Want Me Quotes - Page 25

• I'd rather have happiness than money. People ask for it. Sometimes when I don't have it. I make other people's problems my problem because they want me to; they ask me to.

  Brenda Fassie

  People, Want, Problem

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• They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?

  Anton Bruckner

  Writing, People, Giving

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• They want me to give another concert but I have no desire to do so. You cannot imagine what a torture the three days before a public appearance are to me.

  Frederic Chopin

  People, Giving, Desire

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• Writing is far too hard work to say what someone else wants me to. Serving it as a craft, using it as a way of growing in my own understanding, seems to me to be a beautiful way to live. And if that product is shareable with other people, so much the better.

  Jane Rule

  Beautiful, Hard Work, Writing

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• You ain't got but one life. You ought to live it the way you want.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Meaningful, Want, Way

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• In the dead silence, all the details suddenly fell into place for me with a burst of intuition. Something Edward didn't want me to know. Something that Jacob wouldn't have kept from me.... It was never going to end, was it?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Silence, Intuition, Vampire

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• There are names I do not want mentioned in my home.

  Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

  Home, Names, Want

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• Marc if you want me to go to the bottom of the pool, I'll go there.

  Nancy O'Dell

  Europe, Want, Pool

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• You have haters from all walks of life. I could care less who wants me to fail. They inspire me.

  Stephen A. Smith

  Inspire, Care, Want

  "ESPN's New Master of the Offensive Foul". www.nytimes.com. July 31, 2005.

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• I've always felt so different from how I look. I meet so many pretty girls who are like, 'Here I am! Don't you want me because I look good?' That concept is so weird to me. I want to know, 'What else do you have going on?

  Malin Akerman

  Girl, Here I Am, Different

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

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• I looked at Justin, and I was like: “Do you want me to go onstage for you?"

  Kanye West

  Want, Ridiculous, Justin

  "Behind Kanye’s Mask". Interview with Jon Caramanica, www.nytimes.com. June 11, 2013.

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• I realized I’m not supposed to be pursuing impact, I’m supposed to be pursuing God. And when I pursue God I will have exactly as much impact as He wants me to have.

  Phil Vischer

  Impact, Want, I Realized

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• Whatever God would want me to do... love each other and help others. I want to add, not take away.

  Donna Douglas

  Helping Others, Add, Want

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• Because You have called me here not to wear a label by which I can recognize myself and place myself in some kind of a category. You do not want me to be thinking about what I am, but about what You are. Or rather, You do not even want me to be thinking about anything much: for You would raise me above the level of thought. And if I am always trying to figure out what I am and where I am and why I am, how will that work be done?

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Thinking, Always Trying

  Thomas Merton (1998). “The seven storey mountain”, Harcourt

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• I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'

  Mara Wilson

  Breakup, Acting, Hollywood

  "She's his G--damn kid too: Mara Wilson on 'Mrs. Doubtfire' 20th Anniversary" by Kase Wickman, www.mtv.com. November 21, 2013.

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• If you want me to believe in your redeemer, you are going to have to look a lot more redeemed.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Believe, Looks, Want

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• Good, bad mediocre or whatever it is, if a director wants me in his movie, I take it as a compliment.

  Scott Caan

  Directors, Want, Compliment

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

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• Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!

  Victoria Justice

  Perfect, Want

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• It always amazes me when people go rent horses and ride them. You mean you want me to pay you to ride a horse?

  William Lucking

  Horse, Mean, People

  "William Lucking rode many a motorcycle in films". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2008.

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• My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.

  Harry Shearer

  Stars, Childhood, Parent

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• I think that when you're an actress, you have to think about what kind of a role model you're going to be. I hope that I'm a good role model for young girls. I'm not going to, if people still want me in their movies, I don't want to be one of these girls who goes around partying every night and is in rehab. I don't want to do that.

  Saoirse Ronan

  Girl, Party, Thinking

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• I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily.

  Sylvia Plath

  Running, Tired, Fighting

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.619, Anchor

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• I wish that every Latter-day Saint could say and mean it with all his heart: 'I'll go where you want me to go. I'll say what you want me to say. I'll be what you want me to be'. If we could do that, we would be assured of the maximum happiness here and exaltation in the celestial kingdom of God hereafter.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Heart, Mean, Wish

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• Listen - pacemaker, crash, stroke. What does it mean? God doesn't want me now. That's all.

  Kirk Douglas

  Mean, Doe, Want

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• An actor is somebody who communicates someone else's words and emotions to an audience. It's not me. It's what writers want me to be.

  Maggie Smith

  Actors, Want, Emotion

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