Wanted Quotes · Page 463

I had no doubts I wanted to be a footballer because that was the only option.

— Demba Ba

I have permanent damage to my body because I wanted to be thin.

— Margaret Cho

The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we…

— Marian Wright Edelman

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

— Jeanne Calment

I'm always in this shape, that shape, whatever shape you like the most. I am always in various stages of shapes. If…

— Sandra Bullock

In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he…

— Dennis Nilsen

And remember how he wrote the first Rocky in a few days, and wouldn't sell the script even though he was starving,…

— Terry Crews

I started collecting art... simply because I wanted pictures to hang on the wall. I noticed what a difference a picture could…

— Michael Audain

I wanted to talk to very young kids about self-image and about being different and how that can be your strength, especially…

— Gloria Estefan

I felt proud of myself. I worked out really hard, and the reason I wanted to do it the most is because…

— Cindy Margolis

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

— Elle Macpherson

I didn't worry about my career ending, but there were days where I felt pretty beat up by it all and just…

— Tom Petty

I just wanted to write songs that would be amazing live, to interact with the audience.

— Chappell Roan

I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.

— Grant Morrison

I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly…

— Ashley Madekwe

I mean, all of these things that [Bashar Assad] has done, there's no way even if President Obama wanted to just play…

— John F. Kerry

When we go into the 80's it has more of a pop feel. But it's what I wanted to do. I wasn't…

— Shuggie Otis

I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn't want to be a journalist -…

— Robert Darnton

I was being thrown to the wolves. Even though I did something great, nobody wanted to be a part of it. I…

— Hank Aaron

It does get difficult to shift from a 'Wanted' to a 'Mod.'

— Ayesha Takia

I have always wanted my art to service my people - to reflect us, to relate to us, to stimulate us, to…

— Elizabeth Catlett

We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous…

— Margo Kaufman

I went to medical school after having decided to do so somewhere between my junior and senior year at Harvard - very…

— Eric Kandel

When I was a young man I heard Henry Barley say that the world has yet to see what God can do…

— Dwight L. Moody

I made the big turnaround in the early Nineties when I started hearing all the tenth generation punk bands like Green Day…

— Jane Wiedlin

Growing up in Sweden, I decided pretty early on that I wanted to go to acting school.

— Helena Mattsson

It's always fun to play someone like an action hero that you always wanted to play as a child. I think every…

— Cole Hauser

Oblivion is something unique, an entertainment experience unlike anything I had seen before. I decided this was a project I really wanted…

— Sean Bean

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because…

— Jackie Robinson

One of the reasons why I decided to participate in 'HawthoRNe' was I really wanted the opportunity to show how ordinary people…

— Jada Pinkett Smith

When I first started, my main goal was to not be bartending anymore, and to not be working at the bank anymore.…

— Tracy Spiridakos

I told Grant Hill back there – I just got done playing against him – as a second grader I had a…

— Kevin Durant

People will keep on taking them for theorists, when all they wanted was to paint in gay, bright colours, like the old…

— Pierre-Auguste Renoir

I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like…

— Noel Clarke

Think of Jonathan Edwards who thundered the terrors of God and what Hell was like until men grasped their seats and hung…

— John G. Lake

I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look…

— Adam Ant

...genuine trust implies the opportunity, of checking wherever it may be wanted... That is why it is the evidence, the experience itself…

— Philip Morrison

'The Originals' is going to be an epic showdown of supernatural forces, and that was very evident in the pilot. I just…

— Leah Pipes

She became politically conscious thanks to Studs Terkel and the radio. She started reading all the books we brought home from college…

— Sandra Cisneros

Possibility, infinity, beauty -- none of those words were right. [...] What he really wanted to say was: have you felt this?…

— Haven Kimmel