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Ah, much deluded! lay asideThy threats, and anger misapplied!
Art not afraid with sounds ...
JOHN MILTON I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I It was a clear understanding (that) they wanted me here, and I wanted to be here, ... We're on the s...
ANTONIO GATES I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soo...
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I wanted to have the adoration of John Lennon but have the anonymity of Ringo Starr. I didn't wa... KURT COBAIN I wanted to be on the mound at the end of the game. I had a lot of respect for guys who did it and w...
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I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart.... P.C. CAST I talked to (assistant coach) Rich Preston and expressed some interest. I knew I wanted to come back...
JASON WIEMER From the time I was 3, I wanted to be a major-league player. To accomplish that at 35, get my name o...
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I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I ... KAREN FINERMAN Everybody wanted to go home, but at the same time, it was pretty impressive that those guys were sit...
DAN ORTMEIER I wanted to make the lightest shoe possible, but still be able to perform at the same time.
CARMELO ANTHONY
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD I wish I was still out there playing. Though we were down a few points, or 15 or 20, whatever it was...
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I definitely wanted to leave "Saturday Night Live" at a time when I still enjoyed doing the show. I ... WILL FERRELL
I was knocked out by a skateboarder when I was 11. SHAUN WHITE
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CURT DEHAAN I was one of those weirdos who, at six years old, was telling everybody that I wanted to be an actor...
CHRIS WOOD
I wanted to be a secret agent and an astronaut, preferably at the same time. DAVID BYRNE
I thought that I was the Warrior and Cersei was the Maid, but all the time she was the Stranger, ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN
When I decided that I wanted to go to college, I wanted to be a school teacher for 7th and 8th grade... BILL COSBY I asked the world to let me have all the fun while I was young. I became old, and realized it wasn't...
SUSIE L HILL
The hijab is a symbol that we wear on our heads, but I want people to know that it is my choice. I&#... HALIMA ADEN
He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL
When I'm performing for the people, I am me, then. I am that little girl who, when she was five ... ETTA JAMES
I wanted to do in boxing what Bruce Lee was able to do in karate. Lee was an artist, and, like him, ... SUGAR RAY LEONARD I grew up skateboarding; it was fun. I didn't think about money, I didn't know how much prof...
JASON LEE At Norwich, I was injured, and then I went to Leicester, and I found myself on the bench. But I stil...
HARRY KANE
I quit high school to be a pro skateboarder out of Ohio, which is just asinine, but it was meant to ... ROB DYRDEK
You dream and hope that you could do something like that, but I didn't imagine that it would happen.... PETE WENTZ
I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to th... CORY MONTEITH
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KAYLA RAE
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I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you. EMINEM
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I never wanted to be famous. It was amusing at first, but now I hate it. I just wanted to be respect... CAITLIN MORAN From the time I was six years old, I wanted to be a BMX Racer and be the best.
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If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who br... TANA FRENCH They (fellow inmates) were there for me and helped me out when I was in there, ... But it was a bad ...
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As a professional skateboarder, I can't look at anyone getting hurt - it freaks me out. ROB DYRDEK For a long time I thought I wanted to be a nun. Then I realized that what I really wanted to be was ...
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I didn't want to be a writer. First I wanted to act, and then I wanted to be a painter like my b... GAIL CARSON LEVINE Weld looked at our two-year-old program and wanted us to help him find a horse that could be fast an...
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There were 10,000 18-year-old girls at the MTV awards and I wanted to look cool. VAL KILMER The young guys are going to be a great part of this sport in the near future. But I still want to ma...
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LUSIA STRUS I wanted very much not to be where I was. In fact part of the trouble seemed to be that where I was ...
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GERRY HUNSICKER I was into Ted Nugent, I was a Nugent guy. I was a skateboarder listening to Ted Nugent.
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Honestly, at times, I still get bored. 'Dancing with the Stars' kept me busy, and that's... PAIGE VANZANT Standing on the sidelines was killing me. I just wanted to go out there and see what I can do. I've ...
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I've always looked the same. Since I was a child, I hated having to deal with my hair. I hated h... PATTI SMITH
I wanted to be a writer, but at the time, I spent my days working a retail job, my nights sleeping i... ANTHONY MARRA I was very eager to produce an oscillator for short waves. I was doing science with microwaves, and ...
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For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find somet... PADMA LAKSHMI I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.
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I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I kne... PAUL THEROUX The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looke...
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I wanted to be a classical actress. I plodded along. I went to junior college in San Francisco, I wa... ANNETTE BENING I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs t... BUCK OWENS
At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has b... SALVADOR DALI
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