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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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to be an inspiration, but I would like there to be a day when it is not 'Simone the black swimmer.'
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
You do what you want and know is right. That is the only law.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never should have done 'Celebrity Apprentice.' I didn't want to do it because I didn't want Donald Trump to say, 'You're fired.'
- Genius
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was taught Shakespeare brilliantly by an eccentric genius at Harrow named Jeremy Lemmon who made me want to be a writer.
- Lead
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether individuals or organisations, we follow those who lead not because we have to, but because we want to. We follow those who lead not for them, but for ourselves.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
The lives we live are a bit of a straight-hair vs. curly-hair thing. We often want what we don't have. In reality, it's not about better or worse; it's just perception.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm incredibly articulate, thoughtful and moral, and I think about what I do. I want to be known for doing something good.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
S Club 7, in some ways, was a continuation of some of the things I'd have liked to have done with the Spice Girls. It was also a shift in tone. S Club was this equality of boys and girls, very positive, very uplifting, didn't have the edge of the Spice Girls. I didn't want to repeat it.
- Keep
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to keep learning.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In times of trial, for inspiration, people want to look to real people rather than to fiction.
- Say
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you've been nominated for an Oscar, it would be ridiculous to say you didn't want to win. It would be lovely to have one of those statues.
- Dumb
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to creatively grow and be inspired. I don't want to do anything generic or dumb.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020