Wanted Quotes - Page 19

• Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

  Laurence Housman

  Regret, Police, Prison

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• Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

  Bert Campaneris

  Years, Play, League

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• You wanted to become a doctor to help people and feel better at the end of your job, I think, watching them, as the nurse takes my hand. But I don't think you do feel better at the end of the day. You look like humans have constantly disappointed you.

  Caitlin Moran

  Jobs, Feel Better, Thinking

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• He knew it was possible for shame to be nursed and doctored like an illness, if you wanted to keep it separate from the rest of your life, but that didn't mean there'd be any way to keep from knowing it was there.

  Richard Yates

  Mean, Knowing, Nurse

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• I don't abuse my body, I've been off 10 months, I still train and I'm always thinking about boxing, so I felt like I would be fine and I just wanted to challenge myself against another top caliber fighter.

  Andre Ward

  Motivation, Thinking, Boxing

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• I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

  Kim Novak

  Hollywood, Able, Aviation

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• Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

  Jacques Chirac

  Europe, Joining, Way

  "Chirac Lashes Out at 'New Europe'". edition.cnn.com. February 18, 2003.

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• Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.

  Warren Rudman

  Taken, Aggravation, Long

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• He was the strangest of all our national sports idols. But not even his disagreeable character could destroy the image of his greatness as a ballplayer. Ty Cobb was the best. That seemed to be all he wanted.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Sports, Character, Greatness

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• Pastor Veronica told the story of a sparrow lying in the street with its legs straight up in the air, straining. a warhorse walks up to it, and says, 'What on earth are you doing?' The sparrow replies, 'I heard the sky was falling, and I wanted to help.'The warhorse sneers-- 'Do you really think you're going to hold back the sky, with those scrawny little legs?' And the sparrow says, 'One does what one can.'

  Anne Lamott

  Lying, Fall, Thinking

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• I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Beautiful, Extravagant

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• Lavender is the new pink. I'll never stop wearing pink but I wanted to venture out.

  Nicki Minaj

  Lavender, Wearing Pink, Venture

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• I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.

  Mary Ellen Mark

  Dream, Airplane, Kids

  "The Unflinching Eye: Photojournalist Mary Ellen Mark" by Vicki Goldberg, www.nytimes.com. July 12, 1987.

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• If God wanted to forgive our sins, why not just forgive them, without having himself tortured and executed in payment-thereby, incidentally, condemning remote future generations of Jews to pogroms and persecution as 'Christ-killers': did that hereditary sin pass down in the semen too?

  Richard Dawkins

  Forgiving, Generations, Why Not

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.287, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In her inestimable audacity, Julia was the catalyst in my life for something beautiful. I hadn't anticipated her-hadn't even wanted her, truthfully-but there she was. A little something extra that made all the difference in the world.

  Cathleen Falsani

  Love, Beautiful, Differences

  Cathleen Falsani (2008). “Sin Boldly: A Field Guide for Grace”, p.187, Zondervan

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• In those days, when you got boxed, that was it. A lot of old people were there because somebody wanted the farm. It was about property. People are treated like property.

  Kate Millett

  Agriculture, People, Treated

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• We wanted to do a sequel with Jim and Jeff. They said that the word was that Jim didn't want to do any sequels. We approached him and he said he would do it, but not until next year. New Line said it was too long to wait.

  Bobby Farrelly

  Years, Long, Waiting

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• I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

  John Stossel

  Years, Anchors

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• Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings.

  Todd Rundgren

  People, Support, Pace

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

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• Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.

  Carly Patterson

  Winning, Saws, Scoreboard

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• I never thought we'd catch him, and when I saw he was ready to drop I felt sorry for him. I wanted to show it's not true I'm trying to win it all. My goal is the Tour of Spain.

  Laurent Jalabert

  Sorry, Winning, Goal

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• The only thing I ever wanted to be was a cartoonist. That's my Life. DRAWING.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Drawing, Cartoonist

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• When we love all parts of ourselves, when we bless all of ourselves, when we honor all of our history and all of our insecurities, doubts, worries, and fears, we become the women that we always wanted to be.

  Debbie Ford

  Worry, Insecurity, Doubt

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• Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley... Amarcord seems almost to flow from the camera, as anecdotes will flow from one who has told them often and knows they work. This was the last of his films made for no better reason than Fellini wanted to make it.

  Roger Ebert

  Guilt, Cameras, Anecdotes

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• I realized I could do anything if I wanted it badly enough.

  S. Truett Cathy

  Enough, I Realized, Ifs

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