Quotes 681 till 700 of 1776.
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If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.
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If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.
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If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
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If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
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If you want something you've never had, you have to do something you've never done.
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If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
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If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.
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If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
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If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out. In a poem, the pen is more like a flashlight, a Geiger counter, or one of those metal detectors that people walk around beaches with.
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If you're a parent, you know how incredibly good it feels when one of your children spontaneously thanks you for something. God is our Father, and he, too, is moved when we express our thanksgiving.
Too Busy Not to Pray -
If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
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If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.
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If you're going to go out doing something, you might as well be fighting for your country or fighting for your life.
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If you're playing a good guy, you show some darkness. If you're playing a dark guy, you show something different, like humor, that will mix it up and hopefully surpass the audience's expectations. What I'm battling all the time is complacency in the audience. I try to bring a little mystery to what might happen because that engages people more.
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If you're poor and you do something stupid, you're nuts. If you're rich and do something stupid, you're eccentric.
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If you're trying to make a recipe that you're not even going to bother tasting, you're doing something wrong.
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Imagining something is better than remembering something.
The World According To Garp (2012) -
Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.
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In 1982 when I showed up, the average age of the drivers in the series was something like 40, 41. The crowds were small. There was not much prize money. The competition wasn't very tight.
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