A Quote by Elaine Stritch

When I want to do something badly enough, I do it, but there is a practical side of me that thinks I should be paid fairly.

Elaine Stritch

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Elaine Stritch
American - Actress
February 2, 1925 - July 17, 2014

If you want something badly enough, you make arrangements. If you don't want it badly enough, you make excuses.

Hanif Kureishi

Anyone who supported Bernie Sanders who thinks we should raise the minimum wage, who thinks that we should have universal health care coverage, who thinks that the wealthy have not paid their fair share, and I could go on and on, would certainly not find that Donald Trump's views are in line with theirs.

Hillary Clinton

I feel badly for the people who suffer from the side effects and consequences of hazardous pharmaceuticals. It's antithetical to the Hippocratic Oath. I want to see people use safe, practical medicines.

Chris Kilham

I want to be paid fairly for the work that I'm doing. That's what every single woman around the world wants. We want to be paid on parity with a man in a similar position.

Felicity Jones

It seems to me if you want something badly enough, whether you're a man or a woman, you'll do whatever you have to do to get it.

Aaron Eckhart

If you want something badly enough, you go for it.

Greg Davies

The problem with elections is that anybody who wants an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it. And anybody who does not want an office badly enough to run for it probably shouldn’t have it, either. Government office should be received like a child’s Christmas present, with surprise and delight. Instead it is usually received like a diploma, an anticlimax that never seems worth the struggle to earn it.

Orson Scott Card

If you want something badly enough, you'll figure it out.

Erik Spoelstra

Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.

Yair Lapid

I think people should consume their music any way they want. If it's more practical for them to listen to it on an iPod or something, that's fine by me.

Tristan Perich

Not enough attention is paid to the negative side of fashion. Great effort is exerted to make people look smart, but somebody should face the fact that a lot of people never will be smart, and that they should be given some assistance in maintaining their fascinating dowdiness.

Robertson Davies

As a director, you can't stop a guy if he thinks something's hysterical, because if you do, then he'll get depressed because he thinks he didn't come up with a good joke. So if a guy's going on some run and it's killing him, and he thinks it's hilarious, you gotta do enough so that he thinks you can use it in the movie.

Evan Goldberg

Eh Bien you like this sacred pig of a country?" asked Marco. "Why not? I like it anywhere. It's all the same, in France you are paid badly and live well; here you are paid well and live badly.