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“I went to my first national convention in 1976, when my family supported [Ronald] Reagan over [Gerald] Ford, so we've always been Republicans, but we've always wanted the Republican Party to be the party of fiscally conservative, limited-government types. And I think, sometimes, we haven't done that as well.”

Thinking Firsts Wells Sometimes Done Government Wanted Party Havens Type Republican My Family Conservative Conventions Republican Party Limited Government Gerald Ford

Author:Rand Paul

“My dad and some teachers were constantly pushing me to do better than I was doing because they all knew that I could. I was not interested in what they wanted me to do well in at the time, but still, the concept that there's a great land of opportunity out there, and all you have to do is go attack it, was not something foreign to me. It's why I'm one of the few members of my family that left home.”

Wells Stills Home Wanted Opportunity Left Teacher Land Dad Members Concepts My Family My Dad Pushing Not Interested Land Of Opportunity

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a few months because I wanted to work in the countryside and get to know the country better.”

Knows Has Beens Country Government Wanted Months My Family Revolutionary Generous Santa Countryside Cuban Considerate Clara

Author:Huey Newton

“Most of the crew were staying in Monaco. But my family and I were actually staying in Nice because I had my whole family there and we wanted a little more space and to stay in a hotel. The truth is we were asleep [when the attack Bastille Day terror happened] and woke up the next morning to it and it was obviously horrific. And then the idea of going out and filming, it just felt so stupid to be working the next day and pretending that everything's cool when you're making some frivolous thing.”

“Some people weren't sure whether they wanted to get on board until the very end, and by then it's too late - so we just shake their hand and thank them for their time as well. I don't know that I'm beating anyone at their own game, other than just being myself and doing what I've promised my fans, my family, and my team that I'm going to do.”

People Knows Wells Ends Hands Wanted Games Team Fans Late My Family Boards Shakes Too Late Just Being Being Myself

Author:Cody Johnson

“I came back and decided that I wanted to go to college for acting and got my family on board. My mom, who was a single mom, was a little reticent, but I think after that summer [in the Governor's School], she saw a shift in me and realized that it was something I wanted more than just a hobby.”

Thinking Littles Wanted School Acting Saws College Mom Summer My Family Decided My Mom Boards Governors Hobbies Single Mom

Author:Zachary Quinto

“I wanted to be a jockey. I'm serious. First time I got on a horse, I loved it. That's what I wanted to be, but my dad asked me to start performing with my family.”

Firsts Wanted Serious Dad First Time My Family Horse My Dad Performing Jockeys

Author:Janet Jackson

“I imagine there's an undercurrent of the impact of early religious teachings and my break from what I was taught and expected to perform if I wanted to be considered normal in my family of origin.”

Ifs Wanted Religious Break Imagine Teaching Taught Normal My Family Impact Expected

Author:Wendy C. Ortiz

“I'm a country girl, raised in Gloucestershire, England. But my family encouraged me to travel, and I wanted to experience the world. Maybe that's not traditional, but my values have stayed strong. Perhaps that's where wanting to have children comes into it: I'll always be making work; I guess when - and if - I have children, I'll have them with me.”

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Author:FKA twigs

“I decided I wanted to do something that was worthwhile and thought I would try architecture. There was not an architect in my family.”

Trying Wanted My Family Decided Architecture Architect Worthwhile

Author:Carol Ross Barney

“My family tried to educate me in the way they thought a young woman should be. But I wanted to learn about mathmatics. I must have gotten that from my father, he was a master of math and science, and I always liked that sort of thing, too. Of course my mother and father did not agree with me on becoming more educated in mathmatics, but I was persistent and eventualy they gave in and I was taught by a wonderful teacher.”

“It's a good feeling to be at a place where you know who you are as an artist. I didn't know back then, I just wanted to give my family a better life and myself. I wanted to sing, but I didn't know as an artist who I wanted to be and because of all those experiences, it helped shape me into who I am and what I've now realized and what it is that brings me happiness which is when I pick up the guitar and do records.”

Knows Giving Feelings Wanted Artist Records Shapes Picks My Family Who You Are Guitar Who I Am Better Life Good Feeling

Author:Tiffany Villarreal

“My best career decision was probably not giving up when I wanted to. God as well as my family and friends were there for me during my toughest times.”

Giving Wells Wanted Decision Careers Giving Up My Family Family And Friends Not Giving Up

Author:Jeremy Lin

“Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.”

Long Two Play Care Wanted Order Sports Parent Principles Brother Basketball My Family Priorities Stuck Two Brothers

Author:Jeremy Lin

“I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream.”

People Made Play Dream Wanted Sacrifice Achieve Changed Football My Friends My Family Leaving New Life Argentina

Author:Lionel Messi

“I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.”

Wanted Tradition My Family Farmers

Author:Bjork

“My family would be supportive if I said I wanted to be a Martian, wear only banana skins, make love to ashtrays, and eat tree bark.”

Ifs Said Would Be Wanted Tree My Family Skins Making Love Supportive Bark Bananas Martians Ashtrays Supportive Family

Author:Casey Affleck

“Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.”

Real Stories Wanted Earth Pain Lost Bits Sun Flower Horror My Family Smallest Lovely Bones

Book:The Lovely Bones

Source: The Lovely Bones

“Maybe what I wanted was stupid. Maybe it wasn't even something I could have. But, still it was mine. I didn't think I could sacrifice my dreams, no matter how much my family meant to me.”

Thinking Stills Matter Dream Wanted Sacrifice Stupid Mines My Family

Book:The Selection (The Selection, Book 1)

Source: The Selection (The Selection, Book 1)

“I realized my family was funny, because nobody ever wanted to leave our house.”

Wanted House Family My Family I Realized Firefighter

Author:Anthony Anderson