Wanting Quotes
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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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When an idea is wanting, a word can always be found to take its place.
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Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.
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I realize that I won't have quite enough time to understand everything - but that hasn't stopped me wanting to understand as much as I can.
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There are men who are wanting in the comparative, they as a rule are the most interesting.
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I am enslaved to my work, always wanting the impossible, and never, I believe, have I been less favoured by the endlessly changeable weather.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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I looked at other couples and wondered how they could be so calm about it. They held hands as if they weren't even holding hands. When Steve and I held hands, I had to keep looking down to marvel at it. There was my hand, the same hand I've always had - oh, but look! What is it holding? It's holding Steve's hand! Who is Steve? My three-dimensional boyfriend. Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.
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Conventional dogmas, even if endowed with the authority of an Aristotle - ancient or modern - must be tested vigorously. If they are found wanting, we need not bother with them. But if they are found to be substantially correct, we may not overlook them.
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Maybe I've been wanting the wrong things.
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I think my mom is the inspiration of me wanting to do film and TV and be an actor because she loved film so much. She loved, like, horror films and action films, so growing up, she loved watching all the Charles Bronson films and all the westerns.
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.
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Wanting so mostly rarely withstands the presence of the thing we want.
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People ask without wanting to know.
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It’s not wanting to win that makes you a winner; it’s refusing to fail.
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Don't you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.
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My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my body into the world in some way.
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I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.
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To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.
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[On men:] I'm torn between wanting to have one and wanting to be one.
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We actually did a lot of takes on this movie [J. Edgar Hoover]. I never left the set wanting more. That's for sure. I don't know. This was a very difficult character for me and a lot of the other actors here, and at times we went and did 8 or 9 or 10 takes on a single day.
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Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
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I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that's great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn't care less.
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Then, you also have that, we all have that sense of wanting to belong. We all have that road-rage, you can relate to that road-rage because you're so frustrated. The sense of frustration, the sense of getting caught, doing something wrong, all those are sort of universal emotions and you just have to make it specific to yourself and you channel this, I don't know what it is, but this inner self and then try to capture the vulnerability.
