Wish Quotes - Page 21

• I have a longing for wilderness and for greenness. I wish I were a person who longed for animals, but I'm not.

  Rachel Zucker

  Animal, Longing, Wilderness

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I have my own personal wish list.

  Wentworth Miller

  Lists, My Own

  Source: www.ign.com

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• In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into a disaster, like a pandemic or famine. Sometimes we get so frustrated with the slowness of human political processes that we wish a giant flaming rock would solve the problem for us.

  Annalee Newitz

  Running, Believe, Rocks

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Be careful what you wish for, I guess. I believe - this will sound bloated, but I believe it - that true art, the potent stuff, can take the world down with it, just like religion can. And the opposite of course.

  Porochista Khakpour

  Art, Believe, Opposites

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wish I knew exactly who I was. I was talking to a friend earlier about the advice people give each other, advice like "just be yourself," and how this is particularly awful because it presumes we know who we are. As if people are static and unchanging.

  Mary J. Miller

  Being Yourself, Talking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  Dean Wareham

  Gay, Evil, Design

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I like the whole laid-back rapping. I wish I could rap! I wish I could wrap like Azealia Banks or Lil Wayne or someone like that.

  Charli XCX

  Rap, Laid Back, Wayne

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wish I could have hung out with Patti Smith in the seventies, and also have some crazy times.

  Ellie Goulding

  Crazy, Seventies, Hung

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• When you are in the American Idol bubble, a lot of contestants want to go as far as they can and wish to be on point with ready-to-go songs.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Song, Idols, Want

  "A Conversation with Jessica Sanchez". Interview with Jacob Elyachar, jakes-take.com. January 19, 2016.

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• I really want to show my supporters - -the direction I wish to go into, and my fans know that is what I want to do! They even have recommended songs for me to sing, I love my fans...they are awesome!

  Jessica Sanchez

  Song, Fans, Want

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• I wish I had been less keen to inject my own opinions, but I was a teenager and your teenage self is generally an idiot compared to the adult you. That's the way it should be. If it's the other way around, you have a problem.

  Emma Forrest

  Teenage, Self, Adults

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• While poetry was less professionalized than it is now, I still had this urge to win prizes and see my work in magazines, to get an "A," as though poetry could be graded. I wish I had been more patient and less frantic about getting published.

  Denise Duhamel

  Winning, Magazines, Patient

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.

  Dave Koz

  Long, People, Collaboration

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• For me, the more I don't foolishly waste my life wishing for a better past the more free I am today to create, grow, and love.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Past, And Love, Today

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I wish we weren`t fighting all the time to protect women`s rights, to protect women`s health.

  Hillary Clinton

  Fighting, Rights, Women's Health

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I'm just too lazy. I wish I could be someone that has wild affairs - all of my favorite nonfiction novels are about these wild affairs and postmarital agonistes - but to be honest, I'm someone that doesn't deal well with instability.

  Kate Zambreno

  Lazy, Nonfiction, Honest

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Mean, Thinking, Kung Fu Panda

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• Po's [Kung Fu Panda] unending enthusiasm is something we wish we could have. We can't help but root for him because of his geek energy.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Roots, Kung Fu Panda, Energy

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• We got the best actors imaginable [in Kung Fu Panda]. If we could have made a wish list I don't think there would anyone else we would have added. Yeah, we've been blessed with exactly how amazing a cast of actors we have. To have someone like Bryan Cranston, who is not just an amazing actor, but who has such a range.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Blessed, Thinking, Kung Fu Panda

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• I wish I'd legitimately talked about some painful moments in my life where I felt insufficient as a kid.

  Joel Stein

  Kids, Painful Moments, Felt

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I sometimes wish I were African American because people don't bash them afterward. It's the hardest to be a woman.

  Julie Delpy

  People, African American, Sometimes

  "Julie Delpy Says Hollywood Dumps on Women Most: ‘I Sometimes Wish I Were African American’". www.thewrap.com. February 9, 2016.

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• I wish somebody knew whether or not I'm Jewish.

  Heidi Julavits

  "The Sunday Rumpus Interview: Heidi Julavits". Interview with Angela Stubbs, therumpus.net. October 14, 2012.

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• Dear God, I've done so many crazy hair colors and outfits and makeup looks where I look back and it's like, What the hell was I doing? You can't be afraid to make mistakes, you have to take risks. We all have those moments we look back on and wish weren't captured on film, but we're not alone in that.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Mistake, Crazy, Makeup

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's interesting to get older and realize that part of your job growing up in this profession is to help the next generation. More and more, with Boyhood and with Ellar Coltrane and with Emma [Watson], I start to see that role. There's no better way. Nobody wants advice, so you can't really give it. You just have to try to wish them well on their journey.

  Ethan Hawke

  Jobs, Growing Up, Journey

  "Ethan Hawke on ‘Regression’, ‘The Magnificent Seven’, and Playing a Space Pimp in ‘Valerian’". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 4, 2016.

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• By sticking to my principles and what I firmly believe in - I always have my own attitude towards everything in life. I wish to create trends rather than follow them. My daily routine at the moment is really just a combination of work and family.

  Li Bingbing

  Attitude, Believe, Principles

  "Interview with Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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