#want

I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot. ↗

— Tracy Austin

#happened #i #just #lot #rally

I'm free. I just do what I want, say what I want, say how I feel, and I don't try to hurt nobody. I just try to make sure that I don't compromise my art in any kind of way, and I think people respect that. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#art #compromise #feel #free #how

I wanted to hold onto and exploit the power of narrative. This is not only a book about a great storyteller, but there have to be stories about the storyteller. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#book #exploit #great #hold #i

From then on, I realized this is what I want to do, what I'm supposed to do: Giving energy and receiving it back through applause. I love it. That's my world. I love it. I enjoy it. I live for it. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#back #energy #enjoy #giving #i

Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#business #government #i #man #nothing

When you're in a relationship you want it to work. My parents did, I did. But we are not taught how to make it work. ↗

— Erykah Badu

#how #i #make #parents #relationship

Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. ↗

— Walter Bagehot

#bell #difficult #dinner #make #out

I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that. ↗

— Donovan Bailey

#body #brain #burnt #canada #clients

I don't think too far ahead because I want to appreciate what's happening now. ↗

— Jessie Ware

#appreciate #because #far #happening #i

We're not a vocational school. If someone wants to get a high-paying job, I would hope that there are easier ways to do it than working through a formal computer science curriculum. ↗

— Philip Greenspun

#computer science #curriculum #easier #formal #get