What We Wanted Quotes

Maybe its a generational thing, but I never wanted to be the best black dancer in the world. I just wanted to be the best.

People have always been telling me what I can't do. I guess I have wanted to show them. That's been one of my driving forces all my life.

Just wanted to say thank you for the wonderful quotes each and every day...Some days, it's the nicest thing I hear all day....Muah.

I was trying to play as real possible - I wanted everything to be real.

We mixed the sounds ourselves. If they were going to put the sound back onto our film [Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii.], we wanted to mix it ourselves.

I achieved everything I wanted to achieve by being in the Rolling Stones and making records.

I've never gotten up to see something one of my kids wanted to show me and not been rewarded.

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and would never have to worry.

There are enough negative images of Black women out there and I did not want to portray Dorothy Vaughn in any stereotype. I wanted to make sure that her integrity was preserved.

All this time I've just wanted to be blonde, beautiful and 5 feet 2 inches tall.

When I started, all I wanted to do was play like Chuck (Berry)

I wanted so badly to study ballet, but it was really all about wearing the tutu.

I fell far short of living up to the kind of public servant I wanted to be.

I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.

I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax.

When I first moved to New York I wanted to be a dancer, I danced professionally for years, living a hand-to-mouth existence.

I've always wanted to do a horror movie, and I grew up watching a lot of horror. I now, recently in life, don't have the stomach for it because I spend so much time in it.

I just like the idea of trying something that no one's ever tried before, and I really wanted to know if it was possible.

We wanted, it seemed, what we already had, a lover and a friend to create with, side by side. To be loyal, yet be free.

My mum has never wanted me to have children. She thinks I would be destroying my life, even now.

We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

I wanted to take part in the liberation of even a small piece of enslaved Latin America.

I wanted my voice to be a tenor sax, really.

I had a cat, though. I wanted to name the frogs, because I watched them grow, but there were too many.

I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.

When I was very young I was very shy but at the same time I was very open cause I was very curious so I wanted to try many things.

I worked with someone else's photos; I cropped them in whatever way I wanted and put words on top of them. I knew how to do it with my eyes closed. Why couldn't that be my art?

I don't like acting and I never have liked acting and I never wanted to be an actress.

This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.

Elton wanted a garden. They were building all afternoon while we were rehearsing. And then they built a fountain for Elton. And he said, I was only joking!

If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

I never wanted children, maybe I'm afraid of responsibility.

I just wanted to be an actor. It's better to be well-rounded.

When skateboarding hit, I wanted to be best skateboarder in the world, and I fought for it, there was nothing that was going to get in my way.

I told the record company I didn't feel the need to be at red-carpet events. I wanted a career. But I wanted to keep myself intact as a person.

Actually, I wanted to act even when I was still playing football.

Before I moved into the mainstream of American movies, I wrote a script as an experiment. I wanted to get very far away from the clichés about the three-act play - structure, development.

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

I didn't really want to kill myself, it just made me feel better to know I could if I wanted to.

I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit... Retire!

My first act after being named head coach of the Bulls was to formulate a vision for the team. I had to take into account not only what I wanted to achieve, but how I was going to get there.

With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine; I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States.

...Had dreams of fancy cars and limos, And all I wanted was somebody to listen to my demo.

Every time fans turned on the television or watched the Dallas Cowboys, I wanted to give them the performance of a lifetime.