“Quite honestly I never had a desire to be an actor. I tell people, I did not choose acting; acting chose me. I never grew up wanting to be an actor. I wanted to play football. In about 9th grade an English teacher told me I had a talent to act. He said I should audition for a performing arts high school so I did on a whim. I got accepted.” PeopleShouldArtSaidPlayWantedSchoolDesireActorsActingTeacherTalentFootballGrewGrew UpHigh SchoolAcceptedHonestlyPerformingGradesAuditionsWhimPerforming ArtsEnglish Teacher Author:Ving Rhames
“Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one should always challenge their own perception of where their boundaries lie. Everest seemed like an irrational challenge for an Egyptian, so I embraced it wholeheartedly. This feeling grew stronger when I realized that no Egyptian had attempted, let alone stood, on the roof of the world. The desire and pride of representing my country and raising the Egyptian flag on the highest points on earth has been with me ever since.” IfsWorldShouldHumansHas BeensCountryFeelingsEarthLyingDesireChallengesPrideGrewPerceptionHighestStrongerPassionateBelieverI RealizedBoundariesClimbingFlagsRoofIrrationalConquestRepresentingEgyptianEverestWholeheartedly Author:Omar Samra
“If you're in the heyday of rock and roll and movies, and that's where I grew up. We didn't have to look for it. We didn't have to create angst. We didn't have to create desire. We didn't have to say, see we were screwed, my generation, because we wanted to be The Beatles or Elvis Presley. That ain't going to happen. So we always had this thing to reach for.” IfsLooksHappensWantedDesireGenerationsRocksGrewGrew UpRock And RollAngstMy GenerationHeyday Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.” NeedsHardPlayDesireFightingGrewGrew Up Author:Zinedine Zidane
“Coca-Cola remains emblematic of the best and worst of America and Western civilization. The history of Coca-Cola is the often funny story of a group of men obsessed with putting a trivial soft drink "within an arm's reach of desire." But at the same time, it is a microcosm of American history. Coca-Cola grew up with the country, shaping and shaped by the times. The drink not only helped to alter consumption patterns, but attitudes toward leisure, work, advertising, sex, family life, and patriotism.” MenCountryStoriesAmericaDesireSexAttitudeGroupsWorstArmsGrewDrinkCivilizationGrew UpRemainsWesternPatternsAdvertisingObsessedLeisureAmerican HistoryConsumptionFamily LifeWestern CivilizationMicrocosmCoca ColaFunny StorySoft Drinks Author:Mark Pendergrast
“In my childhood I was obsessed with cameras but could not afford one. After much persuasion my father Harivansh Rai Bachchan bought me a box camera which I treasured for years. Initially I clicked trees and nature and as I grew up started noticing prettier things-motorbike, sleek cars and cool girls. But the hamartia of life is when you desire something you cannot afford it and when you are able to afford it you are too old to use it. Now I don't need all gadgets but it's satisfying to know that at least I can afford them.” KnowsNeedsYearsI CanUseAbleLife IsDesireGirlFatherTreeChildhoodCarGrewGrew UpCamerasBoxesObsessedSatisfyingPersuasionNoticingGadgetsTreasuredMotorbikeCool Girl Author:Amitabh Bachchan
“the separation of church and state grew out of a desire, not so much to protect government from religion, but to protect religion from government.” StatesGovernmentDesireChurchGrewProtectSeparationChurch And StateSeparation Of Church And State Author:Anna Quindlen
“The program grew out of a desire to address a gap identified after 9/11 ... The program does not involve the NSA examining the phone records of ordinary Americans. Rather, it consolidates these records into a database that the government can query if it has a specific lead - phone records that the companies already retain for business purposes.” IfsDoeGovernmentDesirePurposeCompanyRecordsGrewOrdinaryProgramPhonesAddressesGapsNsaExaminingDatabasesQueries Author:Barack Obama
“O ye whose years unfolding fair Are fresh with youth, and free from care, Should vice and indolence desire The garden of your souls to hire, No parleys hold-reject the suit, Nor let one seed the soil pollute. My child their first approach beware, With firmness break the insidious snare, Lest as the acorns grew and throve Into a sun-encircled grove, Thy sins, a dark o'ershadowing tree Shut out the light of Heaven from thee.” ShouldYearsFirstsChildrenSoulLightCareDesireHeavenDarkSinBreakSunTreeYouthGrewApproachFairsGardenVicesSeedsSuitsTheeYour SoulMy ChildrenSoilRejectsUnfoldingIndolenceInsidiousSnaresFirmnessGroveAcorns Author:Lydia Sigourney