Want Things Quotes
95 quotes by 85 authors
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I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed. Disappointed in the things that people do; disappointed…
— Bill Bryson
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I think the movie business is in trouble. It's all movies that you've seen before. Everything's a remake; they want things that are familiar rather…
— Graydon Carter
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If we listen human instinct actually tells us what we need, but advertising makes us want things we don't need and things we can't have.
— Kit Williams
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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier.…
— Richard Marcinko
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When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.
— Jessica Lange
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If you want things to change, You have to change. If you want things to be better, You have to be better.
— Jim Rohn
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I want things to be characters and not me. Why would I want to play me?
— Anton Yelchin
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be…
— Valerie Bertinelli
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Too many people who don't have anyone they care about. Who think if they don't love anyone else then they're free to do whatever they…
— Shuichi Yoshida
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I try to teach my heart not to want things it cant have.
— Alice Walker
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Matchy-matchy is not for me. I don't want things to be too perfect. It's like pairing a matte top with a shiny skirt, so they…
— Peter Som
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I think that sometimes love gets in the way of itself - you know, love interrupts itself. We want things so much that we sabotage…
— Jack White
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Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better.
— Esther Dyson
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A girl is different. They want things. They need things on a regular schedule. Why, a girl's got purposes you and me can't even imagine.…
— Kent Haruf
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People want to hear about the extremes of human nature. They want things that are larger than their own lives, and more romantic, and not…
— Richard Thompson
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In life, we always fall for the person who will never fall for us, always want things we can't have, and say things we shouldn't.
— Zayn Malik
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Buddhism teaches us not to want things, not to avoid things, not to be upset by the loss. In the I Ching, there's a hexagram…
— Frederick Lenz
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I just want things to work properly.
— James Dyson
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All talk is just that: talk. All the words written on these pages are just that: words. If you want things to get better, take…
— Larry Winget
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I guess I've always lived upside down when I want things I can't have. My wife actually thinks I have a syndrome called Reality Distortion…
— Tom Waits
Who Wrote These Want Things Quotes
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