What You Want Quotes - Page 19

• You know, you can't make the people do what you want them to do.

  Mike Epps

  People, Want, Knows

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. September 19, 2003.

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• You can try on our suede underwear if you choose. Do what you want, but don't step on my blue suede shoes.

  Al Yankovic

  Blue, Shoes, Trying

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• Work very very hard. This business is no joke. Make sure you know what you want or you might be taking someone else's view instead of your own.

  Zoe Cassavetes

  Views, Directors, Want

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• You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don't have to live like a refugee.

  Tom Petty

  Inspirational, Believe, Want

  Song: Refugee

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• If you want to do what you want to do, you have to look a certain way.

  Jessica Cutler

  Way, Looks, Want

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• Competitiveness is really what it costs you per man-hour to get you what you want. In other words, there's an education level that plays into the mix and so if it's inexpensive to buy an hour of real good education in places like China versus the U.S., that factors in.

  Ray Dalio

  Real, Men, Play

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• The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it.

  Lukas Foss

  Writing, Creative, Letters

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• You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

  Lesley Gore

  Want, Bites, Knows

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• I get burned out on standup. But I like acting. I do like it. But sometimes you just feel like a monkey. You just feel like a complete tool. But I like it. I do like it. Stand-up is just more free. A lot more freedom because you just do what you want to do.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Acting, Want, Monkeys

  "Zack Galifianakis On Set Interview - THE HANGOVER". Interview with Steve ‘Frosty’ Weintraub, collider.com. April 27, 2009.

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• I sometimes listen to music I made and find it to be something I wouldn't want to buy from a store, if there was a store. When it's like that, you have to make what you want to hear.

  Dhani Harrison

  Want, Sometimes, Made

  "Dhani Harrison Honors Father George, Faces Fear of Missing Out" by Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I had always shown childhood as something difficult, something you want to get the hell out of, but now I wanted to do a story that was the opposite, about that moment in time when you're in that world of discovery, doing what you want to do. That fleeting moment when you're in your zone.

  Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero

  Discovery, Opposites, Childhood

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• Be who you want to be, do what it takes to be that way, and in time, you will have what you want in life.

  Darren Johnson

  Want, Way

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• Sometimes, when you are in a really constrained situation, it makes you more focused about what you want to say and where you're heading. The most beautiful love poems that were ever written are sonnets, composed in a very constraining form.

  Etgar Keret

  Beautiful, Want, Sometimes

  "Parables of anarchy". Interview With Hephzibah Anderson, www.theguardian.com. February 12, 2005.

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• Whether it's corporate investigations or comedy, there are certain inherent truths to trying to get what you want while trying to be a decent person doing it.

  Nick Kroll

  Trying, Want, Comedy

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• You only see what your eyes want to see. How can life be what you want it to be?

  Madonna Ciccone

  Philosophy, Eye, Want

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• Pause and remember - When you fight reality, you will lose every time. Once you accept the situation for what it truly is, not what you want it to be, you are then free to move forward.

  Jennifer Young

  Letting Go, Moving, Fighting

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• I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money, I'll do what you want me to do.

  Tina Turner

  Dancing, Dancer, Want

  FaceBook post by Tina Turner from Aug 13, 2016

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• When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?

  Joey Tempest

  Thinking, Independence, Done

  Song: A Place to Call Home

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• Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

  Rachelle Lefevre

  Jobs, Actors, Want

  "Rachelle Lefevre: I still struggle to look comfortable manhandling people". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. February 02, 2011.

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• There is a sign that hangs on my wall that says, 'What is it you want me to do to somebody else that is more important than what you want me to do for you?

  Dave Obey

  Wall, Important, Want

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• Write what you know. Write what you want to know more about. Write what you're afraid to write about.

  Cecil Murphey

  Inspiration, Writing, Want

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• Anytime you feel negative emotion, stop and say: 'Something is important here, otherwise I would not be feeling this negative emotion. What is it that I want?' And then simply turn your attention to what you DO want. In the moment that you turn your attention to what you want, the negative attraction will stop, and in the moment the negative attraction stops, the positive attraction will begin. And in that moment, your feelings will change from not feeling good to feeling good.

  Esther Hicks

  Spiritual, Law Of Attraction, Feel Good

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• When you don't get what you want, it just makes you accept real life.

  Bai Ling

  Real, Want, Accepting

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• That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.

  Adepero Oduye

  Art, People, Want

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• Survivor is like rock 'n' roll - you can do what you want.

  Jeff Probst

  Rocks, Want, Rock N Roll

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