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394 They Wanted quotes by 353 unique authors
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I've hung around in absolute exhaustion and starvation waiting for an idea to hit, which might have been months. I've talked things over with editors,…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports.…
— Carol J. Adams
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Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that would help companies…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They…
— Steve Jobs
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I have always claimed Americans didn't want a drink as bad as they wanted the right to take a drink if they did happen to…
— Will Rogers
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In the past, heartland whites with some kind of dream or desire left their towns for cities to become citified. They wanted to get away…
— Sarah Schulman
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Winners know what makes people tick by effectively tapping into our fears and aspirations. By listening very carefully and then repeating almost word-for-word exactly what…
— Frank Luntz
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I found a special eagerness among the younger, and I am sorry to say, the more intelligent Negroes, to dismiss the spiritual as something beneath…
— Paul Robeson
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Always be available to your kids. Because if you say, 'Give me five minutes, give me ten minutes,' it'll be 15, it'll be 20. And…
— Michael J. Fox
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Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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So, Mexico, Brazil, they wanted their national culture to be 'blackish' - really brown, a beautiful brown blend. And finally, I discovered that in each…
— Henry Louis Gates
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Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out,…
— Martha Gellhorn
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And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of…
— Seth Godin
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The reason so many people turned up at his funeral is that they wanted to make sure he was dead.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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Every President I think I've ever known, except Truman, has thought they didn't quite get done what they wanted done. And toward the end of…
— Billy Graham
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'The Beatles' did whatever they wanted. They were a collection of influences adapted to songs they wanted to write. George Harrison was instrumental in bringing…
— Chris Cornell
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I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.
— Kirk Douglas
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What was really funny is that as I got older all those guys who called me a sissy in junior high school wanted me to…
— Scott Hamilton
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They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted.…
— Judy Holliday
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Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was,…
— Jeremy Irons
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family…
— LaToya Jackson
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I talked to the record company about what I had in mind. They said they wanted something lush. I figured the best thing to do…
— Etta James
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I looked up to my parents because they were very successful in what they wanted to do. I was lucky; I didn't have to look…
— Derek Jeter
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