Wish Quotes - Page 12

• Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains - daisy chains - of interactivity. Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in a way, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between 'his,' 'her' or 'their' wish and yours.

  Andy Warhol

  Way, Action, Strange

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• I wish I lived next to Carnegie Hall. Then, if someone asked me how to get to my house, I would just say 'Practice, practice, practice, and then take a left.'

  Demetri Martin

  Practice, House, Next

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• I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic.

  Demetri Martin

  Names, Would Be, Dramatic

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• If I was to really get at the burr in my saddle, it's not politics - and this is, I think, probably a horrible analogy - but I look at politicians as they are doing what inherently they need to do to retain power. Their job is to consolidate power. When you go to the zoo and you see a monkey throwing poop, you go, 'That's what monkeys do, what are you gonna do?' But what I wish the media would do more frequently is say, 'Bad monkey.'

  Jon Stewart

  Jobs, Zoos, Thinking

  "Charlie Rose" Interview, charlierose.com. September 29, 2004.

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• The giant superstars are people whose talent is so enormous that their death wish can't destroy it.

  Bob Newhart

  People, Giants, Superstar

  "Bob Newhart: What I've Learned" by Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. December 18, 2008.

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• In a word, to perceive an object abstractly means not to perceive some aspects of it. It clearly implies selection of some attributes, rejection of other attributes, creation or distortion of still others. We make of it what we wish. We create it.

  Abraham Maslow

  Mean, Rejection, Creation

  Abraham H. Maslow (2013). “Toward a Psychology of Being”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• I definitely have breast envy. When teenage girls were saying 'I wish I had breasts', I was thinking the same thing.

  Eddie Izzard

  Girl, Teenage, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I wish I could find an event that meant as much as simple seeing.

  Theodore Roethke

  Simple, Events, Seeing

  Theodore Roethke (2006). “Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke, 1943-63”, p.212, Copper Canyon Press

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• My friend, why should you wish to shorten my life by taking from me my shadow? (To photographer Dr. Valentine T. McGillycuddy.)

  Crazy Horse

  Valentine, Shadow, Drs

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• Perhaps election fever is developing into something more like sleeping sickness, as the utter boredom of a contest in which almost all the attention seems to be on personalities and polls wears us all down. I just wish they would get on with it.

  Norman Tebbit

  Sleep, Boredom, Personality

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• You might be a redneck if you wish your outhouse was as nice as those at the state park.

  Jeff Foxworthy

  Nice, Redneck, Might

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• When Mr Ackroyd says that in the 18th century, stranglers bit off the noses of their victims, I feel that he probably knows what he is talking about. I just wish he hadn't told me.

  James Fenton

  Talking, Noses, Victim

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• A memory from my youth comes back to me. You go into the woods on a bike, with a girl. There is the smell of heather, you can hear the wind in the fir trees, you don't dare tell her about your love, but you feel happy, as if you were floating above the ground. Then you look at the clouds beyond the trees and they are fleeting. And you know that within an hour you'll have to go home, that tomorrow will be a working day. You wish you could stop that moment forever, but you can't, it is bound to end. So you take a photo, as if to challenge time.

  Robert Doisneau

  Girl, Memories, Home

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• I prayed very hard for this to happen and it happened. I don't even think about what I've achieved, I haven't focused on it and I wish I had, because I really want to enjoy it, and I don't know if I am enjoying it, because I am going through my life like a bulldozer. I still haven't marveled at it.

  Mariah Carey

  Thinking, Want, Enjoy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• That's the trouble with wishing you were somebody else. As much as you may want it, you know it'll never happen, at least not in this lifetime.

  Phil Collins

  May, Want, Trouble

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• If I set my mind to something I do it. My biggest wish for all of us is that we are happy, successful, and that we stay true to ourselves.

  Victoria Beckham

  Successful, Mind, Stay True

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• I can't change the past and I'm truly sorry that people got hurt along the way but not everything reported in the media is reality and continuing to rehash things publicly only makes it more difficult for everyone to heal. I hope for the sake of our children we can all move forward and heal privately. I wish their mother nothing but the best.

  Eddie Cibrian

  Mother, Hurt, Children

  "Brandi Glanville Bonds With LeAnn Rimes Despite Eddie Cibrian Affair" by Benge Nsenduluka, www.christianpost.com. March 5, 2012.

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• A lucky model who's been given a lot of opportunities I just wish she [Cameron Diaz] would have done more with.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Opportunity, Done, Lucky

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• It should be heart-breaking to every American that we have a frontrunner in the presidential race that suggests there will be a religious test for anybody who wishes to come to our shores.

  Joe Biden

  Religious, Heart, Race

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• Land surveyors start as employees, and move up to partnership in a firm or to ownership of their own enterprise if they wish. Some wind up working for government, private corporations, or public enterprise.

  Mark Mason

  Moving, Government, Wind

  "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability.

  Clint Eastwood

  Writing, People, Scratches

  Interview with Michael Parkinson, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2003.

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• I don't wish to brag, but I'm very intelligent.

  John Hodgman

  Intelligent, Brag

  "Humorist John Hodgman Plays 'Not My Job'". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Carl Kasell and Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 24, 2010.

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• For me, relaxing is going on a 10-mile hike. When I have time off, I like to be at home and spend time with my animals, and things like that.I'm not the girl that goes out for facials, and manicures and pedicures, all the time. I wish I did. It would be better for me, but I get annoyed.

  Tricia Helfer

  Girl, Home, Animal

  Source: collider.com

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• During the preproduction when I'm shooting and then once we wrap we go away. And then the visual effects guys take over. And then they add all those little bits and pieces. They come up with ideas during the cut in the editing, and they said while would be really cool if we did this thing here where the blade pops out. So then you see the movie and say wow that's a really neat idea. I wish we would have thought of that.

  Gregory Nicotero

  Cutting, Editing, Ideas

  Source: collider.com

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• I think. I do know that I like connecting to people who really resonate with the music. I guess I almost wish I could just connect with the people who really need it.

  Erika M. Anderson

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: thequietus.com

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