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• I do believe life begins at conception. The very first time I ran for election, I took out an editorial in the local newspaper and said 'look I am a democrat. (But) on this issue, because I see it as a human rights issue, if you wanted me to vote to promote that I wouldn't be able to do that.

  Stockwell Day

  Believe, Rights, Issues

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• The last start of spring training, my (cut fastball) was okay. It just wasn't what I wanted it to be. I tried to work on making it cut more and do more. I think that set (the forearm) off ... trying to make it move a lot, cut a lot. I'm just going to back off and trust it a little bit more and not try and push that.

  Roy Halladay

  Spring, Moving, Cutting

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• I've wanted to see beyond the Western, mechanical view of the world and see what else might appear when the lens was changed

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Views, Lenses, World

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• I wanted nothing more than to feel something, but I didn't know how to deal with what came after the feeling.

  Julie Murphy

  Feelings, Deals, Feels

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• If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon.

  Krafft Arnold Ehricke

  Moon, Men, Given

  "Lunar Bases and Space Activities of the 21st Century". Book by Krafft Arnold Ehricke, 1985.

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• I also combined the R&B feel with the pop music of Taiwan... I wanted to bring the R&B flavor and other Westernized sounds to my music, because that's the type of music I grew up listening to.

  Coco Lee

  Listening, Sound, Taiwan

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• Maybe part of find what you wanted was recognizing what you didn't want. Maybe there was hope for me yet.

  Claire Cook

  Want, Recognizing

  Claire Cook (2014). “Must Love Dogs”, p.150, Marshbury Beach Books

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• Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way people, including me, enjoy talking knowledgeably about how the world will end. I drove to Tucson and saw the desert flowering on either side of the road. And I glanced at my spam to see what people wanted to sell me these days.

  Rae Armantrout

  Lying, Book, Talking

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• I wanted to make a love story without being nerdy.

  Sofia Coppola

  Nerd, Stories, Love Story

  "From the iW Vaults | Sofia Coppola Talks 'Lost in Translation,' Her Love Story That’s Not 'Nerdy'". Interview with Wendy Mitchell, www.indiewire.com. July 6, 2011.

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• I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.

  Chris Evert

  Strong, Cookies

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• It wasn't that I had any great dream of being an architect. I just wanted to make things. Whether it was furniture, painting, interior design, or architecture. I just wanted to create something.

  Tadao Ando

  Life, Positive, Dream

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• When I was studying interior architecture, and playing around with glass because I really liked glass. There was one night when I blew a bubble and put a pipe into this glass I had melted and blew a bubble. From that moment, I wanted to be a glassblower.

  Dale Chihuly

  Life, Positive, Night

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• I've talked to nearly 30,000, people on this show, and all 30,000, had one thing in common: They all wanted validation...I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Success, Validation, People

  "The Oprah Winfrey Show Finale", www.oprah.com. May 25, 2011.

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• On that day, we couldn't reach the conclusion whose hero is the strongest. And today when we are 41 years old, we can protect neither the Earth nor the women we love. We are now just the anti-heroic men, struggling with everyday life. Those boys wo wanted to become heroes... where did they all go? Whose heroes can we become at the end?

  Kim Do-Jin

  Struggle, Hero, Boys

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• Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts...'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's...everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be...a great gig.'

  Johnny Rogan

  Gigs, Whiskey, Whisky

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• He wanted us to play whatever we played in the most characteristic and appropriate style. Even it was the theme from 'The Godfather,' you needed to play that then the way that a Hollywood producer would expect it to be played. Whether it was that or the posthorn solo from Mahler's Symphony No. 3, he would expect that to be played in the way that Leonard Bernstein wanted to hear it. In retrospect, I think it was a sensational way to teach this particular group of students. By the time you graduated you could absolutely read anything with any trumpet.

  Manny Laureano

  Thinking, Play, Symphony

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• A perfect ride. I fell a bit behind on the slow pace, but everything's good. It's real good. Yes, he ran the race we wanted him to run.

  Elvis Trujillo

  Running, Real, Race

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• I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

  Isabel Allende

  Strength, Strong, Loss

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• The name is something we thought about for a long time, and we wanted it to be a girl's name, but we didn't want it to be 'the Jesses,' ... We were very conscious of not wanting to make it a twin thing, because we think that's really tacky.

  Lisa Origliasso

  Girl, Thinking, Names

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Around mile 20 I was feeling so good, I wanted to kiss everyone.

  Josh Ritter

  Kissing, Feelings, Marathon

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• I wanted to show them I will never give up. We have to keep together. I still believe in myself. I will never change. The players need to release the rubbish from their brains.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Football, Giving Up, Believe

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• If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois.

  Ronald Reagan

  Jobs, Simple, Illinois

  Ronald Reagan (2011). “An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• [Trading] With the French one had to be especially careful. French oarswomen were known to take men aside, point to whatever they wanted, and then peel off their own shirts. It took great presence of mind to bargain with a half-naked Frenchwoman.

  Stefan Kieszling

  Men, Presence Of Mind, Naked

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• I slapped my face two or three times with both hands, as hard as possible. The slapping hurt. It snapped me to attention. My adrenaline started flowing... the Yugoslavs, sitting in the next lane stared at me in disbelief. The harsh slapping made me angry-exactly what I wanted. I did my best work when I was angry.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Hurt, Hands, Two

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• It is for the latter that I always wanted to be an actor: to play characters who are always on the move.

  Tony Curtis

  Moving, Character, Play

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