All Quotes

I wanted to sell a million records, and I sold a million records. I wanted to go platinum; I went platinum. I've been working nonstop since I was 15. I don't even know how to chill out.
‐‐ Beyonce Knowles

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.
‐‐ Gene Roddenberry

I wanted to separate data from programs, because data and instructions are very different.
‐‐ Ken Thompson

I wanted to serve. It was Desert Storm. I thought, 'I was a rich kid, and America's been good to me.'
‐‐ Max Brooks

I wanted to share my life story and honor my roots. I am very proud of my family and mother.
‐‐ Rocco DiSpirito

I wanted to share my love of coffee with a wider audience and also continue to raise money for The Thirst Project through Common Culture Coffee.
‐‐ Connor Franta

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.
‐‐ Mariel Hemingway

I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
‐‐ Ang Lee

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

I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again.
‐‐ Mary Augusta Ward

I wanted to show life and to see ourselves and our behaviour through an outsider's eye... from the point of view of someone who knows nothing about being a human being... He doesn't have the feelings that the rest of us do.
‐‐ Jeff Lindsay

I wanted to show off - a simple impulse or drive; in much the same way as some kids wanted to play football, I wanted to show off. Not complicated in that sense, very natural; it just depends on how you want to show off.
‐‐ Dylan Moran

I wanted to show that crime doesn't pay. If you are saved and accept the Lord, you cannot use that as an excuse to avoid punishment.
‐‐ Robert Duvall

I wanted to show that Martin Luther King was simply a human being, not a god, not a saint.
‐‐ Ralph Abernathy

I wanted to show the world, and myself too, what I can do. I came up in the world of Philadelphia soul, but I'm fluent in a lot of languages musically and I like working with different people from different generations.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

I wanted to show those characters discovering it is possible to find common ground, as they make their way through a plotline that I hope is engrossing enough to keep the reader a willing participant.
‐‐ Joan D. Vinge

I wanted to shred, so I learned classical guitar.
‐‐ Oscar Isaac

I wanted to sing when I was little. That's what I liked doing. It didn't occur to me that you became famous or anything like that.
‐‐ Linda Ronstadt

I wanted to star in a western opposite Robert Redford. That was my plan for my life.
‐‐ Dyan Cannon

I wanted to start a hotel company from scratch.
‐‐ Barry Sternlicht

I wanted to start a proper academy and recruit juniors from all over Pakistan following my retirement after the World Open in 1993 but there was no support.
‐‐ Jahangir Khan

I wanted to start a revolution, using art to build the sort of society I myself envisioned.
‐‐ Yayoi Kusama

I wanted to start with a very small role, to get my feet wet. I'm sure I'm not as good or as experienced as other actresses, but everybody has to start somewhere.
‐‐ Claudia Schiffer

I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
‐‐ Dan Deacon

I wanted to stay home and go to Maryland because I'm really the man of my house. We lost our father when I was 14. Somebody had to be there, so I had to take it and put that on my shoulders.
‐‐ Stefon Diggs

I wanted to stay in New York to pursue acting, but my dad urged me to get a four-year degree. Reading about the film school at Florida State University, he suggested I go there. I received my bachelor's degree in 2003.
‐‐ Lauren Miller

I wanted to stay on a career path of the likes of Natalie Portman. I didn't want to be pigeonholed into a certain genre. I sort of believe that slow and steady wins the race.
‐‐ Sami Gayle

I wanted to step forward and be on TV and for people to see who I really was.
‐‐ Rebecca Loos

I wanted to stimulate thought instead of throwing things out or try to give a perspective. I just put stuff up and it's up for two or three weeks and I get tired of it, so I take it down and put something else up.
‐‐ Krist Novoselic

I wanted to study at the Art Students League in New York when I was young, but I didn't have the money. Then I was fortunate enough to become Johnny Cougar Mellencamp. At the time, I thought I'd make a couple of records and get back to painting. It never dawned on me that I'd be 64 years old and still making music.
‐‐ John Mellencamp

I wanted to study film at an art school - I loved the idea of being surrounded by designers and artists. We were encouraged to be experimental.
‐‐ Asif Kapadia

I wanted to study painting and become a painter, but I had a huge flip-over in my life when I was about 18 or 19. I was part of a criminal environment; I got arrested and convicted, and I had to start thinking in a new way.
‐‐ Aksel Hennie

I wanted to study to be a dental hygienist, marry a rich dentist, and hang it up.
‐‐ Vicki Lawrence

I wanted to support things that are helpful to people and maybe bash what I think is dangerous. So I switched from being everybody to being myself.
‐‐ Jenny Holzer

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.
‐‐ Peter Porter

I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
‐‐ Ferran Adria

I wanted to take the power of thought and the word, along with the power of speaking and heart, and see if we could wire what was coming out of us as humans with electric instruments.
‐‐ John Trudell

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
‐‐ Jay London

I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
‐‐ Janet Jackson

I wanted to tell a dream-come-true story about going from a closeted gay kid who loved pop culture to an out adult man making pop culture. I went from being told when I was 21 that I should never go on TV because of my crossed eyes to winding up being a 'Housewives' whisperer and talk-show host.
‐‐ Andy Cohen

I wanted to tell a story that interested me as much in the telling as in the watching.
‐‐ Neil LaBute

I wanted to tell my story and where I came from and my background, because it was not easy.
‐‐ Gabby Douglas

I wanted to tell my story in a way I haven't done before, things I've been going through in my life.
‐‐ Bubba Sparxxx

I wanted to think about our creation myth; you know, what is the fundamental story that defines America. And it certainly is the West.
‐‐ Philipp Meyer

I wanted to train more for the outdoor season than the indoor season, so I changed my training totally.
‐‐ Genzebe Dibaba

I wanted to translate from one flat surface to another. In fact, my learning disabilities controlled a lot of things. I don't recognize faces, so I'm sure it's what drove me to portraits in the first place.
‐‐ Chuck Close

I wanted to travel from the beginning. As a kid, I used to dream about airplanes, before I ever flew in one.
‐‐ Mary Ellen Mark

I wanted to travel the world - I don't how that idea got in my head, but I really wanted to see the world... towns, cities, countries, I wanted to see them all.
‐‐ Jimmy Cliff

I wanted to travel with my dad to be close to him again. Having babies and raising my own family took so much of my time, I didn't have a chance to be with him very often.
‐‐ Nancy Sinatra