“My mom actually didn't let me read any women's magazines growing up. She also didn't let me see Pretty Woman. She thought that I was going to want to be a hooker. So, instead, I just got cast in Scary Movie.” WantGrowing UpGrowingMomLet MeCastsScaryMy MomMagazinesPretty Woman Author:Anna Faris
“There's 6 million people living in poverty today, more than when Barack Obama got elected. 6.5 million people are working part-time, most of whom want to work full-time. We've created rules and taxes on top of every aspiration of people, and the net result is we're not growing fast, income is not growing.” PeopleWantTodayResultsPovertyMillionsGrowingTaxesIncomeBarackAspirationPart TimePoverty Today Author:Jeb Bush
“As an artist, you always have to be growing. You don't just want to do what you already know people like.” PeopleKnowsWantArtistGrowing Author:John Darnielle
“It's not always easy growing up in an inner-city area, but in my music I want to show people that you can turn it into something positive.” PeopleWantShowsTurnsEasyCitiesGrowing UpGrowingAreasInner City Author:Tinchy Stryder
“I had parents who were working actors, who did really well in their careers, but it was a living. So it was a reality for me growing up; it wasn't a fantasy. It wasn't sitting there going, "I want to be adored." It wasn't that at all. Not to say that the screams of fans aren't a smile-raiser, but that was never the pull for me.” WantWellsRealityActorsParentCareersFantasyGrowing UpGrowingFansSittingScream Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“When I was growing up, my parents asked me what I wanted to do, and I said that I wanted to live in Springfield. They were like, "Well, that's not how it works. There is an actor who play Homer, and someone who writes what Homer says." So, I was like, "Well, I want to write what Homer says."” WantWritingWellsSaidPlayWantedActorsParentGrowing UpGrowing Author:Jonah Hill
“I want to keep growing and living life to the fullest for as long as I'm on this planet.” WantLongGrowingPlanetsLive LifeLive Life To The Fullest Author:Madonna Ciccone
“I want to experiment; I want to keep growing. I didn't want to just sit back and rest on my haunches and do the things I knew I could do for a while.” WantGrowingExperiments Author:Josh Hartnett
“I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.” ThinkingWantMy OwnPleasureGrowing UpGrowingMusicalUpbringingJust Listen Author:Mike Stud
“Creating investment, growing the economy and creating jobs is what this government wants to do.” WantGovernmentJobsEconomyGrowingCreatingInvestmentCreating Jobs Author:Peter Gutwein
“I want to continue growing as an actress. There are ways that I can reach quicker, or deeper, with acting.” WayWantI CanActingGrowingDeeperActresses Author:Jill Scott
“Growing up in the fifties, having to wear a dog tag, having to take shelter in a bomb shelter. That turned me toward the road, I did not want to live in fear of that, I was gong to work somehow against what that vision was, and what that horror was. It was poetry, art, music.” WantArtVisionGrowing UpGrowingDogHorrorBombsShelterTagArt MusicGongsBomb Shelters Author:Anne Waldman
“That's the nature of comedy. You always want to be improving and growing and changing with what's happening in the world. That's when comedy is most effective.” WorldWantComedyGrowingHappeningsImproving Author:Margaret Cho
“Our sense of the full range of human nature, like our diet, has been steadily reduced. No matter how nourishing it might be, anything wild gets pulled - though as we'll see, some of the weeds growing in us have roots reaching deep into our shared past. Pull them if you want, but they'll just keep coming back again and again.” IfsWantHumansHas BeensMatterMightPastGrowingHuman NatureRootsRangeDietsReachingWeedAgain And AgainComing BackBack Again Author:Christopher Ryan
“If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow... Go to the cutting edge of your competency, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsMeanGrowsLossKnow HowCuttingGrowingSecurityConfidenceEdgesSecureTemporaryProfessionalismCutting EdgeCompetenciesSkills Development Author:Madeline Hunter
“I just want to keep exploring music and hopefully the orders will keep coming in and I'll be able to keep growing the interior and exterior sides of my life.” WantAbleOrderSidesGrowingHopefullyExploringInteriorsExterior Author:John McLaughlin
“No matter how much it's growing, the Internet still is a pretty specific demographic. It doesn't necessarily represent the general populace. There is stuff that is blown up on the Internet that isn't hugely successful with the entire world, and vice versa. I don't put a tremendous amount of stock in it, but at the same time, you always want people to like what you're doing. Certainly, to have come from an Internet background, we want to stay faithful and have people be supportive and happy with what we're doing.” PeopleWorldWantStillsMatterStuffSuccessfulGrowingAmountInternetVicesBackgroundsFaithfulSupportiveVice VersaDemographics Author:Andy Samberg
“Hip-hop wasn't actually the genre that made me want to make sound, and I couldn't actually really pinpoint what genre it was. Growing up, my favorite music was my parents' music, and eventually I started to develop some taste of my own.” WantMadeParentSoundMy OwnGrowing UpGrowingTasteMy FavoriteHip HopHipsGenreHopsFavorite Music Author:Grieves
“People are seeing me as the guy who wants to get hurt, who wants to break a bone, get bruises. And that's how it was growing up with six brothers. I got beat up, and I beat up people.” PeopleWantGuyHurtBreakGrowing UpGrowingSeeingBrotherSixBeatsBonesBruises Author:Kellan Lutz
“Well, my mother and certain other people in my life - a lot of important people - have said, "Floyd, nobody is perfect except for god." And I always knew that; I just wanted my victories to be flawless. I didn't want to get hit at all. I wasn't gonna make any mistakes. And that's the problem with me growing up and being around a trainer that wants his fighter to be perfect.” PeopleWantWellsSaidImportantProblemWantedMotherCertainPerfectMistakeGrowing UpGrowingVictoryFighterTrainersFlawless Author:Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“You really hope that people who want to be politically active aren't so disillusioned at this point. I do feel positive about what's happening. I think that with all of these movements, and this growing collective voice that's emerging, people are starting to come out of the kind of dazed state that they were in for so many years. But it's tough to know the best way to effect change now. Campaigning alone no longer seems to be the answer.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayWantFeelsYearsKindStatesSeemsVoiceAnswersGrowingEffectsMovementHappeningsToughStartingActiveBest WayCollectivesEmergingDisillusionedCampaigningDazed Author:Scarlett Johansson
“I come from a great family and I was raised by wonderful parents. There is no question that I was given a lot of interesting and unique opportunities growing up...But I think people often misunderstand that I work as hard and want things just as badly as anybody else.” PeopleThinkingWantHardOpportunityGivenParentInterestingGrowing UpGrowingWonderfulUniqueRaisedGreat FamilyUnique OpportunitiesWonderful Parents Author:Abby Huntsman
“You have responsibilities and if you want to be the best in your industry you need to have a relentless dedication to your job. I was fortunate to have support from my parents and sister growing up and that helped me a lot.” IfsWantNeedsJobsParentResponsibilitySupportGrowing UpGrowingIndustryFortunateBeing The BestDedicationRelentless Author:Danica Patrick
“[I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions or shoes. Or the ways that people want their neighborhoods and restaurants curated in a way that's really tailored to them. Growing up with someone who was living by these very strict, repressive rules for themselves - it made me very allergic to the idea of denial.” PeopleWayWantNeedsMadeIdeasHateGrowing UpGrowingSpecialMetsI HateShoesDenialRestaurantsNeighborhoodStrictAllergicAllergiesSpecial NeedsTailoredLotion Author:Carrie Brownstein
“I know how I felt when I saw things like 'Fame' on television when I was growing up and how that was an exceptional magnet for me to want to explore the theater. I can only assume that 'Smash' is doing that for anyone who is halfway interested in theater already.” KnowsWantI CanFeltKnow HowGrowing UpSawsGrowingTelevisionFameTheaterAssumingExceptionalHalfwayMagnet Author:Brian d'Arcy James
“News in printed form is in secular decline. However, news delivered the way consumers want it is growing and thriving.” WayWantFormGrowingNewsConsumersDeclineSecularPrinted Author:Gracia Martore
“Live life to the fullest. You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece. Laugh some every day. Keep growing, keep dreaming, keep following your heart. The important thing is not to stop questioning.” IfsWantHeartImportantDreamLinesLaughingGrowingColorImportant ThingsFollowingLive LifeQuestioningMasterpieceFollow Your HeartLive Life To The FullestKeep Dreaming Author:Albert Einstein
“There is this mysterious energy that wants us to keep growing.” WantEnergyGrowingMysteriousWant U Author:Michele Cassou
“I think that growing up in a crowded continent like Europe with an awful lot of competing claims, ideas, cultures, and systems of thought we have, perforce, developed a more sophisticated notion of what the word freedom means than I see much evidence of in America. To be frank, it sometimes seems that the American idea of freedom has more to do with my freedom to do what I want than your freedom to do what you want. I think that in Europe we're probably better at understanding how to balance those competing claims, though not a lot.” ThinkingWantMeanIdeasSometimesSeemsAmericaCultureUnderstandingGrowing UpGrowingBalanceEvidenceEuropeClaimsNotionWhat You WantAwfulFrankContinentsSophisticatedCompetingCrowdedYour Freedom Author:Douglas Adams
“I'm really tired of Americans being the only ones asked to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to charity, and, quite frankly, my number one concern right now is taking care of the fact that Americans are taking it in the gut without jobs. Many of them working two and three part time jobs. And, if America wants to do something great, let's get our economy growing again, stabilize the dollar, and we'll be in a much better position to help people around the world.” PeopleIfsWorldWantTwoFactsHelpingCareJobsAmericaThreeNumbersEconomyGrowingPositionRight NowConcernTiredDollarsCharityHeavyAround The WorldGutsLiftingPart TimeHeavy LiftingPart Time Jobs Author:Mike Huckabee
“By just passing through things, I continue to slightly limit myself. I want the jobs that don't say that much. I'm often the stepping stone or the conduit from one thing to another. I love the idea of existing in a film and growing and having bigger arcs, and being in scenes where you're just being, as opposed to talking. That' one of my ambitions, lying ahead.” WantIdeasJobsFilmLyingTalkingGrowingOne ThingSceneLimitsAmbitionStonesBiggerPassingPassingsJust BeingArcsMy AmbitionStepping StonesPassing Through Author:Gavin Rossdale
“I'm nice because, when I was growing up, so many people weren't nice to me, and I remember how that felt. And I don't want to make anyone else feel like that. I value nice.” PeopleWantFeelsRememberValuesFeltGrowing UpNiceGrowing Author:Ricky Williams
“Growing up, I was always the only black kid on my team and (sometimes) I'd get questions from my friends when I'd say, `I want to be in the NHL' and they'd say, `Well, there are no black people or not very many in the NHL' and as a kid, you'd wonder why. But overall, I didn't really face any racial difficulties. Nothing too bad or too lasting.” PeopleWantWellsSometimesKidsFacesBlackWonderGrowing UpGrowingTeamMy FriendsDifficultyLastingBlack PeopleNhl Author:Jarome Iginla
“I want to keep growing. I should take a couple steps every year if I want to be one of the best players in the league.” IfsWantShouldYearsStepsGrowingPlayerCoupleLeagueBest Players Author:Ilya Kovalchuk
“I was a swimmer growing up. I was a miler - like long, long distance. So I was in the water for four or five hours a day. That's not the way you want to spend your teenage years.” WayWantYearsLongWaterHoursGrowing UpFiveFourGrowingDistanceTeenageLong DistanceSwimmerTeenage Years Author:Scott Speedman
“Well, I don't want to talk too much about my children, but a friend of one of my children, something really terrible happened to her. I just felt like I had to speak about growing up again, because I felt that there's no way I can talk about difficulties of life. I had to talk about possibilities.” WayWantWellsChildrenI CanSpeakFeltGrowing UpToo MuchGrowingHappenedPossibilityTerribleDifficultyMy Children Author:Lukas Moodysson
“If I want to read S.J. Perelman's Chicken Inspector No. 23 for the third time instead of some anguished, politically correct saga of a girl growing up in a trailer park in Kingman, Arizona, with an alcoholic mother who makes her straighten her naturally curly hair and won't let her date a Navajo boy or pursue her goal of becoming (naturally) a writer, I will. And I will laugh like a lunatic while doing it.” IfsWantMotherGirlGoalBoysLaughingGrowing UpGrowingHairBecomingThirdsPursueParksChickensAlcoholicsLunaticArizonaTrailersPolitically CorrectSagaInspectorsThird TimeTrailer ParkCurly HairGirls Growing Up Author:Mel White
“Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other institutions whose decisions he wants to control and override? But he can talk glibly about growing the economy. Arrogance is no substitute for experience. That is why the country is in the mess it is in now.” WantCountryDecisionEconomyGrowingInstitutionsPlantMessArroganceHospitalsSubstitutes Author:Thomas Sowell
“I didn't necessarily want to be famous growing up, but I knew I would be a good famous person because I'm not offended if somebody comes up to me and knows things about me and wants to engage me in a conversation.” IfsKnowsWantPersonsWould BeGrowing UpGrowingConversationCome UpOffended Author:Nate Berkus
“Growing up in Ohio and just being kind of an average guy from flyover country - my dad was a factory guy - I try to put things on a screen that reflect reality. I don't mind if people want to argue with that, or think that's crazy.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantTryingMindKindCountryRealityGuyGrowing UpGrowingCrazyDadMy DadAverageScreensArguingBe KindFactoriesJust BeingOhio Author:Roger Ailes
“I just want to do shows because you get to see, over all the seasons, the person grow, and you get to grow with the character. That transformation, for me, is what I love about my job. I get to learn about myself and challenge myself and grow with the character. For me, it's a whole process of learning and growing.” WantPersonsWholeCharacterShowsJobsGrowsProcessChallengesGrowingSeasonsTransformationLearning And Growing Author:Justin Chatwin
“As boom- and bust-prone as high finance always has been and remains, the greatest systemic risk to our economy is not Wall Street. It's the growing federal debt (and weakening dollar) being enacted by those Washington politicians - the ones who want to protect us from Wall Street.” WantHas BeensEconomyGrowingRiskStreetsWallPoliticianProtectRemainsDollarsDebtFinanceWeakening Author:Tony Blankley
“I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to pay much attention to the music or what you're doing. We have chosen to be girl-identified (although Billy isn't a girl!), because we want to encourage other women/girls to play music. When I was growing up, I found it discouraging to have all these women in bands not wanting to address the issue of gender...we're interested in what women are doing.” WantPlaySeemsGirlFoundPayAttentionGrowing UpIssuesGrowingIdentityBandGenderChosenAddressesDiscouragingCuz Author:Tobi Vail
“As long as you're growing in your profession and you're respected, you're going to stay as clean as you can, because you've got something that you love that you don't want to lose.” WantLongLosesGrowingCleanProfession Author:Paul Anka
“I want to do things where the talent range is difficult and that scare me. I thrive on that; if it's not scaring me then I'm not growing.” IfsWantDifficultGrowingTalentRangeThriveScare Author:Nina Dobrev
“I was definitely scared of fashion growing up just because I didn't want people to think I was gay. But now that I'm out, I feel like it's such a personal journey for me that I'm going on every single day where I feel more and more confident and comfortable to wear the clothes that I want to wear, and to have the interest that I have, and to paint my nails if I want to.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantFeelsInterestGrowing UpGrowingJourneyFashionGayComfortableClothesPaintScaredNailsPersonal Journey Author:Troye Sivan
“I don't want to grow up but I'm sick of not growing up - that way. I'll find a different way of not growing up. There's a better way of doing it than torturing your body.” WayWantDifferentBodyGrowsGrowing UpGrowingSickYour BodyDifferent WaysBetter Ways Author:John Lennon
“Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and lonely nights - that's every night. You hear a lot of police sirens, you hear a lot of gunfire. Things that you don't want your kids to hear growing up.” WantKidsNightSidesGrowing UpGrowingGrewProjectsGrew UpLonelyPoliceScaredEvery NightSirensLonely Nights Author:LeBron James
“I'm actually the chairman of the historical foundation [in Franklin] called the Heritage Foundation in Franklin. We've got a pretty good group of folks, very influential folks, who are really striving to protect those lands and so far we're not having a lot of problems. We're growing too fast. Everybody wants to put up some sort of neighborhood but that's our biggest battle. Nobody's really trying to go on any of the historical land.” WantTryingProblemGrowingGroupsLandGoes OnBattleProtectFoundationHistoricalStriveFolksNeighborhoodHeritageInfluentialChairmanFranklin Author:Michael W. Smith