- 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
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men want power in order to do something. Boys want power in order to be something.
- Clown
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a clown. I didn't want to be an actor, I wanted to join the circus and entertain people.
- Purpose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's always risk. But I'm going to come in and play hard. I want to come in and contribute.
- Others
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans say they want citizenship to truly mean something. Let's be equal-opportunity about it and test everyone, including those very Republicans and others whose forbears came here generations ago.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to make public statements about issues that I have not studied in detail.
- Lawyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to do a lawyer. I didn't want to do forensics. I didn't want to work in an ER.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many in our increasingly secular culture want to chase Christians out of the public square altogether.
- Anything
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not after anything, I don't want to be part of politics, I don't want to be a part of anything.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men weary as much of not doing the things they want to do as of doing the things they do not want to do.
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time I was 25 or 26, I would have earned a million, but if you looked in the bank account, it's not there because I've spent it. That's what it's there for. I don't want to be the richest bloke in the graveyard. Look at Elvis.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020