Wanted Quotes - Page 7

• I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.

  Margaret Cho

  Children, Commitment, Thinking

  "Kids" by Margaret Cho, margaretcho.com. September 6, 2012.

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• I just wanted to be in show business. I didn't care if I was going to be an actor or a magician or what. Comedy was a point of the least resistance, really. And on the simplest level, I loved comedy.

  Steve Martin

  Magic, Actors, Levels

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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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• When I first wanted to be a writer, I learned to write prose by reading poetry.

  Nicholson Baker

  Reading, Writing, Firsts

  "A life in writing" by Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2009.

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• I didn't want to settle or become complacent after winning a major, I wanted to stay hungry. It's easy to do. It's easy to win a big tournament and kind of get a little lazy, so it's been a good motivator for me to work a little harder.

  Webb Simpson

  Success, Winning, Lazy

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• I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

  Joe Shuster

  Character, Artist, Thinking

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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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• 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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• In third grade, I was taking tap-dance lessons, and about six weeks before the recital I wanted to quit. My mom said, 'No, you're going to stay with it.' Well, I did it, and I was bad, too! But my parents never let their kids walk away from something because it was too hard.

  Rebecca Lobo

  Mom, Kids, Parent

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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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• Lots of people let it go by and never accomplish what they want. I just wanted to see what I could do.

  Edwin Moses

  People, Let It Go, Want

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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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• In 1940 I came across a record by Jimmy Yancey. I can't say how important that record is. From then on, all I wanted to do was play the blues.

  Alexis Korner

  Play, Important, Records

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• Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

  Norodom Sihanouk

  Buddhist, Looks, Cambodia

  Prince Norodom Sihanouk (2005). “Shadow Over Angkor: Memoirs of His Majesty King Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia : from Original Transcript of "The Cup to the Dregs"”

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• No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

  Ron Luciano

  Running, Brother, Umpires

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• I wanted to go to regular high school- it looked like a lot of fun.

  Tommy Rettig

  Fun, School, High School

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• The people wanted to believe that the Negroes couldn't learn to read music but had a natural talent for it. So we never played with no music. I'd get all the latest Broadway music from the publisher, and we'd learn the tunes and rehearse them until we had them all down pat- never made no mistakes. All the high-tone, big-time folks would say, isn't it wonderful how these untrained, primitive musicians can pick up all the latest songs instantly without being able to read music?

  Eubie Blake

  Song, Mistake, Believe

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• I really wanted to believe that there were these magic celestial bodies that would direct my life, tell me what to do, and it turns out it's not stars, it's some bits of screwy DNA. I'm just meat with faulty programming.

  Lauren Beukes

  Stars, Believe, Dna

  Lauren Beukes (2010). “Zoo City”, p.150, Jacana Media

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• I like mountains, always have done. Big obstinate bits of rock sticking up where they're not wanted and getting in folk's way. Great. Climbing them is a different matter altogether though. I hate that.

  Mark Lawrence

  Hate, Rocks, Climbing

  Mark Lawrence (2011). “Prince of Thorns”, p.197, Penguin

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• I didn't want to find out the reality that if I wanted my dream, I had to lose weight. That's a crushing dream for anybody . . . to change yourself to get your dream. Nobody should have to do that.

  Serinda Swan

  Crush, Dream, Reality

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

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• The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages + CD-ROM, published February 1997. I was personally acquainted with more movie stars than people who might conceivably have wanted to buy this book or any book like it.

  Philip Greenspun

  Art, Stars, Book

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• For years I exercised to be thinner, and I never got the results I wanted. When I finally started working out to be healthier, I saw a transformation. I've even quit weighing myself so I don't obsess over the numbers.

  Judy Reyes

  Numbers, Years, Work Out

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• I wanted to show that women are empowered and strong, and don't have to be saved by some male hero, but they can take care of themselves using their intelligence and their power.

  Gal Gadot

  Strong, Hero, Males

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• The Maze is a painting of the inside of my skull, which I painted when I was in England as a patient in Maudsley and Netherne psychiatric hospitals. It is a story of my life, well in the sense that people tell stories by the fireplace to entertain their guests, trying to make them accept you. In this case I wanted to be accepted, as an interesting specimen.

  William Kurelek

  Skulls, People, Interesting

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• Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

  Joel Hodgson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

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