#wanted

I wanted to produce Nancy LaMott's albums, so I created my own record company. ↗

— David Friedman

#company #created #i #my own #nancy

The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#because #explanation #happen #happened #most

On the one hand I wonder, Was this really my story to tell? On the other hand, I just wanted the story to be told. But the truth is that I didn't think anybody was going to read it. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#going #hand #i #i wonder #just

I loved the movies and I wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe. I thought she was so glamorous and everyone seemed to love her. I wanted to be like that and I told everyone I would be the next Marilyn Monroe. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#glamorous #her #i #like #love

I was, like, forty at birth. When I wasn't even a year old, I spoke, I was potty trained, I walked and talked. That was it. Then I started school and drove everybody crazy because they realized I had popped out as an adult. I had adult questions and wanted adult answers. ↗

— Sharon Stone

#answers #because #birth #crazy #drove

In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted everything that went along with it. ↗

— George Strait

#beginning #everything #hit #hit records #i

I'd started going to acting classes at 14, played 'Medea' at 15 and really wanted to be a classical actress. ↗

— Barbra Streisand

#actress #classes #classical #going #i

When you truly give up trying to be whole through others, you end up receiving what you always wanted from others. ↗

— Shakti Gawain

#end #give #others #receiving #through

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do. ↗

— Anna Sui

#become #chinese #designer #had #i

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point. ↗

— Anna Sui

#beyond #business #clothes #concerts #designing