“I do not always know what I want, but I do know what I don't want.”
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Stanley Kubrick33
American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematogra… 1928–1999Related quotes
“I don't know what I want, but I know what I don't want”
Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician
Gilbert O'Sullivan (1946) Irish singer-songwriter
"Doing What I Know" (song) <br class="br">Song lyrics <br class="br">Source: Gilbert O'Sullivan, "Doing What I Know" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlkC9AFrSNU (song on YouTube)
“I don't know what I want, but I want it NOW!”
Vivian Stanshall (1943–1995) English musician, artist and author
prescient of the Sex Pistols: "I don't know what I want but I know how to get it."
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1978)
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Fernando Pessoa book The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I don’t know what I want.
Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress
"I want everything" http://home.earthlink.net/~2lulah2/everything.htm in What I Want from Life (1934) edited by Edmund George Cousins, p. 108 <br class="br">Context: I don’t know what I want.<br>Nobody knows — or if they do, they don’t know for long. I mean, you don’t want the same thing long enough for it to be What You Want From Life in capital letters.<br>Well, maybe some people do. Maybe there's a few simple folks — or maybe a few million, I don't know — who fix their hearts, and their minds, and their everlasting souls on a thing, and keep on all their lives hoping for it. Living for it. Wanting It From Life.<br>But these are the people who never get it.
James Agate (1877–1947) British diarist and critic
Ego 6 (1944), p. 189, June 9, 1943.