Wish Quotes - Page 20

• I wish the dashboard indicators for lights were standardized throughout the auto industry.

  Robert James Thomson

  Light, Dashboards, Indicators

  "Dr. Gridlock". The Washington Post Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I wish that something interesting would come across the desk. I'm bored by what people think is interesting.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way.

  Neil Peart

  Believe, People, Way

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• But my body was telling its story. I have read a lot of stuff about cancer. I needed this book. I wish I'd had this book when I had cancer. I wanted someone to be talking to me about "fart floors." I wanted somebody telling me what it was like to have a colostomy bag. I felt so alone. And if you're a person who's been traumatized by past abuse, it's so potentially re-traumatizing. You slip right into "oh my god, this is the only person this has happened to before" mentality: "I'm especially bad and I have especially bad cancer..."

  Eve Ensler

  Cancer, Book, Past

  "The Big Idea: Eve Ensler". Interview with Suzanne Koven, therumpus.net. June 12, 2013.

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• I do spend a lot more time away from the U.K., it's important to me that I still feel the beat of the people that have been close to me for a long, long time. It's also important that I have really strong and beautiful relationships which I wish to preserve. That enables me - or challenges me, ultimately - to get a Texas driving license!

  Robert Plant

  Beautiful, Strong, Texas

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• Through the years of my life, the older I've gotten, the more sensitive I've become to the suffering of people and to my inability to really fix that. I wish that proportion was different. I wish I could help more. Unfortunately, that's not how the equation is working out here.

  Caroline Myss

  Years, People, Work Out

  "A Conversation with Caroline Myss". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I wish every American explored the importance of novel writing, identity, honesty, character and place in fresh-ass ways.

  Kiese Laymon

  Honesty, Writing, Character

  Source: therumpus.net

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• "Similar but not the same" - that's like the return of the beloved for me. And metamorphosis: the spirit of the beloved moving through things, not lingering long in any one thing or place, no matter how we might wish it.

  Gregory Orr

  Moving, Long, Matter

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For many people it's Facebook, or sports on TV, whatever it is. I have my own demons that I battle. But whatever they are, you wish you could not do them. For most of us it's "I cannot get off Facebook." But imagine that your demon has you living on the street. I don't think those compulsions and obsessions are that different.

  Jess Walter

  Sports, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Not unlike gender reassignment surgery, someone determines that they are of a different race on the inside and they wish to surgically correct that.

  Jess Row

  Race, Different, Gender

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• It's kind of a reflex for me to ignore my own wishes and think about other people first.

  Etgar Keret

  Thinking, People, Firsts

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• During the war, there were people wishing me death, wishing my son death, wishing my wife death in very graphic ways. In the past, I would go overseas and I would say, "Israel is like my family: we disagree, but we're all brothers." I can't say that anymore, because life proves me wrong.

  Etgar Keret

  Brother, War, Son

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• If we're a family and your brother wishes you death, it's not a very happy family.

  Etgar Keret

  Brother, Happy Family, Very Happy

  "Etgar Keret: We Can Try to Be Human". Interview with Meakin Armstrong, www.guernicamag.com. August 17, 2015.

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• The solid waste is returned to Earth with the shuttle. If we [astronauts] ever dump solid waste overboard, it's going to give new meaning to wishing upon a falling star.

  Mike Mullane

  Stars, Fall, Giving

  Source: www.menshealth.com

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• In the future, we've forgotten it. It's disappointing to find out that the past is the present is the future. Nobody wants that. And yet, that's what it is. Maybe it's a kind of surrealist move, to use language like "post-racial" - thinking that if you create the language for it, it will happen. I wish it worked that way. But that's not our reality.

  Claudia Rankine

  Moving, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I've never had a stupid student in my life. I never look down on my students. I never thought, "Look at these people." I might argue with them and I think that some of them might have misconceptions - that they might be infected by the intellectual laziness that is the foundation of American popular culture, and of capitalism, if you wish. But part of my job as a teacher is to work with that - against that.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Teacher, Jobs, Stupid

  "There Is No Real Life". Interview with Brad Fox, www.guernicamag.com. March 15, 2013.

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• I do have one regret though. I wish Kathy Acker was still alive. I wish I could go swim with her again. My literary indebtedness to her is enormous. She's a more important mother to me than anyone can possibly imagine. In language I became a daughter worth a crap because of her. In language I redefined daughter, woman, I became a writer. Dora is an homage of sorts.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Daughter, Mother, Regret

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Get Up is basically the book I wanted to have my first year of sobriety. I wish someone had given me this book a year before I even went to a meeting because I was already miserable. I didn't enjoy drinking anymore, I just couldn't stand the idea of not doing it. I was afraid if I got sober I wouldn't be able to write anymore. That was a really big fear of mine, which turned out not to be true.

  Bucky Sinister

  Book, Drinking, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I never wanted anyone to know about me and Osama [Bin Laden]. I wanted that to be a secret that I carried to my grave, and since I wasn't the one who revealed it'it's definitely something that I wish was in the closet. It's destroyed my career.

  Kola Boof

  Careers, Secret, Osama Bin Laden

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• I don't want to lean back into the past, or forward into the future. I don't want to wish the present moment away.

  Dani Shapiro

  Past, Want, Moments

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• I think sometimes writers must attempt to communicate the incommunicable, because, whether they wish it or not, they're the ones to whom it falls.

  Richard Flanagan

  Fall, Thinking, Sometimes

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold. I will buy a chair for my house. What style of chair are you gonna buy? Everything we look at and choose is some way of expressing how we want to be perceived. I mean, why bother choosing a chair because it looks a certain way? Because there's gonna be something about that chair that says something about you.

  David Bowie

  Mean, Civilization, Choices

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

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• Style is about the choices you make to create the aspects of civilization that you wish to uphold.

  David Bowie

  Civilization, Choices, Style

  "David Bowie & Mos Def: The Style Council". Interview with Ben White, www.complex.com. August, 2003.

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• Write down how you really feel, not how you wish you felt or how you think you should feel, but how you really feel. Don't try to change it. Honor it: "This is how I feel." Express it, and then it's not suppressed and stored somewhere in your liver or somewhere else.

  Deborah King

  Writing, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Arabs don't do crime fiction. I read crime fiction and I read Arabic literature, and I wish this was a novel I could have read in Arabic.

  Elliott Colla

  Fiction, Literature, Crime

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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