- 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
- Nov 07, 2020
So I rang up a local building firm, I said 'I want a skip outside my house.' He said 'I'm not stopping you.'
- Majority
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a lot easier to negotiate and be skillful from the majority. I want Paul Ryan negotiating with us. I don't want to have to negotiate with Paul Ryan.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things about leadership is that you've got to show up. And if you want to be president of the United States you've got to make a case to the American people that Barack Obama needs to be dismissed from his position.
- Hat
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't want to play a rancher. I didn't want to have a cowboy hat on; I wanted to get away from that in the things I do. But I read the script and fell in love with it. As hard as I tried to say no, I couldn't.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always in situations where you can't be funny, and yet I want to do it anyway.
- Debt Ceiling
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not about what the speaker wants. It's not about necessarily what I want. There's two other principles involved here. It's what the constituents in my district want, and they didn't want to raise the debt ceiling unless there were significant structural reforms and spending cuts to help us balance our budget.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't want to inhibit cell division. You want to inhibit cell division in the cancer cells, and even that is not really where you want to do it. You actually want to destroy the cancer cells, which is a different matter altogether. Just stopping them isn't enough - you really want to kill them.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
If someone's criticism is completely unfounded on data, then I don't want to hear it. It doesn't hold up to scrutiny.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020