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I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to… — Willie Aames
I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter. — Tori Amos
I never expected anyone to take care of me, but in my wildest dreams and juvenile yearnings, I wanted the house with the picket fence… — Maya Angelou
I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal… — Jennifer Aniston
I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there's a nuclear explosion, the ants… — Adam Ant
I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how. — Fiona Apple
Sometimes in a defeat, you can set the stage for future victory. I wanted them to feel good about what they had accomplished. Not to… — Mike Krzyzewski
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to belong… — Gloria Vanderbilt
I regret that children died, but I felt like God. It was the power of God over a human being. ... I got very little… — Peter Woodcock
I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
I wanted to be Gene Kelly. Well really, I just wanted to dance with Cyd Charisse. — Robin Cousins
Before I was ever in my teens, I knew exactly what I wanted to be when I grew up. My goal was to be the… — Babe Didrikson Zaharias
When I was a little boy, I wanted to be a baseball player and also join the circus. With the Yankees, I've accomplished both. — Graig Nettles
Because of baseball I smelled the rose of life. I wanted to travel, and to have nice clothes. Baseball allowed me to do all those… — Cool Papa Bell
I took biology in high school and didn't like it at all. It was focused on memorization. ... I didn't appreciate that biology also had… — Francis Collins
For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every… — Martin Luther
I grew up thinking that whatever I wanted to do, I could do. — Victoria Principal
A day so happy. Fog lifted early. I worked in the garden. Hummingbirds were stopping over honeysuckle flowers. There was no thing on earth I… — Czeslaw Milosz
It was depressing, ... I worried about how I would make a living. I didn't want to stay on the farm. It didn't offer the… — Clyde Tombaugh
I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall,… — Jay Leno
When I left the house of bondage I left everything behind. I wasn't going to keep nothing of Egypt on me, an' so I went… — Sojourner Truth
My brother and I had a real love-hate relationship with my success. There was some bitterness there that I didn't understand until recently, but I… — Jimmy Chamberlin
Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at last in his… — Sylvia Plath
Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ... — Anne Sexton
I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him. — George W. Bush

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