Wannabes Quotes

• The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes.

  Simon Cowell

  Stars, Animal, Totems

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• If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

  Andrew Williams

  Veins, Want, Shocking Things

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• Bad as I wanna be. She aint bad, she a sad little wannabe.

  Nicki Minaj

  Bad Ass, Littles, Ass

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• The world is full of bullshitters,
  Liars, and triers and quitters,
  Coulda-beens, wannabe's, thought-I-was, isn't-I-is's...
  And everybody in your business.

  Aceyalone

  Liars, Rap, Hip Hop

  Song: Keep It True, Album: All Balls Don't Bounce, 1995

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• People with integrity do what they say they are going to do. Others have excuses.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Integrity, Failure, People

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• Real entrepreneurs do what they say they're going to do, wannabes ask about it and have tons and tons of coffee meetings.

  Brian Wong

  Real, Coffee, Entrepreneur

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• People don't always do what they say they're going to do.

  Maisie Williams

  People, Consistency, Counting

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• I'm a schizophrenic mix of wannabe glamourpuss and absolute slob, and my style is very much magistrate-meets-barmaid.

  Jenny Eclair

  Style, Barmaids, Schizophrenic

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• If there is a single factor which separates the best photographers from the wannabes it is the quantity of images which they produce. They seem to be forever shooting. I have watched many of them as they take picture after picture even when they are not photographing. [...] Often these intimate images do not look as though they were taken by the same photographer. And that is their fascination and charm.

  Bill Jay

  Photography, Taken, Forever

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• I'm sure that you psychotic necro-wannabes with delusions of godhood are all about sharing with your fellow maniacs.

  Jim Butcher

  Harry Dresden, Psychotic, Delusion

  Jim Butcher (2006). “Dead Beat: A Novel of The Dresden Files”, p.213, Penguin

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• There's a secret that real writers know that wannabe writers don't, and the secret is this: It's not the writing part that's hard. What's hard is sitting down to write. What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Writing, Secret

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• Every time you see someone sticking up a 7-Eleven, the kid's wearing a hoodie. Every time you see a mugging on a surveillance camera or they get the old lady in the alcove, it's a kid wearing a hoodie. You have to recognize that this whole stylizing yourself as a gangsta - you're going to be a gangsta wannabe? Well, people are going to perceive you as a menace.

  Geraldo Rivera

  Kids, Gangsta, Surveillance Cameras

  "Geraldo: Martin killed due to 'hoodie'" by Mj Lee, www.politico.com. March 23, 2012.

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• This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.

  Steven Pressfield

  Real, Artist, Dedication

  Steven Pressfield (2002). “The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles”, p.108, Black Irish Entertainment LLC

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• Imagine the first Burmese "giraffe woman"; she was probably a local icon in her village in the way she put the rings around her neck to sell her craft. Then she became a celebrity, so all of the wannabes started following her in that uncomfortable and unhealthy trend. But is that so different from Pamela Anderson? I don't think so.

  Noma Bar

  Thinking, Icons, Different

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• I am YOUR biggest fan, I love each one of you because of the support that you took to me. I know that people been saying that I do this for money, but I really don't. I do this for YOU, for your loyalty, for everything you've done, you are doing and you'll do in my life. Music has been my whole life since I was 4 years old, but you turned it into a whole experience of happiness. I know that I am not perfect, and maybe I don't worth it to put on your headphones and listen to this 14-years-old wannabe, full of ego and that brag about almost everything, but it's not about that, it's about you

  Maat Morrison

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• School boards are, for the most part ,made up of political wannabes who see a board seat as a stepping stone for political office, or well-meaning parents who represent an ethnic group or geography, or have some other narrow interests. Few people on them understand what governance is about.

  Eli Broad

  School, People, Office

  "Online Extra: Q&A with Eli Broad". Interview with John A. Byrne, www.bloomberg.com. December 2, 2002.

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• I liked to think I had written 'scripts' when I was in high school, but looking back at them, they were about thirty pages of wannabe-Mamet dialogue with a staple through them.

  Lorene Scafaria

  School, Thinking, Pages

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

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• The Never Trumpers, many of them are establishment types or - and very important here - wannabe establishment types.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Important, Type, Establishment

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• You ni**az get me sick, wannabe soundin like you know my arithmetic... but we don't sound alike

  Nas

  Rap, Sick, Sound

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• I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer.

  Joshua Bell

  Writing, Composer, Arrangements

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• Are you tired of lyrical liars, passing fliers,
  Wannabe MC's, but really good triers,
  Tripping over mic cords, getting you bored,
  A total fraud, this kind of thing I can't afford!

  KRS-One

  Liars, Rap, Tired

  Song: Mortal Thought, Album: Return of the Boom Bap, 1993

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• I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.

  Bruce Parry

  Accused, Hanging Out, Wanted

  "Bruce Parry: The Public School Savage". Interview with Rebecca Hardy, www.dailymail.co.uk. October 26, 2007.

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• There are a lot of wannabe men in Hollywood. But when you have that Hollywood mentality, there aren't a lot of real, grounded people.

  Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

  Real, Men, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The field (of filmmaking) is suddenly sexy, ... so it's deluged with these wannabes who say 'I don't want to be a secret agent, I'll be a filmmaker.' I think a lot of people are really kind of naive.

  John Landis

  Sexy, Thinking, People

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• The man wannabe actually...a wannabe. David Haye's a wannabe.

  Wladimir Klitschko

  Motivation, Men, Fighter

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