of success. I don't want to emulate that.
- Democracy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do not want to abandon representative democracy. I want to see it balanced by popular sovereignty, especially the variety known as deliberative democracy.
- Nov 07, 2020
I still write the occasional short story, and poked at a novel once, but it's just not what I want to do.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want anybody suspecting I am some sheep and part of the Washington D.C. establishment.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to be nobody, and that was the only way I could be somebody was to do stand-up.
- Inspirational
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- Nov 07, 2020