Wanted Quotes - Page 38

• To me, I took a militant attitude towards sounds. I wanted sounds to be a metaphor, that they could be as free as a human being might be free. That was my idea about sound. It still is, that they should breathe ... not to be used for the vested interest of an idea. I feel that music should have no vested interests, that you shouldn't know how it's made, that you shouldn't know if there's a system, that you shouldn't know anything about it ... except that it's some kind of life force that to some degree really changes your life ... if you're into it.

  Morton Feldman

  Attitude, Should Have, Ideas

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• Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain what you never dreamed you could.

  Sarah Lewis

  Helping

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• I wanted to get clean. I knew that my highest potential, the place that I was most spiritual, the place that I was the most rich in terms of my life, and my livelihood, and my art and my creativity, was when I was sober.

  Macklemore

  Spiritual, Art, Creativity

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• I've never been bashful to say that I'm not really interested in Formula One. When I lived in England, it's all I wanted to do and I thought that anything else would somehow be a compromise to my dreams. But then when I came back to the States, I realised how much I loved being back in the States...

  Danica Patrick

  Dream, England, Compromise

  "Daytona 500: Racing superstar Danica Patrick commits career to America’s NASCAR". Interview with Rachel Ray, www.telegraph.co.uk. February 26, 2012.

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• I always wanted to create a site that was sports and pop culture. 30 for 30 had a big impact because I loved how that was about finding, empowering and working with these incredible directors, and I thought the same thing could work for writers.

  Bill Simmons

  Sports, Impact, Empowering

  "ESPN's Bill Simmons on His Mini-Empire, Why Hollywood 'Sucks' and Why He Won't Write about Sandusky (Q&A)". Interview with Lacey Rose, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 22, 2011.

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• I wanted the light to be the revelation. It has to do with what we value. I want people to treasure light.

  James Turrell

  Light, People, Treasure

  "Incredible Lightness" by Julie L. Belcove, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 19, 201.

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• I didn't want to become a personality, I wanted to be a musician, but because I didn't have an album to stand by yet it was hard for people to see that. But now, two albums in, I'm happy with things.

  Florence Welch

  Two, People, Personality

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• I've always wanted to be a guy with a rec room.

  Jerry Stahl

  Guy, Rooms

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• A waft of sweet hash drifted by, and I wanted to float after it like Wimpy levitating at the scent of a hamburger.

  Jerry Stahl

  Sweet, Hamburgers, Scent

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• In my family, misery didn't just love company, it wanted hostages.

  Jerry Stahl

  Misery, My Family, Company

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• I've always gone out with men who wanted a cook all the time.

  Heather Mills

  Men, Gone, Cooks

  "From Lady Mucca ... to Mrs Whippy". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. July 18, 2009.

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• For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.

  Zedd

  Pianist

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• Writing a teen character is something I wanted to try again for a long time!

  Emily Giffin

  Writing, Character, Long

  Interview with Emily Laurence, www.seventeen.com. July 16, 2012.

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• Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

  Carla Bley

  Bakers, Sophisticated, Mulligans

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• I liked to win, but more than anything, I loved to play the way I wanted to play

  Ben Hogan

  Winning, Play, Way

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• I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Imagination, Mind, Want

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• I just wanted to let all our fans know that there is nothing to be alarmed about because our faces are 100% .....Ass Free.

  Edge

  Wwe, Fans, Faces

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• I rang the bell and she opened the door, dried her hands, and said heartily: 'Hello, stranger. I was just saying to Cliff only tonight, it's about time you showed up around here.' I wanted to detach him from her, but first I had to sit through about ten minutes of her. She was my sister, but you don't tell women things like I wanted to tell him. I don't know why, but you don't. You tell them the things you have under control; the things that you're frightened of, you tell other men if you tell anyone.

  Cornell Woolrich

  Fear, Men, Doors

  Cornell Woolrich (1943). “I wouldn't be in your shoes”

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• The Zoo is a prison for animals who have been sentenced without trial and I feel guilty because I do nothing about it. But there it was, I wanted to see an oyster-catcher and I was no better than the people who'd caged oyster-catchers for me to see.

  Russell Hoban

  Zoos, Freedom, Animal

  "The Turtle Diary".

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• What is wanted is men of principle, who recognize a higher law than the decision of the majority. The marines and the militia whose bodies were used lately were not men of sense nor of principle; in a high moral sense they were not men at all.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Responsibility, Marine, Men

  Henry David Thoreau, David Gross (2007). “The Price of Freedom: Political Philosophy from Thoreau's Journals”, p.129, David M Gross

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• [Moses] is obsessed with hip-hop and wanted a gold chain like his uncle Jay-Z.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Funny, Uncles, Hip Hop

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• For sure, they don't teach you this in history class, but in colonial times, the person who got left in the stocks overnight was nothing less than fair game for everybody to nail. Men or women, anybody bent over had no way of knowing who was doing the ram job, and this was the real reason you never wanted to end up here unless you had a family member or a friend who'd stand with you the whole time. To protect you. To watch your ass, for real.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Jobs, Real, Men

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Jobs did not know that Sculley had told Eisenstat he wanted to quit, but by then it didn't matter. Overnight, he had changed his mind and decided to stay. Despite the blowup the day before, he was still eager for Jobs to like him. So he agreed to meet the next afternoon.

  Walter Isaacson

  Jobs, Mind, Afternoon

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.203, Simon and Schuster

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• We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in any form that interested us, anyway, and the next you couldn't miss them; they were everywhere, all over the place. One moment you wanted to clonk them on the head for being your sister, or someone else's sister, and the next you wanted to....actually, we didn't know what we wanted next, but it was something. Almost overnight, all these sisters (there was no other kind of girl, not yet)had become interesting, disturbing, even.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Interesting, Missing

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.16, Penguin

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• I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

  Wes Bentley

  Would Be, Fame, Sensations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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