My mother wanted me to learn how to read music. She'd given fiddles to my two older brothers, but they'd rebelled. I… — Pete Seeger Copy Share Image
A friend of mine asked me a question at the end of 2015. We were going over my finances and setting things… — Prince Fielder Copy Share Image
Memory really matters...only if it binds together the imprint of the past and the project of the future, if it enables us… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
My parents, like others of "The Greatest Generation" who lived through the Great Depression and World War II, wanted to provide the… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
No, I always wanted to be a singer. It was kind of funny that I took this road, started acting, then-almost ten… — Tia Carrere Copy Share Image
Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I… — Victoria Wood Copy Share Image
I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else,… — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over… — Kevin Mitnick Copy Share Image
In terms of having a business, I wanted to let it go beyond what my personal taste is. Basically, I'm in a… — Marc Jacobs Copy Share Image
Where I come from, you don't really dance, you know. I think I was at the age, where, I suppose, I wanted… — Tristan MacManus Copy Share Image
With any kind of physical test, I don't know what it is, I always seem to get competitive. Remember when you were… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I placed myself in amongst the animal kingdom so that I would be able to confront myself actually. It did not start… — Timothy Treadwell Copy Share Image
[Film Loulou] is about Loulou, a ghost from the 1920s. She was a flapper and she was a dancer, had kind of… — Boti Bliss Copy Share Image
I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them… — Adam Hamilton Copy Share Image
I never wanted to be a businessman; I was a craftsman and good at working with my hands. At some point, I… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch things,… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I wanted to be serious, like Daniel Day-Lewis. No one really dreams of being a comic actor,… — Chris O'Dowd Copy Share Image
I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. '30 for 30 had a big impact because I… — Bill Simmons Copy Share Image
People seem to have acquired the idea that they have the inalienable right to stroll through life without either having sweated, picked… — Mark Rippetoe Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to sail around the world in a handmade boat. And I built a boat. I had a boat built… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success,… — Isabella Rossellini Copy Share Image
Stop. I don't do you favors, Alec. I do things for you because - well, why do you think I do them?"… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I was research head of General Motors and wanted a problem solved, I'd place a table outside the meeting room with… — Charles Kettering Copy Share Image
“I wanted you from the minute I saw you," he says. "I want you right now, and you can barely stand me.… — Robin York Copy Share Image
I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I… — Missi Pyle Copy Share Image
First, I wanted to be Chris Farley. When I was growing up, Chris Farley was still on the stages and fun to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her, so he needed… — Sidney Sheldon Copy Share Image
When I read a book I liked, I would get a pen and one of my father's legal pads and rewrite it… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
From this haunting feeling of being not wanted, which remained a recurrent haunt through life, I found two ways of escape, both… — Anna Louise Strong Copy Share Image
Look, nearly everything in the culture says we're freaks. Doing sex work, we're desired; we can get rewarded for being what we've… — Kate Bornstein Copy Share Image
I am a little older and understand the nature of the business - the older you get the more your skills supposedly… — Randy Moss Copy Share Image
I never wanted to sing. I just wanted to play rhythm guitar – hide in the back and just play. But during… — Kurt Cobain Copy Share Image
At one point Trudeau mentioned to me that the National Gallery wanted to buy a masterpiece by the great Italian painter Lotto,… — Jean Chretien Copy Share Image
I was brought up in a home where I saw my parents read and I was taken to bookshops and libraries, so… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
There seems to be something pure in pulling from a place in time that's "innocent" and untouched by outward opinion. I wanted… — Brooke Waggoner Copy Share Image
What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same sharp clichés,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image
'Entourage' was a show that existed around wish-fulfillment. People watched it because they wanted to believe they could go on private jets… — Adam Pally Copy Share Image
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![“Of course I don't want to go to a cocktail party...If I wanted to stand around with a load of people I don't know eating bits of cold toast I can get caught shoplifting and go to Holloway [women's prison].” quote by Victoria Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a35/victoria-wood-16625_bits_of-course-i-don-t-want-to-go-to-a-cockta_2923196.jpg)
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![“I was at Reed [College] for only a few months. My parents intended for me to stay there for all four years but I decided that college wasn't right for me. I had no idea what I wanted to do I didn't see how college was going to help me.” quote by Steve Jobs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/770/steve-jobs-307_college_i-was-at-reed-college-for-only-a-few-mon_2897302.jpg)
