Wanting Quotes
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Other people have more than they need, I alone seem wanting.
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Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.
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Maybe I've been wanting the wrong things.
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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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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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Is a woman a thinking unit at all, or a fraction always wanting its integer?
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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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People ask without wanting to know.
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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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You can't keep wanting to be 20 years old. Everybody knows that, but what's in the next room?
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It was palpable, all that wanting: Mother wanting something more, Dad wanting something more, everyone wanting something more. This wasn't going to do for us fifties girls; we were going to have to change the equation even if it meant . . . abstaining from motherhood, because clearly that was where Mother got caught.
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To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.
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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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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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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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[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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The overall similarity is probably in the mentality of law enforcement officers. There's a sense of wanting to really uphold a sense of morality and make sure that the laws are enforced to the letter, whenever possible.
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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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Wanting so mostly rarely withstands the presence of the thing we want.
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There is a certain ecstasy in wanting things you can't get.
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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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Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to do so.
