#wanted

When my dad was badly weakened by the flu and my mom wanted to call an ambulance to take him to the emergency room, he wouldn't go unless he could shave first and change into a nice shirt and a pair of slacks. ↗

— Rich Lowry

#badly #call #change #could #dad

I wanted to bring people together, and most importantly not feel threatened when they came to watch me box. ↗

— Barry McGuigan

#bring #came #feel #i #importantly

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl. ↗

— Robin Tunney

#being #easier #girl #good #good girl

I missed so many opportunities along the way to do what I wanted to do because I didn't have the confidence to tell myself, much less anybody else, 'Yes, this is the business I wanted to be a part of, and not feeling that I had the talent... and letting it go all the way through Notre Dame and then through two years of Navy service. ↗

— Regis Philbin

#anybody #because #business #confidence #dame

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'. ↗

— Peter Porter

#called #country #distortion #established #heritage

While Congress saw some need to loosen the standard in the initial days of a war, it wanted the president to comply with FISA in carrying out surveillance in the United States. ↗

— Jonathan Turley

#comply #congress #days #fisa #initial

I never really thought I wanted to become a movie star. ↗

— Anna Faris

#i #movie #movie star #never #really

I just write what I wanted to write. I write what amuses me. It's totally for myself. I never in my wildest dreams expected this popularity. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#dreams #expected #i #i write #just

Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest. ↗

— Frederick Lewis Allen

#exert #finally #first #give #harding

They wanted to make her less rural, less of a cartoon. Not that Southern woman are cartoonish - they're the strongest women in this country, but with Val they wanted to take the stereotypical things out. ↗

— Joan Van Ark

#cartoonish #country #her #less #make