What We Wanted Quotes

Everything I wanted to do was big. I feel like my music is big, the mark I'ma leave in this world is big, so I feel like that's the perfect name.

Women like me. Women love me, so if I really wanted to involve the women, I don't have to assault the women.

I was a good liberal in some sense at that point. I wanted to end a war. I wanted to support the civil rights movement.

I wanted to give the house back to the parents.

I'm not sure if my parents had me because they loved me, or because they wanted someone to watch their other children.

When I was playing football, I was getting up to 240 pounds, and they wanted me to get to 260.

I was quite surprised how easily people wanted to pigeonhole things I've done.

That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor.

Republicans are obsessed with abortion...if they really wanted to protect the weakest, most helpless people, wouldn't they protect the Democrats?

If one wanted to stigmaitise, that's how one would do it - lots and lots of people saying "we're severing our ties".

I just wanted a style of music all my own.

I had opportunities to play with other people and give my self some sort of security, but for some reason I wanted to play solo and just put it out there.

I wanted to learn how to paint rather than just doing black-and-white work

I wanted to be complete, because I figured that, visually, there was an avenue to explore with painted stuff

As a kid, I knew I wanted to be either a cartoonist or an astronaut. The latter was never much of a possibility, as I don't even like riding in elevators.

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it.

I always wanted to play a lawyer.

In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my guitar and perform Oh Jean.

The evil lot who did that thing on September 11 did it because they wanted to create a war between America and Islam. And by invading Iraq, we gave them what they hoped for.

All I wanted was to be a pea of being inside the green pod of time.

I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one.

I thought originally when I was in school and I wanted to be a poet, I knew that poets seemed to be miserable.

We were just a little immature in the past. I think we actually wanted to create difficult situations for ourselves just to be able to use that emotion for stimulation.

I always wanted to be a professional athlete. I love my life.

All she wanted was sax.

I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man.

I did not want to be an actor because my whole family did it-going into the family business was the last thing I wanted to do.

What you need to know about me is that I always just wanted to be a country singer. I didn't choose the path of television or being on magazine covers.

I've been very lucky. I wanted to be an actress, but I didn't really have the drive to sell myself. Fortunately I had a terrific agent in New York who kept me going from job to job.

If you wanted to, it would be easy to find some crappy lyrics [of Bob Dylan] from the Eighties to undermine the Nobel Prize.

I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able to do anything, but something was worth a try.

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

I always wanted to have a career that would keep me at home in New York so I can work in the theater all the time and be involved in the creative process from the ground up.

I always wanted to be a basketball player until I discovered Pizza Pockets.

I wanted to get in the ring and be like Muhammad Ali.

I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Always been very creative. I always laughed at things that the rest of my family would sort of get angry, like not understand.

I was offered to take over for Reba in 'Annie Get Your Gun,' but it wasn't where I wanted to be. I think my fans would be upset if I confined my shows to one city for a long period of time.

I did have a bunch of goals I wanted to achieve when I was financially able to do so, but they had nothing to do with fame.

Yet I wanted to have children, and I knew that was my purpose, but I wasn't going to settle.

When I played, I had a natural ability to jump and run, and I just wanted to get bigger and heavier.

The stuff I went through at Auburn? It didn't matter anymore. I just wanted to play football.

I've had to come through a lot and I've made a lot of different mistakes, but I realized that I never gave up. I wanted to so badly.

I didnt really have an agenda for my talent. I just wanted to be able to sing.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.

I don't think everybody wanted to be on [new Star Trek series] . I certainly didn't.

I think Rick Berman just called me and asked me if I wanted to do the show [Star Trek: Enterprise], and he said they'd write an arc if I'd do it.