I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.
David Bowie

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals.
Gene Simmons

I was never interested in being a rock star. I always wanted to be Boris Karloff.
Gene Simmons

I wanted to be successful, not famous.
George Harrison

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
Peter De Vries

The corporate killer downsizing is directly responsive to what the mutual funds have wanted.
Jim Cramer

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.
Robert Louis Stevenson

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.
Robert Louis Stevenson

I wish my mother had left me something about how she felt growing up. I wish my grandmother had done the same. I wanted my girls to know me.
Carol Burnett

It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
Wanda Sykes

Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
Wanda Sykes

The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.
Britney Spears

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 couldn't be happier.
Britney Spears

I had always fancied a go at the comedy and when it started to go reasonably well and the opportunity arose for me to move into it full time, I just couldn't turn it down. I just took the risk, and I just wanted to see if it would work and thankfully it did.
Jo Brand

I was told to avoid the business all together because of the rejection. People would say to me, 'Don't you want to have a normal job and a normal family?' I guess that would be good advice for some people, but I wanted to act.
Jennifer Aniston

I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry.
Jimmy Swaggart

In the past I have defended the right of the IRA to engage in armed struggle. I did so because there was no alternative for those who would not bend the knee, or turn a blind eye to oppression, or for those who wanted a national republic.
Gerry Adams

Imagine - four years you could have spent travelling around Europe meeting people, or going to the Far East of Africa or India, meeting people, exchanging ideas, reading all you wanted to anyway, and instead I wasted it at Roosevelt.
Shel Silverstein

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.
Jane Wagner

I wanted to give money to people like this woman so that they would be free from the moneylenders to sell their product at the price which the markets gave them - which was much higher than what the trader was giving them.
Muhammad Yunus