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"There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each other. I'll not be parting with that, nor our bed-the four-poster-I'll be needing that to die in." »Helen Hayes
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""Some kids wanted to be Firemen when they were growing up . . . I wanted to be a Fire Truck!"" »Tom Zegan
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"Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known." »Garrison Keillor
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"It was never what I wanted to buy that held my heart's hope. It was what I wanted to be." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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""After meeting with Paul Meekin last year, I was inspired to look at what I wanted to do as an Philosopher, and I realized I wanted to go back to thinking in the same way he had I have fallen in love with teaching. You don’t meet people like Paul very day, who love what they do.”" »Peter Goldie
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"When I was a small boy growing up in Kansas, a friend of mine and I went fishing and as we sat there in the warmth of a summer afternoon on a riverbank we talked about what we wanted to do when we grew up. I told him that I wanted to be a real major-league baseball player, a genuine professional like Honus Wagner. My friend said that he'd like to be President of the United States. Neither of us got our wish." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"I never wanted to be the biggest guy. I just wanted to be the best." »The Rock
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"And it came to me, and I knew what I had to have before my soul would rest. I wanted to belong-to belong to my mother. And in return-I wanted my mother to belong to me." »Gloria Vanderbilt
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"I was taught that everything is attainable if you are prepared to give up, to sacrifice, to get it. Whatever you want to do, you can do it, if you want it badly enough, and I do believe that. I believe that if I wanted to run a mile is four minutes I could do it. I would have to give up everything else in my life, but I could run a mile in four minutes. I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water and was prepared to give up everything else in life, he could do that" »Stirling Moss
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"She wanted something to happen - something, anything: she did not know what." »Kate Chopin
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"She wanted something to happen - something, anything she did not know what." »Kate Chopin
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"We believe he wanted to win in the worst way." »Don Eslinger, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993
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"Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry." »Gloria Steinem
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"I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." »Jane Wagner
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"If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise." »Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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"If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets." »Mel Brooks
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"It is very Hard to let go of things you never had...........But always wanted" »Siddharth Astir
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"At any given point of time, you are exactly what you wanted to be." »Vinny Nayak
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"I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays." »Henny Youngman
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"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do." »Steve Jobs
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"All my life I wanted to be someone I guess I should have been more specific." »Jane Wagner
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"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to." »Joe Gores
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"If God had wanted us to think just with our wombs, why did He give us a brain?" »Claire Boothe Luce
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"Eliminating what is not wanted or needed is profitable in itself." »Philip Crosby, Reflections on Quality
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"I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any." »Peter De Vries, Comfort me with Apples (1956)
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"There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving." »Phylicia Rashad
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"I was no petty thief, I wanted the world or nothing." »Charles Bukowski
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"Tommy If I wanted a kiss I'd call your mother." »Tommy Boy
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"The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle." »G. C. Lichtenberg
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"One time a waitress asked me how I wanted my eggs, I said "Cooked"" »Tom Zegan
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