#want

I do remember in high school I wanted to be a disc jockey. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

#high #high school #i #i do #jockey

I found my first novel difficult. I don't want to make it sound like it's any more difficult than driving a cab or going to any other job, but there are so many opportunities for self-doubt, that you just kind of need to soldier on. ↗

— Anthony Doerr

#cab #difficult #driving #first #found

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax. ↗

— Snoop Dogg

#being #figured #get #help #i

I thought I wanted to be a brain surgeon until I realized all the schooling it required. I didn't like school very much so I had to come up with something else. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#come #else #had #i #like

We don't want crimes committed in New Mexico falling through the cracks. This legislation ensures that there is no area of our state where crimes can be committed without consequence. ↗

— Pete Domenici

#committed #consequence #cracks #crimes #ensures

I could never say I'm going to do bigger and better things because that would negate what I've already accomplished, and I don't want to do that. ↗

— Jeffrey Donovan

#already #because #better #better things #bigger

Some people are uncomfortable with the idea that humans belong to the same class of animals as cats and cows and raccoons. They're like the people who become successful and then don't want to be reminded of the old neighborhood. ↗

— Phil Donahue

#belong #cats #class #cows #humans

And really, the basis, I think, of achieving some success in what I want to do today comes from my mother's push to get me to read and to make something of myself from the standpoint of an education. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#basis #comes #education #get #i

I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#content #does #first #go #happen

Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day. ↗

— Sam Donaldson

#beat #bed #broadcast #business #competition