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I have a lot of boyfriends, I want you to write that. Every country I visit, I have a different boyfriend. And I kiss them all.

~ Anna Kournikova

I don't want to be one of those 40-something guys in L.A. still dating, still going out to clubs and chasing 21-year-olds. It's not a good look.

~ Jesse Metcalfe

I think probably - I think, you know, when you're first dating somebody, if they're just not that physical with you, if they don't want to make concrete plans with you, you know, if they're sort of ambiguous about where everything is going, I think that's a pretty good sign that they're not into you.

~ Greg Behrendt

I want a guy I can go hiking with, who wants to do outdoorsy stuff. It's so much fun to be out in nature and who better to do that with than the person you're dating?

~ Adrianne Palicki

Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion, not the thief s.

~ William Blake

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.

~ Will Rogers

If saving money is wrong, I don't want to be right!

~ William Shatner

If you want to reap financial blessings, you have to sow financially.

~ Joel Osteen

There are two things people want more than sex and money... recognition and praise.

~ Mary Kay Ash

I want to go to - what's that hot country with a lot of money? - Dubai.

~ Grandmaster Flash

I think television's become a downright dangerous thing. It has no moral barometer whatsoever. If you want to talk about something that is all about money, just watch the television.

~ Tom Petty

I don't want to be married to someone who feels inferior to my success or because I make more money than he does.

~ Grace Kelly

I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire.

~ Toni Braxton

But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.

~ Josiah Stamp

You want 21 percent risk free? Pay off your credit cards.

~ Andrew Tobias

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.

~ Theodore Parker

I know why they don't like me because they want the money I have.

~ Mike Tyson

It's easier to force feed people than it is to give 'em what they want. It makes more money.

~ Merle Haggard

That is why the analogy of stealing does not work. With a thief, we want to know how much money he stole, and from whom. With the artist it is not how much he took and from whom, but what he did with it.

~ Lukas Foss

I used to say when I was working in the theater that if I ever had five seasons of a hit TV show I'd never have to worry about money and wouldn't have to do anything I didn't want to do.

~ Jerry Orbach

Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want - the want of money.

~ Johann Georg Zimmermann

All my life I knew that there was all the money you could want out there. All you have to do is go after it.

~ Curtis Carlson

I believed in studying just because I knew education was a privilege. It was the discipline of study, to get into the habit of doing something that you don't want to do.

~ Wynton Marsalis

All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.

~ Malala Yousafzai

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

~ Epictetus

If you want to be an anthropologist, you need to study physical anthropology specialized in bones. If you want to be a forensic chemist, get a degree in chemistry. Do you want to do DNA work? Get a degree in microbiology. And do well. Study hard and go to graduate school.

~ Kathy Reichs

I want to support the whole idea of the humanities and teaching the humanities as being something that - even if it can't be quantitatively measured as other subjects - it's as fundamental to all education.

~ Tom Stoppard

In school, many of us procrastinate and then successfully cram for tests. We get the grades and degrees we need to get the jobs we want, even if we fail to get a good general education.

~ Stephen Covey

Excitement in education and student productivity, the ability to get a result that you want from students, go together and cannot be separated.

~ Major Owens

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

~ James Madison

What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.

~ Meghan Daum

If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.

~ Will.i.am

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

~ Maya Angelou

Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.

~ Vincent Bugliosi

I want to dip my foot in some acting. And most definitely want to mentor upcoming artists and give them the wisdom that was given to me.

~ Missy Elliott

I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.

~ Mary J. Blige

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

~ Vera Wang

Most people see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what they've been told to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see - not what is right in front of them in its pristine condition.

~ Vincent Bugliosi

If you want to go east, don't go west.

~ Ramakrishna

Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something.

~ Liz Carpenter