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“Napoleon wanted his generals to be lucky. I don't think he would have worked with me.”

“I used to hate being different. I used to cry. I wanted to be blonde-haired and blue-eyed like all of my girlfriends. My mom and dad would feel so badly - 'No, it's OK. You'll be happy you're different later.”

Feels Different Wanted Used Hate Cry Mom Dad Blue My Mom Girlfriend Blonde Being Different My Girlfriend Mom And Dad Blue Eyed

Author:Kiana Tom

“This was a brainchild of mine, to build a shop where you could walk up to everything and didn't feel like you had to keep your hands off. I wanted a shop that you could walk into and feel comfortable in, and I wanted women to feel comfortable in the shop as well.”

Feels Wells Hands Wanted Walks Mines Like You Comfort Comfortable Shops

Author:Roger Meddows Taylor

“I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.”

Different Stories Bigs Wanted Guy Animal Regret Proud Losing Boxes Excited Screens Something New Serenity Good Story Firefly Big Screen Different Animals

Author:Joss Whedon

“I didn't really want to kill myself, it just made me feel better to know I could if I wanted to.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Made Wanted Feel Better

Author:Marc Maron

“About Thatcher's death: Let's privatise her funeral. Put it out on competetive tender and accept the cheapest bid. That's what she would have wanted.”

Wanted Accepting Funeral

Author:Ken Loach

“I wanted a trumpet concerto that reflected Native American music because, well, there aren't any. I looked around for one but couldn't find anything. So it's a wide-open field.”

Wells Wanted Fields Music Is Reflection Wide Native Native American Trumpets American Music Open Fields

Author:Christopher Moore

“After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.”

Knows World Kind Real Reality Wanted Real Life Checks Outrageous Dynasty

Author:Linda Evans

“Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted.”

People Wanted Economy Century Needed Advertising Nineteenth Century

Book:The affluent society

Source: The affluent society

“I decided I wanted to be a physician when I was seven years old.”

Years Wanted Decided Seven Physicians Seven Years

Author:Samuel Wilson

“My time at Wofford was very dear to me. I chose to go there because the academics were so strong. I could have gone somewhere a little more local, but I wanted the academic challenges Wofford had to offer. It worked out pretty well for me obviously.”

Wells Littles Wanted Strong Challenges Gone Offers Dear Locals My Time Academic

Author:Brenda Jackson

“I wanted to apply to the astronaut program after the Challenger accident”

Wanted Program Accidents Astronaut

Author:Eileen Collins

“There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By and large, though, if there were a choice between the life Poles led in the 1970s and 1980s and now, nobody but a lunatic would say they wanted to have back what they had before.”

Ifs Wanted Choices Poverty Economic Majors Majority Disappointment Corruption Outcomes Pockets Solidarity Lunatic

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Once again, the hopeless cowardly Americans were back to repeat their cowardly act hiding behind a technological advance that God, most gracious, wanted it to be their curse and cause for shame.”

Wanted Causes Behinds Shame Curse Repeats Hopeless Hiding Technological Gracious Cowardly Cowardly Acts

Author:Saddam Hussein

“It was something I really wanted to do. I can't imagine what it will be like to carry the flag and walk through the doors of the stadium. I'm thrilled to lead the team.”

I Can Wanted Walks Imagine Doors Team Flags Stadiums

Author:Chris Witty

“Abuse of any kind thrives off secrecy. I felt like if I started talking about it, maybe other people would. I wanted to break the silence. Now I feel I'm in a much better place emotionally than I've ever been anytime in my life.”

People Ifs Feels Kind Wanted Felt Silence Talking Break Abuse Thrive Better Place Secrecy

Author:Chris Witty

“So I dipped into my childhood and came up with Nicky Deuce. I wanted him to get into a lot of mischief, like the time I taped a fork to a broom handle and cattle-rustled a steak off the barbecue of the next-door neighbor.”

Wanted Next Doors Childhood Neighbor Handle Mischief Forks Cattle Steak Barbecue Brooms Next Door Neighbors Deuces

Author:Steve Schirripa

“What parents said they valued most were discussions with teachers and heads, and what they wanted was more descriptive information in their children's school reports. This is particularly true for primary schools. Parents wanted to know much more than just how their children were doing academically.”

Knows Children Said Wanted School Parent Teacher Information Primaries Discussion Reports Primary School School Reports

Author:Carol J. Adams

“Ours is a very eclectic offering. We're affiliated with the church but we're not just offering church music. Our philosophy is that we wanted to bring quality music to the entire valley and let everyone enjoy it since we have a fine venue.”

Philosophy Wanted Enjoy Church Quality Fine Valleys Offering Venues Eclectic Church Music Quality Music

Author:John Wright

“To be completely honest, I didn't want to compete with myself. I wanted to reinvent myself. This seemed like the perfect way to step back in without competing with what I've already done, because I can't win that battle.”

Way Want I Can Done Wanted Winning Perfect Steps Honest Battle Competing Because I Can Can't Win

Author:Marta Kauffman

“I can tell from the tone of his voice and the thought processes in getting to where he's at that there's no point in talking to him further. He wanted to make that decision independent of all other factors and we respect that. [on Damien Martyn retiring”

I Can Wanted Process Voice Decision Talking Independent Factors Tone Retiring No Point Thought Process Talking To Him

Author:Ian Chappell

“Ever since I was a little kid I was obsessed with films, and I always wanted to make them”

Littles Kids Wanted Film Obsession Obsessed Little Kid

Author:Liev Schreiber

“Basically, the UBR is a relic of an earlier vision for UDDI. The original vision for UDDI was as a standard that would help companies conduct business with each other in an automated fashion. The idea was that companies could publish how they wanted to interact, and other companies could find that information and use it to establish a relationship.”

Ideas Helping Use Wanted Company Vision Fashion Information Standards Originals Publish Relics

Author:Michael Bloomberg

“It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them.”

“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.”

Knows Love Mind Wells Littles Long Play Might Today Wanted Lasts Bits Love You Tears Serious Months Ought Terrible Little Bit Argument Vacation Time Love

Author:Walter Cronkite

“Most of my life I have done what I wanted to do. I have had fun on the job.”

Life Done Wanted Jobs Fun Had Fun

Author:Walt Disney

“Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you've always wanted to do but couldn't find the time.”

Years Wanted New Year New Beginnings Vow New Years Eve Happy New Year Best Year New Year's Resolutions New Year New Beginning Happy New Year Eve New Year Wishes New Years Eve Love Pleasant Memories

Author:Ann Landers

“If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.”

People Ifs Looks Done Wanted Success Successful Advice Information Succeed All Things Tramps

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out.”

Ideas Helping Wanted Values Parent Class Figures College Months Six Saving No Idea Expensive Help Me Working Class Six Months Savings Tuition Stanford Going To College College Tuition

Author:Steve Jobs

“We felt that the public, and especially the children, like animals that are cute and little. I think we are rather indebted to Charlie Chaplin for the idea. We wanted something appealing, and we thought of a tiny bit of a mouse that would have something of the wistfulness of Chaplin - a little fellow trying to do the best he could.”

Thinking Trying Children Littles Ideas Wanted Felt Bits Animal Fellows Tiny Cute Mice Do The Best Charlie Indebted Chaplin Wistfulness

Author:Walt Disney

“Let this coming year be better than all the others. Vow to do some of the things you have always wanted to do but could not find the time. Call up a forgotten friend. Drop an old grudge, and replace it with some pleasant memories. Vow not to make a promise you do not think you can keep. Walk tall, and smile more. You will look 10 years younger. Do not be afraid to say, I love you. Say it again. They are the sweetest words in the world.”

“I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player. I was born to play baseball.”

Play Wanted Born Player Baseball Convinced Baseball Player

Author:Roberto Clemente

“When I was a little kid, I wanted to be a baseball player. This is something I think about. The more I think about it, I'm convinced that God wanted me to play baseball.”

Wanted Player Baseball Baseball Player

Author:Roberto Clemente

“The one thing I wanted to do more than anything else was sing country music.”

Country Wanted One Thing

Author:Patsy Cline

“I have gotten more than I asked for. All that I ever wanted was to hear my voice on record and have a song among the Top 20.”

Wanted Song Voice Records

Author:Patsy Cline

“I wanted to explore black culture, and I wanted that culture to be a revelation.”

Wanted Culture Black Revelations Black Culture

Author:Alvin Ailey

“You haven't seen me in my own ads. You don't see my logo all over my clothes. From the beginning, I wanted the clothes to stand on their own.”

Wanted My Own Havens Clothes Ads Logos

Author:John Varvatos

“I hate the way people use slide presentations instead of thinking. People would confront a problem by creating a presentation. I wanted them to engage, to hash things out at the table, rather than show a bunch of slides. People who know what they're talking about don't need PowerPoint.”

People Thinking Knows Way Inspirational Needs Use Shows Problem Wanted Hate Talking Creating I Hate Tables Bunch Slides Presentation Powerpoint Hash

Author:Steve Jobs

“The effect of the great and sudden change of altitude made itself felt at once; when I wanted to turn round in my bag, I had to do it a bit at a time, so as not to get out of breath.”

Made Wanted Turns Felt Bits Effects Breaths Rounds Bags Sudden Change

Book:The South Pole

Source: The South Pole

“I wanted to retain my individuality. I was afraid of being hampered by studio policies. I knew if someone else got control, I would be restrained.”

Ifs Would Be Wanted Policy Individuality Studios Being Yourself

Author:Walt Disney

“Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be.”

Writing Wanted Passion Understood Storyteller Firefighter

Author:Ruth Park

“Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.”

World Life Truth Wanted Truth Is Unreal Another World Untrue Long Day

Book:Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night

Source: Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night

“We had generals who were admirals and admirals who wanted to be generals. Generals acting as admirals are bad enough, but it was the admirals who wanted to be generals who imperiled victory among the coral islands.”

Enough Wanted Acting Victory Islands Marine Marine Corps Admiral

Book:Coral And Brass

Source: Coral And Brass

“Every good product I've ever seen is because a group of people cared deeply about making something wonderful that they and their friends wanted. They wanted to use it themselves.”

People Use Wanted Wonderful Groups Products Very Good

Author:Steve Jobs

“I always thought of myself as a humanities person as a kid, but I liked electronics. Then I read something that one of my heroes, Edwin Land of Polaroid, said about the importance of people who could stand at the intersection of humanities and sciences, and I decided that's what I wanted to do.”

People Persons Said Kids Wanted Humanity Land Hero Decided Importance My Hero Intersections Electronics Polaroids My Biography

Author:Steve Jobs

“I wanted to be an honest writer and show my ugliness as much as I showed my hopes or goodness. And that really sculpted the type of artist I've become.”

Shows Wanted Artist Honest Type Goodness Ugliness

Author:Jewel

“I've always been bored with just making money. I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going. What money meant to me was that I was able to get money to do that for me.”

Able Wanted Making Money Bored Get Money

Author:Walt Disney

“I've wanted to do things; I wanted to build things, to get something going.”

Wanted

Author:Walt Disney

“A lot of folks are still demanding more evidence before they actually consider Iraq a threat. For example, France wants more evidence. And you know I'm thinking, the last time France wanted more evidence they rolled right through Paris with the German flag.”

Thinking Knows Want Stills Wanted Lasts Example Evidence Threat Folks Iraq France Paris Flags Last Time

Author:David Letterman

“When I became a Sigma Chi it was great, because they were the pople I enjoyed being with and I was very proud of the association. It was kind of an instant confidence builder for me--that what I considered the best fraternity on campus had actually wanted me. And I had always been very shy and without a lot of confidence. So it was a really good social experience and for me it was also a social maturation. It was a great benefit.”

Kind Wanted Social Proud Benefits Enjoyed Instant Shy Association Campus Builder Fraternity

Author:David Letterman

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