#wanted

I want to live and work in Chicago for the rest of my life. You know when you were growing up and you wanted to become president? What I want now is to be mayor of this damned town in ten years. ↗

— William Petersen

#chicago #damned #growing #growing up #i

I've been telling anybody who would listen that I wanted to do a series for the last 10 years. But I wouldn't do it if I was just another cop pushing bad guys up against the wall. ↗

— William Petersen

#another #anybody #bad #bad guys #been

We had this budding baby band going and we hadn't reached that development we wanted to reach before we got signed to a major label. ↗

— Debbi Peterson

#band #before #budding #development #going

I've always wanted to sing, just as I've always known that one day I would have my own niche in the annals of song. It was a feeling I had. ↗

— Edith Piaf

#annals #day #feeling #had #i

I'd always liked to write, but I never wanted to be a writer, because it seemed a sissy occupation. It is. To this day, I find it terribly easy. And so, rather than trying to hunt up a text, I just wrote one. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#because #day #easy #find #hunt

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

— Camille Pissarro

#around #began #forty #i #know

My father came from a very poor background, but I was very fortunate in the sense that we were never in need. My dad was determined to make sure that we didn't want for things. He wanted to give us more opportunity than he had, a better shot at a better life. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#better #better life #came #dad #determined

How can you consider flower power outdated? The essence of my lyrics is the desire for peace and harmony. That's all anyone has ever wanted. How could it become outdated? ↗

— Robert Plant

#become #consider #could #desire #essence

The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it. ↗

— John Pomfret

#because #become #came #desire #i

I never believed that U2 wanted to save the whales. I don't believe that The Beastie Boys are ready to lay it down for Tibet. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#believed #down #i #lay #never