Wanted Quotes - Page 16

• I had sort of exhausted all the avenues playing in Detroit. So again, through the stewardship of my brother, I ended up in California and went to the Musicians Institute in L.A. I wanted to get better as a player.

  Chad Smith

  Brother, Player, California

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• Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.

  John Huston

  Art, Talking, Done

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• That's what I wanted for myself for even just a little while-to be unaware of the rest of the world. I needed some time.

  Dorothea Benton Frank

  Life, World, Littles

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• I wanted it in the way you sometimes want to jump into very cold water, even though you know it won't feel good. I wanted to go numb. To see what it felt like to be someone else.

  Brenna Yovanoff

  Life, Water, Feel Good

  Brenna Yovanoff (2011). “The Replacement”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?

  Charles Frazier

  Life, Opportunity, Vocabulary

  Charles Frazier (2006). “Thirteen Moons: A Novel”, p.236, Random House

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• I wondered about the science of storms and how sometimes it seemed that a storm wanted to break the world and how the world refused to break.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Life, Storm, World

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• I wanted Raging Bull. I wanted Casino. I got Rocky and Bullwinkle. But that's OK, because I still get to tell people I've worked with Robert DeNiro.

  Rene Russo

  Gambling, People, Bulls

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• One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and my sister. We'd spin the globe around and guess. . . . The globe brought me a sense of wonder and adventure. I wanted to go to those other places and see how people did things differently. And, many years later, when I did visit other countries, I took my father's interest and fascination with me. When we plant the seeds of fascination and respect for other people, we are teaching tolerance and peace.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Country, Memories, Father

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• If I wanted to order a ring for myself, the inscription I should choose would be: "Nothing passes away." I believe that nothing passes away without leaving a trace, and that every step we take, however small, has significance for our present and our future existence.

  Anton Chekhov

  Believe, Order, Leaving

  Anton Chekhov (2015). “Anton Chekhov: The Collected Novellas and Short Stories in Multiple Translations: Over 200 Stories From the Renowned Russian Playwright and Author of Uncle Vanya, Cherry Orchard and The Three Sisters in Multiple Translations including Ward No. 6 , The Lady with the Dog and Others”, p.2440, e-artnow

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• Each day she removes a small portion of the unwanted things in people's lives, though all of it, she thinks, was previously wanted, once useful. She feels the sun scorching the back of her neck. The heat is at its worst now, the rains still a few months away. The task satisfies her. It passes the time.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Rain, Thinking, People

  Jhumpa Lahiri (2013). “The Lowland”, p.189, A&C Black

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• If I'd wanted this place to fill up with every fat Irish rose that passes by, I'd've said so.

  J. D. Salinger

  Rose, Said, Fats

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• Flattery has a short battery life, but reminding people they are amazing and precious and wanted and works of art can truly change their lives.

  Donald Miller

  Art, People, Batteries

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• You are not an accident. Your birth was no mistake or mishap, and your life is no fluke of nature. Your parents may not have planned you, but God did. ... Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God. He thought of you first. It is not fate, nor chance, nor luck, nor coincidence that you are breathing this very moment. You are alive because God wanted to create you!

  Rick Warren

  Mistake, Fate, Breathing

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• There is nothing like books - of all things sold incomparably the cheapest, of all pleasure the least palling, they take up little room, keep quiet when they are not wanted, and, when taken up, bring us face to face with the choicest men who ever lived, at their choicest moments.

  Samuel Palmer

  Taken, Book, Men

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• Without writing, what would I have become? Nothing. In China the individual used to be treated as a screw or a small cog in the revolutionary machine. I wanted to be a human being with a voice.

  Ha Jin

  Writing, Voice, Cogs

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• I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.

  Ernest Gaines

  Writing, Feels

  "Author Ernest Gaines comes home to where his ancestors were enslaved" by Wayne Drash, www.cnn.com. November 9, 2010.

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• In my day artists wanted to be outcasts, pariahs. Now they are all integrated into society

  Marcel Duchamp

  Artist, Outcast, Pariahs

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• I never cared so much about making perfect sense. I wanted to make perfect nonsense.

  Harmony Korine

  Perfect, Nonsense

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Christianity offers not merely a consolation but a restoration - not just of the life we had but of the life we always wanted but never achieved. And because the joy will be even greater for all that evil, this means the final defeat of all those forces that would have destroyed the purpose of God in creation, namely, to live with his people in glory and delight forever.

  Timothy Keller

  God, Pain, Mean

  "Walking with God through Pain and Suffering".

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• I became an actor at a very young age, but I also had a deep respect for nature and I think I was sort of a little biologist when I was younger. I watched documentaries on rainforest pollution and the loss of species and habitats for animals around the world. It affected me in a very hardcore, emotional way when I was younger. So, later in life I wanted to continue that path more and investigate and learn more about ecological issues.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Loss, Emotional, Thinking

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• After the oil spill, I had this strong feeling that if I ever were to be blessed in having children, I never wanted my kids to see me pumping gas at a gas station. I think it's our responsibility to make the changes that we need to take regardless of convenience.

  Alyssa Milano

  Strong, Children, Blessed

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• Prosecution I have managed to avoid; but I have been arrested, charged in a police court, have refused to be bound over, and thereupon have been unconditionally released - to my great regret; for I have always wanted to know what going to prison was like.

  Laurence Housman

  Regret, Police, Prison

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• Well, I wanted to play twenty years in the major leagues. I never made it twenty though. I played nineteen.

  Bert Campaneris

  Years, Play, League

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• Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Adversity, Boys

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• [On political correctness:] Any intended message mattered less than the received message, and every received message could be interpreted in whatever way the receiver wanted.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Political, Way, Messages

  Chuck Klosterman (2014). “I Wear the Black Hat: Grappling with Villains (Real and Imagined)”, p.100, Simon and Schuster

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