“I had said before that I'd never write an autobiography because I've been around, and there's a lot that I've seen and heard that stays with me. That's just mine. I didn't want to do a kiss-and-tell, as some of my peers have.” WantWritingSaidHeardMinesKissingPeersAutobiographyStay With Me Author:Dionne Warwick
“It's my sixth year in the game so I've been here for a while now. You can expect the best me you've ever heard. I don't have any release dates in mind right now but I'm just making music and enjoying myself in the studio and having fun. When I get to a place where I feel comfortable saying a date or all of that, people will definitely know. I have a few dream collaborations on that album that I want, but they say if you blow out your candle and make a wish you can't tell people what you ask for or it won't come true.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsYearsMindDreamAsksGamesFunWishEnjoyHeardRight NowComfortableBlowAlbumsStudiosReleaseHaving FunCollaborationCandleWish YouMake A WishRelease Date Author:Trey Songz
“I have a friend who swears by food combinations - have you heard of this nonsense? She's nuts. She's like, 'You know what? You should eat food combinations, and that way you can eat whatever you want. It's just the combinations of how you put the food together.' And then her examples are like, 'You wouldn't want to eat steak and potatoes together, but you could have, like, a lemon rind and raisin skins - not the whole raisin, take the skins and steam them.” KnowsWayWantShouldWholeTogetherHeardExampleLike YouSkinsCombinationNonsenseNutsSwearPotatoesSteamLemonsSteakRaisins Author:Brian Regan
“Yeah we're not together anymore. She has got - she has got a new boyfriend now. They just moved into together. And I've heard rumors that he is abusive, which makes you want to go over there with a baseball bat. And then blame it on her boyfriend.” WantTogetherHeardBaseballYeahBlameMovedBatsRumorAbusiveNew Boyfriend Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“According to my local hip-hop station everyone has garnish wages, child support, liens and wants to buy or rent rims. Ya Heard!” WantChildrenSupportHeardHip HopLocalsHipsHopsStationsWagesRims Author:Felipe Esparza
“She [Joni Mitchell] wanted to have that (jazz) element in her music. Of course, when she heard Jaco's [Jaco Pastorius'] music and met him, that floored her -- really grabbed her. She decided that Wayne Shorter was really conducive to her music. She would speak metaphorically about things. "I want this to sound like a taxicab driver, or a taxi in New York," or "I want this to sound like a telephone ringing." She would speak to musicians like that, and we really tuned into what she would want our music to be.” WantWantedCoursesSpeakSoundHeardNew YorkMetsElementsMusicianDecidedJazzDriversTelephonesTaxiWayne Author:Don Alias
“It is immoral to brand children with religion. 'This is a Catholic child.' 'That is a Muslim child.' I want everyone to flinch when they hear such a phrase, just as they would if they heard, 'That is a Marxist child.'” IfsWantChildrenHeardCatholicBrandsPhrasesImmoralMarxist Author:Richard Dawkins
“How many of you heard the voice of God speak specifically, clearly, directly, and personally, to you? Can you just put a hand up? I'd like you to share it. Can you put a hand up for a minute? Just want you to look around; that's people saying, "God Almighty, the Maker of heaven, the one Who's sitting on the only throne that's not under threat - He spoke to me. He spoke to me." "God spoke to me." Don't let the voice of the darkness tell you that you are not worth that God would not speak to you. Don't let him tell you, you don't matter. God spoke to you.” PeopleWantLooksMatterHandsSpeakHeavenVoiceDarknessHeardShareMinutesLike YouSittingThreatSpokesMakersAlmightyThronesVoice Of GodHands Up Author:Louie Giglio
“Suppose I try to say the US carries out terror, in fact it's one of the leading terrorist states in the world. You can't say that between commercials. People rightly want to know what do you mean. They've never heard that before. Then you have to explain. You have to give background. That's exactly what's cut out.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantGivingTryingMeanStatesFactsCuttingHeardTerrorTerroristBackgroundsCarrieGiving Back Author:Noam Chomsky
“Individuals in various countries like Egypt and Saudi Arabia listen to the tapes of bin Laden. They gather in groups of four or five. They feel they want to do something to express their support for what they've heard. The idea that they were taking orders is a particularly Western idea.” WantFeelsIdeasCountryOrderIndividualSupportFiveFourHeardGroupsWesternVariousTapeEgyptBin LadenArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudis Author:Robert Fisk
“I love Florida Georgia Line. I love 'Round Here.' So if a fan wants to listen to that, and if a fan that wasn't listening to country music before is listening to 'Cruise' on Pandora, and after that a song by George Jones comes on, they may have never heard George Jones before. I think it's a good thing for the genre.” IfsThinkingWantMayCountrySongLinesHeardFansListeningMusic IsGood ThingsRoundsGenreFloridaGeorgiaCruisePandoraGeorge Jones Author:Scotty McCreery
“I don't know if you heard the news, but Wall Street now is a farmer's market. I don't want to say things are going downhill quickly, but Obama's new campaign slogan is 'Are you better off than you were four days ago?'” IfsKnowsWantFourHeardStreetsWallNewsCampaignsFarmersBetter OffSlogans Author:Bill Maher
“When I finally decided to leave school and pursue acting, my parents didn't take it very lightly. My friends thought that it was the tackiest thing they'd ever heard of. Acting was really beneath them. They couldn't believe that I would want to become an actress. Not now, of course.” WantBelieveSchoolCoursesParentActingHeardMy FriendsDecidedActressesPursue Author:Salma Hayek
“The first time I actually heard any of the Beatles' music it was in a car. I think it was the, the B side of their first record. I think it was "I Want to ... I Want to Hold Your Hand". And it, it really sounded different to me. And it sounded a bit like trouble, like this is something new 'cause I very rarely paid any attention to what anyone else was doing.” ThinkingWantFirstsDifferentHandsCausesBitsSidesAttentionRecordsTroubleHeardCarFirst TimePaidSomething New Author:Jeff Barry
“My tendency is to want to say to the person, "Do you understand why I feel this way?" I usually do say that. And sometimes it doesn't go well. By this I mean we hit an impasse again. Not that I need to hear exactly what I want to hear, but I need to know I am heard. Those moments make for a better friendship. But I can't let it go. For good or bad.” KnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsWellsMeanPersonsI CanSometimesMomentsHeardTendenciesLet It GoImpasse Author:Claudia Rankine
“I want my songs to be heard by everyone. I want [everyone] to treat people with compassion. I want them to realize that we are all so similar, but we focus so much on our differences.” PeopleWantSongRealizingDifferencesCompassionFocusHeardTreats Author:Joshua Radin
“Most people want to be seen or heard. You want to shine. That's my way of shining.” PeopleWayWantHeardShiningMy Way Author:Stephen Malkmus
“I remember when I was 5 or 6 years old, gospel music felt familiar, like I had heard it in the womb or something. A lot of those old gospel songs still give me that feeling, that it's older than time and there's actually music that can tap into a universal subconscious, or whatever word you want to put on it.” WantGivingYearsStillsFeelingsRememberSongFeltHeardUniversalGive MeFamiliarSubconsciousRemember WhenWombGospel MusicGospel Songs Author:M. Ward
“I heard Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis, and that was it. I didn't ever want to be anything else. I just started banging away and semi-studied classical music at the Royal Academy of Music but sort of half-heartedly.” WantLittlesHalfHeardRoyalClassical MusicAcademyJerryBanging Author:Elton John
“I'm lucky enough and wealthy enough to be able to buy photographs and buy art that inspires me from day to day. I don't want a Picasso on my wall; it's great art, but it's dead art to me. I'd rather have a photograph by someone I've never heard of that really inspires me.” WantArtEnoughAbleHeardInspireWallLuckyPhotographWealthyDay To DayGreat Art Author:Elton John
“I definitely isolate, but I also always have people in front of me, and I have to be OK with that. I'm in a business where, on the set, you're around two hundred people every day, and if you're high on the call sheet, you sort of set the tone for the set. And you want people to feel appreciated, and you want to ask them how their kids are. You want to talk to people and invest in them and let them know that they're appreciated and heard. But then I do like to just kind of withdraw.” PeopleIfsKnowsWantFeelsKindTwoKidsAsksHeardFrontsHundredToneSheetsAppreciated Author:Patricia Arquette
“People have these perceptions; maybe they've been here for a day, or have only heard about it. It was like when I first came to work here. You want to see the clean city that is always talked about, how nice the people are, the restaurants, the vibe, how diverse the city is. That's what we want to show: what an enjoyable city it is, what a great city it is. Forget about basketball.” PeopleWantFirstsShowsForgetCitiesNiceHeardBasketballPerceptionCleanRestaurantsDiverseEnjoyableGreat Cities Author:Masai Ujiri
“The wrong one will start saying things like "withdraw with honor." We've heard phrases like that before, and they led to thousands and thousands of deaths. Democrats always want to look tough.” WantLooksHeardHonorToughDemocratPhrases Author:Paul Haggis
“I want to play Nightwing real bad. I worked with [Arrow creator] Greg Berlanti a while ago on a show called Everwood and jokingly I tweeted him saying, 'Hey, let me come play Nightwing for a couple episodes.' And somebody wrote an article about it, so I was like, let's make it happen, but I haven't heard anything about it yet.” WantRealPlayShowsHappensHeardHavensCoupleLet MeCreatorHeyArticlesEpisodesArrowsMake It Happen Author:Steven R. McQueen
“I don't know the technology of digital cameras but apparently the shutter speed is so fast, and so high a resolution, that they are capturing these orbs whenever people are bringing in a lot of angel energy. They just want us to know that they have got our backs, that we're not alone there, that our prayers are heard, and they are helping us.” PeopleKnowsWantHelpingEnergyPrayerTechnologyHeardAngelCamerasSpeedDigitalResolutionWant UNot AloneOur PrayersShuttersOrbsDigital Cameras Author:Doreen Virtue
“I put myself on tape and the cool thing was that Martin Scorsese had never heard of me. He had never seen [Everybody Loves Raymond]. I was just an unknown actor to him. I don't want to sound conceited, like he has to know who I am, but that seemed a little odd. He's a film genius. He doesn't watch sitcoms.” KnowsWantLittlesFilmActorsSoundWatchesHeardGeniusWho I AmOddTapeSitcomConceitedCool ThingsScorseseEverybody Loves Raymond Author:Ray Romano
“There are actors I know personally, or I've heard them say, "The less known about me, the better, because I just want people to think of me as the character." I think Matt Damon said that recently. He has a point and I think I get that.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantSaidCharacterActorsKnownHeardThink Of MeDamon Author:Winona Ryder
“There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.” ThinkingWantTryingGirlSpeakSocialFeltHeardInfluenceNeededPeriodsSexualityPlatformsStigmaSpeaks OutPositive Influence Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“Part of the French political class is realising that there is are large number of Muslim people coming from the ghettos who want to make themselves heard, politically, especially about foreign policy issues. Its electoral weight can bring back to the forefront the Palestinian issue.” PeopleWantPoliticalNumbersClassIssuesHeardPolicyWeightRealisingForeign PolicyPalestinianGhettoLarge Numbers Author:Tariq Ramadan
“When I heard the truth about my name was not Cassius Clay, like I knew a black man in America named John Hawkins. Now, you know who John Hawkins was.He was a slave trader from England. But the white people of that time, if one had five slaves and his name was Jones, they would be called Jones' property. [...] Now that I'm free, now that I'm no longer a slave, then I want a name of my ancestors.” PeopleIfsKnowsMenWantWould BeAmericaNamesBlackWhiteFiveHeardEnglandPropertySlaveAncestorClayTradersSlave TradeCassiusCassius Clay Author:Muhammad Ali
“When I heard the Beatles, I thought thats it. That's what I want to be. I want to be a Beatle.” WantSaidHeard Author:Ozzy Osbourne
“If I say to my daughter, "Go say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude," there is a reason there. I'm teaching her manners. I think the idea that she'll say `hi' to Aunt Gertrude only if she wants to is the biggest crock of silliness I've ever heard. Yet I meet people everyday who were clearly brought up to think that if they didn't want to say "hi" to Aunt Gertrude, that was fine.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantIdeasReasonHeardTeachingFineDaughterEverydayMannersMy DaughterAuntSillinessGertrude Author:Marianne Williamson
“When it was announced that Spider-Man was going to be in Captain America: Civil War, "Miles Morales" was trending on Twitter for like a week. More people than I ever thought had heard of it. Listen, people go to Build-a-Bear and make your Miles Morales Build-a-Bears and tell everybody that's what we want!” PeopleMenWantWarAmericaHeardWeekBearsMilesCivil WarCaptainsSpidersMoraleSpider Man Author:Brian Michael Bendis
“I love that Amazon has this incredibly unique, diplomatic process where people's voices are heard, and we're using this great interconnectedness we have, via the internet, to weigh in and to have a say in what we want to see and what we don't.” PeopleWantProcessVoiceHeardInternetUniqueAmazonDiplomaticInterconnectedness Author:Matt Bomer
“Jumping twenty or so years later, Ann Ciccolella, artistic director of Austin Shakespeare, approached me with the idea of staging Anthem. She had heard my film score to Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. And she said, I want to do Anthem as an oratorio. Well, I figured what she meant was a straight play with music.” WantYearsWellsSaidIdeasPlayFilmHeardDirectorsTwentiesArtisticScoreJumpingAnthemAustinStagingFilm Scores Author:Jeff Britting
“You know, the radio never wanted you to speak about anything, so the music is kinda influenced by the hands of the radio which wants to homogenize it and dilute it and sanitize it. And for the most part, nobody's takin' the time to seek out the cats that are still tryin' to talk, so they have a difficult time being heard.” KnowsWantStillsHandsWantedSpeakDifficultHeardMusic IsCatRadioDifficult Times Author:Ice T
“I want to support the United Nations who can share our voice and make us heard. What they do makes the world a better place; if each of us can just give a word to their cause, it will only get better.” IfsWorldWantGivingNationsCausesVoiceUnitedSupportHeardShareGet BetterBetter PlaceUnited Nations Author:David Guetta
“I am proud to say that the voice of the people of our nation is being heard in this hall and those voices want Donald Trump to be the next President of the United States.” PeopleWantStatesNextNationsPresidentVoiceUnitedUnited StatesHeardTrumpProudHalls Author:Chris Christie
“I want to know if you are willing to live, day by day, with the consequence of love and the bitter unwanted passion of your sure defeat. I have heard, in that fierce embrace, even the gods speak of God.” IfsKnowsWantPassionSpeakHeardWillingConsequenceEmbraceDefeatBitterFierceUnwanted Author:David Whyte
“No path to citizenship. People that want to gain legal status, you heard Donald Trump say again and again, will have to leave the country.” PeopleWantCountryPathHeardTrumpGainsAgain And AgainCitizenship Author:Mike Pence
“When I can go just where I want to go, There is a copse of birch trees that I know; And, as in Eden Adam walked with God, When in that quiet aisle my feet have trod I have found peace among the silver trees, Known comfort in the cool kiss of the breeze Heard music in its whisper, and have known Most certainly that I was not alone!” KnowsWantI CanFoundKnownHeardTreeFeetComfortQuietKissingSilverAdamBreezeNot AloneEdenAisleBirch Trees Author:Andrew Greeley
“Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again.” WantWritingHeard Author:Barack Obama
“The first listen is very important to me. Half of my favorite records just hit you in the face immediately with something memorable and within three-and-a-half minutes you know you've heard something really special. I want to make records like that, but it's a big challenge.” KnowsWantFirstsImportantBigsFacesThreeChallengesHalfRecordsHeardMinutesSpecialMy FavoriteMemorableBig Challenges Author:Derek E. Miller
“I want us to do more to support people who are struggling to balance family and work. I've heard from so many of you about the difficult choices you face and the stresses that you're under. So let's have paid family leave, earned sick days. Let's be sure we have affordable child care and debt-free college.” PeopleWantChildrenCareFacesChoicesDifficultSupportStruggleHeardCollegeBalanceSickStressPaidDebtWant UAffordableChild CareDebt FreeDifficult ChoicesSick Days Author:Hillary Clinton
“I think the craziest thing I heard, and this guy's not even nominated, he's from Texas...he said there's no reason that women shouldn't carry a stillborn baby to term, and that it's an excuse to have an abortion if she doesn't want to. She should just let nature take its course from start to finish. Literally forcing birth of a fetus that died in the womb.” IfsThinkingWantShouldSaidReasonGuyCoursesTermHeardBabyBirthDiedExcuseAbortionNo ReasonTexasThis GuyWombFetusCraziest Author:Lizz Winstead
“Very few college professors want high school graduates in their history class who are simply "gung ho" and "rah-rah" with regard to everything the United States has ever done, have never thought critically in their life, don't know the meaning of the word "historiography" and have never heard of it. They think that history is something you're supposed to memorize and that's about it. That's not what high school, or what college history teachers want.” ThinkingKnowsWantStatesDoneSchoolUnitedClassUnited StatesTeacherHeardCollegeHigh SchoolRegardProfessorsGraduatesGraduating High SchoolHistoriographyCollege ProfessorsHistory TeacherHistory Class Author:James W. Loewen
“I've worked with a lot of different Muslim groups around America. I've met with a lot of them, and I've heard how important it is for them to feel that they are wanted and included and part of our country, part of our homeland security, and that's what I want to see.” WantFeelsImportantDifferentCountryWantedAmericaHeardGroupsSecurityMetsOur CountryHomelandHomeland Security Author:Hillary Clinton