All Quotes

If you want something beautiful to put on the dinner table, pick up a sockeye, the salmon species with the most vivid red flesh.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do.
‐‐ Lucille Ball

If you want something from an audience, you give blood to their fantasies. It's the ultimate hustle.
‐‐ Marlon Brando

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.
‐‐ Billy Strayhorn

If you want something, have it. If you feel like it's forbidden, you'll want it even more. Whenever I have a craving, I go and have it and just make sure I don't have it again the next day.
‐‐ Jerry Ferrara

If you want something, it will elude you. If you do not want something, you will get ten of it in the mail.
‐‐ Anna Quindlen

If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman.
‐‐ Margaret Thatcher

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.
‐‐ Marcus Brigstocke

If you want something that's going to provide you with a lot of challenges and a variety of different things to do, then you really can't beat a place like the Air Force. I don't mean this to sound like a recruiting pitch. But it's been a lot of fun.
‐‐ Michael P. Anderson

If you want something, work hard for it, go after it. I can't worry about all the 'no's, because I believe there's a yes, and I've been very fortunate to find those in my career and made the most of those opportunities.
‐‐ Mara Brock Akil

If you want something you can have it, but you have to do some work. It's the ethic my mother brought me up with.
‐‐ Joanne Harris

If you want something you can't afford, think what else that money could buy: a week's groceries, a month's rent, or a weekend away. That will put things into perspective.
‐‐ Sophie Kinsella

If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.
‐‐ Jon Huertas

If you want success, be unique.
‐‐ Natalie Massenet

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
‐‐ Zora Neale Hurston

If you want the beautiful moments to shine, you have to contrast that with dark and gruesome moments. That's the way life is.
‐‐ Tony DiTerlizzi

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.
‐‐ Gary Hart

If you want the meaning of families and life and religion and philosophy rolled into one package, all you need to read is 'The Brothers Karamazov.'
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza

If you want the world to pay for projects, you have to be able to display why you're worthy.
‐‐ Amanda Palmer

If you want this planet to continue being habitable for everyone that lives here, you have to limit the number of inhabitants. Hunters do it by killing off the old or sick animals in a herd, but I don't think that's a very ethical way of limiting the population.
‐‐ Christian de Duve

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.
‐‐ Richard Stallman

If you want to achieve a high goal, you're going to have to take some chances.
‐‐ Alberto Salazar

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
‐‐ Thomas J. Watson

If you want to achieve something, you build the basis for it.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.
‐‐ Juliana Hatfield

If you want to achieve what you dream of achieving, whatever it may be, you're going to have to earn it.
‐‐ Miles D. White

If you want to achieve your dreams, you must follow them, and the best way to follow them is not to think about wanting to be very rich, but to think about doing something that you really want to do.
‐‐ Jackie Collins

If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.
‐‐ Michael Nutter

If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work all the hours under the sun, whatever it takes. If you're not determined, you won't get anywhere.
‐‐ Christopher Parker

If you want to age a lot of years, become president.
‐‐ Roland Martin

If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them.
‐‐ Pietro Aretino

If you want to appeal to everyone, you can't do a world tour and expect black people to show up at every date - when you're in Australia, when you're in Dubai, when you're in Indonesia.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

If you want to ask about my drug problem, go ask my big, fat, smart, ten pound daughter, she'll answer any questions you have about it.
‐‐ Courtney Love

If you want to attract more investment, foreign investment, more talent, more business, I think having some level of certainty that the business environment respects, those who have been your partners for a long time, is important.
‐‐ Louis R. Chenevert

If you want to be a comedian, go out. Do a week in Des Moines, Iowa. Try to make those people laugh.
‐‐ Nick Swardson

If you want to be a cop, it's not for everybody, no question about it, but there's no place like New York City.
‐‐ Raymond Kelly

If you want to be a crazy person, go for it. But don't impose it on your kids.
‐‐ Jon Glaser

If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
‐‐ Captain Beefheart

If you want to be a director, work with writers and find different ways of telling stories with film, then do a course. This way you can consolidate what you've learnt and use the course to go further.
‐‐ Gurinder Chadha

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music.
‐‐ Billy Eckstine

If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.
‐‐ B. B. King

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.
‐‐ Ray Bradbury

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.
‐‐ Stephen Harper

If you want to be a great leader, remember to treat all people with respect at all times. For one, because you never know when you'll need their help. And two, because it's a sign you respect people, which all great leaders do.
‐‐ Simon Sinek

If you want to be a leader whom people follow with absolute conviction, you have to be a likable leader. Tyrants and curmudgeons with brilliant vision can command a reluctant following for a time, but it never lasts. They burn people out before they ever get to see what anyone is truly capable of.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

If you want to be a legend, God help you, it's so easy. You just do one thing. You can be the master of suspense, say. But if you want to be as invisible as is practical, then it's fun to do a lot of different things.
‐‐ Mike Nichols

If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.
‐‐ Kesha

If you want to be a Millionaire, start with a billion dollars and launch a new airline.
‐‐ Richard Branson

If you want to be a modern citizen of the world, you have to be minimally capable in technology. It's a new literacy test. Technology rules your outcome in life. And software is making a lot of decisions in our lives.
‐‐ Daniel Suarez

If you want to be a person who buys stuff at the dollar store, you can be that person. If you want to make really cool stuff on your desktop and be the manufacturer, that is a lifestyle.
‐‐ Bre Pettis

If you want to be a poet, you can just write it on a napkin, and it's the length of the napkin, I guess. But usually you decide you'll rhyme it, or you'll have a formula. In radio, that's something called, 'Close your eyes and listen.'
‐‐ Robert Krulwich

If you want to be a professional writer then you need to write consistently. Inspiration strikes about once every blue moon which, for me, is once every two and a half to three months, which is when I'll get really and truly inspired about something.
‐‐ Christopher Paolini

If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'
‐‐ Stephane Hessel

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

If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do.
‐‐ Tina Fey

If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
‐‐ Otis Redding

If you want to be a star, don't bother doing it because it ends up being very empty.
‐‐ Judith Light

If you want to be a successful runner, you have to consider everything. It's no good just thinking about endurance and not to develop fine speed.
‐‐ Arthur Lydiard

If you want to be a writer, don't worry so much about writing. Read as much as you can. Read as many different writers as you can. Soak up the styles.
‐‐ R. L. Stine

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.
‐‐ Albert Brooks

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
‐‐ Stephen King

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.
‐‐ Paul Harding

If you want to be among the greatest skiers, you have to win in Kitzbuehel at least once.
‐‐ Marcel Hirscher

If you want to be an actor and you love acting, you can do it whether you're doing something else or not. You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But if you want to be a movie star, you've got a tough road ahead of you.
‐‐ Alan Arkin

If you want to be an actor because you want to be recognized on the street and have people ask you for autographs, look for another career. If you want to be an actor because you love being on stage and want to capture a person's heart, go for it.
‐‐ Jaime Camil

If you want to be an actor, you have to do it because you love acting, not because you want to be a celebrity.
‐‐ Alfonso Ribeiro

If you want to be an actor, you need to learn how to act first, even in sketch comedy.
‐‐ Nicole Sullivan

If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready.
‐‐ Bill Nunn

If you want to be an actor, you should keep confident. Don't get too much of an ego and become not humble. But you should have esteem and not feel bad when you don't book something. So I think you should just stay humble, but you also need to have some esteem to make yourself keep going.
‐‐ Nolan Gould

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

If you want to be an architect of change by raising great kids, God bless. If you want to do it by raising money for your kid's school, great. If you want to build a garden - whatever it is. Women like myself - they're complicated, and they have a lot of different interests and qualities within them.
‐‐ Maria Shriver

If you want to be an entrepreneur, it's not a job, it's a lifestyle. It defines you. Forget about vacations, about going home at 6 pm - last thing at night you'll send emails, first thing in the morning you'll read emails, and you'll wake up in the middle of the night. But it's hugely rewarding as you're fulfilling something for yourself.
‐‐ Niklas Zennstrom

If you want to be angry at Gore, be angry at him for not fighting harder in Florida.
‐‐ James Carville

If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.
‐‐ Chris Evans