Top Wants Quotes
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
Louis Leakey
I define fear as standing across the ring from Joe Louis and knowing he wants to go home early.
Max Baer
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old woman, so they decided to make me thirty-two. Much more appealing somehow.
Ellen DeGeneres
And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.
George Eliot
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Ellen Barkin All Wants Quotes
The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.
David Viscott 
37% of people like this quote
I think we have a great track record on being relevant, on identifying consumer trends, needs and wants.
Jim Cantalupo
36% of people like this quote
You can never betray the people who are dead, so you go on being a public Jew; the dead can't answer slurs, but I'm here. I would love to think that Jesus wants me for a sunbeam, but he doesn't.
Anita Brookner
36% of people like this quote
There are roles I want that my agency might not want me to do because of the subject matter or whatever. Or there are roles that people won't bring to me because they don't think I'll do it. And that is a big strain because an actor wants to act.
Cuba Gooding, Jr.
36% of people like this quote
It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.
Martin Scorsese
34% of people like this quote
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
30% of people like this quote
The media only wants to get the view of the flaming radicals because they make better copy than those of us who are more sensible. I'm a feminist and I think I've done a lot of good.
Betty Dodson
28% of people like this quote
The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.
Roald Dahl
25% of people like this quote
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