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My parents were not formally educated. Both were cognizant of the importance of education. The teachers and ministers were the role models, and they would say, you should want to be like Miss Gardiner, you should want to be like Mr. Freeman, or be like your dad. Shun the people who don't value education.
David C. Driskell -
You make me laugh and you’re likely to get everything you want.
Ian Bohen
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The fact is that we don't want to be free. What is responsible for our problems is the fear of losing what we have and what we know.
U.G. Krishnamurti -
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James -
Biographers, by their very nature, want to know everything about everybody, dead or alive.
Catherine Drinker Bowen -
(Feedback) People become addicted to it. That’s why journalism is so popular, because you want to hear, every day, what people think of what you just wrote. I think a little patience on that front can be good, too.
Zadie Smith -
Cormac drove. He eyed me in the rearview mirror. “Anyone you want me to beat up?"
Carrie Vaughn -
I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life.
Lady Gaga
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As a journalist, if you want to explore the world, you have to take a risk.
Najibullah Quraishi -
I always hate speculation on the news, so I don't want to be somebody who speculates.
Angelina Jolie -
Human weakness is to desire to know what one does not want to know.
Moliere -
This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't mean that you get what you want.
Ian Bogost -
The basic philosophy behind [switch putting] is you always want a hook putt. So for a left-to-right breaking putt, you're going to want to hit it left-handed and vice versa.
Notah Begay III -
You can't always get what you want.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
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You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself.
Ernest Hemingway -
If you are going to work, you might as well follow your heart, because nothing in life is easy and if it's going to be hard, it might as well be what you really want.
Dizzee Rascal -
I don't want to sound like some grumpy old man telling you to get off my lawn.
Michael Wilbon -
For me, it's nice to know they want me to go.
Kate Reed -
A lady could do, so I was told, just about nothing that she might want to do except attend all parties.
Evalyn Walsh McLean -
Happiness isn't about getting what you want all the time; it's about loving what you have.
Asher Roth
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You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?
Ernest Hemingway -
If you want the love of the people, stop running after it. The more you chase it, the more it escapes you. Love doesn't come from the people. It comes from God.
Yasmin Mogahed -
At Verve, my bookkeeper would invariably say, 'Well, why do you want to put out Roy Eldridge?' Or 'Why do you want to put out Ben Webster? They don't sell.' And I'd say, 'Well, whether they sell or not, they're important, they should be recorded and they're what Verve stands for, so we don't have to discuss that any further.
Norman Granz -
My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.
Lou Holtz