#want

I thought Cheever was magnificent and that if I could write like him that would be the best I could do. And then I realized that what I really wanted to write had nothing to do with what he was doing. ↗

— Harry Mathews

#could #doing #had #him #i

I don't get all the women that I want... I get all the women that want me. ↗

— David Lee Roth

#i #me #want #women

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do. ↗

— Johnny Mathis

#being #being famous #doing #gets #sometimes

Maybe my way of communicating through sign made me more in tune with my body and how it moved. Who knows? I just know when I saw a stage for the first time, I wanted to be on it. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#communicating #first #first time #how #i

When I was 13, I told Henry Winkler I wanted to act. He said, Do it and don't let anyone stand in your way. His validation just made it all the more true. I haven't stopped thanking him since. ↗

— Marlee Matlin

#anyone #haven #henry #him #his

I learned something from that. If someone asks me something that I really don't want to do, I say no. I have to trust that. And I'm not afraid to talk money. ↗

— Diana Ross

#asks #i #learned #me #money

Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#anymore #because #completeness #cost #different

People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#among #better #better way #choose #comfortable

You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better. ↗

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

#done #enjoy #enjoy life #fun #get

Your voice is vibrant for only a certain part of your life. There are some records I've always wanted to make, and I don't know if I want to waste this time beating on the door of the charts. ↗

— Kathy Mattea

#beating #certain #charts #door #i