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I met Ashley two weeks before I married him. It was a joke-the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Once I was married, I didn't want to be a failure, so I stuck it out for six months, which was about six months too long.

~ Shannen Doherty

I like the possibility of failure. I don't want to be in a comfortable zone.

~ Alejandro González Iñárritu

Failure's a marker of success in its own right because you went out and tried something... If you really don't want to fail, go find a comfortable chair and stay there. Just don't go out and do anything.

~ Whitney Wolfe

When you come off 'The X Factor,' you're more likely to be a failure than a success because people almost want you to fail. There's this kind of feeling that you're separate from everyone else. You get it from artists, people in the industry, people at record labels.

~ Olly Murs

Our health-care morass is like the problems of global warming and the national debt - the kind of vast policy failure that is far easier to get into than to get out of. Americans say that they want leaders who will take on these problems.

~ Atul Gawande

Total failure isn't something I want to spend a lot of time envisioning. I'm pretty sure I'll recognize it if it comes.

~ Burton Richter

I really just want to be warm yellow light that pours over everyone I love.

~ Conor Oberst

I really love to ride my motorcycle. When I want to just get away and be by myself and clear my head, that's what I do.

~ Kyle Chandler

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

~ Mother Teresa

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

~ Ovid

Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.

~ John F. Kennedy

Learning from wolves to interact with pet dogs makes about as much sense as, 'I want to improve my parenting - let's see how the chimps do it!'

~ Ian Dunbar

When it comes right down to it, developing a critical sensibility about parenting isn't really about disapproval; it's about honing your own sensibilities, figuring out how you want to parent.

~ Adam Mansbach

I have three daughters, so I can't be as tough as I want to be. When you have kids - especially daughters - they know how to work you. They're a lot smarter than we are, that's for sure. But I'll be more tough on their boyfriends.

~ Tim Mcgraw

I want to be a vampire. They're the coolest monsters.

~ Gerard Way

On stage, we just want to generate hysteria. We don't care about looking cool or posing.

~ Adrian Edmondson

You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.

~ Taylor Lautner

I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.

~ Busta Rhymes

I want to speak up and tell you that mascara and clothes don't make you cool, neither do name-brand handbags, but being a leader can.

~ Renee Olstead

I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really cool to do a film in German. I'm not quite fluent, but I can get there. And my accent's pretty good. I wouldn't feel too out of my element.

~ Kirsten Dunst

I don't follow anything that's said about him much, but the Uwe Boll that I know is just a really cool guy. He's just a really quiet, kind and passionate filmmaker who really believes in what he's doing. Like any director that an actor wants to work with, you want a director who's passionate and believes in the work that he's doing.

~ Michael Eklund

I wouldn't want to be Superman. Batman would be cool. But the one I've always wanted to play is the Joker. There is a maniacal and dangerous side to me.

~ T. J. Miller

Sure, climbing Mount Everest would be cool, but that's something I would now like to do as a family. Big experiences like that I don't want to have on my own anymore. I want to share them.

~ Heidi Klum

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

~ Matthew Mcconaughey

If you want to go to the mall, you have to take security. But it's always cool. The kids are amazing.

~ Aaliyah

Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.

~ Daisy Ridley

I am young, and I am cool, and I want to wear cool clothes!

~ Aidy Bryant

I think the whole thing, boy band, it's a little bit of a dirty word. They say it's not a good thing to be in a boy band. We want to change that. We want to make the boy band cool. It's not just about dancing and dressing the same.

~ Liam Payne

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

~ Tom Waits

There are people out there who are older who are cool. I want that.

~ Billy Corgan

After a while, you just want transportation, and things like cool cars or motorcycles are all about getting attention. I get all the attention I could ever need, so I kind of like being in a minivan and people not paying so much attention to me.

~ George Clooney

I didn't want to be a genius! That ain't cool.

~ Missy Elliott

I don't want to judge, but I've also met women who think it's cool to be out or away from their baby, and I don't get that.

~ Kourtney Kardashian

With Tinder and all these other things, there's always this kind of illusion with infinite choices. There's something very cool about saying, 'Oh, I actually really care about this person, and I want to commit to loving this person and being loyal to this person.' You can't get that from the kind of infinite multiple choices that are out there.

~ John Legend

For relatively modest amounts of sulfur dioxide injected into the atmosphere, you could easily cool Earth by 1% or more, if you want.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

If I say I've got two versions of Word - that old one from 1982 that's perfect, with zero defects; or the new one that's got all this cool new stuff, but there might be a few bugs in it - people always want the new one. But I wouldn't want them to operate a plane I was on with software that happened to be the latest greatest release!

~ Nathan Myhrvold

Even though my father was a radio comedian, it wasn't cool to say, at a young age, 'I want to be a comedian.'

~ Albert Brooks

I want to make pop cool again, and the only way I can do that is by being ambitious and grand.

~ The Weeknd

Tech companies approach you to hold something in a picture and then say, 'This is what I want you to write on your Twitter.' There are people who get away with that and look really cool doing it, but I'm just not one of them.

~ Alexa Chung

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

~ Twinkle Khanna