“I wouldn't have wanted to miss the opportunity to make those three films that didn't do well. They were really important to me, and the things I learned doing them were important to me.” WellsImportantWantedFilmThreeOpportunityMissing Author:Michael J. Fox
“Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.” LongHas BeensImportantStatesWantedCoursesSocialUnitedUnited StatesSecurityRepublicanProgramValuableSocial SecuritySocial Programs Author:Bernie Sanders
“I always wanted to be a musician from when I was kid. It was always a massive dream of mine. School was also really really important to me and having an education was top of my priority. So I really wanted to have a degree before I tried anything in the music industry.” ImportantDreamKidsWantedSchoolMinesIndustryDegreesMusicianPrioritiesMassiveMusic Industry Author:Emeli Sande
“There's also something happening in television similar to what happened in the '80s, when people stopped taking so many drugs and wanted to hear real instruments in music again. I think people want plot, story and characters. Those are more important than having a big star.” PeopleThinkingWantImportantRealCharacterStoriesBigsWantedStarsHappenedTelevisionDrugHappeningsInstrumentsPlot80s Author:Jessica Pare
“I've wanted to act since I was little, but my parents told me I couldn't pursue it until after college. The understanding was that I was lucky enough to be able to go to college and that it's important to being successful in life.” LittlesImportantEnoughAbleWantedParentUnderstandingSuccessfulCollegeLuckyPursueBeing Successful Author:Allison Williams
“I wanted to show that your health is more important than your hair.” ImportantShowsWantedHair Author:Joan Lunden
“It is really important for women to look up and see other women being successful. When I was in that position, all I wanted to do was blend in and be one of the guys.” LooksImportantWantedGuySuccessfulPositionLook UpBeing Successful Author:Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones
“I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.” PeoplePersonsMadeImportantWantedMotherStrongInspiringCampsVery StrongSurvivedInfluentialInfluential Person Author:Diane von Furstenberg
“Never work for a company that says people are its most important asset. If you wanted to get a mortgage and you said that your only asset was people you would end up living in a tent.” PeopleIfsSaidImportantEndsWantedCompanyAssetsMortgageTents Author:Guy Browning
“Attraction happens when you feel important, valued, appreciated and wanted.” FeelsImportantHappensWantedWomenAttractionAppreciated Author:Amy Dickinson
“It was important that I learn that what I wanted was no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, audience, and competition.” ImportantDifferentWantedArtistMy OwnAudienceConfidenceCompetition Author:Beverly Pepper
“Man is sitting disconsolate on an anthill one morning. God asks him what the matter is and man replies that the soil is too swampy for the cultivation of the yams which God has directed him to grow. God tells him to bring in a blacksmith to dry the soil with his bellows. The contribution of humanity to this creation is so important. God could have made the world perfect if he had wanted. But he made it the way it is. So that there is a constant need for us to discuss and cooperate to make it more habitable, so the soil can yield, you see.” IfsMenWorldWayNeedsMadeImportantMatterWantedHumanityAsksGrowsPerfectMorningCreationSittingConstantMade ItDryContributionSoilYieldCultivationBlacksmithsYams Author:Chinua Achebe
“It's important to realize that everybody who went into country music, and most everybody who went into rock and roll in the '50s, they had no more goal than a hit on the jukebox. Johnny Cash from the very beginning had a goal that he wanted to make music that lifted people's spirits.” PeopleImportantCountryWantedSpiritGoalRealizingRocksCashRock And RollJukebox Author:Robert Hilburn
“During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to the country and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss. The grieving that the country feels is real, the sympathy, the prioritizing, the comforting of the families, all that’s important. But I think part of the point that I wanted to make was that it’s not enough just to feel bad.” IfsThinkingFeelsYearsImportantRealEndsCountryEnoughWantedCoursesSpeakCommunityLossParticularCoupleGrievingPresidencyComfortingPrioritizeDevastating Loss Author:Barack Obama
“There is no economic policy. That's really important to say. The general modus operandi of the Bushies is that they don't make policies to deal with problems. They use problems to justify things they wanted to do anyway. So there is no policy to deal with the lack of jobs. There really isn't even a policy to deal with terrorism. It's all about how can we spin what's happening out there to do what we want to do.” WantImportantUseProblemWantedJobsDealsEconomicPolicyHappeningsTerrorismJustifyEconomic PolicyModus Operandi Author:Paul Krugman
“I guess you have to be a little arrogant to be a writer. I decided early on that just because a lot of other writers were bothered by getting bad reviews didn't really mean that the things were particularly important. By the same token, the good ones didn't mean all that much either. So I just forget about reviews and I wrote what I wanted.” MeanLittlesImportantWantedForgetDecidedReviewsArrogantBotheredReally MeanTokensBad Reviews Author:Roger Zelazny
“Ideology on which the Kyoto Protocol is based, is a new form of totalitarian ideology, along with Marxism, Communism and socialism. We had doubts about the Kyoto Protocol, we wanted reasoning from our partners in the European Union, in the IPCC. Formal requests had been sent to these organizations. But we have not received responses yet, which suggests that no coherent answers can be offered. What we hear is 'it is not comprehensive responses that matter, we will not give them anyway; what is important is whether you believe us or not'.” GivingBelieveImportantMatterWantedFormAnswersDoubtOrganizationUnionsResponsePartnersSocialismIdeologyCommunismReasoningFormalMarxismRequestComprehensiveEuropean UnionProtocolKyotoCommunism And SocialismKyoto Protocol Author:Andrey Illarionov
“I was always a feminist. My mother was a feminist; my grandmother was a feminist. I always understood women had to fight very hard to do what they wanted to do in the world - that it wasn't an easy choice. But I think the most important part is that we all want the right to be taken seriously as human beings, and to use our talents without reservation, and that's still not possible for women.” ThinkingWorldWantHumansStillsImportantHardUseWantedMotherChoicesFightingEasyHuman BeingsTakenTalentUnderstoodFeministGrandmotherMy GrandmotherReservations Author:Erica Jong
“I wanted to be a fifth grade teacher because my teacher was so important to me and was giving me the education that was going to take me through life and through this world.” WorldGivingImportantWantedTeacherThis WorldGradesTake MeFifthFifth Grade Author:Steve Wozniak
“I didn't know growing up what I wanted to do. I finally settled on broadcast journalism as a way to satisfy the urge to perform and also do something important, which is to give people in a democracy information to make good decisions.” PeopleKnowsWayGivingImportantWantedDecisionGrowing UpDemocracyGrowingInformationJournalismUrgesGood DecisionBroadcast Journalism Author:Mort Crim
“It was important to me to be cool as a comedian. I didn't want to be a crowd-pleaser who sent out the vibe of, "I need you guys." I wanted to be so cool that the audience could leave and I would still be killing, that I didn't want to have to rely on them or need them. That really appealed to me.” WantNeedsStillsImportantWantedGuyAudienceKillingCrowdsComedianRelyNeed YouBeing CoolI Need YouPleasersCrowd Pleasers Author:Anthony Jeselnik
“My parents were pretty open about a lot of things, especially my mom. And any kind of little crazy thing I was into, she was very supportive of. You know, whether it was BMX bike racing or being in the Boy Scouts or surfing or anything else, she always seemed to sort of support it. And I think it's because she was an immigrant and that idea of sort of having her kids be able to have access to their dreams and whatever they wanted to follow was very important to her.” ThinkingKnowsKindLittlesImportantIdeasDreamKidsAbleWantedParentBoysSupportCrazyMomMy MomAccessImmigrantsRacingBikeSupportiveSurfingCrazy ThingsBoy ScoutBmx Author:Terry Gross
“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.” ImportantWantedRememberLyingForgetTroubleMost Wanted Author:Liza Cody
“When I was young, I had a list of things that I wanted in a husband. I knew what he should read and what sports he should like and blah, blah, blah. But the truth is, that the list was a shocking mirror image of me. You want to marry yourself when you are young. All the things you think are so urgently important, when you get older, you discover they don't have anything to do with love.” ThinkingWantShouldImportantWantedYoungSportsTruth IsHusbandMirrorsListsShockingBlahMirror Image Author:Nora Ephron
“My mother used to do all the things that were important to her after midnight. ... Sometimes I'd sneak downstairs and see her knitting, or reading, or writing letters. I'd think of her as a thief, stealing the tail end of the day, the hours nobody else wanted or used.” ThinkingWritingImportantEndsSometimesWantedUsedMotherReadingHoursLettersStealingThe End Of The DayThievesTailsMidnightSneakKnittingReading Or Writing Author:Marita Golden
“Writing is as big a part of my career as acting is, financially and time wise. So, yeah, I love it. That's all I wanted to do since I was young was be a writer. So that and acting are the two most important aspects of my career.” WritingTwoImportantBigsWantedYoungActingCareersWiseAspectYeah Author:Jonah Hill
“When I was growing up, so many of the important changes for African-Americans were being made in the United States Supreme Court and were being made by lawyers. I followed the court very intensely and wanted to do that for my life.” MadeImportantStatesWantedUnitedUnited StatesGrowing UpGrowingCourtLawyerSupremeAfrican AmericanSupreme Court Author:Leah Ward Sears
“I was 17 when I left the small Maine town where I'd grown up. I wanted to do something I thought was important with my life, so I headed to California and didn't look back.” LooksImportantWantedLeftTownsCaliforniaMaine Author:Patrick Dempsey
“Keeping fit is really important as playing football is all I've ever wanted to do.” ImportantWantedFootballFitPlaying Football Author:David Beckham