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• I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

  Nick Rahall

  Believe, Government, Firsts

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• It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.

  Mitch Landrieu

  Heart, New Orleans, Cities

  "New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2010.

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• She (my ex-wife) wanted me to stop being Evel Knievel. I am who I am. I'm not going to change. I'll settle down the day they put me in a six-foot pine box.

  Evel Knievel

  Retirement, Who I Am, Feet

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• If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there. . . because we are never there but always here, now!

  Paul Twitchell

  Knows, Ifs

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• I began wondering, can one really write a biography of an illness? But I found myself thinking of cancer as this character that has lived for 4,000 years, and I wanted to know what was its birth, what is its mind, its personality, its psyche?

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Writing, Character

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• My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Letting Go, Fear, Moving

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• I wanted this to be a movie on TV so I could press the off button and make it all go away.

  Michelle Rowen

  Fear, Going Away, Buttons

  Michelle Rowen (2012). “Dark Kiss”, p.60, Harlequin

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• My company is an extension of me, so when I designed my stores I wanted people to feel that they were in my home.

  Tory Burch

  Home, People, Stores

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• I wanted to help women and their families.

  Tory Burch

  Helping

  "Tory Burch to entrepreneurs: Embrace change". Interview with Kristine Hansen, money.cnn.com. June 24, 2011.

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• If I wanted to make a quick buck, there's far easier ways of doing it. What I want is to provoke people. If you want a hit song, all you need to do is rewrite an old song. It might have been proven to work, but you won't be remembered the same way.

  Avicii

  Song, People, Needs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction.

  Don Mattingly

  Moving, Long, Manage

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• I wanted to be a tragedienne. I only wanted sad parts. When mother read the press notices when I was on the road, saying I was a 'comedienne,' the tears rolled down my cheeks. I thought comedians had to have black on their faces, or red beards.

  Dorothy Gish

  Mother, Black, Comedian

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

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• I have never wanted special attention. I was only willing to do what was asked of me and what seemed necessary at the time.

  Miep Gies

  Special, Attention, Willing

  Miep Gies (2012). “Anne Frank Remembered: The Story of the Woman Who Helped to Hide the Frank Family”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• It had never once occurred to me that the paper I wanted to work for would not want me. Certainly I never expected to be rejected solely because I was a girl!

  Kathryn Tucker Windham

  Girl, Paper, Want

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• If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• When you are converted, you want to do what you didn't want to do before, and you don't want to do what you wanted to do before. There's a change in the heart; there's a cleaning up, a change in orientation, and holiness becomes attractive, instead of something you have to put up with to figure out what you can get away with. As long as young people are asking, 'Can I get away with this?' or 'Can I get away with that?' I wonder if they're regenerate. If they're asking, instead, 'How can I grow in holiness?' then I suspect they've begun to understand.

  D. A. Carson

  Heart, Long, People

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• Nobody who bought a drill actually wanted a drill. They wanted a hole. Therefore, if you want to sell drills, you should advertise information about making holes – NOT information about drills!

  Perry Marshall

  Business, Entrepreneur, Want

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• I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

  Tracy Anderson

  Mom, Dancer, Ballet

  "Teeny, tiny body, anyone?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2009.

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• Yes, I got my first Bolex camera a few weeks after being dropped in New York by the United Nations Refugee Organization. That was on October 29th, 1949. With my brother Adolfas, we wanted to make a film about displaced persons, how one feels being uprooted from one's home.

  Jonas Mekas

  Brother, New York, Home

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• My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, "Cooking is my job, and studying is your job." I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

  Ina Garten

  Mother, Jobs, Thinking

  "Thanksgiving With Ina Garten". Interview with Rosemary Ellis, www.goodhousekeeping.com. October 11, 2011.

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• I always wanted to go in a cave.

  2 Chainz

  Caves

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• It's pre-photography, a fossilization of time, Americans have done the Zen garden to death. I wanted to do something different.

  Hiroshi Sugimoto

  Photography, Garden, Different

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• My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Years, Degrees, Firsts

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• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

  Laura Mvula

  Dream, Writing, Thinking

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• My parents encouraged us to commit to things, so if we wanted to learn an instrument, it was all the grades and all the theory.

  Laura Mvula

  Parent, Theory, Instruments

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