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- Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for…
- Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine…
- Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting…
- The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and…
- I do like to have guns around. I don't like to carry them. But I like - if somebody is going to come into my…
- Like a pianist runs her fingers over the keys, I'll search my mind for what to say. Now, the poem may want you to write…
- Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and…
- We are all creative, but by the time we are three of four years old, someone has knocked the creativity out of us. Some people…
- When asked how she knows when her writing is where she wants it to be: "I know when it's the best I can do. It…
- Courage - you develop courage by doing small things like just as if you wouldn't want to pick up a 100-pound weight without preparing yourself.
- What I think it really means is: I'm a teacher. I am a teacher. I teach all the time, as you do and as all…
- This is my life. it is my one time to be me. i want to experience every good thing.
- We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within…
- You don't want modesty, you want humility. Humility comes from inside out. It says someone was here before me and I'm here because I've been…
- Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord;…
- I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
- I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
- I want to be representative of my race-the human race. I have a chance to show how kind we can be, how intelligent and generous…
- We must infuse our lives with art. Our national leaders must be informed that we want them to use our taxes to support street theatre…
- Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all.
- Anyone of us can be a rainbow in somebody's clouds. I want the University of Cincinnati to be a rainbow in the clouds. The University…
- Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
- I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute.
- That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant…
- Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down. — J. J. Abrams
- I know how the American people care for that democratic principle. They want to see their vote respected. As we in Haiti… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- I try to work on shows that I would want to watch. — J. J. Abrams
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service. — Richard Bach