Wish Quotes - Page 22

• Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.

  Li Bingbing

  Motivation, People, Effort

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

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• Cruelty towards animals and child abuse make me feel vulnerable. I wish there was more I could do. I try to spread positive messages through my social media.

  Matt Sorum

  Children, Animal, Media

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• I would just want to wish President Obama the best of luck, and that he should bear in mind that just as he is a good person, there are many of us presidents in Latin America who are also good people.

  Rafael Correa

  Latin, America, People

  Interview with Amy Goodman, progressive.org. June 28, 2013.

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• I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.

  Patricia Arquette

  Spiritual, America, Rights

  "Patricia Arquette: On Boyhood, Motherhood, and Womanhood". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I wish everyone could wake up with a birdie on your shoulder, reminding them that this could be your last day. As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present. Savor every moment and go after your dreams. Be relentless in pursuing your happiness.

  Theo Rossi

  Dream, Years, Age

  "ORIGIN Interview: Sons of Anarchy Actor Theo Rossi". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. November 16, 2015.

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• Both of my parents are teachers. One is in the Waldorf school system in Louisville, Ky., and the other runs a music school. I grew up with loving, supportive, encouraging parents that let me make my own world, and I wish that for every single child.

  Madi Diaz

  Running, Teacher, Children

  "Madi Diaz: Loving the Process". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have two writer daughters, and a psychoanalyst daughter, and a lawyer daughter, and they wish we didn't write, I'm sure, but we write. If we were a painting family, we would paint.

  Anne Roiphe

  Daughter, Writing, Two

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are a lot of great young actors coming out of England who have maybe not gone to drama school, but I wish I had.

  Ed Speleers

  Drama, School, Gone

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day," which I actually recorded on "Quality Street" because I don't think anyone has ever covered it before. You hear it every single Christmas, and it is a great record. That's by Wizzard. It is a really great record, but I don't think anyone's ever covered it before, so I had to go it doing it differently. It's quite different from how the original goes.

  Nick Lowe

  Thinking, Quality, Different

  "Nick Lowe Brings His 'Quality Holiday Revue' To America". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 22, 2015.

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• I wish somebody would just give me a couple of million dollars a year, so that I could do a play based on every little fantasy I have.

  Charles Busch

  Couple, Years, Play

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think that that's always been a real talent of mine is to be able to spot somebody who has that thing that is so non-definable, that thing that I wish I possessed.

  Rosie O'Donnell

  Real, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I wish I could have a clone to do all the stuff that I don't like doing, like the red carpet stuff.

  V V Brown

  Red, Stuff, Carpet

  "V V Brown Tells How She Fights Homesickness!". Interview with Kaitlin Menza, www.seventeen.com. January 3, 2012.

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• So, you have to contemplate yourself surrounded by the conditions you wish to produce and know you can attract divine energy to help you. Dormant forces come alive when you put your attention on what you intend to manifest and when you stay connected to your source of well-being, your source of kindness, and your source that excludes no one.

  Wayne Dyer

  Kindness, Alive, Energy

  "Interview With New Age Retailer". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, www.drwaynedyer.com. November, 2005.

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• Wish we could, and allow the Taliban or anybody else to reclaim that country. But what we must do is some progress in Iraq, where finally the Iraqi army, which has not been a particularly effective fighting force, retook Ramadi.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Fighting, Army

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I'm horrified most of the time. I wish it was more complicated, but at the same time, each time I try to complicate it I hate it because I hate the idea of writing to impress.

  Lou Doillon

  Hate, Writing, Ideas

  "Lou Doillon’s Canadian Love Affair". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 19, 2016.

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• I wish the government would read the Constitution. I think that would probably help quite a bit. And maybe they did read it and maybe they got confused when they read the preamble which says one of the duties is to promote the general welfare.

  Benjamin Carson

  Confused, Thinking, Government

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• The good thing is in my case I'm all about love and communications, so there was no hard feelings, it was like ok we reached the end of this season and I wish you well and it's time to move on. As a pop song it's definitely open to many different interpretations, I received a call from a cousin saying that it helped her heal after an abusive relationship and another friend said it represented her of a summer fling. We tried to write carefully so that it can be relatable to cover a wide audience.

  Alyson Stoner

  Summer, Song, Cousin

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• Mother Teresa- cream. Exemplars, exemplary models we can learn from and become more like, but we don't have to imitate them. We can become more authentically ourselves, impeccable and unselfish, and beneficial to many like a wish fulfilling jewel.

  Surya Das

  Mother, Jewels, Unselfish

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• My favorite, and the author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation. She is such a role model to me.

  Garance Dore

  Reading, Self, Role Models

  "BYT Interviews: Garance Dore". Interview with Svetlana Legetic, brightestyoungthings.com. February 19, 2016.

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• I loved the filthy, gorgeous rawness of Charles Jeffrey. You just wish you could be young enough and cool enough to be part of his gang. That's what fashion's all about.

  Patrick Grant

  Fashion, Rawness, Gorgeous

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• I'm wishing every Saturday had primaries, because welcome to an amazing Sunday, where everything seems a tad bit clearer this morning.

  Chuck Todd

  Morning, Sunday, Welcome

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• What is it about business that makes us laugh - when things go wrong, which they do all the time (why, I still wish I knew) then we need to laugh.

  Ronnie Apteker

  Laughing, Needs, When Things Go Wrong

  Source: blog.exclus1ves.co.za

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• I am proud of the campaign that we ran. Obviously, I wish we could have done a little bit better.

  Bernie Sanders

  Campaigns, Done, Proud

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• I read Aschenbach's constant desire to go beyond the works he has already produced to be the counterpart of Mann's deep wish to surpass his previous fiction; sometimes the diaries express this in terms of a dejected judgment that the summit has already been reached.

  Philip Kitcher

  Desire, Diaries, Fiction

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Almost no one as I think most leadership books are a joke. They are, as I note in Leadership BS, frequently based on wishes and hopes rather than reality, on inspiring stories rather than systematic social science, and on "oughts" rather than "is."

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Book, Reality, Thinking

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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