Wish Quotes
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I always say I write because I have questions, not because I have answers. It's true that you begin the conversation - that's the role of the artist. But it's not my job to tell us what to do next. I wish I had those tools.
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I am 'too fiery' … yet I wish to be seen as I am, and would lose all rather than soften away anything.
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I wish my parents could have raised every man out there.
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Appear as you may wish to be..
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I wish the American public wasn't so stupid if they realized that half the people on television make a living just to insult the other party.
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Fortune blinds men when she does not wish them to withstand the violence of her onslaughts.
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You should give no indication that we wish the three-way division of Bosnia.
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I wish I played guitar so I could start a band with great musicians.
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There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.
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You will attract to yourself people who harmonize with your own philosophy of life, whether you wish it or not.
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Do I wish I had never endured postpartum depression? Absolutely. But to deny the experience is to deny who I am.
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Today, as we wish each other a Happy New Year, let us determine to be more sincere, compassionate, warm-hearted human beings, trying to make our world a more equal place. That way we'll actually make it a happy year.
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The evasions of her little novel were exactly those of her life. Everything she did not wish to confront was also missing from her novella--and was necessary to it.
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Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
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Sometimes I wish I could get fired.
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Anytime you open your mouth there's going to be someone who's put off. I try to deal with that by keeping the topical portions of my show brief. I realize that some people wish my comments were briefer.
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Virtue is not always where it seems to be. People sometimes acknowledge favors only to maintain their reputations, and to make themselves more impudently ungrateful for favors that they do not wish to acknowledge.
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I wish reporters were more in tune to the difference between the Asian experience and the Asian-American experience. I think often they lump the two together and think that when I talk about Asian-American narratives that they can cite 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' or 'Mulan' as proof of concept when it's a different experience.
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I guess I could be singing about Superman, or about Zarathustra coming down from the mountain, but in my mind I was singing about Julian Assange. I wish I could say that Nietzsche inspired my lyrics but all I can honestly say is I was inspired by the graphic design of these '70s paperback covers for Beyond Good & Evil and The Birth of Tragedy and The Gay Science.
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What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn’t get so mad at them.
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Crying that it's an application bug is like crying over the speed of light: you should deal with reality, not what you wish reality was.
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Be careful what you wish for because you will get it. Be even more careful what you work for because you will get it even more quickly.
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I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.
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I think everyone has shame about something, whether it's a lack of a relationship with a child or maybe their weight or a lack of communication within their marriage. Everyone can relate to that because we all have something that we're like, 'God, I can work on that,' or, 'I wish I was better at doing this.'
