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• I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

  Brian Welch

  Music, Care, Found

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• We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

  Bob Weir

  Music, Light, Challenges

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• With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

  Nile Rodgers

  Opportunity, Careers, People

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• The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

  Billy Connolly

  New York, America, Optimism

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• I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

  Darius Rucker

  Respect, Thinking, Band

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

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• My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

  David Soul

  Teacher, Father, Hero

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

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• In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

  Greg Louganis

  Sports, Moving, People

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• But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques; which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

  Parminder Nagra

  Football, Running, Games

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

  Desmond Dekker

  People, Style, Records

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

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• Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

  Donna Rice Hughes

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

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• In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

  James S. Coleman

  Stars, Athlete, School

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• We wanted to be as expansive as possible to make sure we didn't preclude some good ideas.

  John Poindexter

  Ideas, Brilliant, Brilliant Ideas

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• I wanted all my visits to be official. When I sent the pass back with a note, I had no idea it would antagonize the president. I found out years later that it did.

  Louis J. Freeh

  Years, Sea, Ideas

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• One of the things I wanted to introduce in The Same Sea beyond transcending the conflict, is the fact that deep down below all our secrets are the same.

  Amos Oz

  Sea, Secret, Facts

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• When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race.

  Hermann Maier

  Stars, Children, Team

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• I wanted to be Anthony Hopkins and ended up being neither a film star nor having a career on the stage.

  Dirk Benedict

  Stars, Careers, Film

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• The idea that relationships are not a strategy is potent; and the sad commentary proceeds to say that often relationships are seen as a strategy, a means to accomplish great things - except love and relationship are not what is really wanted. We want to appear relational so people will like what we have to offer. It's the difference between wanting a good marriage and loving the person you married.

  Scot McKnight

  School, Mean, Ideas

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• I do not remember having felt, as a boy, any passion for mathematics, and such notions as I may have had of the career of a mathematician were far from noble. I thought of mathematics in terms of examinations and scholarships: I wanted to beat other boys, and this seemed to be the way in which I could do so most decisively.

  G. H. Hardy

  Passion, Science, Boys

  G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.15, Cambridge University Press

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• Sometimes a savage beauty lured me into the sun and I would start to love the danger a little. On these occasions I felt the reluctant love drained painfully from me as blood drains from a deep wound. The tigers lapped my love's blood and remained enemies. The inhabitants of the day laughed at the gift I wanted to bring them, and I shut myself in my inner room to escape the betrayal of their arrogant mouths.

  Anna Kavan

  Love, Betrayal, Blood

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• Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.

  Irving Penn

  Love, Sweet, Nice

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• We go through life so fast and we never really get to enjoy moments. It seems like they go past us...Tonight I just wanted to take a minute, a moment and soak it in and be a kid from Robbins Illinois and be a kid from Marquette University.

  Dwyane Wade

  Kids, Past, Illinois

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• I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

  Bill Condon

  Past, Whales, Connections

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• I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

  James Lipton

  Talking, Able, Way

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• I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

  Ali Smith

  Tombstone, Want, Headstone

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• I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

  Travis Barker

  Children, Kids, Play

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