Quotes About Aspiration

I'm a fan of Otis Redding. I've sat around trying to copy some of his phrasing and learn from him, but it kinda falls short.

I was a fan of DMC but I was captivated by Run's style, I wanted to be the man. As a kid, when somebody got that kinda influence over a child... you know how strong that can be.

If I look forward to a day when I'm just going to play tennis, I'm kinda sad.

Every age, after all, must have its own aisling and dream of a better, kinder, happier, shared world.

In 2001, I watched Kinder Bologna win the EuroLeague, and I thought, Damn, I want to the win that some day. I remember thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.

When they asked us what we wanted to be when we grow up, in kindergarten, I always said I wanted to be a farmer.

I've always wanted to be a writer ever since I was in kindergarten, so that was ultimately what I wanted to do with my life.

I remember feeling that. I couldn't do, nor did I want to do, the kinds of roles I'd been doing.

Going to New York to do whatever - show business - it just seemed fun. It seemed fun to go to the big city and meet all kinds of different people and maybe be famous. It was just exciting. So I wasn't scared.

Could I imagine myself as king? Of course I could.

I want to play Martin Luther King. That is absolutely a role and a character who is important to the landscape of the world that I really want to play.

I don't aspire at present to be king of the hill in American literature.

I would actually like to play Bobby Brown. To me, he was just the King of R&B at one point.

You make kingdoms and castles on your own.

We Americans have always felt a special kinship with the future.

I think it'd be fun to tour with Kiss just because Kiss is the reason I got into playing in a band.

One of my dreams was always to play alongside my father but I never got the chance because we only had one drum kit at home.

If you go around the kitchen and ask my employees what they want to be doing in three to five years, most of them, if they're being honest, will tell you that they don't want to be working for me. They want to have their own place. And I think that's great.

I'm not a cook at all, but I wanted to have a house with a really nice kitchen.

So, when I was about eight, I told my mother that I wanted to be a chef - and a police man, too. I didn't totally know that was it at the time, but I was very attracted to it from the beginning. I liked the idea of working with people in a kitchen, of dealing with ingredients, all of it.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

You see, where I'm from, fighting is simply not a 'girl's thing.' In Umuarama, I grew up playing football, which to my family was also not a girl's thing, to be honest. Playing football was my biggest passion. I wanted to be on TV, to be just like Marta. I even had a knack for it.

Every kid in America dreams of playing in the big leagues and they don't, just because. It's not because they blew out their knee. It's just because they didn't make it.

I knew a lot of girls who just wanted to be famous, and if that's your goal, that's awesome; that just wasn't enough for me.