Wanted Quotes - Page 22

• Who doesn’t want a Cy Young Award? What kid didn’t grow up wanting to be the best? I’m no different. I want to be the best. I’ve always wanted to be the best.

  R.A. Dickey

  Growing Up, Kids, Awards

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• After I had my son I looked everywhere for a book that might serve as some kind of mirror. I bought so many silly books. Now I see what the problem was: I wanted a book about time-about mortality. I can't think of a writer who is at once so experimentally daring and so rigorously uncompromising as Sarah Manguso. Ongoingness is an incredibly elegant, wise book, and I loved it.

  Miranda July

  Wise, Silly, Book

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• We didn't have another choice but to do what we did, if we wanted to be accepted, because we weren't counted as human beings.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Choices, Accepted, Humans

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• Sometimes on the way to your dream you get lost and find a better one. It is okay to change your mind. If you thought you always wanted to be a doctor only to discover after medical school that what you really wanted to do was open a bakery--open a bakery. Life is too short not to follow your heart.

  Lisa Hammond

  Dream, Life Is Too Short, School

  Lisa Hammond (2007). “Permission to Dream: Stepping Stones to Create a Life of Passion and Purpose”, p.30, Conari Press

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• I wanted to believe anything so that I wouldn’t have to face the future alone. The problem with wanting is that it makes us weak.

  Leigh Bardugo

  Believe, Faces, Problem

  Leigh Bardugo (2014). “Ruin and Rising”, p.72, Macmillan

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• Obscurity is where God sends all His favorite sons and daughters. Our society tells us that if and when we get ‘there’—the job or position or degree we’ve always wanted, the notoriety we’ve always dreamed of—that’s when all the important stuff will start happening. Not so. All the good stuff happens in obscurity.

  Jonathan Martin

  Daughter, Jobs, Son

  Jonathan Martin, Steven Furtick (2013). “Prototype: What Happens When You Discover You're More Like Jesus Than You Think?”, p.65, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• All the things I've ever wanted to say suddenly I've been bold enough to say them on Social Media.

  Germany Kent

  Media, Enough, Social

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  I've always wanted to do right in life. But the wanting and the doing aren't quite the same thing.

  Mark Wahlberg

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• With 300 Marines you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Marine, Isis, Iraq

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• If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Rights, World, Should

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (2011). “First Circle”, p.435, Random House

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• Above all else, children need to know and feel they are loved, wanted, and appreciated. They need to be assured of that often. Obviously, this is a role parents should fill, and most often the mother can do it best.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Mother, Children, Parent

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• I understand signifiers. We're social creatures and we have a physical language of communicating with each other. But it would be a really beautiful thing if we could all just wear what we wanted, without it meaning something… it would be a lovely place if we didn't necessarily judge or jump to conclusions because someone wants to wear a dress or because someone wants to wear pants.

  Casey Legler

  Beautiful, Meaning Something, Judging

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• Let go of the past, of the things I wanted, of the people I loved, and move forward.

  Devon Monk

  Letting Go, Moving, Past

  Devon Monk (2009). “Magic in the Shadows: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.21, Penguin

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• I was lucky enough to know exactly what I wanted to do when I was growing up. I think one of the hardest things to figure out in life is what your calling is, and what truly makes you happy - not what you want to work at, but what you want to do.

  Scott Foley

  Growing Up, Thinking, Lucky

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The most important thing for me when I wrote [Origins] was that at the end even if Morrigan loved the player, she had this thing that she believed in, that was so important that she would do it regardless of the player. And I think that a lot of players expected that she would bend herself to do whatever they wanted because they've done the romance, gotten her approval up, and of course she would just sort of follow their destiny. But Morrigan has her own destiny.

  David Gaider

  Player, Destiny, Thinking

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• Everything I wanted before, I want twice as much now. And that doesn't mean material things; it means to explore more, to think more. Being an artist doesn't start because you're 21, and it doesn't end because you're 51. You are who you are until the day you die.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Mean, Artist, Thinking

  "Jennifer Lopez: I Would Never Have In Vitro, I’m ‘Hyper J Lo’ Now", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I was looking for something and I wasn't sure what it was. [After experimenting with] certain funguses, I had a psychedelic experience where I looked up at the clouds and went, 'Oh!' I realized that we all have our own power, and that whatever I wanted to do, I had to make happen.

  Adam Lambert

  Clouds, Psychedelic, Certain

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• So many things suddenly made sense for the clowns, for the whole idea. I’d been going through a struggle, particularly after 9/11; I couldn’t figure out what I wanted to say. I still wanted the work to be the same kind of mixture – intense, with a nasty side or an ugly side, but also with a real pathos about the characters – and clowns have an underlying sense of sadness while they’re trying to cheer people up. Clowns are sad, but they’re also psychotically, hysterically happy.

  Cindy Sherman

  Cheer, Real, Struggle

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• I never went into acting to be able to scare everybody. If I'd wanted to frighten people, I could have joined the C.I.A.

  Michael Shannon

  People, Acting, Scare

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• I started acting because I was miserable and crazy and wanted to be someone else, to run around and scream in front of people without getting in trouble.

  Michael Shannon

  Running, Crazy, People

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• I pierced one nipple. Not both. Just one. She has it in the books and I wanted to get as many of the piercings as I could, and I spent so much time on this film naked, and I just had to be really comfortable with that right away . . . I'm gonna keep it for now. I don't want to have to repierce that should we do the other two films.

  Rooney Mara

  Book, Two, Naked

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• My dad is a writer, and to see him always in front of a typewriter gave me the inspiration to write. He was my idol, my hero. I wanted to be just like him.

  Shakira

  Dad, Inspiration, Hero

  "Colombian gold". Interview With Ted Kessler, www.theguardian.com. July 13, 2002.

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• A lot of people don't know this, but when 'Dancing with the Stars' first asked me to be on the show, I said no, because I wanted to act and to be taken seriously.

  Julianne Hough

  Stars, Taken, People

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• I decided I was sick of trying to figure out what everybody else wanted, and I should just decide what I want, and be honest, and not spend all my time guessing.

  Katherine Heigl

  Sick, Trying, Guessing

  "Katherine Heigl On How “Knocked Up” Is Sexist, Ratings Ploys And Mormonism". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2008.

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• I just ultimately wanted to be a mother. I love children.

  Katherine Heigl

  Mother, Children, Children Love

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