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Want Quotes

"Would you tell me please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where…" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

~ Lewis Carroll Quotes

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When I was younger… I didn't want to be pigeonholed… Basically, now you want to be pigeonholed. It's your niche.

~ Joan Chen Quotes

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Human beings have the capacity to learn to want almost any conceivable material object. Given, then, the emergence of a modern industrial culture capable of producing almost anything, the time is ripe for opening the storehouse of infinite need!… It is the modern Pandora's box, and its plagues are loose upon the world.

~ Jules Henry Quotes

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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.

~ Bill Watterson Quotes

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Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas.

~ Paula Poundstone Quotes

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For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something...almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

~ Steve Jobs Quotes

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I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.

~ Lilly Tomlin Quotes

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I am rather like a mosquito in a nudist camp; I know what I want to do, but I don’t know where to begin.

~ Stephen Bayne Quotes

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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

~ George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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God does not give a lick of an ice cream cone without wanting you to have the whole cone.

~ Marshall Thurber Quotes

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