Wanted Quotes

I've got a collection of songs that I've had, I keep adding to and they're all great American composers. I wanted to showcase American composers and I've done that on a lot of my records and played things by American composers that I really respect.

I had a strong desire to become an archer from the very first time I tried it. I forgot my other ambitions. I just wanted to compete in the Olympics.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

And I really also wanted to have the full-body scans to learn if it was anywhere else - and it wasn't - before I told them. So I didn't tell them, until for a week, and then I told them.

I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.

When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.

I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories.

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

Many a time I have wanted to stop talking and find out what I really believed.

I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.

I wanted to be an abstract painter, but I was rotten at it.

The Cowles Commission was the optimal environment for the type of research that I wanted to do.

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

I had a difficult time hearing my own inner voice about what I wanted to be in this life, because there were all these perfect examples of what a man actually does. The notion is that he goes to college, gets married and provides. That's what a man does.

I always wanted my own fragrance because I could never find the right scent for me. At home, I would always mix bottles of my favorite fragrances to create a unique and different scent.

I made it a morning show. We have the coffee cup, we have the morning papers. It's got that feel to it, that's what I wanted.

I think it was when I realised I could talk anybody into doing just about anything I wanted them to.

I kinda wanted to play receiver more.

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

My sister Tiffany told me years ago, 'You can never write about me.' Then she called six months ago and said she wanted to be in a story. She was worried people thought I didn't like her.

Sometimes I'd hear things on other people's records and I say I wanted it on my records, but Leslie Kong said, no, it wasn't right and that it wasn't my style.

I had to give everything I had to one event if I wanted to excel.

Shaving my head was a millennium ritual, to not let it pass as just another New Year's Eve. A lot has happened to me in the last couple of years, personally and spiritually. I wanted to mark it for myself.

I always knew I wanted to be a writer.

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, I knew that's what I wanted to do.

When I was very young I wanted to be a professional horseback rider. Then I wanted to be a pop singer. Then I wanted to be a psychiatrist. Then I wanted to be a movie director.

I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.

I went to a public high school with a magnet program for law and psychology. But right before my junior year, I decided that I wanted to leave and become an actress, so I graduated early and moved out to L.A.

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.