Quotes About Aspiration

I don't want my kids to live like I do, sweating in a little metal box. I want them to have sunshine. I want them to have light.

My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.

Migrants who set off for Europe don't want to go to Bulgaria or Hungary. They want to go to Germany, Austria, or Sweden.

We had all these famous writers in Sweden and from all over the world home at dinner. I wanted to be a writer, and I wanted to be a highbrow writer as my father. He never, ever read anything like crime novels. He wrote biographies of Dante, James Joyce, August Strindberg and Joseph Conrad.

When I was 14 I wasn't even thinking of playing professional tennis. I was thinking of going to high school in Sweden then getting a job.

I wanted to be the best football player in the world. That was my dream. Except in Sweden it's not accepted.

My first idol was a Swedish goalie, Peter Lindmark.

I used to follow artistes like David Guetta and Swedish House Mafia a lot before making a full fledged career in EDM... their music inspired me too much.

What do we want our kids to do? Sweep up around Japanese computers?

My dream was to be known as a writer and to be able to produce at least one book that would be read by people. That dream came true with the publication of my first novel - and all the rest has been a sweet bonus.

I have a lot to show as an actor, and I will take my own sweet time for that.

My dream is to become a farmer. Just a Bohemian guy pulling up his own sweet potatoes for dinner.

When I was younger I used to want to own a sweet shop so I could eat sweets all day, but that dream died a long time ago.

At school, when everyone would sell sweets and chocolate, I'd always take it that step further. I'd hustle as hard as I could to get the new Air Forces, to go and chill with the posh kids and the white girls who were around my area.

Growing up, my imagined life as a musician was something along the lines of me lounging in a Learjet en route to a swelling outdoor amphitheatre on a dazzling summer's eve.

When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.

After watching the Athens Paralympics in 2004, I looked at the swimmers and thought, that's cool. I want to do that.

My older sister Celia is an actress as well. She's a little bit older than me. So, in my formative years, she was always performing, and we would always go see her do things. And so, that just made me want to be... like her. Maybe if she was an Olympic swimmer, I would probably be an Olympic swimmer by now as well!

I love swimming, but I love knowing that kids see me as an inspiration.

Actually, I always dreamed about getting a gold medal in the 100-meter freestyle in Olympic swimming. I always thought that would be the epic award in sports to get.

Getting to the Olympics was, has always been, my swimming dream since I was 8 or 9 years old. You know, right after I started swimming it was, 'I want to make an Olympic team. That's where I want to be.'

It really was my brother who got me involved in swimming. I wanted to be just like him and do everything he was doing.

The Olympics was a goal, and definitely, swimming in college was a goal.

It feels like I'm in a swimming pool, and I am constantly trying to stay above water. Sometimes I feel like I'm slipping, and you try to come up for air, and that's how it is when looking for the next role.