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394 They Wanted quotes by 353 unique authors
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It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd…
— Steve Jobs
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In the old days they, the promoters, wanted more and more from me. They wanted me to jump or spill my blood and break my…
— Evel Knievel
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I've always been into films. I've been offered lots of films but they've always been these very stereotypical roles. They wanted me to play some…
— Lenny Kravitz
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Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.
— Kendrick Lamar
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Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
— Jackie Mason
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It's sad when you can't make everyone happy, though. It's impossible but, at the same time, you still hope. You think, 'Maybe I can do…
— Stephenie Meyer
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If the audience knew what they wanted then they wouldn't be the audience, they would be the artist.
— Alan Moore
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Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed.
— Yoko Ono
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People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here.…
— Pat Paulsen
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I wasn't going to great schools, because my parents didn't believe in public education. They wanted the education to be influenced by their religion, so…
— Katy Perry
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However much we might deplore the profit motive, or consumerist values, if everyone just wants i-Pods we would probably be better off than if they…
— Steven Pinker
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I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night…
— Paula Poundstone
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland.…
— Salman Rushdie
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They told me my services were no longer desired because they wanted to put in a youth program as an advance way of keeping the…
— Casey Stengel
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Between 21-30 women go through humungous changes. After that, they've generally achieved what they wanted, and they're more settled.
— Rod Stewart
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I'm glad about what's happening to the music business. This last crop of people we had in the 90s, who are going away now, they…
— James Taylor
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I've learned to try to sustain myself by holding on to the integrity of who I am. I'm not talking big diva. I'm quiet. I'm…
— Crystal Waters
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I like to live in places that are kind of off in the cuts so people can't really find me even if they wanted to.
— Ricky Williams
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I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the…
— Angus Young
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In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When…
— Edward Gibbon
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September 11 We thought we'd outdistanced history Told our children it was nowhere near; Even when history struck Columbine, It didn't happen here. We took…
— Richard Peck
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If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
— Henry Ford
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I was aware too how strange adults were, how theirs lives were vaster than they wanted anyone to realize, that they actually stretched on and…
— Marisha Pessl
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The Calormens have dark faces and long beards. They wear flowing robes and orange-colored turbans, and they are a wise, wealthy, courteous, cruel and ancient…
— C.S. Lewis
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