Wanted Quotes - Page 3

• Nobody . . . took me seriously. They wondered why in the world I wanted to be a chemist when no women were doing that. The world was not waiting for me.

  Gertrude B. Elion

  Waiting, World, Chemist

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• We were both sort of bowled over by the fact that we were married. It wasn't a question of 'Have we done the right thing?' It was all perfectly natural that we should be together. But John didn't get a real chance to be first a real husband or later, a real father. Once he got on the Beatles bangwagon he couldn't get off, even if he wanted to.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Husband, Father, Real

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• I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level.

  Roger Vadim

  Girl, Boys, Differences

  "Roger Vadim dies". The Associated Press, www.theguardian.com. February 11, 2000.

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• Actually, all I ever wanted to be was the best in my field.

  Lou Holtz

  Fields, April

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• I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.

  Adam Arkin

  Team, Player, Firefighter

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

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• It's different today than it was then. In those days we were strictly amateurs. If I had wanted to stay in for the '80 Olympics, my parents couldn't have afforded it.

  Dorothy Hamill

  Sports, Firefighter, Parent

  "Gold Medal Figure Skater". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 17, 2000.

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• As we celebrate the 100th birthday of Margaret Sanger, our outrageous and our courageous leader, we will probably find a number of areas in which we may find more about Margaret Sanger than we thought we wanted to know.

  Faye Wattleton

  Eugenics, Numbers, Leader

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• I've always wanted to do a movie that takes place in the 70's and was about rock and roll and getting high, like Dazed and Confused or Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

  Edward Furlong

  Confused, Rocks, Rock And Roll

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

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• I wanted to do everything. I wanted to be a pilot. I wanted to be a secret agent. I wanted to be a fireman and a doctor, all that. So I related that through movies and stuff.

  Josh Holloway

  Doctors, Firefighter, Secret

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• I used to go and flatten my nose against that window and absorb all I could of his art. It changed my life. I saw art then as I wanted to see it.

  Mary Cassatt

  Art, Firefighter, Noses

  Forbes Watson, Mary Cassatt (1932). “Mary Cassatt”

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• Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison].

  Victoria Wood

  Party, People, Luck

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• Kevin and Annette... I wanted them to do it together. They clearly wanted to work with each other.

  Sam Mendes

  Firefighter, Together, Kevin

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• Those two songs condense the two albums. They also show what the audiences wanted. I was desperate to keep the band together and find something that the public would like.

  Randy Bachman

  Song, Two, Firefighter

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• No, in 1968 I still wanted to be a Pop Star, and be about the music. Now, I want to be just about the music.

  Peter Tork

  Stars, Firefighter, Want

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• We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.

  Jaime Pressly

  Divorce, Work Out, Way

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• From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

  Ella Maillart

  Wind, Desire, Tides

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• The best tournament that I have ever played in was in 1950. It was great - a waiter came to you during the game, and you could order anything you wanted to drink (even some vodka, if you liked). Pity, there are no longer tournaments organized in this manner.

  Boris Spassky

  Order, Games, Chess

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• From the beginning... I wanted to build a company that could sustain not for two years or four years or even ten years but be something that really matters over time the way Amazon and Google and others have.

  Mark Pincus

  Years, Two, Entrepreneur

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• The most beautiful sea hasn't been crossed yet.
  The most beautiful child hasn't grown up yet.
  The most beautiful days we haven't seen yet.
  And the most beautiful words I wanted to tell you
  I haven't said yet.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Beautiful, Children, Sea

  Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”

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• I wanted to go to medical school. But, I never got a college scholarship.

  Edwin Moses

  School, College, Medical

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• New York was a place I wanted to live and work all along. If I wasn't going to live in Israel, I had to live in New York.

  Michael Arad

  New York, Israel, Ifs

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• The first thing Julian wanted to do in life, well, before he wanted to be an artist and then a musician, was to be a chef. He'd come home and say 'Why don't you bake cakes like my friends' mothers?' I'd say, 'Oh, Julian, go out and buy a Mary Baker cake mix and do it yourself!' That started him off! By the time he was 13, he'd disappear into the kitchen whenever we had visitors and emerge with beautiful canapes. Now he thinks nothing of cooking for ten or 15 people, and he does it so calmly.

  Cynthia Lennon

  Beautiful, Mother, Home

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• When I left HEEP I didn't know what I wanted! It took me a long time to adjust to life away from the band and the only thing I knew was that I didn't want to repeat my mistakes!

  Ken Hensley

  Mistake, Long, Band

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• Wanted: A dog that neither barks nor bites, eats broken glass and shits diamonds.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Dog, Glasses, Broken

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• I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

  Rem Koolhaas

  Architecture, Contemporary

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