#wanted

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible. ↗

— Diana Ross

#apartment #black #business #buy #children

Well, it's a little odd, the path I took, because when I was young, I wanted to be a cattle rancher. That was what I knew and that was what I liked. ↗

— Sandra Day O'Connor

#cattle #i #knew #liked #little

Despite recent speculation in the media, and after difficult but sincere consideration, I have decided not to direct 'Catching Fire.' As a writer and a director, I simply don't have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make, because of the fixed and tight production schedule. ↗

— Gary Ross

#because #catching #consideration #decided #despite

All I ever wanted to do was to make food accessible to everyone; to show that you can make mistakes - I do all the time - but it doesn't matter. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#ever #everyone #food #i #i do

If Obama wanted to make radical changes to America's health long-term, all he has to do is treble the price of sugar and salt. ↗

— Jamie Oliver

#changes #health #long-term #make #obama

I just wanted to be an athlete. ↗

— Merlin Olsen

#i #just #wanted

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#addictions #breaks #choose #down #going

People would ask me to autograph their bodies and then the next time I'd see them on tour they'd have my autograph tattooed. I decided I wouldn't write on people anymore, but I'd give them arms and legs and if they wanted those autographed I'd do that. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#arms #ask #autograph #bodies #decided

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person. ↗

— Michael Palin

#doomed #explorer #i #i always #more

I understand that if you set out to be a celebrity, then you asked for it, but all I wanted to be was an actor. ↗

— Gwyneth Paltrow

#asked #celebrity #i #out #set