“If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt.” IfsLongWantedAmericaTermRadicalLong TermSugarSaltRadical Change Author:Jamie Oliver
“The Jews might have had Uganda, Madagascar, and other places for the establishment of a Jewish Fatherland, but they wanted absolutely nothing except Palestine, not because the Dead Sea water by evaporation can produce five trillion dollars of metaloids and powdered metals; not because the sub-soil of Palestine contains twenty times more petroleum than all the combined reserves of the two Americas; but because Palestine is the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa, because Palestine constitutes the veritable center of world political power, the strategic center for world control.” WorldTwoMightWantedAmericaPoliticalWaterPowerFiveSeaProduceEuropeTwentiesDollarsJewSoilMetalsEstablishmentReservesAsiaPalestineStrategicAbsolutely NothingPolitical PowerCrossroadsZionistFatherlandPetroleumUgandaHoly LandSea WaterMadagascarEvaporation Author:Nahum Goldmann
“I knew Otto Kahn [According to the Figaro, Mr. Kahn on first going to America was a clerk in the firm of Speyer and Company, and married a grand-daughter of Mr. Wolf, one of the founders of Kuhn, Loeb & Company], the multi-millionaire, for many years. I knew him when he was a patriotic German. I knew him when he was a patriotic American. Naturally, when he wanted to enter the House of Commons, he joined the 'patriotic party.'” YearsFirstsWantedAmericaHousePartyCompanyMarriedDaughterJewFirmPatrioticFoundersMillionaireClerksAmerican PatrioticHouse Of CommonsGrand Daughter Author:Denis Fahey
“I grew up in Middle America and I don't think my family was very funny, but I watched 'The Princess Bride.' I always wanted to be an actor. I didn't know anything about it. I'd never seen any plays or anything and I watched that movie over and over and over again.” ThinkingKnowsPlayWantedAmericaActorsMiddleGrewGrew UpMy FamilyPrincessBridesPrincess BrideMiddle America Author:Missi Pyle
“Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?” ThinkingYearsChildrenWantedAmericaMovingGrowsSidesAnimalBoysGrowing UpNiceYears AgoTwentiesEastProfessionJungleColumbusWild AnimalEast Side Author:Abraham Polonsky
“I went to America with a very specific idea of what I wanted to do.” IdeasWantedAmerica Author:Rupert Sanders
“When I started formulating the first Frank comic, I knew I wanted it to be something that was beyond time and specific place. I felt that having the characters speak would tie it to 20th-century America, because that would be the idiom of the language they would use, the language I use.” FirstsCharacterUseWould BeWantedAmericaSpeakLanguageFeltCenturyComicTiesFrank20th CenturyIdiom Author:Jim Woodring
“I felt like the luckiest kid in the world. And I was. I was growing up middle-class in a time when growing up middle-class in America meant there would be jobs for my parents, good schools for me to prepare myself for a career, and, if I worked hard and played by the rules, a chance for me to do anything I wanted.” IfsWorldHardWould BeKidsWantedSchoolJobsAmericaFeltParentChanceClassCareersGrowing UpGrowingMiddleMiddle ClassGood School Author:Al Franken
“I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was a little kid and I used to get in trouble at church for goofing off all the time: mocking the preacher, imitating people and the things they did. I later learned my mother used to be just as goofy as I was when she was younger. I mean, Eddie Murphy in 'Coming to America?' My hero.” PeopleMeanLittlesKidsWantedAmericaUsedMotherChurchKnownTroubleHeroUsed To BePreacherLittle KidMy HeroGoofyMurphyImitatingComing To AmericaGoofing Off Author:Lamorne Morris
“No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words "no" and "not" employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.” PeopleFirstsGovernmentWantedAmericaPoliticalRightsConstitutionBillsSevenLibertarianCommunismMore TimeArticlesLibertarianismRestraintEmployedLimited GovernmentBill Of RightsLimited FreedomAmerica FreedomConcluding Author:Edmund A. Opitz
“To my surprise, I felt a certain springy keenness. I was ready to hike. I had waited months for this day, after all, even if it had been mostly with foreboding. I wanted to see what was out there. All over America today people would be dragging themselves to work, stuck in traffic jams, wreathed in exhaust smoke. I was going for a walk in the woods. I was more than ready for this.” PeopleIfsWould BeTodayWantedAmericaCertainFeltWalksReadyMonthsSurpriseWoodsStuckSmokeThis DayTrafficJamAmerica TodayForebodingTraffic JamKeennessWalk In The WoodsStuck In Traffic Author:Bill Bryson
“I wanted to make a comment on the obsession with success and failure that we see a lot in America.” WantedAmericaObsessionCommentSuccess And Failure Author:Cameron Crowe
“When I was president, I knew exactly what I wanted to do every day to bring America together and create a greater sense of opportunity and a larger sense of responsibility and a stronger sense of community.” WantedTogetherAmericaOpportunityPresidentCommunityResponsibilityGreaterStrongerSense Of Responsibility Author:William J. Clinton
“I always wanted to see what America was like. I had that curiosity in my 20s when I was working in the theatre here [ in London]... there was the mystery of LA and I wondered what happened over there. I wanted to go and check it out and I'm pleased that I have.” WantedAmericaHappenedMysteryCuriosityLondonTheatreChecks Author:Tom Hiddleston
“The history of this country was made largely by people who wanted to be left alone. Those who could not thrive when left to themselves never felt at ease in America.” PeopleMadeCountryWantedAmericaLeftFeltEaseThriveLeft Alone Author:Eric Hoffer
“Just make it (his obituary): born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917.” FirstsWantedAmericaBornLessonsRussiaReportersDebutObituary Author:Jascha Heifetz
“I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.” FirstsBookEndsWantedAmericaPagesHistory Books Author:Alan Shepard
“I didn't write professionally at first. It took me nine years to get anything published. At the beginning I mostly wrote picture books, which were rejected by every children's book publisher in America. The first book of mine to be accepted for publication was ELLA ENCHANTED, and not one but two publishers wanted it. That day, April 17, 1996, was one of the happiest in my life.” WritingYearsFirstsChildrenTwoBookWantedAmericaMinesAcceptedNineRejectedPublishersAprilPublicationEnchantedNine YearsChildren's BooksPicture Books Author:Gail Carson Levine
“Joe Biden went to Brazil in an effort to try and repair America's relationship with their government. Biden said, 'It's great to be here in the Amazon. I've always wanted to see where all the books come from.'” TryingSaidBookGovernmentWantedAmericaEffortAmazonBrazilBiden Author:Jimmy Fallon
“I basically made the movie from the crew's suggestions. For one scene, I wanted some kids' toys against the wall in Mikey's room, to give the scene texture, and we tried a field hockey stick. It looked really good to me, until someone had to say that in America, field hockey is more of a girl's game. Gradually I got tuned into the world - that happens on every movie.” WorldGivingMadeHappensKidsWantedAmericaGirlGamesRoomsFieldsWallSceneSticksHockeyToysCrewSuggestionsTextureMikeyHockey SticksField Hockey Author:Ang Lee
“When I came to America, I told my dad I wanted to be an actress.” WantedAmericaDadMy DadActresses Author:Odeya Rush
“My grandmother ... came here, not only like so many others because of the streets 'being paved with gold' and all, but because she wanted to leave the place where the streets were paved with people who had not gone to America.” PeopleWantedAmericaGoneStreetsGoldGrandmotherMy Grandmother Book:Roseanne: my life as a woman Source: Roseanne: my life as a woman
“One of the things I always believed in was my dad came to America and he was a very talented musician, but he couldn't make a living that way so he had to support his family as an auto mechanic which he also loved doing. He was also such a great dad because when I first told him I thought I wanted to go into show business, his response was okay, that's interesting.” WayFirstsShowsWantedAmericaInterestingSupportDadMusicianOkayResponseMy DadMechanicShow BusinessAlways BelieveGreat DadAuto MechanicTalented Musicians Author:Denis Leary
“By the time I was 11, I wanted to be a comedian. So all those years later, I've managed to achieve my dream as a kid, and it wasn't easy. I'm on the [Hollywood] Walk of Fame and I'm one of the 25 most influential Hispanics in America, according to Time Magazine. I think my duty is to go back and tell kids, 'Whatever color you are, wherever you come from, anything and everything is possible.' And I'm living proof.” ThinkingYearsDreamKidsWantedAmericaEasyWalksAchieveColorDutyFameHollywoodProofMagazinesComedianInfluentialAnything And EverythingLiving ProofTime Magazine Author:George Lopez
“Democracy is something America has never really practiced. Because the Founding Fathers hated two things: monarchy and democracy. They wanted a republic, a replica of the Roman or Venetian republics. They didn't even like the etymology of the word "democracy."” TwoWantedAmericaFatherDemocracyHatedTwo ThingsRepublicFoundingMonarchyReplicaEtymology Author:Gore Vidal
“In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.” ThinkingWayWantWritingBookDifferentMatterWantedAmericaEasyCommonTakenFansHavensSellsSellingTendenciesExpensesWant SomethingHappy EndingsSold OutDifferent BooksSelling Books Author:Steven Tyler
“I guess I was the most unbohemian of all bohemians. My bohemianism consisted of not wanting to get involved with the stupid stuff that I thought people wanted you to get involved with - ... namely America... Dwight Eisenhower, McCarthyism and all those great things.” PeopleWantedAmericaStuffStupidInvolvedGreat ThingsGet InvolvedMccarthyismDwightDwight Eisenhower Author:Amiri Baraka