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It wasn't a mission to be a rock star. It wasn't a mission of mine to even be a movie star. I just intended to be a good actor.
Whatever you are by nature, keep to it; never desert your line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed.
I never intended to go into the family business. I've always been drawn to wanting to do something else at some time in my life.
What five members of the Supreme Court say the law is may be something vastly different from what Congress intended the law to be.
I understood that 'The Yellow Birds' would be a peculiar representation of the experience of being at war. I intended it to be so.
The H-1B program was never intended to create a pool of foreign labor that displaces Americans' opportunities for good-paying jobs.
Everything I've designed is intended not to match perfectly but to sit together in harmony, to add flair and personality to any room.
I think people must wonder how a white girl like me became a blues guitarist. The truth is, I never intended to do this for a living.
Film fixes a precise visual image in the viewer's head. In fiction, you just hope you're precise enough to convey the intended effect.
I kind of grew up with high goals for myself; I intended to play pro baseball. Growing up in Texas, Hollywood isn't much of a reality.
I never intended or planned on making a YouTube Channel. I always thought that it was meant for Bollywood movies, trailers, and songs.
I appreciate the fact, and am proud of it, that the attentions I am receiving are intended more for our country than for me personally.
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.
For a long time, I thought I was ugly and disfigured. This made me shy and timid, and I often reacted to insults that were not intended.
This book was company for me - I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.
What I'm doing is not really based on a definite identification or a definition of what it is. It's intended to be open to interpretation.
John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.
Gloom and solemnity are entirely out of place in even the most rigorous study of an art originally intended to make glad the heart of man.
Being a fat kid - FFK, former fat kid - helped round me out, no pun intended. I'm a better adult because I wasn't treated well as a child.
I think there's always a line between what is parody in good fun in chanting and what is intended to belittle certain segments of society.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Despite the intended purpose of 911 fees, some states have diverted these resources to nonrelated or, worse yet, nonpublic safety purposes.
Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.
All the people who follow me on Twitter know my sense of humor. I sometimes forget the blogosphere will give it more weight than I intended.
I have absolutely no sense of my success whatsoever, in fact, I only have a sense of not doing what I intended to do. I don't know who I am.
The Italians, who used to be a great motor-manufacturing power, have been absolutely destroyed by the euro - as was intended by the Germans.
I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.
Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.
And when you redefine the family other than what the Creator intended when he established it, then you look at the devolution of civilization.
The whole frame of the Federal Constitution proves that the government which it creates was intended to be one of limited and specified powers.
To reform means to shatter one form and to create another; but the two sides of this act are not always equally intended nor equally successful.
The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.
Lyft Line is our biggest step in bringing down prices... We've been thinking about this ever since we launched Lyft. We always intended to do it.
In my view, the only way to see a film remains the way the filmmaker intended: inside a large movie theater with great sound and pristine picture.
What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
People in the industry thought it was laughable that I should be going up for things that didn't clearly state what race the part was intended for.
Electoral victory is not an end in itself. It is intended to set in motion a pluralist process to resolve our disputes and move the country forward.
My feminism, as intended by me, extends to empowering women to make legal choices, not to judge the legal choices they make. My fight is for rights.
For more than forty years, the United States Congress has shamelessly used payroll taxes intended for Social Security to fund big government spending.
Some women succeed at being strong and also tender, but most of those who have intended to walk alone, making their own way, have lost their happiness.
The Lantos Human Rights Prize is intended to serve as a beacon of hope, justice and human decency in a world too often covered in a shroud of darkness.
Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that's not the case.
So many people view the war on drugs as a failure, as something that was perhaps intended and carried out with good intentions but very badly executed.
Many developing nations have such severe debt and budget problems that the money given by developed nations will never be spent the way it is intended.
God Almighty never intended that the devil should triumph over the Church. He never intended that the saloons should walk rough-shod over Christianity.
I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the invention and freeness within a structure.
The person who thinks I worship the devil and kill animals is just as important as someone who makes an interpretation that's closer to what I intended.
I always wrote, you know, but it was just this thing I did; what I intended was to become a terribly famous artist, perhaps with a stopover as a singer.
Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.
The contemporary casino is more than a gambling destination: it is a multifarious pleasure enclosure intended to satisfy every member of the family unit.