Quotes About Aspiration

The impetus behind going to graduate school was a year after graduating from college spent in Dallas working at the dog food factory and Bank America and not having met success in my chosen field, which at that point was being an actress.

I always dreamt of being in 'Kerrang.' That was my ambition. I read that religiously when I was into heavy metal. Then the jazz magazines took over.

I was really into metal when I was growing up. It was just something I thought I could do and wanted to try.

And I was a kid from L.A. and I just wanted to play thrash metal.

In high school the dream was to go on a stand-up tour and front a heavy metal band. I always had that in the back of my head.

Metallica is a big, huge influence and inspiration. That's who Babymetal aspires to become some day.

I always had becoming a meteorologist as my goal from the second I decided, while I was in school, just to study meteorology.

Method involves a slavish addiction to laws, and we can only aspire to anarchy.

I'm a Mexican girl from California, and I never grew up thinking I could be in a Rodgers and Hammerstein musical. I didn't really see myself in that. Not that I didn't grow up loving Rodgers and Hammerstein, but I don't know - I just never put myself there.

Each Mexican has his own dream, and I've come to believe as long as we focus, you can accomplish anything you want.

We would betray Mexicans' hopes for change if we felt satisfied with what we've accomplished so far.

They thought I was crazy in Mexico when I said, 'I'm going to Hollywood.' Nobody thought I could make it.

I'm from Miami, you know, when you're a child, you always want to play in front of your hometown.

I thought my freshman year at the University of Miami, I was balling, I was looking forward to the NFL.

I was doing telenovelas in Miami and Mexico, and everyone's dream when you're an actor is to be in Hollywood.

I'd like to live in a house in Miami and make music, or Brooklyn.

I wanted to be the man, the King of Miami.

I love the type of music that comes out of Miami, but it's not the artist that I want to be.

I would love to work with Jack Nicholson, Saoirse Ronan, Michael Shannon and James Franco in the future. I think those actors are amazing, and they are my favourite actors by far.

I really wanted to be a dancer, actually. Michael Jackson inspired me a lot.

When I was 4 years old, I thought that I wanted to be a dancer like Michael Jackson.

When I grew up Carl Lewis was still running, Maurice Greene was running - he was that figure I see, like Michael Johnson. I really wanted to look up to the fast guys - so those two guys were some of the guys I looked up to.

I think I would go for a Michael Phelps kind of guy.

Film and TV and stuff like that was something that I wanted to do when I was really, really little; like, I remember I used to do these plays with my cousins. We used to do Michael Jackson performances, and I would be Michael.