“You want to fly in jets, and I just want to fly"
-Baby Carlyle”
Source: You Just Can't Get Enough
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“If you want it, you can fly, you just have to trust you a lot.”
As quoted in El Mundo (2011) http://www.elmundo.es/especiales/tecnologia/steve-jobs/frases.html
2010s

“I do not want to be a fly,
I want to be a worm!”
A Conservative.
In this Our World : Poems (1898)

On the success of the Mamas & the Papas, The National http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/music/michelle-phillips-talks-about-the-mamas-and-the-papas-legacy (January 5, 2011)

“I wanted to be an actor. I never wanted to grow up. I never wanted to. I wanted to fly.”
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“The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.”
J 70
Variant translation: The fly that does not want to be swatted is safest if it sits on the fly-swat.
Aphorisms (1765-1799), Notebook J (1789)

Marcia Dunn, Associated Press Aerospace Writer (May 1, 1991) "Ex-Astronaut Recalls Thrill of 1st U.S. Space Flight", The Deseret News, p. A1.

“I wanna fly, I wanna fly
I said I want my chariot to pick me up
And take me brother for a ride.”
Spaceship. The College Dropout (2004)
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