#want

It was important that I became successful. People say they do it for the love, and yes, you do it for the love, but you want to be successful. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

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Me and my father went through a war period where we wasn't talking. He wanted me to go to theology school - I didn't want to go. I wanted to do music. I told him I was a minister through music. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#go #him #i #me #minister

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#always #any #complain #determine #doing

In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#covers #ends #equivalent #good #habitual

I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak. ↗

— Elfriede Jelinek

#feeling #i #i do #speak #want

People want to find out what happens to the characters, and want to keep reading, and turning the pages. ↗

— Jerry B. Jenkins

#find #happens #keep #out #pages

You live overseas, you see these exotic places and you want to know about them. But, weirdly, it also made me homesick for all these very prosaic places in America. ↗

— Ken Jennings

#also #america #exotic #homesick #know

I'm a little concerned about this notion everybody wants us to be objective. ↗

— Peter Jennings

#concerned #everybody #i #little #notion

A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#good #hear #know #lot #pass

One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones. ↗

— Waylon Jennings

#booked #control #did #either #getting