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

When I started out, I didn't have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous.
Katharine Hepburn

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.
Bear Bryant

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

After the Republican Party did everything that Colin Powell says it needs to do to grow, and nominated the very kind of candidate he wanted in 2008, what did Powell do? He endorsed Obama! So according to the Drive-Bys and David Gergen, Republicans should let somebody who campaigned and voted for Obama, tell us how to build our party.
Rush Limbaugh

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

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

At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
Salvador Dali

I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.
Gilda Radner

I always wanted to be some kind of writer or newspaper reporter. But after college... I did other things.
Jackie Kennedy

I'm sometimes scared of everything that has happened to us. We didn't think Desilu Productions would grow so big. We merely wanted to be together and have two children.
Lucille Ball

If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I wanted to be the first woman to burn her bra, but it would have taken the fire department four days to put it out.
Dolly Parton

It kills me to lose. If I'm a troublemaker, and I don't think that my temper makes me one, then it's because I can't stand losing. That's the way I am about winning, all I ever wanted to do was finish first.
Jackie Robinson

If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets.
Mel Brooks

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.
Bette Davis

I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up - they have no holidays.
Henny Youngman

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.
Henny Youngman

My boyfriend and I broke up. He wanted to get married and I didn't want him to.
Rita Rudner

I have no need for good souls: an accomplice is what I wanted.
Jean-Paul Sartre