I was doing what I wanted to do, ... I was making the records I wanted to make where and when I wanted to do them. I wasn't looking aggressively for someone to come in and give me some new and fresh perspectives on my stuff. I was pretty happy with it and perfectly willing to continue as long as I could on that path.
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Related I wanted to go out of state and do something new. I wanted to see where I was as a person and see wh... CHAD JACKSON I didn't know what I wanted to do next as far as records. I felt I had a writing block, and I wanted... EARL KLUGH Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it. , TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I I didn't feel as if they always had me [as] part of their plans. It was like I was back on the back ... JUAN DIXON All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when ... SHAMEIK MOORE When I was younger, there was a huge gap between what I wanted to do and what I could do as an idol. NAMIE AMURO Something happened during Matt's talk. When I sat down I was one person, but by the time he was done... SUSAN AUTEN Longing surged up within me. I wanted it. Oh God, I wanted it. I didn't want to hear Jerome chastise... RICHELLE MEAD I wanted to do two things when I was growing up, about your age. I wanted to play in the NBA, and I ... MAGIC JOHNSON What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b... STEPHEN R. COVEY I came in with a chip on my shoulder. I wanted to prove to myself and the coaches missing out on me ... GREG ESLINGER That's all I could think to do, and after I did that, it let go. And I wanted to get to shore as soo... BRIAN ANDERSON I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it... SAM ABELL I'm really happy about my finish. I just wanted to come in and do each dive as best as I could. ERIC CROWLEY Doing them the way I heard them the day I wrote 'em was what I wanted to do, ... And fortunately it'... BOBBY PINSON It's my job as the captain and team leader to create shots when we need them. I honestly was looking... JULIE FUTCH I was running track early in my years and I was breaking track records in sprint running. I was trai... SHEILA E. I made that declaration and I didn't question it. It was clear to me what I wanted to be. My dad sai... CESAR MILLAN I started out doing theater when I was really young, and I completely fell in love with it. I knew t... TARA LYNNE BARR I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was dete... ALAN W. LIVINGSTON I was just running as hard as I could, wanting to make them make a play, and the next thing you know... DAVE ROBERTS All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records. BRODY ARMSTRONG I was skating with friends in my neighborhood, and then eventually I was invited to go to the skate ... TONY HAWK So you know, my plan was that I was going to make records, and be a rock star. And that's really... KATEY SAGAL Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I... OCTAVIA BUTLER The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive. MARK WAHLBERG I was a child when the March on Washington led by Martin Luther King occurred, and I wanted to hear ... ANDRE BRAUGHER I wanted what most people wanted—love, companionship. I wanted someone to touch. I wanted som... CHLOE NEILL This is what I wanted. This guy. This life. This me. I was never getting my old life back, and I did... KELLEY ARMSTRONG After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist... EMM GRYNER I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics co... HARVEY PEKAR Just take yourself back to September 2001. As that month went on, and as that autumn unrolled, every... ROB RIGGLE ...I managed to make it clear that what I most wanted was time to grow up. The war had not matured m... ROBERTSON DAVIES I think he didn't feel like he needed any assistance, ... I think he felt that with his Notre Dame b... TYRONE WILLINGHAM Later that night, I was flying. I asked him what was going on and he told me that he put some dope i... DANIEL BROWN I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do wit... ACE FREHLEY If I had to get there without friends, I could do it. Had been doing it. I'd never met anyone who br... TANA FRENCH In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked n... ADAM CAROLLA I wanted to come out here and do exactly how I was training so I was happy with how I went. The crow... HOLLIE DYKES I just... wanted to help her. I wanted to return her stuff and give her a ride home so I'd know she ... S.C. STEPHENS I wanted to be a Broadway star when I was younger. I wanted to sing and dance until I realized I was... MICHELLE BRANCH I knew exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to build some kind of lifestyle brand that was preppy a... TOMMY HILFIGER I've always loved movies since I was a kid. I loved how they could make me happy, sad, or just s... DANIELLA ALONSO We wanted to grind it out. I wanted to throw the ball more, but when you are ahead by three touchdow... CHRIS CONNOLLY My mother took me to a lot of operas and when I was eight I got the opportunity to be in one and I r... EZRA MILLER I wanted to see first hand what it was like. I wanted to do what I could to help out. ANDREW MACKAY I had a pretty good shot of adrenaline working at that time, and all I wanted to do was to get on th... DAN LANKHEIT I wasn't concerned about the hardships, because I always felt I was doing what I had to do, what I w... KATHERINE DUNHAM 'Side A' was a project that I wanted to do, stuff that I produced completely, and it was jus... CHRISTINA GRIMMIE It was nothing, I don't think, personal against me on his behalf, and it was nothing personal agains... LAVERANUES COLES In the beginning, I wanted to enter what was essentially a man's field. I wanted to prove I could do... EUGENIE CLARK I went in to look at them, and what I decided to do was give them two or three changes in choreograp... PATRICIA WILCOX I very much wanted to live in Paris when I was in the army, and I was quite determined to. I could h... PAUL JOHNSON I always wanted to be a singer, it's what I wanted to do since I was little. I'm doing it now and I ... BRITNEY SPEARS I enlisted in the Air Corps, and I was doing what I wanted to do to help the country. LIONEL GREENBERG In the beginning, I wanted to be successful. I wanted to make and have hit records. And I wanted eve... GEORGE STRAIT I'd seen a lot of his type of theater and it's my type of theater so I was pretty sure I was g... JASON BALLWEBER So, I decided that whatever I was, wanted to do with my life, it would have to do, it would have to ... DUANE G. CAREY I thought I was trying to do my best and what he wanted me to do, ... I was getting the grasp of it.... JASON KIDD Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just pu... JACK GANTOS I was so tired. I just wanted to curl up with someone, anyone, even him, and sleep until work on Mon... ALEXANDRA KLEEMAN I was excited because it was less a question of whether I could make the team as it was of what I co... SETH WESCOTT I told my son [Dustin] and daughter if they wanted to compete, I would compete with them and they de... KAREN CAMPBELL I was never really concerned about playing time this season, it was whatever I could do for my time,... FRANK RUSSELL I never could stand being forced to do something I didn't want to do at a time I didn't want to do i... HARUKI MURAKAMI All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do, ...... ALICE COOPER All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... A... ALICE COOPER I always knew I wanted to dance. I started ballet when I was three years old, and I just knew it was... BIANCA MARROQUIN I'd be happy to be taken as a woman - and that's what I was initially trying to do when I st... EDDIE IZZARD We were looking for a prep school to do another year. My brother lived in Franklin, Mass., so he cou... JAKE LOMONACO When I was in the eighth grade, I wrote this huge long paper about how I had no idea what I was gonn... SHANTEL VANSANTEN I assumed it was perfect, that everyone was happy and beautiful and wanted for nothing, and in my nu... ISAAC MARION I was lucky enough, when I was younger, to have the chance to do as much as possible, and I found wh... AARON JOHNSON My dad was a surgeon in Egypt. He was a general surgeon. As a little boy I always admired what he wa... MAGDI YACOUB All I wanted was to live a life where I could be me, and be okay with that. I had no need for materi... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England. ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) That's why I became a lawyer; I always wanted to be a judge. When I was 11 years old, I realized I w... KATHLEEN ROBERTS I was really lost for a while in my teens. I was angry. But when I found music - Bob Dylan, Neil You... RAY LAMONTAGNE When I was 13, I would come visit my aunt and uncle in New York. I decided I wanted to live with the... PRIYANKA CHOPRA Coming into this meet, I didn't have high expectations. I was just coming in here to have a good tim... KATE ZIEGLER I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lo... DONOVAN BAILEY The recruiters came and talked with us in school, and I remember it like yesterday. I wasn't interes... STEPHEN DAU Standing on the sidelines was killing me. I just wanted to go out there and see what I can do. I've ... CHESTER TAYLOR Nilipozaliwa nilipendwa na kuogopwa, watu walicheza na mimi lakini mimi sikucheza nao. Niliwapenda. SIMON MASHALLA As a kid, I was mischievous, necessarily, but I always wanted to do adventurous stuff. TYLER BLACKBURN I wanted to do 'Oh Shenandoah' because that's the town I was born in - as a tribute to m... CHARLIE HADEN I've always wanted to get into acting, ever since I was younger. I'd put on shows for my fam... EMMA ROBERTS We cant let our insecurities own or destroy us. We have to face them head-on. That was part of the... , I GOT THIS: HOW I CHANGED MY WAYS AND LOST WHAT WEIGHED ME DOWN, 2012 I thought every other kid was like me. I'd watch films and act them out on my own and wish I cou... KIMBERLEY NIXON I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. ... STIRLING MOSS I bought a tape recorder and some stuff and went to Europe for three months when I was 18. The puppe... FRANK OZ I've been riding for a very long time, since I was five. I came here when I was eight or nine. When ... CAITLIN SHIPE I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you. CRAIG GROESCHEL I was a good 30 pounds overweight throughout high school, and it wasn't until I was going away t... DAPHNE OZ I hope we can (come back). Our goal as a team was to win the gold. I wanted to do better and we also... MALLORY DIETRICH I want you to tell all these people that I wanted more time to spend with them. Tell them I meant to... KAGE BAKER I felt like I performed pretty well, and I thought I was going to be a piece of the pie for them dow... D.J. CARRASCO My parents took me to a movie, and I remember wanting to sit apart from them for some reason. I want... TATE DONOVAN I kept listening, kept going to see people, kept sitting in with people, kept listening to records. ... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN
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JARED DIAMOND Guns, Germs and Steel JARED DIAMOND why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of Af... JARED DIAMOND In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha... JARED DIAMOND Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots. JARED DIAMOND To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b... JARED DIAMOND Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, l... JARED DIAMOND The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int... JARED DIAMOND The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North Amer... JARED DIAMOND Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter... JARED DIAMOND This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on... DAN DIAMOND Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ... JARED DIAMOND It's a clear signal that Pennsylvanians have awoke from their long slumber. RUSS DIAMOND Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case. JAMES DIAMOND Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomical... JARED DIAMOND It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i... JARED DIAMOND Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ... JARED DIAMOND We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reas... JARED DIAMOND How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ... JARED DIAMOND Australia is the most isolated continent. JARED DIAMOND They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from ... RUSS DIAMOND Instead of just giving us a tax break and putting the money back into the General Fund, we've got to... RUSS DIAMOND The legislators are confused and scared right now. But that doesn't change a thing for us. RUSS DIAMOND I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here. RUSS DIAMOND They can do it again. It?s time to take back our government. RUSS DIAMOND Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ... JARED DIAMOND This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on... DAN DIAMOND I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed. DUSTIN DIAMOND Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned. DIAMOND RYAN