“I'm taking a break from music... everyone was so mean about it and it was so hard that I wanted to die.” MeanHardWantedDiesBreakWanted To DieTaking A Break Author:Melanie Laurent
“I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.” PeopleThinkingWayMeanKidsWantedClassIssuesWorstTestsPursue Author:Ashley Rickards
“My father lived by the philosophy, 'Be yourself, because everyone else is taken,' and he made sure I did, too. Whatever I wanted to do, he supported me. I don't mean that I was spoilt - he didn't believe in material gifts - but he watched my back while I worked to achieve things.” BelieveMeanMadePhilosophyWantedFatherTakenAchieveMaterialsBeing YourselfSpoilt Author:Tommy Lee
“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
“With 300 Marines, you could probably take over Iraq if you wanted to and get rid of ISIS completely. Make no mistake about it, Marines are war fighters. I mean they are really good at what they do. The only time they are not good at what they do is when someone puts the shackles on them.” IfsMeanWarWantedMistakeMilitaryIraqFighterNavyOnly TimeMarineIsisShacklesMarinersMaritimeNavy Seal Author:Marcus Luttrell
“When Da Vinci wanted an effect, he willed, he planned the means to make it happen: that was the purpose of his machines. But the machines of Newton ... are means not for doing but for observing. He saw an effect, and he looked for its cause.” MeanHappensWantedSciencePurposeCausesSawsEffectsMachinesObservingNewtonMake It Happen Book:The Common Sense of Science Source: The Common Sense of Science
“I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.” KindMeanWantedMaterialsDiscoverySubstanceSandMetalsIntroducingBrushesFilingSawdust Author:Georges Braque
“I've done roles before where I've wanted to be buff and sort of fit or whatever. And I like to try and be a little bit fit because there's usually one scene in a movie where you've got to run, which means you've got to run for about five hours nonstop. So, for me, it's just worthwhile being fit because doing a movie can be kind of grueling for six, seven, eight weeks. Or 12 weeks.” TryingKindMeanLittlesDoneRunningWantedBitsHoursRolesFiveWeekFitSceneSixLittle BitSevenEightBe KindWorthwhile Author:Guy Pearce
“I mean, my dad's a television producer, and I knew I could get a job as an assistant or a reader with one of his friends, but it wasn't exactly what I wanted to do.” MeanWantedJobsTelevisionReaderDadMy DadProducersAssistants Author:J. J. Abrams
“I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort - I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form - all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.” WayGivingWritingYearsFirstsMeanDifferentWantedFormMastersExercisePagesTrainingVery GoodDamnThings To DoVersesCompelledWaltBalladsDays Of The YearFree Verse Author:Conrad Aiken
“It means rock'n'roll in the sack. It means sex: the lyrics, the beat of it, the thunderous feeling through your body. Before the word groupie even existed I knew that I wanted to share myself with someone who created that music and turned me on in every kind of way.” WayKindMeanFeelingsBodyWantedSexShareRocksBeatsYour BodyRock N RollGroupie Author:Pamela Des Barres
“I wanted to develop a guitar style where phrases and lines get there just in the nick of time, like with Curtis Mayfield and Steve Cropper. Subtleties mean so much, and there is a stunning beauty in them.” MeanWantedLinesStyleGuitarPhrasesSubtletyStunning Author:Robbie Robertson
“When I was very little, say five or six, I became aware of the fact that people wrote books. Before that, I thought that God wrote books. I thought a book was a manifestation of nature, like a tree. When my mother explained it, I kept after her: What are you saying? What do you mean? I couldn't believe it. It was astonishing. It was like--here's the man who makes all the trees. Then I wanted to be a writer, because, I suppose, it seemed the closest thing to being God.” PeopleMenBelieveMeanLittlesBookFactsWantedMotherFiveTreeHe ManSixManifestationClosestAstonishing Author:Fran Lebowitz