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JAY LONDON![]()
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BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN He was a mentor to me. He always encouraged me to do all I could in school. He told me I had talents...
JOHN WILKERSON![]()
I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently.
NAT WOLFF I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding becau...
BODE MILLER It just wasn't the place for me, and he (Williams) told me to do what I wanted to do. I wanted to go...
BRENT VINSON![]()
I told him before the play that if both men went to me, to go to the basket and get a good shot. Thi...
ALLEN IVERSON![]()
I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this....
DONALD MILLER![]()
I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your cou...
GEORGE MICHAEL I surprised a local minister at the age of 10 when he asked me what I wanted to be and I told him th...
GRAEME CLARK I was relaxed, went through my routine and knocked them down. I wanted them to keep fouling me.
CLIFTON LEE They (fellow inmates) were there for me and helped me out when I was in there, ... But it was a bad ...
EDDIE GRIFFIN [The late ABC anchor Peter Jennings] really took me under his wing, ... I was able to develop streng...
DAN HARRIS I was just answering the phones, and the gentleman on the other end wanted to know when softball sea...
LINDA WATSON![]()
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop commu...
TALIB KWELI![]()
My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school...
MARTIN GARRIX I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my...
RANDEEP HOODA My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever mus...
KELLY BROOK He told me I had to stay strong for my kids and put them through school. I want to do that for him. ...
ANNA ORTIZ What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, a...
TOM GOLISANO When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer ha...
TERRY J. LUNDGREN![]()
When I thought I'd killed him, I felt more alone than I've felt in a long time. Like I couldn't stan...
KAREN MARIE MONING I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.
CHARLIE SIMPSON My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to s...
JASON CLARKE Standing on the sidelines was killing me. I just wanted to go out there and see what I can do. I've ...
CHESTER TAYLOR I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I coul...
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DIANA ROSS![]()
When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that...
ROSA PARKS![]()
I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the f...
HENRY ROLLINS I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.
BIRDY My brother and I used to ride around in a half-ton cattle truck, listening to Waylon, so when he die...
GENE WEBB I told him I wanted a large front porch where I could drink coffee and play music. Mary wanted a scr...
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SUNIL MITTAL![]()
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TINA TURNER![]()
I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near relation,...
HENRY MARTYN![]()
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life ...
NINA SIMONE![]()
I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me ...
DOROTHY ALLISON I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it...
LEON SPINKS Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starche...
CHARLIE SIEM I was told New Orleans... wanted to go another direction. Through it, I learned a valuable lesson......
WILLIE JACKSON My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone ba...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my g...
BILLY BOYD The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me h...
DANNY BROWN It was hard enough making the decision where I wanted to go to school the first time, so to go throu...
DAVID PADGETT All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.
BRODY ARMSTRONG I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ...
PUSHA T It showed me what they think of me and how they think I can turn the program around. It meant a lot ...
ANDREW DIDONATO I had the mind-set that any school that wanted me, I was going to go there.
JOSHUA JOHNSON I went to a urologist - he told me I could go at any time."
JAY LONDON![]()
My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did n...
SONYA HARTNETT My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS I wanted to go to a Christian school because I want to be a preacher. I'll be able to do what I want...
ALEX MARTINEZ They told me he wanted me to break his record. I've never met him, but he sounds like a classy guy. ...
KELLY GOLOB It was very close, to the point where I was skipping practice days at a time. When you skip four day...
LAUREN RHEA![]()
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ...
JOHN LENNON![]()
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ...
JOHN LENNON I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it ...
JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ![]()
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft...
TRACY MORGAN![]()
Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. ...
BRUNO MARS I thought it was cool. I want him to stay. I want him to be my friend. My friend wanted me to go out...
HALEY REAGAN 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 So far, I have not come to any of the positions that I have filled through wanting to be there. I wa...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN![]()
All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when ...
SHAMEIK MOORE I take my son with me all of the time- I have a really good nanny, so they go with me to the trailer...
ALLY WALKER I told him that I didn't want to come here and I gave him a bogus excuse. I don't remember what the ...
CHARDE HOUSTON My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
HANNAH WARE I was working my way up through management so I could get my own store, ... Then they invited me to ...
COWBOY TROY My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to...
BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the oppo...
KATE BURTON I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero...
DAVE BRUBECK I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every da...
ERIC CHURCH Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
KATEY SAGAL Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre...
STEVEN YEUN He got me started in the game and I know he wanted me to play. There's more pressure on me this week...
WOODY AUSTIN I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my moth...
CAROLINE LEAVITT They told me he had long arms, long legs and a loose arm. We wanted him to go to school and try and ...
AL GOLDIS I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had ju...
LA'PORSHA RENAE![]()
I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
BETTE MIDLER![]()
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school...
IRINA SHAYK I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a ...
JAMIE FOXX There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send ...
DAN REYNOLDS I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.
AWKWAFINA![]()
I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in term...
FLEA![]()
"People betrayed me and I had a really hard time. That, along with what I'd been through with my fam...
CHRISTINA AGUILERA There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ...
CAROL VORDERMAN I just had faith in Coach Ken and I knew he'd get me someplace where I wanted to be. I didn't even s...
JAMUAL WARREN![]()
I went to New York with one thing in mind, to win a Stanley Cup, ... When the time came, Glen Sather...
MARK MESSIER I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went...
IMELDA STAUNTON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I went to a movie called 'Destination Moon,' and that was the beginning for me. I always wanted to g...
ROGER CROUCH I wanted to have an international career, which I have, and be free to work with whoever I wanted to...
JULIETTE BINOCHE After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist...
EMM GRYNER My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in f...
EDWARD P. JONES![]()
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people ...
BELA LUGOSI![]()
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha...
MARY J. BLIGE I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know w...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what ...
DIRK BENEDICT I enjoy music -- lots of different types of music. So I wanted to go with some kind of musical frog.
ANDREA COOPER
JAY LONDON
Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know ... BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN He was a mentor to me. He always encouraged me to do all I could in school. He told me I had talents...
JOHN WILKERSON
I think music is my favorite thing to do, but I go through periods where I think differently. NAT WOLFF I went through a period at boarding school when my coaches wanted me to switch to snowboarding becau...
BODE MILLER It just wasn't the place for me, and he (Williams) told me to do what I wanted to do. I wanted to go...
BRENT VINSON
I told him before the play that if both men went to me, to go to the basket and get a good shot. Thi... ALLEN IVERSON
I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this.... DONALD MILLER
I went through a long period where I was afraid of doing things I wanted to do, and you get your cou... GEORGE MICHAEL I surprised a local minister at the age of 10 when he asked me what I wanted to be and I told him th...
GRAEME CLARK I was relaxed, went through my routine and knocked them down. I wanted them to keep fouling me.
CLIFTON LEE They (fellow inmates) were there for me and helped me out when I was in there, ... But it was a bad ...
EDDIE GRIFFIN [The late ABC anchor Peter Jennings] really took me under his wing, ... I was able to develop streng...
DAN HARRIS I was just answering the phones, and the gentleman on the other end wanted to know when softball sea...
LINDA WATSON
I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop commu... TALIB KWELI
My parents even let me switch schools, to leave my regular school to go to the producer's school... MARTIN GARRIX I don't want my grandchildren to go through what I went through.
ART MODELL
I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my... RANDEEP HOODA My mum was never strict. I was allowed to go out to clubs underage, watch TV, listen to whatever mus...
KELLY BROOK He told me I had to stay strong for my kids and put them through school. I want to do that for him. ...
ANNA ORTIZ What made me this way was watching my father go through bad employment experiences. When I was 17, a...
TOM GOLISANO When I was a sophomore in college, my father called me at the fraternity. He told me he no longer ha...
TERRY J. LUNDGREN
When I thought I'd killed him, I felt more alone than I've felt in a long time. Like I couldn't stan... KAREN MARIE MONING I wanted to play music. I didn't think about where it would go or what it would do.
CHARLIE SIMPSON My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to s...
JASON CLARKE Standing on the sidelines was killing me. I just wanted to go out there and see what I can do. I've ...
CHESTER TAYLOR I told her I wanted a plastic surgeon to sew me up, and I wanted her to freeze my ovaries, so I coul...
FRAN DRESCHER
It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really ... DIANA ROSS
When they stood up and I stayed where I was, he asked me if I was going to stand and I told him that... ROSA PARKS
I wasn't playing the music, the music was playing me... and once that went away, and I had the f... HENRY ROLLINS I wanted to give people a taste of my own music through the sound and style of my covers.
BIRDY My brother and I used to ride around in a half-ton cattle truck, listening to Waylon, so when he die...
GENE WEBB I told him I wanted a large front porch where I could drink coffee and play music. Mary wanted a scr...
CLIFF MOSES Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS As a child, I was rather active for my age. Sensing something special about me, my father told me th...
SUNIL MITTAL
After I moved with my mother to St. Louis, my older sister and I went to see Ike Turner, who was the... TINA TURNER
I am born for God only. Christ is nearer to me than father, or mother, or sister -- a near relation,... HENRY MARTYN
Once I understood Bach's music, I wanted to be a concert pianist. Bach made me dedicate my life ... NINA SIMONE
I wanted her to to go on talking and understand without me saying anything. I wanted her to love me ... DOROTHY ALLISON I didn't push Cory. I wanted him to decide if he wanted to go into boxing and he did. Can't blame it...
LEON SPINKS Where I went to school, Eton College, we had to wear dark trousers, a tailcoat, and a stiff, starche...
CHARLIE SIEM I was told New Orleans... wanted to go another direction. Through it, I learned a valuable lesson......
WILLIE JACKSON My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone ba...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE In fact, Russell Crowe once phoned me up to see if I wanted to go to a party but I had to bring my g...
BILLY BOYD The reason I never wanted to sign with a big label was because I didn't want no one telling me h...
DANNY BROWN It was hard enough making the decision where I wanted to go to school the first time, so to go throu...
DAVID PADGETT All I've ever wanted to do was play music and go on the road and make records.
BRODY ARMSTRONG I felt like when I got with Kanye, and we discussed me being on G.O.O.D. Music, he just really took ...
PUSHA T It showed me what they think of me and how they think I can turn the program around. It meant a lot ...
ANDREW DIDONATO I had the mind-set that any school that wanted me, I was going to go there.
JOSHUA JOHNSON I went to a urologist - he told me I could go at any time."
JAY LONDON
My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did n... SONYA HARTNETT My father died when I was 7. I was his favorite child, and he was my beloved father. I brought him a...
P. L. TRAVERS I wanted to go to a Christian school because I want to be a preacher. I'll be able to do what I want...
ALEX MARTINEZ They told me he wanted me to break his record. I've never met him, but he sounds like a classy guy. ...
KELLY GOLOB It was very close, to the point where I was skipping practice days at a time. When you skip four day...
LAUREN RHEA
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ... JOHN LENNON
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to ... JOHN LENNON I went to school to learn guitar, solfeggio, and harmony. I wanted to know more about music, how it ...
JUAN DIEGO FLOREZ
My father was the role model I looked up to. My dad was an entertainer, too. I patterned my life aft... TRACY MORGAN
Ever since I was a kid, this was all I wanted to do. I've wanted to do music. I wanted to sing. ... BRUNO MARS I thought it was cool. I want him to stay. I want him to be my friend. My friend wanted me to go out...
HALEY REAGAN 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 So far, I have not come to any of the positions that I have filled through wanting to be there. I wa...
RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN
All these interviews I'm doing - this is the kind of stuff that I was dreaming about doing when ... SHAMEIK MOORE I take my son with me all of the time- I have a really good nanny, so they go with me to the trailer...
ALLY WALKER I told him that I didn't want to come here and I gave him a bogus excuse. I don't remember what the ...
CHARDE HOUSTON My mum made me feel if I wanted to become prime minister, I could do it.
HANNAH WARE I was working my way up through management so I could get my own store, ... Then they invited me to ...
COWBOY TROY My goal was to play drums, but my father made me take piano lessons. He told me I needed to learn to...
BRIAN AUSTIN GREEN I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the oppo...
KATE BURTON I wanted to be like my father, who was a cattle man and a rodeo roper. And that was - he was my hero...
DAVE BRUBECK I went to my dad when I was 17 and said, 'I want to be a country music star.' Which every da...
ERIC CHURCH Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
KATEY SAGAL Well, my parents originally wanted me to become a doctor - that's why I was in school; I was pre...
STEVEN YEUN He got me started in the game and I know he wanted me to play. There's more pressure on me this week...
WOODY AUSTIN I cried to my mother that I wanted to go to Hebrew school; I wanted Jewish friends. But when my moth...
CAROLINE LEAVITT They told me he had long arms, long legs and a loose arm. We wanted him to go to school and try and ...
AL GOLDIS I had a high school sweetheart that was my first. We were together all through high school. I had ju...
LA'PORSHA RENAE
I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me? BETTE MIDLER
I started playing piano age six. I was also singing in the choir, so my mum put me into music school... IRINA SHAYK I went to college on a classical piano scholarship. My grandmother made me practice one full hour a ...
JAMIE FOXX There was nothing more I wanted to do than to see my dad react well to my music. I still do. I send ...
DAN REYNOLDS I was working a corporate job, but I really wanted to do music.
AWKWAFINA
I went to school and studied music for a year at USC, which unlocked a bunch of doors for me in term... FLEA
"People betrayed me and I had a really hard time. That, along with what I'd been through with my fam... CHRISTINA AGUILERA There was a great strain in our family because my father didn't want anything to do with me. He ...
CAROL VORDERMAN I just had faith in Coach Ken and I knew he'd get me someplace where I wanted to be. I didn't even s...
JAMUAL WARREN
I went to New York with one thing in mind, to win a Stanley Cup, ... When the time came, Glen Sather... MARK MESSIER I never wanted for anything. We went to Ireland for holidays every year. I was 14 when we first went...
IMELDA STAUNTON How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS I went to a movie called 'Destination Moon,' and that was the beginning for me. I always wanted to g...
ROGER CROUCH I wanted to have an international career, which I have, and be free to work with whoever I wanted to...
JULIETTE BINOCHE After touring with David Bowie last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an artist...
EMM GRYNER My father was Catholic, and my mother wanted me to go to Catholic school. That's what I did in f...
EDWARD P. JONES
It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people ... BELA LUGOSI
As a child I always wanted to be a singer. The music my mother played in the house moved me - Aretha... MARY J. BLIGE I really went back through a lot of the dark corridors of my life in this. I wanted people to know w...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY To me, all writing is like music. And especially dialogue. I studied music in college; that is what ...
DIRK BENEDICT I enjoy music -- lots of different types of music. So I wanted to go with some kind of musical frog.
ANDREA COOPER
There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He return... 
The conscience of children is formed by the influences that surround them; their notions of good and... 
The moon looks upon many night flowers; the night flowers see but one moon. 
Only the mediocre are always at their best. 
Like dreams, statistics are a form of wish fulfillment. 
There are souls which fall from heaven like flowers, but ere they bloom are crushed under the foul t... 
Too often, we make budget cuts - then blow the savings. Instead, think about your financial picture.... 
If you want to give a tangible present, but you know the recipient wants cash, give a little bit of ... 
Turning a blind eye to your finances always brings trouble. When you let the bills or late notices s... 
I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of th... 
A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a
rich person who is unhappy because the p... 
Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. 
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. 
I think I am one of those who can manage not to take on a completely different appearance under thei... 
A woman of mystique is fully aware of her flaws and weaknesses, yet she is strong enough to admit ... 
The truly terrible thing is that everybody has their reasons. 
Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore. 
She could give herself up to the written word as naturally as a good dancer to music or a fine swimm... 
Whether man is disposed to yield to nature or to oppose her, he cannot do without a correct understa... 
The principle goal of education in the schools should be creating men and women who are capable of d... 
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe... 
Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence. 
We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those wit... 
A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness. 
Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. 
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges... 
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects an... 
We all have the extraordinary coded within us... waiting to be released. 
Politicians -- power itself -- are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people ha... 
Effective action is always unjust. 
I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you wa... 
Small crimes always precedes great ones. 
Our senses are indeed our doors and windows on this world, in a very real sense the key to the unloc... 
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp. 
Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ... 
Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage. 
The fear of being wrong is the prime inhibitor of the creative process. 