Clown Quote by Judith Butler

As a child, I wanted to be a doctor, philosopher, psychologist, philanthropist and a superhero... So I became a teacher.

— Nicholas A Ferroni

I just realized, sometime early on in college, that I wanted to be a philosopher. I basically decided that I wanted to spend my…

— L.A. Paul

I had to philosophize. Otherwise, I could not live in this world.

— Edmund Husserl

For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit…

— Padma Lakshmi

When I was in my late teens I was already interested in philosophy.

— Torbjorn Tannsjo

I drifted into a career in academic philosophy because I couldn't see anything outside the academy that looked to be anything other than drudgery.…

— Julian Young

From the age of 14, I remember thinking I wanted to be a comedian. But that was like saying I wanted to be an…

— Lee Mack

I never had aspirations to go into politics or medicine. I always wanted to be an artist of some sort. I wasn't so politically…

— Patti Smith

In college, I was dead set on being a philosophy major, because I wanted to figure out the meaning of life. Four years later…

— Jonathan Haidt

My philosophy in life, where I was trying to get, could have been a little bit different.

— Joe Namath

I didn't have any idea what I wanted to be when I grew up.

— Tom Sturridge

I studied philosophy in school, became disgruntled by the fact that it was a way to have a very interesting conversation with very few…

— Jonathon Keats