All Quotes

I wanted to bring back that big, ballad type of music that we used to love so much. Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, when they first came out, that's what I grew up singing.
‐‐ LaToya London

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box.
‐‐ Barry McGuigan

I wanted to bring something to 'Celebrity Apprentice' to let America know that you don't have to be back-stabbing and mean-spirited in order to a challenge.
‐‐ Cheryl Tiegs

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

I wanted to build a tool for my generation: people 20 to 40 who don't want to spend time balancing a checkbook or checking multiple financial institutions' websites. Mint does just that, giving comprehensive, quick insights into a user's finances from their computer, mobile phone and/or tablet.
‐‐ Aaron Patzer

I wanted to build businesses from the time I was little.
‐‐ Penny Pritzker

I wanted to build something that was a system - that was mechanical and would propagate itself like a virus. I needed a way for it spread from person to person, and the best way to do that was trying to get someone to get their friends to sign up.
‐‐ Michael Birch

I wanted to build up a little nest egg and go back to L.A. and choose roles that I wanted to do instead of roles that I had to do to pay the bills.
‐‐ Estella Warren

I wanted to build up a name for myself.
‐‐ Jean-Michel Basquiat

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
‐‐ Mitch Hedberg

I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.
‐‐ Irvine Welsh

I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.
‐‐ Mathias Rust

I wanted to come through with my own voice and, hopefully, have it affect people. I want people to know that I'm not an Elvis impersonator.
‐‐ Lisa Marie Presley

I wanted to come up with a hybrid show of sorts that wasn't your traditional 'dump and stir' type of cooking show.
‐‐ Debi Mazar

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.
‐‐ Mary Gaitskill

I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.
‐‐ Laurie Lee

I wanted to connect my guitar to human emotions.
‐‐ B. B. King

I wanted to continue doing my work, but I had to figure out how. And so what I have basically come up with is that I still go to Afghanistan and Iraq and South Sudan and many of these places that are rife with war, but I don't go directly to the front line.
‐‐ Lynsey Addario

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.
‐‐ Laurent Lamothe

I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's immature and because I'm doing a three-book arc I really played that up in the first book. I wanted the reader to be annoyed with her at times.
‐‐ Amber Benson

I wanted to create a multibillion dollar company that lets me go out and let us go out and change the world and create a Skin Cancer Awareness Center that costs a quarter a billion dollars.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

I wanted to create a new way of looking at retail.
‐‐ Tory Burch

I wanted to create a place where parents can come and find products that are safe for their children, as well as good for the planet.
‐‐ Soleil Moon Frye

I wanted to create a toolkit which I would have wanted as an entrepreneur to use these principles of psychology in product design. Some startups totally forget the trigger. In some, the action is too complicated. Others don't have a variable reward, which maintains mystery.
‐‐ Nir Eyal

I wanted to create characters who could do fantastic things but who weren't exactly superheros - characters who exist on sort of a spectrum from super-ability to disability.
‐‐ Ransom Riggs

I wanted to create clothes for women in their 40s and 50s and 60s who have careers and are sexy and don't want to look like grandmothers.
‐‐ Joseph Altuzarra

I wanted to create flats that are as chic as heels - flats you don't have to apologize for.
‐‐ Edgardo Osorio

I wanted to create jobs and create something that had a very longstanding world-changing effect. We were close. We were close to getting there. It just fell apart.
‐‐ Curt Schilling

I wanted to create things that you can always pull out of your closet and rely on. I wanted to create a timeless, classic collection of clothing that you can keep expanding on.
‐‐ L'Wren Scott

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.
‐‐ Chris Tucker

I wanted to deal with someone's idea of their relationship.
‐‐ Charlie Kaufman

I wanted to dedicate myself completely to the things that matter to me and let everything else go, and I think that's a really rewarding thing.
‐‐ Tift Merritt

I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
‐‐ Vera Wang

I wanted to definitely be a musician or a good preacher or a heck of a baseball player. I couldn't play ball too good - I hurt my finger, and I stopped that. I couldn't preach, and well, all I had left was getting into the music thing.
‐‐ Muddy Waters

I wanted to deliver babies and become a midwife. I think childbirth is one of the most amazing things you could ever experience, and I loved working with people and seeing the joys in family when they welcome a new member to it. It really brought me joy to be around that.
‐‐ Natalie Martinez

I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them.
‐‐ Robbie Robertson

I wanted to dismantle the bollocks that there's a military structure to a gang, with a leader, second leader, the good looking one, first babe, second babe. It's far more arbitrary than that and their values shouldn't be romanticised. They aren't something you want to sign up to.
‐‐ Peter Mullan

I wanted to disprove the notion that you couldn't open a great restaurant in a casino.
‐‐ David Chang

I wanted to do a comedy. I'd been actively looking for a comedy. I wanted to do one that was different. Nothing against them, but I wasn't interested in just your normal sitcom, boy meets girl.
‐‐ Geoff Stults

I wanted to do a degree in something I was interested in before going into acting.
‐‐ James Norton

I wanted to do a film for a while, but I never found a script that I felt I was going to be the right person for; because if you've never made a film, you're not taught how to make a film, and you feel like you lack skills.
‐‐ Anton Corbijn

I wanted to do a movie about being really good at something, yet being socially awkward and not as advanced in your personal life as you are in your creative life.
‐‐ Alicia Witt

I wanted to do a naval film and I flirted with different ideas, most of which ended up being too intense. So when the idea of 'Battleship' was first suggested, I was instantly drawn to the challenge - could I invent a movie around the idea of five ships fighting five ships?
‐‐ Peter Berg

I wanted to do a show based on what my life would be like if I had never become a comedian.
‐‐ Drew Carey

I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
‐‐ Sherman Alexie

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
‐‐ Fisher Stevens

I wanted to do an hour-long show, and I wanted to something that was dramatic and sometimes funny and humorous, as well. I'm just delighted to have this opportunity to be a part of this project.
‐‐ Ron Glass

I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.
‐‐ Steven Spielberg