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Having a second chance makes you want to work even harder.

~ Tia Mowry

The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

~ Richard Bach

If you want peace work for justice.

~ Pope Paul Vi

If you want to grow a giant redwood, you need to make sure the seeds are ok, nurture the sapling, and work out what might potentially stop it from growing all the way along. Anything that breaks it at any point stops that growth.

~ Elon Musk

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

~ Woody Allen

Those who want to be serious photographers, you're really going to have to edit your work. You're going to have to understand what you're doing. You're going to have to not just shoot, shoot, shoot. To stop and look at your work is the most important thing you can do.

~ Annie Leibovitz

Demonstrations must be dignified and nonviolent, as the overwhelming protests in Ferguson and Staten Island have been. Do not confuse anarchists who don't want the system to work and thugs who want to exploit a situation with the majority who from day one have operated with impeccable nonviolence and clear goals.

~ Al Sharpton

Know that even when you want to give up or throw in the towel, in the end it will all be worth the hard work.

~ Ashton Eaton

If you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

~ Ogden Nash

I mean I don't really think about it. You know, do you know what I often say to myself? I think you're very lucky in life if you know what you want to do.

~ Andrew Lloyd Webber

One thing I never want to be accused of is not working.

~ Don Shula

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

~ Frank Murphy

If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

~ Eddie Van Halen

I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.

~ Sophia Myles

You get to be famous or have some notoriety and there are so many people who want a piece of you.

~ Oscar De La Hoya

One thing about being famous is the people around you, you pay all their bills so they very rarely disagree with you because they want you to pick up the check.

~ Charles Barkley

If anyone besides famous people knew what it was like to be a famous person, they would never want to be famous.

~ Sia

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

~ Frank Black

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn't want me to be too famous too young.

~ Duke Ellington

I want to be famous everywhere.

~ Luciano Pavarotti

I'm hardly famous. I wouldn't want to trade places with anyone else.

~ Nikki Cox

Decide very early on: do you want to be an actor or do you want to be famous? Because they're very different routes.

~ James Purefoy

Well, I knew I wanted to be an actor, and I didn't necessarily need or want to be famous or a celebrity actor.

~ Jenna Fischer

I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.

~ Elizabeth Hurley

Only traumatised people want to be famous.

~ Alanis Morissette

I don't really even go out that much now, except to walk my dogs, because I don't want to be recognised. I used to be a really friendly person, and now I just want to be invisible. I liked myself much more before I got famous. I was much friendlier and had more energy.

~ Sia

Famous is celebrityism, and I don't want that... I know that I'm not that. Everybody knows who you are. I can't imagine living that life, but I don't think I consider myself famous.

~ Robin Wright

I had never really wanted to be famous. Everyone is supposed to want to be rich and famous, but as a boy I never knew what rich was, and the first view I had of famous made me leery.

~ Alan Alda

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.

~ Kevin Bacon

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being famous. I didn't need it and didn't want it.

~ Simon Cowell

I think people should be protected from being made to feel that they want to know what somebody famous had for breakfast.

~ John Hurt

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

~ Johnny Mathis

I have to say, you know, I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and, you know, want - have their priorities change and want different things.

~ Rashida Jones

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

~ Jenny Slate

I don't feel famous and I didn't want my autobiography to be like a Paris Hilton story.

~ Beth Ditto

I don't want to be movie-star famous. I want to move people with my writing.

~ Ethan Canin

My high-school coach Tony Reginelli was kind of famous for 'Reggie-isms,' kind of like 'Yogi-isms.' He always said if you want to be a good quarterback, when sprinting left you want to be amphibious and throw left-handed. I told him, 'You mean ambidextrous, coach?'

~ Peyton Manning

You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

~ Usain Bolt

I didn't become an actor to make money. And I didn't become an actor to be famous - though people always gasp if you say that, as if it's unfathomable that an actor doesn't want to be a star.

~ Ruth Negga

I was a guy who wanted to become famous. There was steam coming out of my ears, I wanted to be famous so badly. You want the attention, you want the bucks, and you want the best seat in the restaurant. I didn't think what the repercussions would be.

~ Matthew Perry