Wanted Quotes - Page 15

• It is ... impossible to keep one's excellence in a little glass casket, like a jewel, to take it out whenever wanted. On the contrary, it can only be conserved by continuous and good practice.

  Adolf Anderssen

  Glasses, Jewels, Practice

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• If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Justice, Judging, Religion

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• I find it a turnoff whenever men aren't into some kind of sport. And, no, video games don't count. I dated a guy who was into video games, and I wanted to shoot myself.

  Eva Longoria

  Sports, Men, Games

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• The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you.

  Hoagy Carmichael

  Writing, Technology, Found You

  Hoagy Carmichael, Stephen Longstreet (1999). “The Stardust Road & Sometimes I Wonder: The Autobiography of Hoagy Carmichael”

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• He watched through a crack inside just pretending to be dead he wanted to fix each pallbearer in his memory . . . it seems to me a telephone was installed in the coffin to someone yet again Stalin is sending his instructions.

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko

  Memories, Justice, Cracks

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• You go from movies where you are wearing nice clothes and you're trying to smell good to a movie where you are in water and you are wet all day, and you are dealing with that elements, it gets rough, but it was definitely something I wanted to try.

  Morris Chestnut

  Nice, Smell, Clothes

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

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• In fact, if they didn't let me commute, I would not have taken the role because I wanted to graduate high school with my classmates. I remember my agent's jaw dropping when I told him if I couldn't commute I didn't want the role.

  Sarah Chalke

  Taken, School, Roles

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• Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back our fees. We want to get paid. And that's it. It'll get solved and we'll carry on with planning Ground Zero.

  Daniel Libeskind

  Zero, Towers, Want

  "You've got to have faith" by Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. August 4, 2004.

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• Had not almost every man suffered by the Press, or were not the tyranny thereof become universal, I had not wanted reason for complaint.

  Thomas Browne

  Men, Suffering, Reason

  Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “Pseudodoxia epidemica, books V-VII. Religio medici. The garden of Cyprus”, p.315

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• I always knew I wanted to be a character in the movies. When I was growing up, I had to have a lot of surgery, and I spent a lot of time recovering at home and in the hospital. Watching movies took me away from my own problems and gave me a total escape.

  Josh Ryan Evans

  Growing Up, Home, Character

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

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• I'd read Up in the Old Hotel, and I wanted to do something with Mitchell's stuff for a long time.

  Stanley Tucci

  Long, Stuff, Hospitality

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• I wanted to bring that old school mentality of "Fight Me!, Fight me!"

  Nonito Donaire

  Motivation, School, Fighting

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• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  Garrett Hedlund

  Crush, Hands, Able

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• If I was going to do Fall Out Boy, I wanted it to be a real outlet for my writing.

  Joe Trohman

  Real, Fall, Writing

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• I see myself in perfect health. I see myself in absolute prosperity. I see myself invigorated with life, appreciating, again, this physical life experience which I wanted so very much as I decided to be a physical Being. It is glorious to be here, a physical Being, making decisions with my physical brain but accessing the power of the Universe through the power of the Law of Attraction.

  Esther Hicks

  Law Of Attraction, Appreciate, Perfect

  Esther Hicks, Jerry Hicks (2009). “The Law of Attraction: The Basics of the Teachings of Abraham”, p.66, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Every desire of yours that comes true brings you a little closer to seeing that what you wanted exists nowhere but in you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Law Of Attraction, Desire, Littles

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• I never got to be in the driver's seat of my own life," she'd wept to me once, in the days after she learned she was going to die. "I always did what someone else wanted me to do. I've always been someone's daughter or mother or wife. I've never just been me." "Oh, Mom," was all I could say as I stroked her hand. I was too young to say anything else."

  Cheryl Strayed

  Inspirational, Mom, Daughter

  Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.241, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I've never wanted to be anything but a gymnast. Maybe it is dangerous-but when you start thinking about danger, you might as well give up.

  Olga Korbut

  Courage, Giving Up, Thinking

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• I went as an observer, not a participant, for I do not think that I ever spoke. I wanted to understand the issues under discussion, evaluate the arguments, see the calibre of the men involved.

  Nelson Mandela

  Men, Thinking, Issues

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• By establishing a social policy that keeps physician-assisted suicide and euthanasia illegal but recognizes exceptions, we would adopt the correct moral view: the onus of proving that everything had been tried and that the motivation and rationale were convincing would rest on those who wanted to end a life.

  Ezekiel Emanuel

  Suicide, Motivation, Views

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• I would dye my hair every week. I wanted to be a really goth teenager.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Teenager, Hair, Goth

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• (Offensive Coach) Paul Hackett realized that Joe Montana knew more about the offense than he did, but when the meeting was over, Paul saw that Joe had taken three pages of notes. He documented exactly how Paul wanted to run the play, as well as all of the basics of it and its details. That's what a professional does.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Running, Taken

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• When I was working on my career, I was very aware of what I had done, what I wanted to do next. I'm having a good time just reading things that might be interesting to do.

  Kurt Russell

  Book, Reading, Careers

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• I wanted to make sure that the environment of the shooting itself was not that controlled, and the way to go about that course was to work with as small a crew as possible.

  Atom Egoyan

  Environmental, Shooting, Way

  Interview with Ron Burnett, rburnett.squarespace.com.

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• I wanted to be as comfortable in that environment as she was. I moved around those areas in character.

  Debbie Reynolds

  Character, Environmental, Moved

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