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• Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny and said no. They doubled the money, and that kind of offended me. I realized, oh, that’s right, my opinion means nothing in Hollywood. I’d seen other people compromise, and I felt that once you gave up on what you wanted to do, you couldn’t go back. It was selling out. So I decided to go back to Minneapolis.

  Joel Hodgson

  School, Mean, Thinking

  "'Mystery Science Theater 3000': the Definitive Oral History of a Tv Masterpiece". Interview with Brian Raftery, www.wired.com. April 22, 14.

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• I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does

  Kristy McNichol

  Kids, Doe, Please

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• I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity.

  Trevor Nunn

  Opportunity

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• I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.

  Nigel Kneale

  Writing, Attention, Stories

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• God never intended us to want anything more than we want Him. Just the slightest glimpse into His Word proves that, Look at what the Bible says about God's chosen people, the Israelites, when they wanted food more than they wanted God: 'They willfully put God to the test by demanding the food they craved' (Psalm 78:18). Yikes

  Lysa TerKeurst

  People, Glimpse, Looks

  Lysa TerKeurst (2010). “Made to Crave: Satisfying Your Deepest Desire with God, Not Food”, p.29, Thomas Nelson

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• I Wanted To Sign Scholes For Killie But Fergie Burst Out Laughing

  Alex Totten

  Soccer, Football, Laughing

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• Ultimately, I wanted to own a big truck, exercise my second Amendment rights, listen to hardcore music, and let my congressman know how poorly he represents me. None of this could occur in France.

  Mark Twight

  Exercise, Rights, Second Amendment

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• I suggest that you become obsessed about the things you want; otherwise, you are going to spend a lifetime being obsessed with making up excuses as to why you didn’t get the life you wanted.

  Grant Cardone

  Want, Lifetime, Excuse

  FaceBook post by Grant Cardone from Feb 19, 2017

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• I always wanted to do something completely different.

  Gary Wright

  Different

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• I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway

  Paloma Faith

  Believe, Needs, Asks

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• God knows I wanted love... but the moment I had to choose between the man I loved and my dresses... I chose the dresses

  Coco Chanel

  Men, Wanted Love, Dresses

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• This is all I ever wanted - to help students and artists see myth as a reflection of the one sublime adventure of life, and then to breathe new life into it.

  Joseph Campbell

  Adventure, Reflection, Artist

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.12, New World Library

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• All I wanted to do was to improve, to keep getting better.

  Michael Jordan

  Get Better

  Michael Jordan (2012). “Driven from Within”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• I dont plan on going back to legal work. I wanted an international career, and finance seemed to be where some interesting career opportunities were.

  Nick Johnson

  Opportunity, Careers, Interesting

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• You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Ziggurat Zanzibar Zandorf. I'm not joking. Imagine fitting that on my passport!

  Neon Hitch

  Zanzibar, Parent, Neon

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• I always knew the woman I wanted to be-I knew I wanted to be a woman who was independent a woman who was in the driving seat, a woman who didn't need for the man to decide.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Independent, Men, Needs

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• Music kept me off the streets and out of trouble and gave me something that was mine that no one could take away from me. Music education and families are dealing with the economic times, and I wanted to help them. If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Passion, Kids, Helping

  "Eddie Van Halen Donates 75 Guitars To Los Angeles Schools" By Anna Almendrala, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 12, 2012.

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• As a chemist, I wanted to ask myself the question frustrated by biology: What is the minimal unit of matter that can undergo Darwinian evolution?

  Leroy Cronin

  Motivation, Inspiration, Frustrated

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• No one is born a CEO, but no one tells you that. The magazine stories make it sound like Mark Zuckerberg woke up one day and wanted to redefine how the world communicates [by creating] a billion-dollar company. He didn't.

  Drew Houston

  Business, Zuckerberg, Creating

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• Bill Clinton pandered by telling you what you wanted to hear. John Kerry panders by never telling you what you don't want to hear. This is negative pandering; he talks a lot without really ruling anything out so you can draw your own conclusions.....Kerry has been talking for years, and yet such is the thicket of his verbiage that he has achieved almost complete strategic ambiguity.

  David Brooks

  Talking, Years, Interesting

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• No matter what ailed you, you went to see the barber surgeon who wound up cupping you, bleeding you, purging you. And, oh yes, if you wanted, he would give you a haircut and pull your tooth while he was at it.

  Abraham Verghese

  Giving, Teeth, Matter

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• I love Fidel Castro...I respect Fidel Castro. You know why? A lot of people have wanted to kill Fidel Castro for the last 60 years, but that motherfucker is still here.

  Ozzie Guillen

  Funny, Sports, Years

  "Gumbel: 'Whipping Up a Frenzy' Over Imagined Slights 'Is a Play Straight Out of a Far Right Handbook'" by Brent Baker, www.newsbusters.org. April 30, 2012.

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• I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

  Philip O Ceallaigh

  Broken Heart, Taken, Impossible Things

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• But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less.

  Maya Angelou

  Broken Heart, Distance, Whole

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.213, Random House

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• I was a child that both my parents wanted. I was told from the time I was born that I was totally satisfactory. I had a chance to be what I wanted to be.

  Margaret Mead

  Children, Parent, Mentor

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