Evel Knievel
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES ROHINTON MISTRY I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then... RAHA MOHARRAK JAY ASHER JULIE KAGAWA My teammates were so encouraging. They wanted me to get better and they helped me feel better. LAURA FALKENBERG They wanted to help me with my pain. SHERMAN ALEXIE They did tell us they wanted more, but much as we want to pay more we are capital-hungry. But we agr... ROBERT HISCOX I'm taking this further and I'm am looking at all my options. They haven't heard the end of me. JUDY MOTA JESSICA ENNIS I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sin... ROBERT CRUMB My parents are creative on many fronts, and they pushed me to be that way, too. They wanted me to wr... CHRISTINE ELISE BARRY BONDS They made us get out of the parish, and I wanted to take my animals (but)they shot my animals right ... WILLIAM MILLER I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a g... ALEX BORSTEIN My parents wanted me to be a doctor, and they weren't very happy at the idea of me choosing acti... CATERINA MURINO I moved further and further away from mass entertainment. The sexual element became increasingly sin... ROBERT CRUMB JACK KEROUAC They advance further in their job, they save more money, and maybe invest more wisely. DAVID POPENOE By retiring and going to Florida in the winter, it allows me to spend more time with my family. My w... ED ASTON All my life I've wanted to tell people I love them. Fear usually held me back, that they wouldn't ca... PATRICIA GAFFNEY CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON They wanted to jump on their own bandwagon. Bobby Charlton had never made it as a manager. Bobby Moo... BRYAN ROBSON NANCY KERRIGAN They thought they had the upper hand. We wanted it more. JARED HAMMOND My parents, you see, were a little square. They cared more about being good parents in the general s... JOSS SHELDON My mother wanted to name me Jackie or Jacqueline but she got to name my sister and my brother, so my... ARIEL WINTER I respected everyone, and I think they wanted me to be me. They thought I was crazy when I wanted to... CONSTANTINE MAROULIS At 13, I believed these people were my friends. They were kind. They complimented me. They wanted to... JUSTIN BERRY He didn't know how much more time he had. But he wanted everybody to know to tell my mom that he lov... ANN MERIDETH EZEKIEL ELLIOTT MAHATMA GANDHI I love being the first girl, or the first lady. It's an honor and a privilege, ... The grown-ups did... SONNY PERDUE FLOYD MAYWEATHER, JR. I was setting in class and got a text message. I wanted to jump up and scream, but realized I probab... JEFF BUTTS People think they have even more time, and they're putting it off even further. KAY BELL RODNEY DANGERFIELD AYRTON SENNA My parents never pushed me to ski race. It was my choice and something I really wanted to do. I woul... TED LIGETY I talked to my family about that, and they're fine with it. They just wanted me to be happy. JOSH DUELL MAHATMA GANDHI I realized I wanted more, I wanted my life back. It gave me my health. GINA SERVEDIO Terri had everything going for her. She was my mom's best friend. Every girl wanted to be her, and i... BRIAN CHALK It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because the... FRANCIA RAISA A private firm has been retained by the insurance company. They further investigated. They may have ... DEAN FUDALEY That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my l... JACK HENRY ABBOTT From my perspective it leaves the door open to further rate hikes. Remember: the Fed is taking back ... DICK BERNER I knew I had to help my team in any way possible. They just wanted me to be energetic, and that's wh... KRYSTAL ELLIS I was playing a little soft in the first half. I was settling for 3-pointers and jump shots. Coach w... KYLAN ROBINSON I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender. MAUREEN BRADY MARA WILSON My dad would just feed me balls before that. I kept pushing my parents to let me play in tournaments... JENNY LEE NICHOLAS SPARKS We wanted to get him further in the game. TERRY FRANCONA PAUL AUSTER They patted me down. They took my wallet. They took my money I had in my pocket and they took the pi... DANNY JOHNSON I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still ... SHANE MCANALLY ZUBIN MEHTA AYRTON SENNA I stopped by, and they let me know how serious they were about getting me back. And that's when I fi... KALIMBA EDWARDS GLORIA VANDERBILT My swim was fantastic. It's always refreshing after you get pushed in after a meet like that. I told... SEAN FOLEY They wanted something different in a story. They wanted more information than their competition. The... PAUL ZIMBRAKOS I was bleeding profusely because my coronary artery was literally coming apart and the right side of... DOUG SHORE NICK WOODMAN I told my son [Dustin] and daughter if they wanted to compete, I would compete with them and they de... KAREN CAMPBELL She spilled rice on my knee, and she smiled. I wanted her to spill a thousand things on me, lava, ac... ANN BRASHARES C.S. LEWIS We have tears in our eyes ROALD DAHL [Texas Tech athletic director] Gerald Myers called me in and said they didn't want me to leave, they... PAT KNIGHT They wanted to pressure me, BAYAN JABR My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books... ALEJANDRO AMENABAR EMMA TENNANT It started before I could get back to my hotel room. People I had met once wanted to manage me and g... JOE HACHEM It took me off guard. I know I played well, but I guess they wanted more bulk. But it was the turnin... HAKIM WARRICK MAYA ANGELOU I've been their outside counsel for a long time, but in July they approached me and said they wanted... LEON MARGULES I'd definitely found my equal, the woman who made my life a living hell and lived to antagonize me. ... CHRISTINA LAUREN I remember when I was 6 or 7, me and some of my friends swimming out in our street because the water... JASON WEBSTER It was probably my fault that I had never asked them before if they wanted to be more involved, but ... ANNE WALLACE They didn't mind. They wanted me to play with them. They encouraged me to play. LAURA NUNEZ They took further specimens post-mortem, from the lungs, and they tested positive. CRISTIANA SALVI I wanted to be safe and just wanted to land the jump. JANA LINDSEY We wanted to come out and be aggressive from the jump. We wanted to make them (Gary) do things that ... ANTWAIN BARBOUR BARBARA MANDRELL Every day while I was in the hospital, every one of the them came and saw me, and they just wanted m... DAMIEN HESS I don't think I had a contested shot in the first half. They were playing that jump trap and every t... DAN ROSS YUVRAJ SINGH What a desperate, pathetic fool I was. Time after time, my "friends" had shown me their true colors.... JODEE BLANCO I hit with her every day, and she forces me to stay at the top of my game. We push each other furthe... JULIE PHILLIPS They've got my number, if they were so concerned with where I was at, why didn't they call me? I kno... REGGIE EVANS We wanted to come out and be aggressive from the jump. ANTWAIN BARBOUR PAUL KALANITHI I walked out of the show business in 1968 because I thought that would be good for the family. It to... PETE BEST No matter what, I would never let the people who wanted me to break see how much damage they had inf... RACHEL L. SCHADE JOHN LENNON JOHN LENNON Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me CHUCK KLOSTERMAN JOSH HARTNETT The one thing I have wanted to stay away from is the steroids. When I had an attack two years ago in... MARY ANN MOBLEY
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And the further they go, the more they'll remember, they can take it from me. 
I wanted people to trust me, despite anything they'd heard. And more than that, I wanted them to kno... 
They wanted me to sit, listen, learn, be quiet, 
We always spend more time on the throwing events and a little bit more on the long jump. They're... 
You wanted me to jump off the bridge; I finally have jumped. You wanted to bring me down; you've fin... 
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my... 
All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for materi... 
My parents never pressured me to skate. They always said I could quit if I wanted to. They only expe... 
Notre Dame was my dream school growing up. But in recruiting, they had some other plans, what positi... 
They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me-then they will have my dead body, not my obed... 
I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were ... 
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he want... 
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychol... 
I had people in 'Entertainment Weekly' talking about how they wanted to throttle me because ... 
Young and old, male or female, pretty much everyone she knew wanted the same things: They wanted to ... 
There was nothing to see, nothing to distract me from succumbing to my fears, and the longer I kept ... 
There was an opinion expressed in the newspapers that, after 20 years, maybe the Israel Philharmonic... 
I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychol... 
And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong - to ... 
I enrolled in a race car driving school, where you go for three days, and they wanted to rent me a v... 
I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound.... 
Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and ... 
I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. ... 
And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I h... 
It gave me more responsibility and I wanted to play with responsibility and win matches for my count... 
Time for me is double-edged: every day brings me further from the low of my last cancer relapse, but... 
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ... 
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ... 
Everybody was trying to put me in action movies and heroic roles, and I wanted to find more complex ... 
Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provid... 
A motorcycle coming down from 30 feet at 70 mph gives you a terrible jolt. 
I thought I was bulletproof or Superman there for a while. I thought I'd never run out of nerve....