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394 They Wanted quotes by 353 unique authors
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Liverpool was an industrial town, a poor town. The people fought hard for what they wanted to achieve and there was a hunger there, and…
— Pete Best
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I forgot that San Francisco is not an angry city like New York. Gays have gotten what they wanted there over the years, unlike New…
— Larry Kramer
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In life it wasn't what you know, but who you know. I had people who were trying to buy teams and had they bought the…
— Rick Barry
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Owners, the way they blackballed me from baseball, the way they used me, in a sense, and then the way they wanted to send a…
— Jose Canseco
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My parents had us very young. We lived in a modest house. We built forts, we hiked, we went camping and they wanted us to…
— Brooklyn Decker
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I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they…
— Jerry Doyle
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When I was in the California legislature in the '80s, the organic growers, who were sort of the small hippie farmers in those days, brought…
— Sam Farr
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I…
— Patricia Arquette
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They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world.
— Bruce Springsteen
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I always told the people at Cal Arts that if they wanted me to do Jazz studies, first of all, there couldn't be a big…
— Charlie Haden
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These girls wouldn't let just anybody spew on their vital parts, they wanted a guy from a group with a big hit song on the…
— Frank Zappa
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They wanted to hear about the sex, of course. But not the rest; no one wanted to hear the rest.
— Christine Keeler
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
— Wanda Sykes
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There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I wanted out of my record deal with EMI. They wanted me to record one type of album; I wanted to record the type of…
— Joss Stone
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White people couldn't do black music back in the day because they weren't funky or bad enough. They weren't from the ghettoes, but hip-hop and…
— Narada Michael Walden
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Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage…
— Steve Kroft
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I never in a million years thought I would be starring in Hairspray, ever. Because if you think about my past, it's been 30 years…
— John Travolta
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Cutting taxes is not bad. But if you cut taxes on the wealthy, which is what they wanted to do, you're not helping people who…
— Robert Reich
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I liked working with Republicans. We had five pretty good years after we had that bad year in '95 that culminated in two government shutdowns.…
— William J. Clinton
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Did not the artists of the great age of Japanese art change names many times during their careers? I like that; they wanted to safeguard…
— Henri Matisse
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Recently a young mother asked for advice. What, she wanted to know, was she to do with a 7-year-old who was obstreperous, outspoken, and inconveniently…
— Anna Quindlen
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The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it freedom, but in the final analysis freedom is a purely negative goal.…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Some people just wanted to blow it all to hell, animal, vegetable and mineral. They wanted a Vietnam they could fit into their car ashtrays.
— Michael Herr
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I did a series of classes in psychology (at the institute), .. The students that came to that class had children. And over a period…
— Dorothy Nolte
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