Wish Quotes - Page 10

• My parents were not affluent people and were not - didn't come from the extremities of education. My mother had a high school diploma. I often think I so wish she'd come out of the hills in Appalachia and been able to go on to college. I think she would have made a wonderful teacher.

  Dwight Yoakam

  Mother, Teacher, School

  "Singer-songwriter Dwight Yoakam". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 18, 2012.

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• No one ever dies wishing they'd spent more time at the office.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Office, Work Life Balance, More Time

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• I have a problem with Porsches. They're wonderful cars, but I know I could never live with one. Somehow, the typical Porsche people-and I wish them no ill-are not, I feel, my kind of people. I don't go around saying that Porsches are a pile of dung, but I do know that psychologically I couldn't handle owning one.

  Rowan Atkinson

  People, Car, Typical

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• Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.

  Stephen Fry

  Horse, Sorry, Laughter

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• I actually wish I had smaller breasts.

  Shannen Doherty

  Breasts

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• I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

  Steve Earle

  Bills

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• ​To go where you're wishing you could go, first you must tie your shoes and step off the porch.

  John Avery

  Shoes, Ties, Firsts

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• We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us.

  J. Christopher Stevens

  Obi Wan Kenobi, Littles, Vader

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• I sometimes wish taste wasn't ever an issue, and the sounds of instruments or synths could be judged solely on their colour and timbre. Judged by what it did to your ears, rather than what its historical use reminds you of.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Issues, Historical, Sound

  "Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood and Shye Ben Tzur Talk Junun Project". Interview with Jazz Monroe, pitchfork.com. December 3, 2015.

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• I'm not experienced enough, or certain enough of my acting on the screen to say to a director, "You are wrong, I am right. I will only do it this way." I could never feel that, I wish I could be absolutely certain. But on the stage, it's different. I know where I am on the stage.

  Ian Mckellen

  Acting, Directors, Different

  Source: collider.com

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• I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother.

  Yoko Ono

  Beautiful, Mother, People

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali and Robin Blackburn, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• I think there was always something that everybody wishes they could relive in high school.

  Neal H. Moritz

  School, Thinking, High School

  Source: collider.com

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• Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.

  Amy Ray

  Acceptance, Tolerance

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• When I'm about to blow the candles on my birthday cake and everybody is telling me I must make a wish, I just go into a tailspin. I'm thinking: what do I wish?, and I just can't seem to think about anything. Then I close my eyes, take a deep breath and there comes my wish. I don't know how to explain what goes on inside of me, but that's what happens: breathing is the key to understand what's really important to me.

  Kristen Stewart

  Eye, Blow, Thinking

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• If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!

  Napoleon Hill

  Believe, Ifs

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, James Breckenridge Jones, Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and Grow Rich, Updated and Complete - With If You Can Count to Four...”, p.32, Lulu.com

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• When I was backstage at Comic-Con, about to go out and do the panel for Thor, and Joss Whedon ran up and introduced himself, I already almost passed out, right then. And then, he said, "I've been meaning to call you. You have a big part in The Avengers. Can we introduce you as part of the cast?" It was pretty Make-A-Wish Foundation. I was pretty sure I was dying and nobody had told me yet.

  Clark Gregg

  Dying, Foundation, Introducing

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Crazy, Thinking, People

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• What sort of philosophy one chooses depends, therefore, on what sort of man one is; for a philosophical system is not a dead piece of furniture that we can reject or accept as we wish; it is rather a thing animated by the soul of the person who holds it.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

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• The lobbies are always the best-looking place in the hotel-you wish you could bring out a cot and sleep in them. Compared to the lobby, your room always looks like a closet.

  Andy Warhol

  Sleep, Looks, Rooms

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.178, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anger is almost always an emotion for people who wish to control others while simultaneously failing to control themselves.

  Daniel Pearce

  People, Emotion, Failing

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• It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'

  Bill Gates

  Nice, Ipads, Looks

  "Bill Gates Joins the iPad's Army of Critics. Steve Jobs Couldn't Care Less" by Brent Schlender, www.cbsnews.com. February 11, 2010.

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• I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

  Bill Gates

  Ideas, People, Christmas Wishes

  "Bill Gates predicted the future in January 2000". Entertainment Weekly Interview, ew.com. October 28, 2015.

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• The upper class desire to remain so, the middle class wish to overthrow the upper class, and the lower class want a classless system.

  George Orwell

  Class, Desire, Want

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• I struggle to watch myself in any scene, to be honest. What's done is done. I wish I was able to watch myself, as it would really help me develop as an actor. But I'm not brave enough. It's a difficult thing to do - looking at yourself as this utterly different person on a screen.

  Eva Green

  Struggle, Brave, Different

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• I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  June

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