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Yeah, I like to be the maker of the art. And I like and want the money. But I don't really dig being famous.

~ Liz Phair

That's why success hasn't changed me: because I don't want to be famous or do TV or be a model or be recognised in a shop. I'm not interested. There's nothing worse.

~ Charlotte Dujardin

I realise there's an innate paradox in promoting oneself on the one hand and saying, 'Oh, I don't want to be famous,' on the other.

~ Romola Garai

A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

~ Shirley Manson

I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong with stating your opinion if you are asked. Everyone wants that right, and because you are famous doesn't mean you have less of a right.

~ John Travolta

I don't want to end up being a circus act, doing my most famous tricks when I'm 70.

~ Pharrell Williams

I want to become more famous, even more famous.

~ Yayoi Kusama

Who doesn't want to be famous? I am famous. I'm dying to be on TV.

~ Eileen Myles

The people I want are very famous and very rich, and all I can offer them is a bit of exposure on TV and a bit of cash, so it's a miracle we get any guests at all. But we have been very lucky.

~ Graham Norton

I don't want to be famous for being famous.

~ Kelli O'hara

Celebrity is a word that I find offensive. That's the c-word. I hate it. It means no discernible talent. It means all you want is to be famous. It doesn't mean you're a writer, an actor, a mime. I think I wanna not be a celebrity.

~ Bob Saget

There are a lot of thought leaders who don't want to see their students. We don't want to hire them. If students are allured to come to the school because of famous faculties, and if they never see them, that leaves very bad taste.

~ John Quelch

As the White House doors are slammed in the face of the average American, I want to know if they will still swing wide open for Hollywood and the liberal elite. Will Jay-Z and Beyonce still get to stop by for a tour, or will they be denied like those who aren't rich and famous?

~ Tom Graves

I'm not thirsty. I'm not a pop star. I don't want to reign over all forever... I don't want to be famous! It makes me feel sick, the thought of being a famous person. It's just not me.

~ Fka Twigs

I can do whatever I want - I'm rich, I'm famous, and I'm bigger than you.

~ Don Johnson

I've always had a career. I have been working hard since I was 15 years old. Being someone's 'girlfriend' was never what I wanted to be famous for. What makes you 'famous' isn't always what you want to be 'labeled' as or known for.

~ Adrienne Bailon

I'm not the guy that wants to be famous and make loads of money and sell loads of records. I don't want that. I just want to be true. I want to be... I want to serve music. I want to be honest.

~ Damien Rice

I'm just not a private person. It's not like I do things because I want things to be public; it's just that's my way of expressing myself, and I happen to be very famous.

~ Lily Allen

I wasn't like, 'I want to be famous.' I just wanted to be an actor. I wasn't chasing anything. I was never stressed or worried. I never had any fear of rejection or not making it, anything like that.

~ Sean Harris

There are always flowers for those who want to see them.

~ Henri Matisse

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

~ Hal Boyle

Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we actually have to understand that it's cooperation versus competition.

~ Bruce Lipton

I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

~ Pablo Neruda

Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out.

~ Steven Weinberg

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.

~ J. Cole

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

~ J. Cole

Science's domain is the natural. If you want to understand the natural world and be sure you're not misleading yourself, science is the way to do it.

~ Francis Collins

We want to demystify the rocket science and break it down for people so they can understand what is really going on and what the real opportunities are.

~ Chad Anderson

If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want.

~ Frederik Pohl

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

~ Jet Li

I didn't really want to be a teacher, but there was nothing else I could be. Most of those who went to the university became teachers. It was just the racial restriction on Africans.

~ Oliver Tambo

When school officials want to get a teacher out of the classroom, they have to go through an arduous and multi-year process involving hearings and appeals and lawyers and more hearings. All the while, the teacher draws full pay.

~ Mike Gallagher

My second-grade teacher went around the class and asked everybody what they were going to be when they grew up. I said, 'I want to travel the world,' and he said, 'You'll be married and pregnant by 21, just like all the girls in this room.'

~ Campbell Brown

I have always admired teachers because teaching, like the priesthood, medicine and writing, is a vocation. You don't become a teacher because you want wealth. It is the same with writing.

~ F. Sionil José

About me - I used to want to be a P.E. teacher, and kind of still do.

~ Miranda Hart

I want to be able to look my daughter's teacher in the eye and say, 'Your pension will be there.' I need to know that her pension will match up with a promise we can keep.

~ Gina Raimondo

I want to work with kids. I would love to be a teacher.

~ Amy Lee

My dance teacher will show me pictures of girls who are rhythmic gymnasts, and they are super skinny. But I don't want to be too skinny. I think that looks a little gross when you are dancing. You don't want to be a scrawny, bony thing.

~ Maddie Ziegler

I know I have this kind of teaching element in me, but I don't want to become a 'teacher of theater' because that would formalize something that I'd much rather keep casual.

~ Richard Griffiths

Our strength as a nation comes in our unity. We are the United States of America, not the divided states. And those who want to divide us are trying to divide us, and we shouldn't let them do it.

~ Ben Carson