What We Wanted Quotes

I'm into paradoxes. I wanted to make an album about them, but the group told me I was a pretentious fart. They were right.

I had this big thing about guitar harmonies. I wanted to be the first to put proper three-part harmonies onto a record. That was an achievement.

After the years of me trying to figure out what I wanted to do with myself, I knew I had to go back and fix some things. I can't just be super-rich or whatever and not do the right thing.

Baby you're my everything, you're all I ever wanted, we can do it real big, bigger than you've ever done it.

I wanted to create my own world, a world full of color, where everyone could play. One big party that never ends.

You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had Parkinson's, I wanted to kill him.

If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.

I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up.

I never wanted to limit myself to just impressions. I wanted to branch out and develop other parts of my game.

I think I was always looking for that perfect woman, who obviously doesn't exist. I wanted to be married. I wanted more kids. I'm a family man, at heart.

If you wanted to create an education environment that was directly opposed to what the brain was good at doing, you would probably design something like a classroom.

If I wanted to go crazy I would do it in Washington because it would not be noticed

I was just getting acquainted with the wood. I wanted to see if it was maple or pine.

The money's always been on the table. We could have took that money any time we wanted - every year, two, three times a year we've had offers, all the way down the line.

I put my own d*ck in my mouth. I was 14 and much more flexible at the time. It was soft and required a lot of pulling. I really wanted that case of beer.

What I wanted and what I visualized while composing has not always been realized.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

Look at what caused people to make a lot of money and you will see that usually it is in proportion to their production of what the society wanted.

She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what.

They all wanted to model for me because they knew I wouldn’t take advantage of them.

You are crying! You are afraid of me! And yet I am not really wicked. Love me and you shall see! All I wanted was to be loved for myself.

I've got something to live for, because I always wanted to be an artist; I always wanted to be famous.

But I am not political in the current events sense, and I have never wanted anyone to read my poetry that way.

I rather doubt that life has a meaning. If I thought perhaps it did, and I wanted to find out what its meaning is, I don't imagine I'd ask someone whose credentials consist of a PhD in philosophy.

I think I've already got the main thing I've always wanted, which is to be somebody, to have an identify. I'm Althea Gibson, the tennis champion. I hope it makes me happy.

I realized that most people waste their lives earning a living, and I wanted to live. I love painting, so I keep painting. That's how I became an artist.

Fashion intersects a lot with art and film and music, and that was appealing to me. I read a bunch of fashion blogs and wanted to be part of the community.

I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

I was a punk rocker when I was a teenager. I wanted to look like Nancy Spungen. I had dyed blonde hair and lots of piercings.

My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

It’s always more intriguing to imagine what’s happening, as opposed to seeing everything, because then you can use your imagination. I always wanted to be at a distance.

The Flower of My Secret is definitely more based in true emotions. I also wanted to make something more realistic, but not naturalistic or simple.

The PS3 is a total disaster on so many levels, I think It's really clear that Sony lost track of what customers and what developers wanted.

I got a job as soon as I graduated from school. I always wanted to bartend because I love listening to people and how awful their lives are.

I just wanted to find out where the boundaries were. So far I've found there aren't any. I just wanted to be stopped, and no one will stop me.

I always wanted to be an actor, but I was always fighting it. It never seemed that honorable to me, and I guess I was always afraid that I might fail.

I wanted to say something about the universe. There's God, angels, plants... and horseshit.

I wanted to end the world but,I'll settle for ending yours.

Finally, everything that has been part of my life, whether I wanted it to or not, has expressed itself in my dresses.

I was six years old when I saw my first Godard movie, eight when I first experienced Bergman. I wanted to be a director when I was fourteen.

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.

Groups break up because they never got across what they wanted to do personally, and they have creative differences, and egos start to clash.

I always felt I was a nobody, and the only way for me to be somebody was to be - well, somebody else. Which is probably why I wanted to act.

They wanted me to be a Washington.

I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.

All you can do for another person is be an environment in which if they wanted to come up for air, they could.

When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.

Part of the challenge of Most Wanted is trying to become the most notorious street racer on the pavement.