“I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian grow up, and now there's a 17-year-old man on the phone talking about motorbikes. No matter what artistic gains I get, or gold records, if I can't make a success out of my relationship with the people I love, then everything else is bullsh*t.” PeopleIfsMenGivingYearsFirstsI CanMatterWantedGrowsTalkingGrowing UpRecordsFiveSonGainsGoldNo Matter WhatParentingPhonesArtisticOld ManBeing ThereSeanMotorbike Author:John Lennon
“[M]ore than they wanted freedom, the Athenians wanted security. Yet they lost everything-security, comfort, and freedom. This was because they wanted not to give to society, but for society to give to them. The freedom they were seeking was freedom from responsibility. It is no wonder, then, that they ceased to be free. In the modern world, we should recall the Athenians' dire fate whenever we confront demands for increased state paternalism.” WorldGivingShouldStatesWantedLostResponsibilityWonderFateModernSecurityComfortDemandSeekingRecallsModern WorldLost EverythingAtheniansPaternalism Author:Margaret Thatcher
“When I wrote The Interestings, I wanted to let time unspool, to give the book the feeling of time passing. I had to allow myself the freedom to move back and forth in time freely, and to trust that readers would accept this.” GivingBookFeelingsWantedMovingAcceptingReaderPassingPassingsBack And ForthTime PassingTime Passes Author:Meg Wolitzer
“I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.” PeopleGivingWantedSoundMy OwnStyleTaste Author:Birdy
“I wasn't a bad guy. I just wanted God to give me a second chance.” GivingWantedGuyChanceBasketballGive MeNbaBad GuysSecond Chance Author:Allen Iverson
“I never wanted to give up my power. I wanted to be able to make my own decisions, so that's why I became involved in management, bottom line.” GivingAbleWantedLinesMy OwnDecisionInvolvedGiving UpManagementBottomBottom Line Author:Queen Latifah
“All I ever wanted to do was music, and all I've ever asked, as I've gotten to know and discover the world more, is that God would use me in any way to encourage and inspire love and inspire people to bring and give love to each other.” PeopleKnowsWorldWayGivingUseWantedInspireUsing MeInspire Love Author:Stevie Wonder
“I made money. I wanted to give it back to Africa but I wanted to give it back in a meaningful way. So I really want to do something which deals with the root of the problem of hunger, of disease, of ills we have in our society.” WayWantGivingMadeProblemWantedDealsDiseaseRootsHungerMeaningfulOur Society Author:Mo Ibrahim
“If someone like Karl Rove had wanted to neutralize the most creative, intelligent, and passionate members of his opposition, he'd have a hard time coming up with a better tool than Burning Man. Exile them to the wilderness, give them a culture in which alpha status requires months of focus and resource-consumptive preparation, provide them with metric tons of psychotropic confusicants, and then... ignore them. It's a pretty safe bet that they won't be out registering voters, or doing anything that might actually threaten electoral change, when they have an art car to build.” IfsMenGivingArtHardMightWantedCultureCreativeFocusCarMonthsSafeMembersResourcesToolsIntelligentPassionateBurningPreparationHard TimesOppositionWildernessVotersExileAlphasMetricsBurning Man Author:John Perry Barlow