Wanted Quotes - Page 30

• I think, then, that man, after having satisfied his first longing for facts, wanted something fuller - some grouping, some adaptation to his capacity and experience, of the links of this vast chain of events which his sight could not take in.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Men, Thinking, Sight

  Alfred de Vigny (1840). “Cinq Mars (Complete)”, p.4, Library of Alexandria

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• All of a sudden, those few pages of script that he had shown me with the weird images I could visualize all of that in my brain, and I knew that there was this mad little genius at work here and I really wanted to do the film.

  Jack Nance

  Mad, Brain, Genius

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• He had written my mother once that he wanted her to be the first thing he saw every morning and the last thing he ever saw. And that's how it turned out.

  Ron Reagan

  Mother, Morning, Lasts

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. June 23, 2004.

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• I never wanted children. If I'd been deeply in love with a man and he'd wanted children, it would have been difficult.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Children, Men

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• I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them — which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Money, People, Giving

  "Muhammad Yunus, Banker to the World’s Poorest Citizens, Makes His Case". "Nightly Business Report" with Linda O’Bryon, knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu. March 9, 2005.

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• I wanted to write something from a child's viewpoint... Five of the characters I have played in movies have either been abused or became abusers, themselves, and I just kind of felt like there was a need.

  Meg Tilly

  Movie, Children, Writing

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• Whatever I'm doing, whatever comes along, this music is something that I've always wanted to do.

  Tina Yothers

  Music, Music Is

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• It's taken folk a while to come around, hasn't it? Even the boys in the band weren't too sure about the whole art thing. They just wanted me to concentrate on the music. But they respect it now.

  Ronnie Wood

  Music, Art, Taken

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• I wanted to capture the excitement of house music, almost like a four-four beat, and the best way to do that was to use a language that was rhythmic and performative.

  Irvine Welsh

  Music, House, Way

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• I loved music, but I found myself at the point where I wanted to die. I didn't care about life.

  Brian Welch

  Music, Care, Found

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• We wanted to establish a new fan base over here. And second, we wanted to challenge ourselves. We wanted to bring what is ostensibly new music to fresh ears and see what lights them up.

  Bob Weir

  Music, Light, Challenges

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• So everything turned out fine, and we were given the opportunity to go to Washington and be briefed on the project of man in space, and given the opportunity to choose whether we wanted to get involved or not.

  Alan Shepard

  Opportunity, Men, Space

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• With Sumthin Else Music Works, I wanted to spread the love and give newcomers a chance to make it because something that really helped me were all the people who had given me an opportunity when I was putting my career together.

  Nile Rodgers

  Opportunity, Careers, People

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• The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.

  Billy Connolly

  New York, America, Optimism

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• Well, obviously I wanted it to sound as original as possible. I suppose the influences that we had were probably from the actual power point of view we wanted to be like the Who. Vocally we wanted to be like the Beach Boys, whatever was good at the time.

  Roy Wood

  Beach, Boys, Power

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• When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.

  Larry Wall

  Power, Design, Community

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• I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.

  Patrick Stewart

  Relationship, Mystery, Certain

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• I realized that I wanted to play characters and do traditional theatre. I wanted to make believe again. I like putting on a costume and pretending to be someone else for a few hours, and I have a great respect for playwrights.

  Lusia Strus

  Respect, Believe, Character

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• I don't think I get the respect as a singer. With this record, I wanted to bring respect to my band.

  Darius Rucker

  Respect, Thinking, Band

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

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• My father was my main influence. He was a preacher, but he was also a history and political science teacher, and since he was my hero, I wanted to follow in his footsteps and become a teacher.

  David Soul

  Teacher, Father, Hero

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

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• They wanted me to play more sports because they were acutely sensitive to their children being one hundred percent American, and they believed that all Americans played sports and loved sports.

  Martin Lewis Perl

  Sports, Children, Play

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• In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

  Greg Louganis

  Sports, Moving, People

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• But we had a fantastic coach, Simon Clifford, who runs a British football youth game which teaches Brazilian techniques; which is what we wanted to incorporate into the film. And some of those things we eventually got in.

  Parminder Nagra

  Football, Running, Games

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie.

  Albert Camus

  Inspirational, Lying, Years

  Albert Camus (2008). “Notebooks, 1951-1959”, Ivan R Dee

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• I was outraged to learn that the president wanted to outsource operations at some American ports to the United Arab Emirates.

  Francine Busby

  Hype, President, Port

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