Wanted Quotes - Page 13

• I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing.

  Gaby Hoffmann

  Writing, School, College

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• Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

  Joel Hodgson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

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• I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does

  Kristy McNichol

  Kids, Doe, Please

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• Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.

  Mark Twight

  Exercise, Rights, Second Amendment

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• I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

  Grant Cardone

  Want, Lifetime, Excuse

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Feb 19, 2017

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• I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway

  Paloma Faith

  Believe, Needs, Asks

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• God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses

  Coco Chanel

  Men, Wanted Love, Dresses

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• I dont plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

  Nick Johnson

  Opportunity, Careers, Interesting

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• You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport!

  Neon Hitch

  Zanzibar, Parent, Neon

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• Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me. Music education and families are dealing with the economic times, and I wanted to help them. If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Passion, Kids, Helping

  "Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars To Los Angeles Schools" By Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

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• As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?

  Leroy Cronin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Frustrated

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• I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherfucker is still here.

  Ozzie Guillen

  Funny, Sports, Years

  "Gumbel: 'Whipping Up a Frenzy' Over Imagined Slights 'Is a Play Straight Out of a Far Right Handbook'" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. April 30, 2012.

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• I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

  Philip O Ceallaigh

  Broken Heart, Taken, Impossible Things

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• I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Parent, Mentor

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• I was always going to act, literally ever since I was tiny. In fact, I have Doctor Who to thank for that. I wanted to become an actor after being obsessed with Tom Baker, the fourth Doctor Who, in the 1970s. His was the definitive performance of all time in anything.

  David Tennant

  Doctors, Bakers, Actors

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• A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

  Stefano Langone

  Moments, Honestly, Knows

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• I was always an Olsen. I never thought of myself as a Brady. I never actually wanted to be a Brady. I always preferred my own family to the Bradys.

  Susan Olsen

  Brady, My Own

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• After becoming established as a surfboard manufacturer and surf film producer whose films were shown on TV, all of a sudden all the teachers and counselors who wanted nothing to do with my ass during school were wanting to kiss it. They'd be interviewed by a newspaper of magazine and their tone would change. 'Oh yes, I knew Greg Noll. He was in my class. Fine, upstanding young man.' What bullshit.

  Greg Noll

  Teacher, School, Kissing

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• I wanted to write for Broadway.

  Cynthia Weil

  Writing, Broadway

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• I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Past, Thinking, People

  "Dancing on Ice star Jennifer Ellison's guilt at being away from her son" by Tom Bryant, www.mirror.co.uk. January 14, 2012.

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• I always wanted to act and sing, but my first love was ballet.

  Jennifer Ellison

  First Love, Ballet, Firsts

  "My CV: Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2005.

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• I knew that this was what I wanted to talk about on stage. There was no point being coy about it, or pretending that I wasn't gay. That was the substance of my whole act. If you took that away, there would be nothing left

  Julian Clary

  Gay, Would Be, Substance

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• I wanted to learn how to do everything a person could do on a guitar. Of course, that was impossible.

  David Bromberg

  Guitar, Impossible, Persons

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• You wanted to know my passions? Allow me to introduce them to you.

  Jacquelyn Frank

  Passion, Introducing, Knows

  Jacquelyn Frank (2007). “Gideon: The Nightwalkers”, p.187, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• All I wanted was to be a university teacher.

  Jalal Talabani

  Teacher, University

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