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I want the world to be better because I was here.
Will Smith

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.
Jesus Christ

Give, Perfect, Poor

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine

Great, Nation, Reap

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.
Kurt Vonnegut

Stand, Close, Kinds

The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name.
Theodore Roosevelt

Children, Leave, Name

I just want to thank everyone who made this day necessary.
Yogi Berra

Made, Everyone, Necessary

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Bill Cosby

Truth, Justice, Parents

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Steve Jobs

Happy, After, Said

We want to reinvent the phone. What's the killer app? The killer app is making calls! It's amazing how hard it is to make calls on most phones. We want to let you use contacts like never before - sync your iPhone with your PC or mac.
Steve Jobs

Amazing, Hard, Before

My restaurants are never opened on Thanksgiving; I want my staff to spend time with their family if they can. My feeling is, if I can't figure out how to make money the rest of the year so that my workers can enjoy the holidays, then I don't deserve to be an owner.
Michael Symon

Family, Time, Money

Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery.
Albert Camus

History, Happy, Misery

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If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
William James

There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
Vince Lombardi

Time, Game, Place

You will find men who want to be carried on the shoulders of others, who think that the world owes them a living. They don't seem to see that we must all lift together and pull together.
Henry Ford

Men, Together, Find

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
Johnny Depp

Old, Beer, Looking

Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Give, Discover, Offended

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell

Politics, Enough, Economics

People who want the most approval get the least and people who need approval the least get the most.
Wayne Dyer

I live in America. I have the right to write whatever I want. And it's equaled by another right just as powerful: the right not to read it. Freedom of speech includes the freedom to offend people.
Brad Thor

Freedom, Live, Powerful

The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.
Steve Jobs

Great, Reason, Point

We made the buttons on the screen look so good you'll want to lick them.
Steve Jobs

Good, Made, Lick

This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Steve Jobs

Good, Computers, Hard

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.
Steve Jobs

What we want to do is make a leapfrog product that is way smarter than any mobile device has ever been, and super-easy to use. This is what iPhone is. OK? So, we're going to reinvent the phone.
Steve Jobs

Phone, Reinvent, Smarter

Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Art, Motivation, Getting

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis

Happiness, Everything, Else

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.
Barack Obama

Put, Last, Economy

I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.
Barack Obama

History, Simple, Same

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
Frank Zappa

Enough, Sometimes, Write

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

True, Watch, Measure

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