“I'm absolutely positive it's in our human nature to want to know about the past. The two most popular movies of all time, while not historically accurate, are about core historic events: 'Gone With the Wind' and 'Titanic.'” KnowsWantHumansTwoPastGoneEventsHuman NatureWindCoreAll TimeAccurateHistoricPopular Movie Author:David McCullough
“Americans and British respondents don't want to let the German people off the hook. They make the case that if you get rid of Hitler, some other leader apart from Hitler would have emerged and, because of the structural constant of German nationalism, would have exploited German national feeling and produce the same kind of events no matter what.” PeopleIfsWantKindMatterFeelingsLeaderCasesEventsProduceNo Matter WhatConstantBritishNationalismHook Author:Gavriel David Rosenfeld
“I want every scene to feel electric and I try to finish the filming period with a clear trajectory: a beginning, a middle, and hopefully an end.I hate "fly on the wall." It infers that I don't relate to the people we're with and that I don't get affected by events. I like it when people talk to me. I never say things like "Don't look at the camera" - how bossy!” PeopleWantFeelsTryingLooksEndsHateClearMiddleEventsWallPeriodsSceneI HateCamerasHopefullyRelateAffectedElectricTalk To MeTrajectoryBossy Author:Kim Longinotto
“People who want a sane, static, measurable world take the first aspect of an event or person and stick to it, with an almost self-protective obstinacy, or by a natural limitation of their imaginations. They do not indulge in either deepening or magnifying.” PeopleWorldWantFirstsPersonsSelfImaginationNaturalEventsAspectSticksLimitationSaneIndulgeProtectiveStaticIndulge InObstinacyMagnifying Author:Anais Nin
“We want Ollie to go to all the different events and see Republicans and see Bernie Sanders and just kind of experience it and be able to make up his own mind for what he wants, none of his friends know anything about politics. Granted, they're only 9, they don't vote for a while. They just completely don't understand why are all these people coming to New Hampshire, why this is so important.” PeopleKnowsWantMindKindImportantDifferentAblePoliticsEventsRepublicanVoteGrantedHampshireNew Hampshire Author:Sarah Wright
“I want to stay involved in gymnastics forever, but the Olympics really opened up doors in terms of motivational speaking. I'd like do some type of broadcasting or commentating for gymnastics events on TV, or even give my insights as a gymnast into other sports; I'm kind of a sports junkie in general.” WantGivingKindSportsTermForeverDoorsEventsTvsTypeInvolvedInsightOlympicsGymnasticsJunkieBroadcastingGymnast Author:Jonathan Horton
“I wanted other women to know there's no shame in talking about it. People don't say they're pregnant until the second trimester. I intellectually understand that you don't want the whole world to know your business, but at the same time what does that mean? You don't tell your employers you're pregnant, but then when you miscarry no one knows you miscarried. Miscarrying is a horrible painful event.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantMeanDoeWholeWantedTalkingEventsShamePainfulWhole WorldHorriblePregnantEmployers Author:Laura Benanti
“People and places are the twin pillars on which most nonfiction is built. Every human event happens somewhere, and the reader wants to know what that somewhere was like.” PeopleKnowsWantHumansHappensEventsReaderBuiltNonfictionTwinsPillars Author:William Zinsser
“I was fooling around one day and looking at Yahoo! Jobs. I typed in "photo" and, of course, what comes up is "One hour photo lab" or "Be a photographer in Disneyland" or jobs that no one really wants as a photographer. I saw, by chance, this ad that said, "Wanted: Photographer for premieres and Hollywood events" and I thought, "This can not be real. This is ridiculous. No one advertizes this!" I was really suspect about it.” WantSaidRealWantedJobsCoursesHoursChanceSawsEventsOne DayHollywoodPhotographerCome UpRidiculousSuspectsAdsBeing RealCan NotLabsDisneylandOne HourPremieresFooling Around Author:Jeff Vespa
“I like people to be surprised by the turn of events. I don't want things just to be pat and formulaic. If there's some sort of internal combustion in the character or a desire to change the way things are going, that makes for conflict, which is the essence of drama.” PeopleIfsWayWantCharacterDesireTurnsEventsDramaConflictEssenceInternalsCombustionDesire To Change Author:Miranda Richardson
“Sickness is real. However, I've seen too many people suffering with sicknesses not of their own choosing to say glibly that all sickness is caused by sin. On the other hand, to believe that sin does not exist and that all of our trials and tribulations have naturalistic explanations or are simply random events may cause us to miss the very solution we seek. Elder Jeffrey R. Holland observed that "too many people . . . want to sin and call it psychology."” PeopleWantBelieveMayDoeRealHandsSufferingCausesSinPsychologyMissingEventsSolutionsTrialsExplanationSicknessEldersTribulationTrials And TribulationsHollandRandom Events Author:Daniel K Judd
“Fear wants us to become obsessed with some event or person in the future, a year, a month, even a day. It also wants us to look backwards not at our successes, but our short-comings and our failures. Fear losses it's grip when we stay in the now.” WantYearsLooksPersonsLossEventsMonthsObsessedBackwardsWant U Author:Rob Bell
“I feel blessed to be able to do these events. As I travel around, I'm fully cognizant that there are a lot of people out there who are sportscasters or who want to be sportscasters who would kill to do the Maui Invitational or the Ohio State-Michigan game. So if you have to endure some inconveniences along the way, that's fine by me.” PeopleIfsWayWantFeelsStatesAbleGamesEventsFineBlessedEndureOhioMichiganInconvenienceMauiCognizantOhio State Author:Sean McDonough
“Your imagination is yours. You can remember the past you choose, rehearse the future you want, and identify with the real and fictional heroes and events of your selection.” WantRealPastRememberImaginationEventsHeroYou ChooseSelectionRemembering The Past Author:Roger Delano Hinkins
“Whoever calls and asks me to do stuff and obviously, with having your own TV show, people want you to get involved. They know you're a stand-up comedian so they're always looking for somebody funny to host an event.” PeopleKnowsWantShowsAsksStuffEventsTvsInvolvedComedianAsk MeHostTv ShowsGet InvolvedStand Up Comedian Author:Chelsea Handler
“Surrender becomes so much easier when you realize the fleeting nature of all experiences and that the world cannot give you anything of lasting value. You then continue to meet people, to be involved in experience and activities, but without the wants and fears of the egoic self. That is to say, you no longer demand that a situation, person, place, or event should satisfy you or make you happy. It's passing and imperfect nature is allowed to be.” PeopleWorldWantGivingShouldPersonsSelfValuesRealizingSituationEventsInvolvedEasierActivityDemandSurrenderPassingPassingsLastingImperfectFleetingMake You Happy Author:Eckhart Tolle
“I don't care who wins because I go to sporting events to scream. It's the one place on the planet you can shout anything you want. You can bellow at will, and nobody will bother you. I yell things like, 'My life sucks! Dan Quayle is a schmuck! If I don't have sex soon, I'm going to explode!' Parents turn to their kids as I leave the stadium and go, 'Hey, there goes a great fan.” IfsWantCareKidsTurnsWinningSexParentFansEventsPlanetsDon't CareHeyI Don't CareBotherScreamStadiumsSporting EventsLife SucksGreat FansSchmucks Author:Lewis Black
“I am a lay historian by nature. I seek out an empirical reflection of what truth is. I sort of want dates and motivations and I want the whole story. But I've always felt, unconsciously, that all human history is that connection from person to person to person, event to event to event, and from idea to idea.” WantHumansPersonsIdeasWholeStoriesMotivationFeltEventsTruth IsReflectionConnectionsLaysHistorianHuman History Author:Tom Hanks
“I want to show the event at the very moment it takes place.... My body must be anchored to the ground and seek the best point of view, without any visual taboos. But then, at the heart of the event, my effort is to disappear, I introduce a distance that borders on indifference.” WantHeartMomentsShowsBodyViewsEffortEventsDistancePoint Of ViewDisappearBordersIndifferenceVisualsIntroducingTaboo Author:Luc Delahaye
“Learn to forgive fully and completely. If you want health, wealth, and happiness, you can't afford the luxury of lugging around all those unforgiven, unforgotten past events. Let them go.” IfsWantPastWealthEventsForgivingLuxuryLearn To ForgivePast EventsHealth WealthWealth And Happiness Author:Peter McWilliams
“If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.” IfsKnowsWantLooksWholeCarePartyEventsRedStudiosWhole LifeIf I CouldCarpetRed Carpet Author:Ariana Grande
“I definitely only want to do charity work that I'm hands-on involved in. I don't want to get a dress on and go to a stupid event.” WantHandsEventsStupidInvolvedDressesCharityCharity Work Author:Erin Heatherton
“Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.” WantImportantHappensMemoriesEventsMy FamilyTragedyDedicatedReunionChileChileans Author:Michelle Bachelet
“I think any film that is based on life or real events you want it to be accurate but what really matters is that it's truthful. That is not always the same thing. You really want to convey the spirit of the enterprise rather than ticking every single factual box.” ThinkingWantRealMatterFilmSpiritEventsBoxesEnterpriseTruthfulAccurateFactual Author:Lucinda Coxon
“Someone told me something recently about Sarah Palin, someone I trusted in the book business. They said, "I worked with Palin. She did an event at my bookstore, and she was really, really nice, and even more beautiful in person." I didn't want to hear that. I wanted to hear that she was awful and hideous-looking. But I thought, I have to listen to that. I have to hear that. I don't want to be the one who is going to deny anything complimentary said about somebody just because I disagree with that person.” WantPersonsSaidBookWantedBeautifulNiceEventsDenyAwfulDisagreeTrustedThey SaidHideousReally NiceBookstoresPalin Author:David Sedaris
“I have lost weight because my events are so exciting. When I'm done I don't want to eat.But I could see how it could go the other way for some people. That's only because their events are boring.” PeopleWayWantDoneLostEventsWeightExcitingBoring Author:Donald Trump
“It makes sense that that's part of the story and everything, but that's part of any story of any record - where was it record and how long and what were the people doing. I think people want to know where these events are made. That's why I like the word "record."” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantLongMadeStoriesRecordsEventsMake Sense Author:Justin Vernon
“If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago.” IfsWantYearsWould BeSecretBehindsHalfSunFourEventsPlanetsBirthYears AgoBillionsHelpfulRemnants Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“I wanted to get more serialized. I had this idea for an event that would click onto everybody's mortality. I said, "I want somebody to die." Fortunately for me, when I was toying with that idea, John Landgraf, who's the head of FX but also a very smart executive, came up with the idea of the ashes in the maracas. He called me up and said, "Listen, what about this, they get the ashes in a box and when they get them, they shake them and they sound like maracas." And I was like, "Okay, now I've got my throughline."” WantSaidIdeasWantedDiesSoundEventsSmartOkayBoxesShakesExecutivesMortalityAshesClicksVery Smart Author:Denis Leary
“In this day and age, social media is a huge part of a business, which I actually love. It's a phenomenal platform to share your message, keep others and myself inspired and help keep your students connected to your events. The hardest part is the anonymous ability to say whatever you want.” WantHelpingAgeSocialAbilityShareMediaEventsStudentsHugeMessagesInspiredSocial MediaConnectedHardestThis DayPlatformsPhenomenal Author:Kathryn Budig
“We have consciousness and rational powers but unless you're willing to spend the time to gain control of yourself, gain control of your emotions, to think deeply about what you want in a year or two, or where you want your business to be, you're going to be swept away by every new event that occurs in the course of the day or the week and the small amount of time that you plan, that you address to conscious planning, is never enough to overcome the constant tide of emotions and new things happening.” ThinkingWantYearsTwoEnoughCoursesEmotionConsciousnessPlansWeekEventsWillingAmountHappeningsConsciousGainsOvercomingConstantWhat You WantPlanningThings HappenRationalAddressesBe YouTidesNew ThingsSwept AwaySmall Amounts Author:Robert Greene