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I am involved in a lot of nonprofits. And when I reached the ripe old age of 60, I wanted to provide leadership to some I had been involved in.

I am not a man of many words, but I can honestly say playing football is all I have ever wanted to do.

I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.

I am responsible for myself. I am exactly who I eventually wanted myself to be, I guess, without consciously knowing what I wanted me to be.

I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

I am very, very aware at all times. I'm watching myself, I'm listening to myself, I'm judging myself, critiquing myself all the time, and I will know when I do something and I will immediately say, "Can I do another one, because I didn't quite get that thing," or that I wanted to do something there and it didn't quite work.

I asked my date what she wanted to drink. She said, 'Oh, I guess I'll have Champagne.' I said, 'Guess again.'

I became a musician because that's really what I wanted to do when I was fifteen, but I had other abilities.

I became an entertainer not because I wanted to but because I was meant to.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I wanted to be a poem.

I believe in life you need to always ask for everything politely and nicely, and then if they say no you do what you wanted to do anyway

I believe that creativity comes from compromise. If you could have everything you ever wanted, it doesn't always work.

I believe that nothing comes of nothing, even in Shakespeare. I wanted to know where he got the matter he was working with and what he did with that matter.

I believe that the FBI clearly was concerned, wanted to monitor and disrupt Malcolm X wherever possible.

I breathe, I sleep, I eat music. Music is what I wanted to do.

I came to my mom and told her I wanted to do this[acting].

I came into music just because I wanted the bread. It's true. I looked around and this seemed like the only way I was going to get the kind of bread I wanted.

I came to love my rows, my beans, though so many more than I wanted. They attached me to the earth, and so I got strength like Antaeus.

I came up in battling and just wanting to compete. Even if you had no real problem with someone, you just wanted to compete.

I couch-surfed for years. But I always wanted to live in Baltimore; I still do. If I had to choose, it would always be Baltimore.

I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.

I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.

I could be anything I wanted because I was an American. And I hope that that's really what's propelled me into public service.

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

I could feel the day offering itself to me, and I wanted nothing more than to be in the moment-but which moment? Not that one, or that one, or that one.

I couldn't tell the difference between what was real and what I wanted to be real.

I could take my time, and nobody was pressuring me to be a headliner. I could go up there, find my voice, and figure out what I wanted to do.

I could still eat a cheeseburger if I wanted to. I just can't have them every day.

I couldn't do "What's Love Got To Do With It", Tina Turner because it wasn't the right tempo; so I scratched it from the record. I wanted to do it about a year ago, but something happened.

I decided at 10 I wanted to be in a band; everyone else wanted to play football.

I'd always wanted to grow my hair out. And now looking back on those photos I understand why I probably shouldn't have.

I'd come to the point where I wasn't really putting out creatively. I didn't seem to have anything to say in that period of time after the '74 tour. There was nothing definite that I wanted to record.

I decided I wanted out because it was killing me, and I couldnt see where to go with it that wouldnt be fatal.

I'd been shouting and shouting and no-one wanted to hear me.

I decided that what I really wanted to do was go off and paint.

I definitely felt the pressure I wanted to live up to all of the expectations.

I deplored a system that made it more profitable not to work than to work. I wanted to help change all that.

I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.

I did get lost but I wanted someone to find me.

I didn't care about being the 'star. ' I just wanted to make a living and have a consistent career.

I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet.

I did a handful of photo shoots and I never made any money for it just because I was trying to build a portfolio. I decided that that's not what I wanted to do.

I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.

I didn't become an actor because I wanted to act. Actually, I wanted to become a marine biologist. But most of all, I wanted to be accepted.

I didn't confess how wrecked I was. Let them keep thinking I was Superwoman if they wanted. I knew the truth.

I didn't just grow up with horses; I wanted to be one.

I didn't know then what I wanted, but the ache for it was palpable.

I didn't even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage.

I didn't know [director] Aaron Woodley at all, but I knew I wanted to be a part of [ The Entitled ].