Wanted Quotes - Page 20

• I just always considered myself to be different and able to explore whatever I wanted.

  Chad Hugo

  Different, Able

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• Once you were a child. Once you knew what inquiry was for. There was a time when you asked questions because you wanted answers, and were glad when you had found them. Become a child again, even now... You have gone wrong. Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth.

  C. S. Lewis

  Children, Water, Gone

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• I started my career as a sales guy in the nineties, when the funnel was controlled by the sales rep, who had all the information the prospect wanted, including pricing and discount options. Now 90 percent of it has swung to marketing. It's self-service and you need to be very, very helpful to see to the top of the funnel. The game has changed a lot.

  Brian Halligan

  Careers, Self, Games

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• As a kid, I wanted to be a boy because I equated that with strength. There's a problem with that. It's only growing into my own womanhood that I realize how warped that is that I was attributing strength to male qualities.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Kids, Boys, Quality

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• The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

  Magic Johnson

  Looks, Dyslexia, Staring

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• No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Men, Tricks, Trousers

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1946). “If You Ask Me”

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• No, I've never wanted kids. But I do read about parenting a lot.

  Fiona Apple

  Kids, Parenting

  Interview with Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 4, 2012.

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• I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.

  Zhang Ziyi

  Mother, Teacher, Kindergarten

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• I just wanted a style of music all my own.

  Bill Monroe

  Music, Style, My Own

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• I wanted to use some kind of name so people would know where I was from. So I took the name "bluegrass." There is not a prettier name in the whole world.

  Bill Monroe

  Music, Names, People

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• I feel that what I do is always contemporary with the society I'm living in... If I wanted to explain myself, that's how I'd explain myself: that I'm a diarist.

  David Bowie

  Feels, Contemporary, Ifs

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• He just explained that he just wanted to help people and that was his way of helping people of, you know, being someone that he wasn't and trying to connect with somebody on a different level too and help 'em out.

  Manti Te'o

  People, Trying, Different

  "Dr. Phil: Manti Te'o hoaxer 'fell deeply, romantically in love' with Notre Dame player", www.foxnews.com. January 30, 2013.

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• I just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.

  Louis C. K.

  Stupid, Years, Choices

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

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• I've always wanted to be in the health and wellness business. I try to encourage people to live a healthy lifestyle.

  Mark Wahlberg

  People, Healthy, Trying

  "Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis & Seth MacFarlane Talk TED, Music, “Offensive Humor,” GHOSTBUSTERS Comparisons, Creepy CGI and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 24, 2012.

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• The secret of life was Breath. That was what I always wanted my words to do, to Breathe.

  Anais Nin

  Secret, Breathe, Breaths

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• I don't know what its like for most actors, but really clearly for myself acting has always been the fulfillment of personal fantasies. It isn't just art, its about being a person I've always wanted to be, or being in a situation, or being a hero.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Art, Hero, Acting

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• If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

  John Medina

  Design, Brain, Doing You

  John Medina (2014). “Brain Rules (Updated and Expanded): 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School”, p.14, Pear Press

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• All I ever wanted since I arrived here on earth are the same things I needed as a baby, to go from cold to warm, lonely to held, the vessel to the giver, empty to full.

  Anne Lamott

  Baby, Lonely, Earth

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• In the end I have to hold myself accountable...I had to make a change if I really wanted to reach the goals I had set for myself. I had to get out of being comfortable and get into a situation that was going to really push me.

  Kara Goucher

  Goal, Making Changes, Ends

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• When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder.

  Branch Warren

  Years, Bodybuilder

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• What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

  Beth Henley

  Thinking, Class, Long

  Interview with Jackson R. Bryer, www.encyclopedia.com.

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• I remember certain people in the audience laughing and I wanted to ask: 'What are you laughing at? This isn't funny.' Now I realize that laughter can come from insecurity. They don't know how they should be feeling.

  Jim Dale

  Laughter, People, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Walking through a crowd, the village is aglow. Kaleidoscope of loud heartbeats, under coats. Everybody here wanted something more. Searching for a sound we hadn't heard before. And it said, 'Welcome to New York,' It's been waiting for you. It's a new soundtrack, I could dance to this beat forevermore. The lights are so bright, but they never blind me.

  Taylor Swift

  Travel, New York, Light

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• Mother, mother ocean, I have heard you call. Wanted to sail upon your waters, since I was three feet tall. You've seen it all, you've seen it all. Watched the men who rode you, switch from sails to steam. In your belly, you hold the treasure that few have ever seen, most of them dreams, most of them dreams.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Mother, Dream, Travel

  "Song: "A Pirate Looks At Forty" ("A1A ")". December 1974.

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• Imagine, just for the sake of discussion, that you had a few hours a week and a few dollars a month to donate to a cause - and you wanted to spend that time and money where it would have the greatest impact in saving and improving lives. Where would you spend it?

  Bill Gates

  Impact, Dollars, Saving

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