All Quotes

You don't want people who have never had to deal with adversity - you want people who have been able to deal successfully with adversity. That's what adds to society. Those are going to be the hardest-working, best people.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

You don't want R&B singers to get into beef. Leave that to the rappers, let them do that - R&B, be classy.
‐‐ R. Kelly

You don't want someone to think you're from New Hampshire, because who cares about New Hampshire? You're basically just a pass-through.
‐‐ Timothy Simons

You don't want the biggest record deal as far as money goes, you just want to make sure that the people at the label really support your band and the music and stuff.
‐‐ Adam Rich

You don't want the office to be a completely relaxing place. You want it to be a vibrant place.
‐‐ Jesse Schell

You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
‐‐ Patrick Rothfuss

You don't want to always put a bunch of sugar in you. Because your sugar gets high, it gets stuck in your blood, it gets stuck in your system. It makes you tired. You have the ups and downs.
‐‐ Richard Sherman

You don't want to be a Kardashian.
‐‐ Bryan Cranston

You don't want to be a one-trick pony. On a lot of Smiths songs, I used a pick or a plectrum, and for some of the slow songs, I used my thumbs and my fingers. That's why I love the bass - it's adaptable, and you can express yourself so well with it.
‐‐ Andy Rourke

You don't want to be down 2-0 in a series. It's always important to try and get one on the opponent's home court. It makes your job at home easier.
‐‐ Doug Collins

You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

You don't want to be flattered and become big-headed by getting awards. But, well, I am.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

You don't want to be hard to look at. Plain very good, hard to look at bad. The plain shall inherit the earth; time is our friend.
‐‐ Graham Norton

You don't want to be in a relationship with someone who's scared of you.
‐‐ Tila Tequila

You don't want to be innocent in the world of 'Game of Thrones.'
‐‐ Sophie Turner

You don't want to be nasty for the sake of being nasty.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane

You don't want to be outside during blackfly season.
‐‐ Shania Twain

You don't want to be photographed? You don't want to be known? Then you don't need to be out there peddling movies.
‐‐ Cameron Diaz

You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do.
‐‐ Russell Crowe

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.
‐‐ George Saunders

You don't want to be the first person to tell your 5-year-old, like, 'You're going to have a life filled with disappointments and letdowns - enjoy!'
‐‐ Maya Rudolph

You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.
‐‐ Russell Crowe

You don't want to be the site that people should use. You want to be the site they can't stop using.
‐‐ Roelof Botha

You don't want to be too cool. But you don't want to be too dorky. Still, I find it so much better to see a guy at a club being a dork, and having fun, than trying to be sexy.
‐‐ Heather Morris

You don't want to be ungenerous toward people who give you prizes, but it is never the social or political message that interests me in a novel. I begin with an interest in a relationship, a situation, a character.
‐‐ John Irving

You don't want to become guilty of plagiarism by letting someone else's words get inadvertently mixed in with your own. If you do feel the need to paste in a block of research while you're writing, be sure to highlight the copied text in a different color so you can go back and remove or rewrite it entirely later.
‐‐ Gayle Lynds

You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
‐‐ Bradley Whitford

You don't want to believe everything you read on the Internet.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

You don't want to burden some poor wretch with the entire story of your life.
‐‐ Carolyn See

You don't want to come out with anything that's wrong, of course, in a scientific, you know, a major scientific announcement, and so you're being so careful trying to check, well maybe it's this, maybe it's that, you're looking at every possible thing.
‐‐ Saul Perlmutter

You don't want to destroy the energy that comes out of a campaign.
‐‐ Donna Shalala

You don't want to diminish anybody's pain and suffering.
‐‐ James Callis

You don't want to do something that's all terrifying.
‐‐ Maurice Sendak

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.
‐‐ John Irving

You don't want to end up living a horribly narcissistic life, do you? And everything about fame and celebrity sort of suggests that kind of fate.
‐‐ Jodhi May

You don't want to engage in road rage when the person in the next car might be your child's future teacher or your dentist's father.
‐‐ Kim Edwards

You don't want to get me started about apple martinis and the affect they have on my lovemaking. I might just throw you down and make some love to you right here and now.
‐‐ Rick Fox

You don't want to get so distracted, focusing on what the opposition is putting forth that you forget to remind America that the real issue is 8.3 percent unemployment, virtually no growth at all in an economy that has been in shambles for the last four years under Obama.
‐‐ John Sununu

You don't want to get too ahead of yourself and go out thinking you can play stadiums every night, and they end up being about half-full.
‐‐ Jason Aldean

You don't want to give kids an idea that they might not have thought of.
‐‐ John Walters

You don't want to give people what they want. Give them something that they didn't know that they wanted.
‐‐ Ruth Reichl

You don't want to go around willy-nilly suing news organizations. That's probably self-defeating.
‐‐ Bill Keller

You don't want to have any negativity in your life. Continue to push. Continue to be patient. And when your time comes, then you've got to do everything you can, that's all.
‐‐ Stefon Diggs

You don't want to have so much money going toward your mortgage every month that you can't enjoy life or take care of your other financial responsibilities.
‐‐ Dave Ramsey

You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.
‐‐ Ike Barinholtz

You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
‐‐ Nate Silver

You don't want to inhibit cell division. You want to inhibit cell division in the cancer cells, and even that is not really where you want to do it. You actually want to destroy the cancer cells, which is a different matter altogether. Just stopping them isn't enough - you really want to kill them.
‐‐ Tim Hunt

You don't want to jump in on your first day on a show and start improv-ing and changing the show.
‐‐ Geoff Stults

You don't want to just do 'me too' companies that are copying what others are doing.
‐‐ Peter Thiel