Wanted Quotes

• I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Destiny

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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

  Charles Dickens

  Girl, Hard Times, Animal

  Charles Dickens (1858). “Hard Times”, p.205

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• I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.56, Infobase Publishing

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• I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

  Aldous Huxley

  Change, Life Changing, Yoga

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• Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Grandchildren, Hungry Eyes

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.

  Daniel Ek

  Guy, Uncertain

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• I wanted to say to Governor Dean, don't be hard on yourself about hooting and hollering. If I had spent the money you did and got 18 percent, I'd still be in Iowa hooting and hollering.

  Al Sharpton

  Iowa, Dean, Stills

  Al Sharptona at Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire, www.foxnews.com. January 23, 2004.

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• It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspiring, Technology, Best Job

  "Steve Jobs: `There's Sanity Returning'". Bloomberg interview, www.bloomberg.com. May 25, 1998.

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• The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

  Nelson Mandela

  Worry, Vices, Ordinary

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• I would like to be remembered as a person who wanted to be free... so other people would be also free.

  Rosa Parks

  Freedom, People, Would Be

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• I wanted to tell you that my whole being opened for you. Since I fell in love with you everything is transformed and is full of beauty... love is like an aroma, like a current, like rain.

  Frida Kahlo

  Rain, Love You, Love Is

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• I'm in shock. Whitney was such an amazing artist. When I started my English career, I wanted to be like her. I loved her so much. My prayers go out to her daughter and to all of her family.

  Celine Dion

  Daughter, Prayer, Artist

  FaceBook post by Céline Dion from Feb 13, 2012

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• When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.

  John Lennon

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• It's been nice not having a boyfriend. I could be in a relationship if I wanted to be, but I haven't finished doing what I'm doing. I like boy, a lot. I'm boy crazy. That hasn't changed since I was very young.

  Cameron Diaz

  Single, Nice, Crazy

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• I spent my boyhood behind the barbed wire fences of American internment camps and that part of my life is something that I wanted to share with more people.

  George Takei

  People, Wire, Boyhood

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• All my life I knew I would have a big business. That’s what I wanted from the time I was in second grade; there was never a doubt in my mind.

  Paul Orfalea

  Doubt, Mind, Bigs

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• Funny, when i was a little boy I wanted to be good. But I could never seem to manage it somehow. And if you're not good, the good people will throw you to the wolves. So you might as well just be bad

  C.J. Sansom

  Boys, People, Littles

  C. J. Sansom (2006). “Winter in Madrid”, Macmillan Children's Books

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• I have wanted to be a fine artist painter, and I reached the point in art schools were I'd like to understand more about images and how images communicate information to people. And I was not getting very far in that from my professors.

  John Hench

  Art, School, People

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• I've always wanted to improve and expand on the good name of my weapon by doing good things.

  Mikhail Kalashnikov

  Names, Weapons, Doing Good

  "From Russia With Love" by Tony Long, www.wired.com. September 20, 2004.

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• I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look back on the process of writing the whole show. And while I'll always care what you think, I can't be a slave to it anymore. Here's why: I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really … I was alive.

  Damon Lindelof

  Writing, Apology, Thinking

  "Damon Lindelof on Why 'Breaking Bad's' Finale Let Him Say Goodbye to 'Lost' (Guest Column)" by Damon Lindelof, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 2, 2013.

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• I wanted to remain a technical adviser for Id, but it just didn't work out. Probably for the best, as the divided focus was challenging.

  John Carmack

  Work Out, Focus, Challenges

  Twitter post from Nov 22, 2013

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• I wanted to get to that aesthetic proposition that comes out of learning the human elements of a world, so that those notes and rhythms mean something to you besides just the academic way in which they fall in place.

  Stanley Crouch

  Fall, Mean, Elements

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