Wanted Quotes - Page 36

• Let's be honest. You let yourself be pulled in because it felt good to be wanted, needed. But then it went too far, as projected images always do. If it's not a real image, but one that has been projected on to you, then you can keep up the masquerade for only so long before the mask cracks and the paint on the mask peels away.

  Tori Amos

  Real, Long, Cracks

  Tori Amos, Ann Powers (2008). “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece”, p.299, Crown Archetype

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• I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

  Laurent Lamothe

  Love Is, Haiti, My Time

  "Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe of Haiti: 'We don’t want to be known as an NGO nation'". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2013.

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• I think I copied my style from Louis Armstrong. Because I used to like the big volume and the big sound that Bessie Smith got when she sang ... So I liked the feeling that Louis got and I wanted the big volume that Bessie Smith got. But I found that it didn't work with me, because I didn't have a big voice. So anyway between the two of them I sorta got Billie Holiday.

  Billie Holiday

  Holiday, Thinking, Two

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• When I came across something I liked, I wanted to find out as much as I could about it. This was as true of hearing Hoagy Carmichael for the first time as it was later when I first heard Boulez.

  Richard Rodney Bennett

  Hearing, Firsts, First Time

  "A life in music: Richard Rodney Bennett". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2011.

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• My only requirement for that first story was that there had to be a fight or an explosion on every page. Naturally, no one wanted to publish it, but I liked the character, did a few stories to keep my hand in.

  Phil Foglio

  Character, Fighting, Hands

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• During my visit to the Philippines, I wanted in a particular way to meet with young people, to listen to you and to talk to you. I want to express the love and the hopes of the Church for you. And I want to encourage you as Christian citizens of this country to offer yourselves passionately and honestly to the great work of renewing your society and helping to build a better world.

  Pope Francis

  Christian, Country, People

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• When I finished high school, I wanted to take all my graduation money and buy myself a motorcycle. But my mom said no. See, she had a brother who died in a horrible motorcycle accident when he was 18. And I could just have his motorcycle.

  Anthony Jeselnik

  Funny, Mom, Brother

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• Peoples lives, in Jubilee as elsewhere, were dull, simple, amazing, unfathomable-deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum. . . . What I wanted [to write down] was every last thing, every layer of speech and thought, stroke of light on bark or walls, every smell, pothole, pain, crack, delusion, held still and held together-radiant, everlasting.

  Alice Munro

  Wall, Pain, Writing

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• I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.

  Mario Testino

  Children, Kindness, Humility

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• I wanted to go to Rome. I got an offer to do an Italian film and I went.

  David Naughton

  Italian, Rome, Film

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• Strong faith in the Savior is submissively accepting of His will and timing in our lives, even if the outcome is not what we hoped for or wanted.

  David A. Bednar

  Strong, Outcomes, Timing

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• Artificial intelligence would be the ultimate version of Google. The ultimate search engine that would understand everything on the Web. It would understand exactly what you wanted, and it would give you the right thing. We're nowhere near doing that now. However, we can get incrementally closer to that, and that is basically what we work on.

  Larry Page

  Giving, Google, Would Be

  "Founding CEO of Google Inc". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

  Martin Seligman

  Long, Emotion, Species

  "Kim, Cosby and Kim: 2014’s Greatest Fails" By Steve Young, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2015.

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• I'm a cowboy, on a steel horse I ride, and I'm wanted (want-ed...!) dead or alive.

  Ward Churchill

  Horse, Cowboy, Steel

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• From the very start in 1969, I wanted to be a part of helping our Special Olympics athletes succeed. I wanted to be on Eunice Shirver's team as another set of eyes, another set of hands and a heart working to be there for them, finding a way to help them be the best they can be.

  Rafer Johnson

  Team, Heart, Athlete

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• My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he was doing, and I wanted to do surgery.

  Magdi Yacoub

  Dad, Boys, Egypt

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• Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's pritty enough for homesteading but takes no ribbons at the fair. After three dead babies that fellow wanted his money back, pack her up in a box and ship her east to the wife factory.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Baby, Wife, Ships

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• When I was 20 or 21, I didn't... I won't say care about anything, but you're like in your own world - you made something that you always wanted to do, and then you kind of think only about your family and yourself.

  Thierry Henry

  Sports, Thinking, World

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• I found myself losing interest in almost everything, I didn't want to do any of the things I had previously wanted to do and I didn't know why. Everything there was to do seemed like too much work. The opposite of depression is not happiness, but vitality, and it was vitality that seemed to seep away from me in that moment.

  Andrew Solomon

  Opposites, Vitality, Want

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• I knew God wanted to do much more...and he would, if we provided good soil in which he could work.

  Jim Cymbala

  Soil, Ifs

  Jim Cymbala (2010). “Fresh Wind Fresh Fire: What Happens When God's Spirit Invades the Hearts of His People”, p.17, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Torres was easily the best player I have ever played with in my career. I loved him. And when he approached me and said he wanted out, it was like a knife to the heart.

  Steven Gerrard

  Heart, Player, Knives

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• I look back on my life with great joy. I think it was a very successful life. I always did what I wanted and never cared what anyone thought. Women's lib? I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Successful, Thinking, Names

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• So I decided to start a church, for three reasons. First, I hated going to church and wanted one I liked, so I thought I would just start my own. Second, God had spoken to me in one of those weird charismatic moments and told me to start a church. Third, I am scared of God and try to do what he says.

  Mark Driscoll

  Church, Trying, Three

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• I designed a guitar for Ibanez and then they started manufacturing it - it's called the Jem - it's 26 years old and I still play it. As a kid I liked Les Pauls and Strats, but they had limitations for the kind of playing I wanted to do.

  Steve Vai

  Kids, Guitar, Years

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

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• Both back when I was acting and now that I'm writing, I've always wanted the same thing out of my career: to be able to get up in the morning and do what I love doing.

  Tana French

  Morning, Writing, Careers

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