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• I throw a Christmas party at my house. It's not really a Christmas party, because I don't want to call it a Christmas party. But let's just say I put a lot I wanted an electric train for Christmas but I got the saxophone instead.

  Clarence Clemons

  Christmas, Party, House

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• As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Trying, Twenties, World

  Jacqueline Novogratz (2012). “The Blue Sweater : Bridging The Gap Between Rich And Poor In An Intercnnected World”, p.4, HarperCollins Publishers

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• We go through life so fast and we never really get to enjoy moments. It seems like they go past us...Tonight I just wanted to take a minute, a moment and soak it in and be a kid from Robbins Illinois and be a kid from Marquette University.

  Dwyane Wade

  Kids, Past, Illinois

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• I wanted to make connections between Whale's past and present.

  Bill Condon

  Past, Whales, Connections

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• I wanted to communicate what I had seen, so that others could see it.

  Laurie Lee

  Talking, Communicate

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• I wanted when we began this to have a conversation, the kind that you're able to have, and the only way I knew how to do it was not to have a pre-interview.

  James Lipton

  Talking, Able, Way

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• I don't want a tombstone. You could carve on it 'She never actually wanted a tombstone.'

  Ali Smith

  Tombstone, Want, Headstone

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• Since I was a kid I've wanted to be in a Bond movie.

  Rick Yune

  Kids, Ties, Bond Movie

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

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• The longer the game went on, you got the feeling that neither side really wanted to lose.

  Mark Lawrenson

  Games, Two Sides, Feelings

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• I was a kid, and I wasn't even sure if I wanted to play the drums, you know? All I wanted to do was skateboard, but I was still learning and taking it in, so it was good.

  Travis Barker

  Children, Kids, Play

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• Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.

  Keith David

  Years, Two Year Olds, Actors

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We meet thee, like a pleasant thought, When such are wanted.

  William Wordsworth

  Daisies, Thee, Pleasant

  William Wordsworth (1994). “The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth”, p.158, Wordsworth Editions

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• They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Ghetto, Home, Boys

  Beyond Vietnam -- A Time to Break Silence, Delivered 4 April 1967, Riverside Church, New York City

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• I used to dread getting older because I thought I would not be able to do all the things I wanted to do, but now that I am older I find that I don't want to do them.

  Nancy Astor

  Getting Older, Want, Able

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• Voices were heard from the United States of America which made it clear that America wanted a peaceful and united Europe as a basis for mutual cooperation.

  Gustav Stresemann

  Peace, Europe, Voice

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• I wanted to get my recording and become a musician again, work; with other people, do that kind of thing because I kind of got away from that for a while once we started happening, you know, selling records, sold out concerts.

  Bootsy Collins

  People, Musician, Boots

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• Later the Administration wanted me to actually sell all remaining surplus by running the War Assets Corporation. I said I couldn't do it without some shoe leather.

  Stuart Symington

  Running, War, Shoes

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• There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

  Andy Summers

  College, Guitar, Periods

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• I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

  Leo Kottke

  Guitar, Piano, Notes

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• I had sat in one day in Central Park with Bonnie and Delaney, and Duane was playing with them, so I asked if he wanted to work on an album. You never had to say to him how to play the guitar.

  Herbie Mann

  Guitar, Play, Central Park

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• Among the multitudes will be found many who cannot discriminate between what is merely wanted and what is needed, what is necessary for bare subsistence and what is indispensable for the sake of the freedom and clarity of one's higher powers.

  Kenny Smith

  Needs, Sake, Clarity

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• We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

  Art Garfunkel

  Kids, Nuts, Practice

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• I want him [Saddam Hussein]. I want - I want justice. There is an old poster seen out west. As I recall, it said, Wanted Dead or Alive.

  George W. Bush

  Justice, President, Alive

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• Old muleskinners told how the mules were waiting at the shaft when they arrived each morning. They wanted relief from the heat, deerflies and mosquitoes just like the men.

  Harry Anderson

  Morning, Men, Waiting

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• If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

  Oscar Wilde

  Prayer, Punishment, Answers

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