What We Wanted Quotes

People have told me 'Betty, Facebook is a great way to keep in touch with old friends...' .. At my age, if I wanted to keep in touch with old friends, I'd need a Ouija board

I wanted it to be like Amy Grant, but it didn't pan out that way. My label actually went bankrupt, and I was left without a home.

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.

We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.

A lot of people wanted to try to make me the white Nicki Minaj. That’s not what I’m trying to do. I love ‘hood’ music, but my talent is as a singer.

I made an enjoyable living as a very young man, but I think as I became more comfortable and knowledgeable about myself and what I wanted, I moved into acting.

I was up around 340 pounds because the producers said they wanted a really big guy, and I'm not that big, you know! I've lost it all now though. I'm 285 pounds, my sexy weight!

I wanted to give readers the feeling of knowing the characters, a mental image.

But what really excited me was the idea that humans had a tremendous pre-history that went back millions of years. I wanted to go to Africa to find some of these creatures.

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

Every time I listened to Lux Radio Theatre, I wanted to vomit.

But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.

I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.

I'm glad I won it because when I grew up the Pulitzer was the award that every composer wanted and I was like that too.

I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.

I just wanted to get back to playing attacking football after my time in Italy. It was a little difficult at first but the atmosphere and the fans were just fantastic.

It seemed clear to me early on that one of the things a photograph could do was make a reality, and I wanted to do that. I always think of looking inside an Easter egg and seeing a perfect world.

I wanted to be an outstanding player, that was my ambition.

When Bob came through Cincinnati, he wanted a girl singer to be on his show. There was a local contest, and my sister and I entered, but Bob said, Gee, I wouldn't break up the team.

I wanted to be cute. That's the terrible thing. I should have had more sense.

I never wanted a Guardian Angel. I didn't ask for one. One was assigned to me.

I have done so much: modeling, acting, singing, the calendar, the lingerie line, and there have been times where I have wanted to give up but I went for it.

You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible.

Everything worthwhile, everything of any value, has its price. Everything anyone has ever wanted has come neatly wrapped up in its penalties.

I have wanted everything as a writer and a woman, but most of all a world changed utterly by my revelations.

I was well-rounded, I'd been to college. It wasn't that I couldn't do anything else. I wanted to stay in sports, but if I couldn't think, how was I going to play?

Muhammad Ali was the kind of guy you either loved or hated, but you wanted to see him. I happen to really love him. He brought boxing to another level and always made you laugh.

I wanted to understand the secrets behind my chemical experiments and behind the processes in nature.

I never had any desire to be a film actor. I never thought I was the good-looking movie type, which I assumed they wanted.

An Irishman's wife gave birth to twins. Her husband wanted to know who the other man was.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

The things she most wanted to tell him would lose their meaning the moment she put them into words.

Returning to South Carolina meant getting a normal job in a normal town with normal people and marrying a normal person. I wanted the glamour and opportunity of the world.

What I wanted to do was music, until I was about 16. But it was jazz and rock, never classical music.

I didn't tell any of my friends that I wanted to be a comedian, because I was superstitious. I thought if I told people, it wouldn't happen. So I kept it all in my head for years and years.

I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life.

I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it, you might take one thing from it. Until that was clear in my mind, I wasn't going to do one.

It's no fun to lose, ... We haven't lost in a while and now we get to remember what it feels like. Everybody wants to be undefeated and that's what we wanted. There are no excuses.

One morning you will awake to find that you are the person you dreamed of doing what you wanted to do simply because you had the courage to believe in your potential and to hold on to your dream.

My parents taught me I could be anything in the world I wanted to be.

I didn't want to be the rebel who was bottom of the class, so I worked hard. They wanted me to stay on for A-Levels, but football came calling - that was my real love.

On the one hand, young theatre directors were coming to television theatre, because they wanted to get closer to the cinema, despite having studied and worked for the theatre.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

It's not like we wanted to get really political in terms of specific causes, but I think a lot of the lyrics deal with paranoia and feeling like "the man" is in control somehow.

You had women's kickboxing and they're in the ring and that's what I want to do. I just wanted to fight.

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!

The biggest advantage to believing in God is you don't have to understand anything, no physics, no biology. I wanted to understand.

I have no complaints with the whole childhood acting thing, because I wanted to do it.

A few years after my first son was born, he wanted to know how we chose his name, so I began reading him the story of Noah's Ark.

In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active.