“And I don't want to use my troubles as an example of what to do and what not to do.” WantUseTroubleExample Author:William Hurt
“If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwarya Rai is a great example of this. She is a beautiful woman... You look at her, I want to look at her. Damn, she is fine; but stop acting or stop trying to act.” IfsWantTryingLooksAbleBeautifulActingExampleFineDamnBeautiful WomenStop TryingBollywood Author:Russell Peters
“For example, instead of being asked to write an article, suddenly editors wanted me to make super-short videos. The assumptions of those video gigs was that kids don't read as much news and basically need to be read to, which I found really problematic and kind of insulting. I thought, Isn't it just that you don't have any money and that's why you want me to make some crappy "content" for your website?” WantNeedsWritingKindKidsWantedFoundExampleNewsVideoAssumptionEditorsArticlesWant MeGigsWebsiteInsultingYou Want Me Author:Astra Taylor
“The ways sexuality plays out in political economies is central. And Cambodia's political economy is organized around this notion of family. So lesbianism is actually perceived as being threatening to a degree that it would have not been, for example, under socialist East Germany. But it's one of the essential issues of women's freedom: Do you get to do want you want to do with your body? Not if you don't know what your body is for.” IfsKnowsWayWantPlayBodyPoliticalEconomyIssuesExampleEssentialsDegreesNotionSexualityEastYour BodyGermanyOrganizedSocialistThreateningPolitical EconomyCambodiaLesbianismEast Germany Author:Anne Elizabeth Moore
“You don't really want an army of people making individual decisions. And I don't think I completely understood that until people gave me examples of what happens when your army takes over your government and it's like, "Oh, yeah, I guess you can't really have people make individual moral decisions."” PeopleThinkingWantGovernmentHappensIndividualDecisionMoralExampleUnderstoodArmyYeahOver YouMoral Decisions Author:Joel Stein
“Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren't sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed like in DevilWearsPrada, but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy.” ThinkingWantSaidHappensJobsYoungLevelsRolesExampleModelsGenderBossRole ModelsYoung WomenEditingNotableEditorialsSavvyStraight UpOwning It Author:Ann Friedman
“Germany is Europe's heart. But bitterness is widespread. Currently the Germans hate the Greeks and the Greeks hate the Germans. The demonization of the country has to stop if we want a strong Europe. So I am setting a positive example.” IfsWantHeartCountryHateStrongExampleEuropeSettingSettingsGreekGermanyBitterness Author:Yanis Varoufakis
“In terms of economical aspects, reinforcing those national parks with sophisticated anti-poaching patrols - these poachers are beefed up like the army. In the case of Cameroon, that's a perfect example of the lack of finance. The government could not provide the national park with more guards. Therefore, they lost the majority of the elephant population. I don't want to see that anywhere else.” WantGovernmentLostTermPerfectCasesExampleAspectArmyMajorityPopulationFinanceParksSophisticatedElephantsNational ParksPoachingCameroonPoachers Author:Veronika Varekova
“South Africa is not Cameroon. It's a strong economy. I think they should be the first ones setting an example - improving the legal punishments for those that are involved, reinforcing the borders from every angle, meaning that even the diplomatic plane that lands in South Africa should not have the green light to leave without having the plane inspected. Obviously, those guys are often involved. If I get killed for saying that, so be it. That is the fact. There's way too many important people that are involved that don't want to change.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantShouldFirstsImportantFactsLightGuyStrongEconomyLandExampleInvolvedGreenSouthPunishmentSettingSettingsPlanesBordersSouth AfricaImprovingAngleDiplomaticGreen LightsSetting An ExampleStrong EconomyCameroon Author:Veronika Varekova
“I want to be an example, the person who when they look at, they say, "That guy is a Christian, there's no doubt about it." I want to be blameless. I want to be an encouragement. I want to be a role model for the believer.” WantLooksPersonsChristianGuyRolesDoubtExampleModelsEncouragementBelieverNo DoubtRole ModelsThat GuyBlameless Author:Christian Hosoi
“Every time you have a big blast-out experience you think that's the ultimate-everything, and of course it isn't, although you can get hints. The key however, is not to take those hint experiences to be the ultimate experience. There always needs to be a balance. For example, when you find something, by having some experience, you always want to keep looking because there could be more to it.” ThinkingWantNeedsBigsCoursesExampleKeysBalanceUltimateHintsBlast Author:Robert Thurman
“I didn't want my music to be seen as examples of an electronic culture; I just wanted them to be thought of as pieces of music.” WantWantedCulturePiecesExample Author:Paul Lansky
“I want to be commercial, so imagine Disney people mixed with underground techno people... mixed with sass. An example of an underground techno person would be that French artist Yelle. She's all in French, so I can't understand a word she's saying, but her beats are really cool, and that's something that I want to do...but mix Disney in there, and that's what I want.” PeopleWantPersonsI CanWould BeArtistImagineExampleBeatsReally CoolTechnoSass Author:Mark Indelicato
“The notion of the writer as a kind of sociological sample of a community is ludicrous. Even worse is the notion that writers should provide an example of how to live. Virginia Woolf ended her life by putting a rock in her sweater one day and walking into a lake. She is not a model of how I want to live my life. On the other hand, the bravery of her syntax, of her sentences, written during her deepest depression, is a kind of example for me. But I do not want to become Virginia Woolf. That is not why I read her.” WantShouldKindHandsCommunityWrittenRocksExampleWalkingOne DayModelsBraveryNotionSentencesLakesLiving My LifeVirginiaSampleSweatersSyntaxSociologicalWoolf Author:Richard Rodriguez
“If you haven’t already clearly defined your values, you may find yourself making choices that conflict with what you want. If, for example, honesty is a big thing for you, but you hang out with liars, there’s a conflict. When your actions conflict with your values, you’ll end up unhappy, frustrated, and despondent. In fact, psychologists tell us that nothing creates more stress than when our actions and behaviors aren’t congruent with our values.” IfsWantMayEndsFactsBigsActionValuesChoicesHavensHonestyExampleConflictBehaviorStressWhat You WantUnhappyDefinedFinding YourselfLiarsHanging OutFrustratedBig ThingsOur ActionsPsychologistMaking ChoicesDespondent Author:Darren Hardy
“We don't have a caucus, because we differ on so many views. Some of us are pro-choice, some are not. We'll take the issue of drilling, for example: Lisa Murkowski would want to drill in ANWAR, Maria Cantwell, Barbara Boxer, and most of us would say no, and so we don't. But we get together once a month for dinner, and we have three rules: no memos, no staff, and no leaks; and we get together for friendship. In fact, we're having a dinner tonight. We just have drinks and talk about life and times.” WantFactsTogetherChoicesThreeViewsIssuesExampleMonthsDrinkDinnerTonightStaffBoxersGet TogetherDrillsLeaksBarbaraDrillingLife And TimeCaucusMemos Author:Barbara Mikulski
“There is a trend in child-rearing that I find abhorrent: "Whatever the kids want to do is fine." For me, the classic example of this is when someone has a visitor and says, "Go kiss Aunt Gertrude," and Aunt Gertrude says, "She doesn't have to kiss me if she doesn't want to." Well, I think that's wrong.” IfsThinkingWantWellsChildrenKidsExampleFineKissingClassicTrendsAuntVisitorsKiss MeChild RearingAbhorrentGertrude Author:Marianne Williamson
“Raising children made me determine what I stand for, what I believe in, and who I want to be because, ultimately, I'm who they'll look to as an example.” WantBelieveLooksChildrenMadeI BelieveExampleDetermineI Believe InRaising Children Author:Candace Cameron
“At the level of the mind, you are part of the human mind; at the level of the brain you are part of the global brain. This is a perfect example of becoming the change that you want to see.” WantMindHumansPerfectLevelsBrainExampleBecomingHuman Mind Author:Deepak Chopra
“What inspires me is my daughter because I want to set a good example for her, as does my wife.” WantDoeWifeExampleInspireDaughterMy WifeMy DaughterGood Examples Author:A. J. McLean