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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
- Chief Executive
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to be a great chief executive without being a great mum and a great wife.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's this really awesome theory of human motivation - that human beings all want three things. One is to be competent, one is to belong, and one is be free, as in to have choice: to not be told what to do but to choose what to do.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most important thing parents can do, although it's not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want from their kids.
- Politicians
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- Nov 07, 2020
The markets want to force us to do certain things. That we won't do. Politicians have to make sure that we're unassailable, that we can make policy for the people.
- Equitable
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- Nov 07, 2020
More reforms will give more impetus to German industries to invest in India. German companies want to be treated on par with Indian companies, and creation of an equitable market is crucial for investments.
- Auto Industry
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to ensure politically that what's doable can indeed by translated into law, but what's not doable mustn't become European law. Otherwise, the auto industry will work somewhere with higher carbon emissions - and we can't want that.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to stick a sticking plaster on it, I don't want to fix children once the system's broken them, I want to give every child the opportunity before that - because the system should protect and nurture, and not damage our children.
- Funny
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to get back and figure out how we're going to make 'The Tonight Show' funny and good.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you come off something really disappointing, you want to come back and kind of regroup and get involved in something positive right away.
- Nov 07, 2020
At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to show that it doesn't matter what people say about you or how you don't fit.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020