What You Want Quotes - Page 27

• Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Thinking, Rock And Roll

  "Interview: Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna". Interview with Mark Huddle, www.verbicidemagazine.com. June 11, 2007.

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• Emotion will always win over coolness and cleverness. It's when a scene works emotionally and it's cool and clever, then it's great. That's what you want.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Clever, Winning, Want

  "Method Writing: Interview with Quentin Tarantino". Interview with Erik Bauer, creativescreenwriting.com. August 11, 2013.

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• I'm not for real revolutions, because they always bring you the opposite of what you want. You very seldom get what you want if you have a violent revolution.

  Gore Vidal

  Real, Opposites, Want

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• In the opening stage of most careers any attention is what you want, any attention is good attention, even if it's bad attention.

  Robert Greene

  Careers, Attention, Want

  Source: www.josephbushnell.com

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• You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe.

  Byron Katie

  Believe, Mind, Trying

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• It's a wonderful world when you have what you want at all times.

  Byron Katie

  World, Want, Wonderful

  "The Turnaround: A Byron Katie Interview" by Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. December 3, 2013.

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• Getting enough of what you want without depriving anyone else is the ultimate act of selfishness and sanity.

  Joy Browne

  Success, Selfishness, Want

  Joy Browne, M.D. (2010). “The Nine Fantasies That Will Ruin Your Life (and the Eight Realities That Will Save You)”, p.184, Harmony

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• Your life can be what you want it to be... You'll make it through whatever comes along. Within you are so many answers. Understand, have courage, be strong.

  Douglas Pagels

  Strong, Answers, Want

  Douglas Pagels (2004). “Words That Shine Like Stars: How to Have the Life You've Always Wanted: Advice from Celebrities and Wonderful Others”

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• Jealousy of other people's success is a sure sign that you feel unfulfilled in your own life. Seeing them enjoy the fruits of their labors is a painful reminder that you do not have what you want nor have you been actively seeking it.

  David J. Lieberman

  People, Want, Fruit

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• if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Ambition, Common Sense, Mind

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• The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Discovery, Adults, World

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• What people need to know is that if you don't eat what you want, then you'll just continue to eat, because you're not fulfilled.

  Jennifer Hudson

  People, Needs, Want

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• Some people will lie to you because they mean to. Others will do it to tell you what you want to hear.

  Robert Herjavec

  Lying, Mean, People

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• I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure theyre all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.

  Emilia Fox

  People, Want, Faces

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• I think girls are especially worried about being judged, and when you're in high school, everything seems like a bigger deal than it is. As soon as you're out, it feels like forever ago-zip-a-dee-doo-dah! So do what you want, and if people are going to judge you for it, who cares? You might not fit in, but that's okay.

  AnnaSophia Robb

  Girl, School, Thinking

  "AnnaSophia Robb Covers ‘Seventeen,’ Talks Austin Butler And Deferring College". www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2013.

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• You make a movie that is about what you want it to be about and let people have their reaction to it.

  Spike Jonze

  People, Want, Reactions

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• Whenever you're looking at new ways to get in shape, first you have to decide what you want. Do you want a more muscular look, or do you want to slim down and appear more toned and ripped? I adapt my training and diet with each role I do, depending on the image I want to convey.

  Scott Adkins

  Training, Roles, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Dont separate your life, the life that youre going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'

  Neneh Cherry

  Mother, Children, Want

  "Neneh Cherry, interview: 'People ask me where I've been for 18 years'". Interview with Kate Mossman, www.theguardian.com. February 23, 2014.

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• Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Debt, Want, Achieve

  "Will you save in the long run? Refinancing 101" by Barbara Corcoran, www.today.com. March 17, 2010.

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• Everyone has a conflict inside of them - the conflict between what you should do and what you want to do.

  Suraj Sharma

  Want, Conflict, Should

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• I always knew I wanted to be an actor, certainly from the age of eight or nine. I think when you know what you want to do, you're very lucky because you've got a focus.

  Ashley Jensen

  Thinking, Eight, Focus

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• Relationships help you learn more about what you want. If one doesn't work out, you just kind of look at it and go, Okay, well, this is what I did like and this is what I didn't like, and this is what I did wrong, and maybe I need to be more like this. And so you learn things, and that's why you grow. And you bring all the stuff that you've changed about yourself to a new relationship until you finally find that person you really, really want.

  Ashley Tisdale

  New Relationship, Work Out, Needs

  "Ashley Tisdale" by Dan Koday, www.seventeen.com. November 3, 2008.

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• Your environment will become you. Surround yourself with people who have the same dream as you, who have accomplished what you want & more.

  Keshia Chante

  Dream, People, Want

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• But if one doesn't have a character like Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc, a diet simply disintegrates into eating exactly what you want to eat, but with a bad conscience.

  Maria Franziska von Trapp

  Character, Want, Weight

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• I'd say to any woman, get out of that bad relationship that's turning you into a shell of your former self. Learn from it and get out. Then wait; enjoy yourself and your friends because, when what you want comes along, you'll spot it.

  Cat Deeley

  Bad Relationship, Self, Waiting

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