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  • Bruce Nordstrom Grandpa didn't have any idea of customer service. But he wanted to make a living. Eventually, we saw it was not in our best interest to be arguing with customers.
    Bruce Nordstrom
    American businessman (1933 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bob Crosby He wanted me to learn to stand on my own feet, and to make it impossible for me to thank him.
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  • Bryan Adams I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I'd love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn't me, it wasn't my name.
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Jesse Owens I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Bruce Springsteen I always wanted my music to influence the life you were living emotionally - with your family, your lover, your wife, and, at a certain point, with your children.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bryan Batt I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Lily Tomlin I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Art Buchwald I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Bruce Parry I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.
    As quoted in Do you really want to be in our tribe? in The Telegraph (1 March 2005)
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  • Bryan Greenberg I didn't go to L.A. because I wanted to move to California. I went to L.A. to work as an actor.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Frederick Douglass I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
    Frederick Douglass
    African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator and writer (1818 - 1895)
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  • Anthony Robbins I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.
    Anthony Robbins
    American author, entrepreneur, philanthropist and life coach (1960 - )
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  • Busy Philipps I do think moms should be given a break, all across the board. And I think that the most important thing is that you're healthy. After I had my little girl, I wanted to be healthy for her and have a healthy body image so that she hopefully grows up to see that her self worth isn't defined by how thin she is.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Andy Rooney I don't like food that's too carefully arranged; it makes me think that the chef is spending too much time arranging and not enough time cooking. If I wanted a picture I'd buy a painting.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • Alice Munro I feel that I've done what I wanted to do, and that makes me feel fairly content.
    Alice Munro
    Canadian short story writer (1931 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer I felt that chess is a science in the form of a game... I consider myself a scientist. I wanted to be treated like a scientist.
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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  • Bryan Fuller I felt, selfishly, that if there was going to be a TV show about 'Hannibal Lecter' whether I was going to be involved or not, I'd rather be involved. I wanted to make sure it was something I wanted to watch.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Bryan Greenberg I got the acting bug really young, when I was around, like, 10. I pretty much just wanted to be Michael J. Fox. He was in 'Teen Wolf' - that was, like, the coolest role, and then he did 'Back to the Future,' and that was the coolest role.
    Bryan Greenberg
    American actor and singer (1978 - )
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  • Buck Owens I got to realizing that I wanted to record, I wanted to experiment. And doing those same old songs the same old way - I said, 'I think it's time for me to have some fun.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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