#wanted

My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do. ↗

— Nana Mouskouri

#get #i #living #make #only

When I grew up I always wanted to act. Also, I wanted to be either a lawyer or a doctor. However, when I got to college and realized what those occupations entailed, I changed my mind real quick. ↗

— Tia Mowry

#also #always #changed #college #doctor

I basically had the idea when I was 18 that I wanted to write my own songs. I knew it was going to be a long, tough road, and I was like, if I just begin now, by the time I'm 40, I'll be good at it. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#begin #by the time #going #good #had

My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas. ↗

— Kary Mullis

#catalogues #christmas #give #let us #me

I just wanted to write something about running, but I realized that to write about my running is to write about my writing. It's a parallel thing in me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#i #just #me #parallel #realized

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#else #father #i #japanese #just

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#big #big companies #companies #company #getting

My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#father #fought #generation #happened #i

Bill Clinton sitting on Air Force One getting his hair cut while people around the country cooled their heels and waited for him, became a metaphor for a populist president who had gotten drunk with the perks of his own power and was sort of, you know, not sensitive to what people wanted. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#air force #around #became #bill #bill clinton

It feels bad to feel like you're not wanted. ↗

— Joe Namath

#feel #feels #like #wanted #you