What We Wanted Quotes

Did the media ever question anything about Obamacare, the intricate do's and don'ts, the policy cogs? No.[Barack] Obama just wanted it.

The MacGuffin in that [Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky story] was [Bill] Clinton staying in office. That's what he wanted, and the media was hell-bent that he was gonna get what he wanted.

One of the reasons I think Barack Obama had the policy he did was purposely to create this flood of refugees from Syria. He wanted them!

Ronald Reagan fought for America. He loved America. He feared where the left, based on history, wanted to take the country.

It was clear soon after his election that Obama, like FDR, wanted to start dealing with the economic crisis immediately after his inauguration.

Hip-hop is about tearing down the system to better it, tearing down the system to better themselves. No matter how flimsy it might seem, they always wanted the finer things in life.

Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.

It was never my first choice to be a singer/guitar player. I really wanted to play drums.

I don't think, that all my stuff could've been records. Some, maybe. The ones that I really wanted to be records, those are the ones that are going into the box.

I wanted the songs to be themselves, instead of worrying about all this crazy slickster production.

As a kid, I think I wanted to be the on-set dresser for 'Charlie's Angels'. My goals weren't lofty. No. I just wanted to someday quit my paper round and that was about it.

I always just wanted to be a cheesy guy on television.

I received thousands of letters of support from all around the world, all because I wanted to go to school.

I realized I could do anything if I wanted it badly enough.

I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

From 16 years old, I wanted to have a baby, that's all I wanted.

I was a very defiant child, and my father encouraged that. He wanted me to be as wild and creative as possible and didn't believe in disciplining children.

When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.

When I was a child I wanted to be a petrol pump attendant. I suppose you have all sorts of thoughts as a child and at the time I figured that it was a way to avoid doing anything like going on stage.

I always wanted to be a great actor.

I wanted to be Katharine Hepburn-ish - there was a bit of nobility about her.

I'd wanted to create a storm so that I could become more famous and richer.

If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.

My least favorite photographer to have would be myself. Someone who wanted a career at National Geographic. Because it's almost mathematically impossible to achieve that.

The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.

If you look at successful pivots, they almost always are a pivot into something that the founder wanted. Not a random made up idea.

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.

When I was about 12, I wanted a CD player for Christmas, but instead my parents gave me a really crappy electric guitar.

To say that I would have done otherwise had I wanted to is simply to say that I would have lived in a different universe had I been in a different universe.

When I came home and showed my mother my report card with a mark of 98 in arithmetic, she wanted to know who had gotten the other two points.

I was 11 or 12 years old when I first saw 'Reservoir Dogs.' I remember after I saw that film, I kept renting it from the video store because I wanted all of my friends to see it.

I had more of a vocal range. If you wanted to play a keyboard song, like "Love Walks In," I can do it.

When I entered college, I thought that I wanted to be a lawyer, but by the time I was set to graduate, I was not too sure of that.

Part of me wanted to get a graduate degree in political science. Had I done that, I suppose I would have become a college professor.

What did my parents say when I told them I wanted to be an actor? 'Be a plumber.'

I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.

I would be dishonorable in a relationship because I wasn't getting what I wanted from that person.

I'm a sexual person. A lot of different people turn me on and have over the years, and I've always wanted to make it very clear that this was not coming from some sort of antimale point of view.

i'm going to marry you. i thought you'd like to know in case you wanted to buy a dress or something.

We changed it to emocionó, the way you say in Spanish, "to emotion me" [to be moved]. That, as opposed to "haunt." We wanted the feeling of sadness and grief and obsession, so we used emocionó.

My mom was a frustrated woman, like so many unhappy women who didn't get the opportunities they wanted.

I was interested in cross-pollinating the two. I thought there was something lovely in the little vignette forms. I wanted to explore that.

When I came to the Food Network, I didn't want to do a cooking show. I told Kathleen Finch for nine months I didn't want to do a cooking show, I wanted to do a home-and-garden show.

I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

I knew that I wanted to start my own business. I knew that I wanted to work for myself. I was no stranger to the word no. You just have to keep going.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel

You were never what I wanted to forget.

the past only had whatever power you gave it; life was what you made it and if you wanted something different from what you had, it was up to you to make it happen.

I wanted to be free to write the way I wanted to write, and my impression of Christian publishing, at least in fiction, was that there wasn't room for what I wanted to write.