All Quotes

I wanted to go to school for public relations, and I also wanted to minor in dance. And Hofstra had two really good programs for both of those, so that's why I ended up there.
‐‐ Katie Nolan

I wanted to go to Sesame Street! I remember distinctly running through my neighborhood, thinking I knew how to get to Sesame Street, and then finally finding myself among some scrub trees and realizing I don't know where to go from here. I had to just mope back home.
‐‐ Trenton Lee Stewart

I wanted to go to the underdog team - I wanted to build something somewhere like a lot of the other guys who stayed home at Maryland, like Vernon Davis and players like that. I wanted to stay home and do it in front of my family and my friends... Those thing matter to me.
‐‐ Stefon Diggs

I wanted to go to Washington to bring people together who had never been together before. I wanted to break down the barriers between races.
‐‐ Edward Brooke

I wanted to go where the people work hard, throw down, and really needed the party... Saginaw is all that and then some. I looked in those faces - and I knew, these people mean business.
‐‐ Brantley Gilbert

I wanted to grow up to be just like my father.
‐‐ Michael Bergin

I wanted to have a body of work behind me before I wrote about racism.
‐‐ Malorie Blackman

I wanted to have a career that would last a hundred years if possible.
‐‐ Mario Andretti

I wanted to have a free life.
‐‐ Nadia Comaneci

I wanted to have a go at a pop career. My first single, 'Baby I Don't Care', was a hit, and the second, 'Bye Bye Boy', reached the Top 20.
‐‐ Jennifer Ellison

I wanted to have a normal childhood. Normal relationships.
‐‐ Tommy Rettig

I wanted to have a personal life that I fully inhabited, not because I am such a great mom, but for me.
‐‐ Helen Hunt

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.
‐‐ Bianca Jagger

I wanted to have a reaction from the audience. I wanted to be able to talk to somebody, and not be talking just to myself. That's when I did 'The Conformist,' 'Last Tango in Paris,' etc. And I found it was incredibly rewarding, something new.
‐‐ Bernardo Bertolucci

I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous.
‐‐ Ellen DeGeneres

I wanted to have more songs with religious backgrounds. The Christmas record has strong, traditional hymns, but it also has a song called 'Christmas in Heaven' about missing someone that you love that's passed on, and wondering what's going on up there on Christmas.
‐‐ Scotty McCreery

I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't want to be a frontman. I just wanted to be back there and still be a rock and roll star at the same time.
‐‐ Kurt Cobain

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.
‐‐ Brendan Fraser

I wanted to have virtual memory, at least as it's coupled with file systems.
‐‐ Ken Thompson

I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
‐‐ Thurston Moore

I wanted to help raise awareness, so I created an environmental foundation called Just Within Reach.
‐‐ Kevin Richardson

I wanted to help women and their families.
‐‐ Tory Burch

I wanted to highlight that whole dreadful process in book publishing that 'nothing succeeds like success.'
‐‐ Doris Lessing

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller.
‐‐ Stephen Greenblatt

I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.
‐‐ David Bowie

I wanted to improve the suburban office building; to create a great urban space in a suburban environment with all that implies about interaction, collaboration and creativity.
‐‐ Helmut Jahn

I wanted to inspire people not to work under a bamboo ceiling. Whatever you are - yellow, black, white, brown - you don't have to allow your skin to define who you are or how you operate your business. There's not one face to anything.
‐‐ Eddie Huang

I wanted to introduce a contemporary Asia to a North American audience.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

I wanted to invent an engine that could run for ever. I could have developed a new train, had I stayed in the railway. It would have looked like the AK-47 though.
‐‐ Mikhail Kalashnikov

I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
‐‐ Jeanette Winterson

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.
‐‐ Jay London

I wanted to join the Army when football failed. That was my only realistic form of making an honest living.
‐‐ Jack O'Connell

I wanted to just be a filmmaker, and I thought I wanted to do all the aspects, and it seemed like as a producer was the best way to do it, because I could have... You never have control on a movie, but you have as much control as you can.
‐‐ John Cusack

I wanted to just do a one-act play for 26 minutes, with commercials at the beginning and end. For years, I couldn't get my way. They wanted to interrupt three times.
‐‐ Norman Lear

I wanted to just surround myself with people who I think are better than I am, whether they're actors or directors or producers, so that I could learn from them.
‐‐ Mila Kunis

I wanted to keep a Gothic cathedral alive in my heart.
‐‐ Susan Vreeland

I wanted to keep exploring... I'm not about to choose a series of movies in which I can use the same bag of tricks and style that I used in the first film.
‐‐ Sam Mendes

I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
‐‐ Taj Mahal

I wanted to keep working because work was essentially fantastic - you got to be around people, you got to be in a family, and that family changed from job to job. It was like being in the circus.
‐‐ Ben Mendelsohn

I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!
‐‐ Caroline Lawrence

I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.
‐‐ George Washington Carver

I wanted to know what it would be like to get on a horse and ride all the way west to Europe and take a look back at my own culture through the eyes of a nomad.
‐‐ Tim Cope

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
‐‐ Ella Maillart

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.
‐‐ Thomas Keller

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work.
‐‐ Bill Sienkiewicz

I wanted to learn how to skate backwards and they wouldn't help me and they went off and left me on my own.
‐‐ Dorothy Hamill

I wanted to leave home, and I didn't know where I was going or what I was going to do or what would happen. That's youth, though. Being fixated on things. I was fixated on being a writer.
‐‐ James Avery

I wanted to let my employees know what will come if they make the wrong choice. They need to worry if Obama gets reelected.
‐‐ David A. Siegel

I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.
‐‐ Andy Kindler