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“Honestly, I was a good kid but I figured out pretty early that I had a gift for making people laugh. I wanted to entertain and when that happens you tend to get yourself in trouble in class.”

People Happens Kids Wanted Class Laughing Trouble Honestly Making People Laugh

Author:Eric Ladin

“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.”

People Mean Littles Kids Wanted America Used Mother Church Known Trouble Hero Used To Be Preacher Little Kid My Hero Goofy Murphy Imitating Coming To America Goofing Off

Author:Lamorne Morris

“Stretch of I-95 has already had one brush with disaster. In 2008 two contractors from the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation stopped to get a sausage sandwich, and parked their cars under this bridge. And fortunately they wanted that sausage sandwich because they saw one of these piers with an eight foot gash in it about five inches wide. And oh, they knew automatically that this bridge was in deep trouble.”

Two Wanted Five Saws Trouble Feet Car Eight Wide Disaster Bridges Department Inches Brushes Sandwiches Transportation Pennsylvania Sausage Contractor Piers

Author:Steve Kroft

“I believe that the major operating ethic in American society right now, the most universal want and need is to be on TV. I've been on TV. I could be on TV all the time if I wanted to. But most people will never get on TV. It has to be a real breakthrough for them. And trouble is, people will do almost anything to get on it. You know, confess to crimes they haven't committed. You don't exist unless you're on TV. Yeah, it's a validation process.”

Source: Ancient Gonzo Wisdom

“He [Johnny Cash] always wanted to use his music to lift other people up, to say no matter how much trouble, there's hope. That was always his message in his songs. That's why he and [Bob] Dylan bonded so much, because they were both trying to do something meaningful.”

People Trying Matter Use Wanted Song Trouble Messages Meaningful Lifts Cash Bob Dylan

Author:Robert Hilburn

“I never wanted to do just comedy or just drama; sometimes, going back and forth you can get yourself in trouble which happened to me on other things so you're always trying for a delicate balance - I also think that they compliment each other so well.”

Thinking Trying Wells Sometimes Wanted Comedy Happened Trouble Balance Drama Compliment Delicate Back And Forth Always Trying

Author:Mike Binder

“Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.”

Ifs Knows Needs Feels Wells May I Can Helping Feelings Wanted Speak Poor Half Know How Trouble Dog Strange Sorry Dumb Ems Our Words Being Sorry Dumb Things

Book:Complete Works Of George Eliot

Source: Complete Works Of George Eliot

“I wanted to be with the men I admired rather than the Scottish Arts Council crowd, so I spent a lot of time in graveyards. You get less trouble from the dead.”

Men Art Wanted Trouble He Man Masters Crowds Council Scottish Graveyard

Author:Alexander Stoddart

“I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you.”

Knows Wanted Literature Causes Trouble

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“That was the trouble with lies: it was very important to remember them accurately when, generally, they were the things you most wanted to forget.”

Important Wanted Remember Lying Forget Trouble Most Wanted

Author:Liza Cody

“I am not sure that Christ would have been very satisfied to foresee that He would be looked upon principally as a redeemer and nailed forever upon the cross by human ignorance. It seems to me that He above all desired to bring men a message of truth, that He wanted to heal them of their faults by making an appeal to all their energy; He shook them as much as He could, He did not seek to spare them the trouble.”

Men Humans Has Beens Seems Would Be Wanted Energy Christ Forever Trouble Ignorance Messages Crosses Faults Heal Satisfied Appeals Not Sure Spares Redeemer

Book:The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

Source: The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier

“That was the trouble with so many reality programmes on television - everyone wanted fame these days without necessarily working at anything to achieve it.”

Reality Wanted Trouble Achieve Television Fame These Days Programmes

Author:M.C. Beaton

“One of the most startling events in my life was when my older son was about 16, and he blamed me for all the troubles of the world. So I, I felt like telling him, Oh no, I was just like you when I was your age; I wanted to change the world, too.”

World Age Wanted Felt Trouble Events Son Like You Changing The World

Author:Robert Fogel

“My dad just wanted me to find something to do to keep me out of trouble. Boxing was the great escape.”

Wanted Trouble Dad My Dad Boxing Great Escape

Author:Diego Corrales

“When I was 11 years old, my parents wanted me to do something besides get in trouble. So they enrolled me in sailing classes at the Sea Shell Association in Santa Barbara, Calif. From the moment I climbed into that 8-foot dinghy in 1952, I knew instinctively what to do and sensed I had done it before.”

Years Done Moments Wanted Parent Class Trouble Sea Feet Association Shells Sailing Santa Barbara Santa Barbara Sea Shell Dinghies

Author:David Crosby

“I was given the gifts of the artist, and the trouble that goes with them: So I have that blessing, and there was never a time thatI questioned it or doubted it.... For forty years, I wanted to jump out of windows.”

Years Wanted Artist Given Trouble Blessing Window Forty Doubted

Author:Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

“I wanted to be a doctor once upon a time, but it turns out you've got to study, and that wasn't going to happen. I had no idea what I was going to do. I had trouble holding jobs because they want you to be on time. That wasn't going to work.”

Want Ideas Happens Wanted Jobs Turns Study Trouble Doctors No Idea Going To Work Once Upon A Time

Author:Bill Murray

“The problem was Mike Tyson always had trouble with bigger men. Even fighters like Bud Green, “Bonecrusher”, he had trouble with them whether he wanted to or not. He would have had great trouble with Lennox Lewis, particularly since he maximized his shortness by crouching, and he couldn't fight inside so the guy would pick him apart like Buster Douglas.”

Men Problem Wanted Guy Fighting Trouble Picks Bigger Green Fighter Mike Bud Tyson Busters Shortness

Author:Bert Sugar

“One of the concepts I was having trouble illustrating was the concept that administrative systems create narrow categories of gender and force people into them in order to get their basic needs met - what I call "administrative violence." I had images of forms with gender boxes and ID cards with gender markers, but I also wanted an image that would capture how basic services like shelters are gender segregated.”

People Needs Wanted Form Order Force Violence Trouble Mets Concepts Boxes Gender Cards Categories Capture Shelter Administrative Markers Basic Needs Illustrating

Author:Dean Spade

“Look, nearly everything in the culture says we're freaks. Doing sex work, we're desired; we can get rewarded for being what we've always wanted to be. What's so bad about that? My own notion is I wish sex work would be decriminalized (not legalized, please note the distinction) so that more trannies could get into the field if they wanted to and not get into trouble for it.”

Ifs Looks Would Be Wanted Culture Wish Sex My Own Trouble Fields Please Notes Notion Distinction Freak Sex Work

Author:Kate Bornstein

“One of the reasons I got into this game was because I wanted to learn how to get myself comfortable in uncomfortable situations. I grew up in a tough area of Dublin, and fighting was just part of your life. Boys fight, and I won some, but I lost a lot too, and I didn't like that, I didn't like that feeling of not knowing whether I was in danger, in trouble.”

Reason Feelings Wanted Fighting Games Lost Situation Boys Knowing Trouble Danger Grew Comfortable Grew Up Tough Areas Uncomfortable Not Knowing Dublin Uncomfortable Situations

Author:Conor McGregor

“One of my sisters wanted to be an opera singer. So, we spent a few dollars to try to train her, because Italian people would like to have an opera singer in the family. But she's got trouble coughing, let alone singing. One day, she was in the shower singing 'Madame Butterfly,' three days later the Japs attacked Pearl Harbor.”

People Trying Wanted Three Trouble One Day Singing Dollars Train Singers Italian My Sister Opera Butterfly Showers Pearls Harbors Opera Singers Coughing

Author:Pat Cooper

“My mother was a jazz fanatic and she wanted me to play the piano so I could play jazz tunes. I wish I had learned but I was too busy getting into trouble!”

Play Wanted Mother Wish Trouble Jazz Busy Piano Tunes Fanatics Too Busy

Author:Etta James

“If I was having a bad day, or if something was really getting me down -- boy troubles, whatever -- I wanted to go out and get a new piercing. It was definitely a release for me. Something that made me feel a little more strong or empowered. Because it was something that had to do with me and no one else.”

Ifs Feels Littles Made Wanted Strong Boys Trouble Release Empowered Bad Day Piercings Having A Bad Day

Author:Christina Aguilera

“Not a lot of contemporary fiction is written about brothers and sisters. Salinger's Franny and Zooey was an inspiration for me. In Franny and Zooey, the sister gets in trouble and the brother comes to help her out. But I wanted to make sure that in my novel the sister had more to do than lie around on a sofa muttering, which is what Franny does for two-thirds of Salinger's novel.”

Doe Two Helping Inspiration Wanted Lying Fiction Novel Written Trouble Brother Thirds Contemporary Brothers And Sisters Contemporary Fiction Sofas Muttering Salinger

Author:K. M. Soehnlein