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I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin

Realize, Somebody, Specific

If God would have wanted us to live in a permissive society He would have given us Ten Suggestions and not Ten Commandments.
Zig Ziglar

God, Society, Live

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa

Love, Someone, Rich

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I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
Douglas Adams

End, Almost, Seldom

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn

Change, School, Yourself

In all our contacts it is probably the sense of being really needed and wanted which gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates the most lasting bond.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Greatest, Sense, Needed

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
Michael Jordan

Father, Try, Said

I've always wanted a baby.
Marilyn Monroe

I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane.
Marilyn Monroe

Happened, Wear, Veil

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.
Marilyn Monroe

Great, Person, Once

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself; if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.
Eminem

Best, Someone, Before

I drank some boiling water because I wanted to whistle.
Mitch Hedberg

Water, Whistle, Boiling

I always felt that if I was going to do a movie, I wanted it to be authentic.
Eminem

Movie, Felt, Authentic

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
Mitch Hedberg

Cake, Candle, Store

It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.
Steve Jobs

Happy, After, Said

The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.
Charlie Sheen

News, Bread, Press

I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do.
Steve Jobs

Technology, Everything, Control

I so desperately wanted to be Mr. Somebody. Instead, I was the little brother, included to a point.
Charlie Sheen

Brother, Point, Somebody

My wife's jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.
Rodney Dangerfield

Jealousy, Wife, May

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.
Shania Twain

Life, Trust, Emotional

I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out of our hands, it wouldn't be ours anymore.
Steve Jobs

Life, Experience, End

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.
Steve Jobs

Great, Best, Judge

When other little girls wanted to be ballet dancers I kind of wanted to be a vampire.
Angelina Jolie

Vampire, Dancers, Ballet

I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife.
Nelson Mandela

Time, Wife, Children

I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.
Nelson Mandela

War, Art, Fight

I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
Frederick Douglass

Until, Found, Slave

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.
Joel Osteen

Against, Times, Coming

They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
Robert A. Heinlein

Good, Wednesday

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.
Michael Jackson

End, Through, Try

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.
Mitch Hedberg

Live, Made, She

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