Intention Quotes - Page 40

• I don't mean this grandly, but it was never my intention to live in L.A. and do a big network show.

  Damian Lewis

  Mean, Bigs, Shows

  "Damian Lewis Interview HOMELAND". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Liberals get credit for good intentions, and that's about it, because everything they do fails.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Credit, Good Intentions, Failing

  "In 1943, LaGuardia Asked Citizens to Shovel Snow — In 2014, De Blasio Promises Equal Distribution of Snow Removal". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. January 3, 2014.

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• When you don't behave the way liberals think you should, their effort and their intention to control you compounds.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Thinking, Effort, Way

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• There's such cultural rot taking place, such a disintegration throughout our culture. Values, morality, you name it. Standards have been relaxed, and people are not being held to them. People's intentions, if they're said to be good and honorable, that's all that matters.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Names, People, Culture

  "1998 Audio: Obama Admitted Welfare Recipients Potentially a “Majority Coalition”". "The Rush Limbaugh show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Reality, Men, Hands

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• When you sketch a shoe but don't have the intention to do a proper shoe, it remains a curvy sketch with no detail. The shoe completely morphs to the body.

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, Details, Body

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• Good intentions aren't enough. People have good intentions when they set a goal to do something, but then they miss a deadline or other milestone.

  Harvey Mackay

  People, Goal, Missing

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• Many corporate leaders and employees have the right intentions, but it can be overwhelming when you consider how everything is affected from leadership styles, to organizational structure, to employee engagement, to customer service an marketplace.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Leadership, Style, Engagement

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• I knew I could only play Cyrano if he were Americanized. I had no intention of writing the script myself. I was afraid of it. You're playing with fire when you tamper with a classic. So I went looking for a writer. But it was such a personal idea, and anyone I would give it to would make it his own. It's hard to ask Neil Simon to write your idea.

  Steve Martin

  Writing, Fire, Play

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• A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself.

  Roberto Burle Marx

  Garden, Artist, Color

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• The test of a belief is not exclusively in the belief itself, but also in the intentions and actions of those who embrace it.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Believe, Tests, Belief

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• I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

  George McGovern

  Tickets, Dropping, Percent

  "Former Senator, Vice Presidential Nominee Thomas Eagleton Dead at 77", www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2007.

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• Good intentions never change anything. They only become a deeper and deeper rut.

  Joyce Meyer

  Motivational, Ruts, Good Intentions

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• Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can make it happen. Thankfully, He doesn't expect us to make ourselves holy. He just wants us to learn to depend on Him to make us holy.

  Joyce Meyer

  Doe, Want, Holy

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• It was never my intention to marry anybody. Economics are basically the only reason to get married, but I'm very glad I did it.

  Helen Mirren

  Married, Reason, Economics

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• Painters hate having to explain what their work is about. They always say, 'It's whatever you want it to be' - because I think that's their intention, to connect with each person's subconscious, and not to try and dictate.

  Helen Mirren

  Hate, Thinking, Trying

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• My style of songwriting is influenced by cinema. I'm a frustrated filmmaker. A fan once said to me, 'Girl, you make me see pictures in my head!' and I took that as a great compliment. That's exactly my intention.

  Joni Mitchell

  Girl, Style, Frustrated

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• I buy things with the best of intention of living in them and then life intercedes.

  Moby

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• When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Dark, Different

  "Legendary Comics Writer Alan Moore on Superheroes, The League, and Making Magic". Interview, www.wired.com. February 23, 2009.

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• Anyone can identify with those moments in life where circumstances or people inform us that we've strayed from the path of our better nature and intentions. We know what that's like, and we resist it - so as not to feel like we're bad people.

  Viggo Mortensen

  People, Path, Moments

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• It was always my intention that The Frieze should be housed in a room which would provide a suitable architectural frame for it.

  Edvard Munch

  Artist, Rooms, Should

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• This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Government, Presumption Of Innocence, Generations

  "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• While eschewing emotion - and its companion, vulnerability - Obama should be careful not to sacrifice empathy, the 'I feel your pain' connection that sustained Clinton. This connection is the shorthand people use to measure their leaders' intentions. If people believe you're on their side, they will trust your decisions.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Pain, Believe, Sacrifice

  "Memo to Obama: Get back in touch" by ee Dee Myers, www.politico.com. March 12, 2010.

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• Every frame and every scene has to have an intention.

  Mira Nair

  Scene

  "From Bengal to the Big Apple". Interview with Amaya Rivera, www.motherjones.com. March, 2007.

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• Power is an instrument of fatal consequence. It is confined no more readily than quicksilver, and escapes good intentions as easily as air flows through mesh.

  Mike Pence

  Air, Flow, Good Intentions

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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