"If you want to stay perfect, you cannot go undefeated with a blemish on your record."
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"The only truly affluent are those who do not want more than they have."
"If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions."
"As a rule, man is a fool. When it's hot, he wants it cool; When its cool, he wants it hot. Always wanting, what is not."
"Nearly everyone interested in common stocks wants to be told by someone else what he thinks the market is going to do. The demand being there, it must be supplied."
"I know what I want, I know where I'm going and I'm happy with what I am."
"If I give a student one-fourth of what he should know, I expect him to get the other three-fourths himself, otherwise I do not want him as a student."
"There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed."
"L'homme n'est ni ange ni be" te, et le malheur veut que qui veut faire l'ange fait la be" te. Man is neither angel nor beast.Unfortunately, he who wants to act the angel often acts the beast."
"That's when the dream is so far off it seems like it will never happen. It can be most anything you want it to be."
"When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too."
"If you want to be the best, find out what the top people do & do it yourself."
"I don't want to be remembered as 'the son of Bruce Lee'."
"I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them."
"It's better to have nobody, than to have someone who is half there, or doesn't want to be there"
"There's no easy way around it, no matter how talented you are ... your talent is going to fail you if you're not skilled. If you don't study, if you don't work really hard and dedicate yourself to being better every single day, you 'll never be able to communicate with people your artistry the way that you want!"
"I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them."
"To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!"
"I'm an artist and you can fantasize about me however you want."
"This is a very noisy world, so we have to be very clear what we want them to know about us"