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As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.

~ Mike Tyson

I think I was born strong-willed. That's not the kind of thing you can learn. The advantage is, you stick to what you believe in and rarely get pushed out of what you want to do.

~ Joan Jett

The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.

~ Ruby Dee

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

~ William Moulton Marston

I always say the strength of democracy lies in criticism. If there is no criticism, that means there is no democracy. And if you want to grow, you must invite criticism. And I want to grow; I want to invite criticism.

~ Narendra Modi

Strength is leading when you just don't want to lead.

~ Stanley A. Mcchrystal

As much as I appreciate people putting me in the category of these very acrobatic belters, I feel like my strength is my... interpretation and my truthfulness with songs, and I don't want young people to think it's all about the high notes that they have to hit.

~ Idina Menzel

It's as if my left heel is my bass drum and my right heel is the floor tom-tom. I can get snare out of my right toe by not putting it down on the floor hard, and, if I want cymbals, I land flat on both feet, full strength on the floor.

~ Savion Glover

I have arm-wrestled here and there... guys seem to want to test my strength.

~ Shania Twain

Once you have speech, you don't have to wait for natural selection! If you want more strength, you build a stealth bomber; if you don't like bacteria, you invent penicillin; if you want to communicate faster, you invent the Internet. Once speech evolved, all of human life changed.

~ Tom Wolfe

We can have enhanced devolution - greater powers in Scotland - but within the strength, security and stability of the United Kingdom, and I think that's what most Scots want.

~ Douglas Alexander

I want to thank all my fans, teammates, coaches and supporters for the strength they've given me to overcome so much.

~ Ricky Williams

All the sudden high-impact stress can really take a toll on your body. So if you still want to be active and get in a good workout, go to a yoga class or pilates class, or get in some strength and conditioning.

~ Sophia Bush

Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.

~ Aaron Rodgers

If the label presents them with a contract that the band don't want to sign, all the label has to do is wait. There are a hundred other bands willing to sign the exact same contract, so the label is in a position of strength.

~ Steve Albini

When I go to the gym, stretching is very important. For polo, you don't need too much strength so you don't want to build yourself up too much. It's all about flexibility.

~ Nacho Figueras

Having patience is one of the hardest things about being human. We want to do it now, and we don't want to wait. Sometimes we miss out on our blessing when we rush things and do it on our own time.

~ Deontay Wilder

No, I wouldn't direct a movie, no. I couldn't. I don't have the patience for it, I don't have the people skills. You have to be clever. I'm not really clever in that kind of way. And you have to be able to manipulate people, but at the same time allow them to feel like they are manipulating you, to get the kind of movie that you want.

~ Nick Cave

My mum told me to have patience. It's about realising that when things aren't going the way you want them to, or you don't have inspiration, it will come.

~ Vanessa Paradis

Because I'm the author of my screenplays I know what I'm looking for. It's true that I can be stubborn in demanding that I get what I want, but it's also a question of working with patience and love.

~ Michael Haneke

Coaching takes patience. I'm more enthused when teaching players who want it versus when I have to.

~ Kevin Garnett

Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.

~ Ruth Ann Minner

I'm not afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

~ Woody Allen

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

~ Stephen Hawking

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

~ Mel Brooks

If you think aficionados of a living Constitution want to bring you flexibility, think again. You think the death penalty is a good idea? Persuade your fellow citizens to adopt it. You want a right to abortion? Persuade your fellow citizens and enact it. That's flexibility.

~ Antonin Scalia

I want to see the U.S. wiped out. Death to the U.S.

~ Bobby Fischer

When I listen to music, I don't want to hear about flowers. I like death and destruction.

~ Jonathan Davis

All I want is a gentleman. I'm sick to bloody death of bastards.

~ Katie Price

I was blessed with a birth and a death, and I guess I just want some say in between.

~ Ani Difranco

What I'm after is not living to 1,000. I'm after letting people avoid death for as long as they want to.

~ Aubrey De Grey

I don't think I would want the responsibility for enforcing the death penalties. There's always the inevitable question of whether someone you gave the order to execute might truly have been innocent.

~ Jesse Ventura

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

~ Woody Allen

Are there moments when I see unrequited crushes or ex-boyfriends slow dancing with their dates and kind of want to stab myself in the spleen with a salad fork? Yeah, sure.

~ Sloane Crosley

All architects want to live beyond their deaths.

~ Philip Johnson

You don't send a man to his death because you want a hero.

~ Paddy Chayefsky

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

~ Isabelle Eberhardt

If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.

~ J.k. Rowling

I want for myself what I want for other women, absolute equality.

~ Agnes Macphail

I want girls to know that equality exists in this world. You can do anything you want.

~ Yuna