What We Wanted Quotes

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 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.

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 have always wanted my colors to sing.

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

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.

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.

I wanted to be a cattle rancher when I was young, because it was what I knew and I loved it.

If you're a guild, treat your comrades right. That's all I wanted to say.

I was really just the tea boy to begin with, or the equivalent thereof, but I quickly announced, innocently but very ambitiously, that I wanted to be, I was going to be, a foreign correspondent.

No one ever grew up intending to be an umpire, except perhaps my friend Bill Haller. His brother Tom wanted to be a catcher, so an affinity for masks must run in that family.

I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.

That which you do not bring to consciousness comes to you as your Fate, that which you do bring to consciousness, whether it was what you thought you wanted or not, is your destiny.

I'm a comedian, and I decided I wanted to be a comedian when I was eight years old watching old Saturday Night Live episodes. I never decided to be a rapper because I'm not a rapper.

I've learned that in order to achieve what I wanted, it made more sense to negotiate than to defend the autonomy of my work by pounding my fist on the table.

I married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when you came along.

When I was a waiter, I wanted to be the best waiter I could be and worked to be better at it every day.

I don't know that I've ever felt as happy as I did that day, but then again, it was always like that when we were together. I never wanted it to end.

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

I wanted to get out of our thimble of a town, where every stone had eyes.

God didn’t want me to do more for Him. He wanted me to be more with Him.

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.

As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.

Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.

Didn't want to be a star, wanted just to play guitar in this cockamamie business.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

My dad always said he wanted to be remembered for his body of work, and he's made more than 75 pictures, some good, some bad, and they will be his legacy to the world of acting.

Food has always been my friend. When I wanted to feel better or had a crisis in my life, I opened the icebox.

I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

I've never wanted to leave. I'm here for the rest of my life, and hopefully after that as well.

The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.

I've always wanted to make a career in the arts, and I think that my only hope at doing that is to make it more about the work.

I watched the tears run down her cheeks and start to drip from the end of her chin. One part of me wanted to put my arms round her but I daren't. Do that and I'd never be able to let her go.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

I left hating the game of football…I never ever wanted to play football after that and I kind of rode off into the sunset.

I wish I could make the statement that 'the odds were against me but you never quit', It was not true. I wanted to give up.

Alas,we who wanted kindness, could not be kind ourselves.

If you had asked me back in grade school what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would have said my first choice was an actor, but if I couldn't be that, I'd want to be a superhero.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing

If you're sexy, everybody will love you. That's what I wanted -- for everybody to love me.

I wanted to be famous, I wanted everybody to love me. I wanted to be a star. I worked really hard, and my dream came true.

Take good care of creation. St. Francis wanted that. People occasionally forgive, but nature never does. If we don't take care of the environment, there's no way of getting around it.

When I was 17, I read a profile of Carol Leifer. Since then, I wanted to be her. I still want to be her.

I used to wear heels because I wanted to show people I wasn't ashamed of being tall.

I discovered what is and isn't important to me. I decided I really wanted to enjoy life with someone fun, who can make the best out of any situation - whatever it is we're doing.

I, who wanted danger, adventure, and love

I feel that if God had really wanted us to have enough oil, he would never have given us a Department of Energy.

The real is behind and beyond words, incommunicable, directly experienced, explosive in its effect on the mind. It is easily had when nothing else is wanted.