What We Wanted Quotes

When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

I've always felt that because I'm from Cleveland, which isn't recognised as a place for hip-hop, I needed to step it up if I wanted to make myself known.

I was very unsure about what I wanted to do in high school.

I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.

He wanted to know what assurance we could give the American people that we aren't getting the tar licked out of us by the North Korean army. It has never happened to us. It won't happen this time.

I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini.

I'd sell my soul to have you. In my whole life, you'll always be what I wanted most." ~ Hardy Cates

I found for me that my safe place was work. I could control my environment. I became very fastidious and detailed, and wanted things a certain way.

I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.

It makes you feel good, man, makes you forget all the bad things that happen to a Negro. It makes you feel wanted, and when you're with another tea smoker, it makes you feel a special kinship.

I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.

I knew that because of who I am, and the situation I'm in, that I'd attract more critics than your average person, and that was a little intimidating, but I wanted to get out there and pay my dues.

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.

I let my eyes deceive me from the start, they told me I wanted her more than I wanted you. Guess my eyes were bigger than my heart.

Once I wanted total happiness - now I will settle for a little less pain.

I told them I wanted to be a comedian, and they laughed; I became a comedian, no one's laughing now

I wasn't passionate about food until I'd been cooking for a while. I started long before food became part of the mainstream media. I just wanted to cook, period.

I wanted to model when I was younger.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.

I was interested in ideas, not merely visual products. I wanted to put painting once again at the service of the mind.

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet.

In Yugoslavia, I'd asked for additional forces too. I even went to meet the French prime minister, and I proposed additional forces... Nobody wanted to send troops.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

When I was 18 years old I knew pretty much what I wanted to do in life. When I was 18 I knew I wanted to be a pro bodybuilder.

I wanted to be scared again... I wanted to feel unsure again. Thats the only way I learn, the only way I feel challenged.

After I did Untamed Heart I wanted to do a film that was outrageous. I really wanted to do, you know, a performance. I don't want to allow my image to rule the choices that I make.

I wanted to scientize myth and mythologize science.

I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. Im looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate.

I wanted to be a film and television writer and producer.

Sometimes you can make a substantial amount of money and automatically think that you've made it, that you did everything you wanted to do. Some people just stop.

My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad.

I'm a guy who just wanted to see his name in the lineup everyday. To me, baseball was a passion to the point of obsession.

When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band.

I have always wanted my colors to sing.

Black ink was always my favorite. I loved it. And then one day I realized that the only thing I ever wanted to do was to paint.

When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.

I don't have any relationship with God and I've never wanted it. I don't believe in fate or in any superior entity; if a plane crashes and people die, it's not because Heaven said so.

I never wanted to be on any billionaires list. I never define myself by net worth. I always try to define myself by my values.

I've never been nervous. I just wanted to play and have a good time. If it didn't work, then I would get nervous. But, for the most part, I just go for it.

Once I discovered music, I knew what I wanted to do.

Our whole goal in life is to give you something you didn’t know you wanted and then once you get it, you can’t imagine your life without it… and you can count on apple doing that.

I wanted to do something that small towns would enjoy.

My father wanted me to have all the educational opportunities he never had... so he sent me to a girls school.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

I'm from New Orleans. There's a lot of vampire mystique and mythology that resonates there, and I was fascinated by it. I always wanted to play one.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

When I was three, I wanted to be four. When I was four, I wanted to be prime minister.

As soon as I discovered weightlifting, all I wanted to do - my plan in life - was to work out, lay on the beach, and get high... smoke dope. And that's really what I'm doing.

I really wanted to emphasize the idea of the women being isolated and abandoned . . . and they weren't raised to take care of themselves, so they had to learn to survive.