Wish Quotes - Page 24

• I found myself in a maze where I'd taken the wrong turn. In my wish to do well for that congregation I wasn't doing particularly well for myself or my friends or my family, and I even found that the work for God was taking me away from God.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Taken, Mazes, My Family

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I played piano for a lot of my childhood and stupidly quit. I wish I hadn't - I could have been a great classical pianist!

  Frankie Cosmos

  Piano, Childhood, Quitting

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wish I could just accept that I'm not that good and not be shy about the fact that I'm not that professional.

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Shy, Facts, Accepting

  Interview by Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. January 5, 2012.

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• The noise that we can expect in the future will only increase and we'll be wishing for rural Portugal or something like that.

  John Gimlette

  Noise, Portugal, Increase

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I never meet a church that wishes they didn't do it. I never meet a leader that wishes they didn't do it. They will all say, to the person, it's hard. It's difficult. It comes with complexities and confusion as you're trying to go across cultures, and you don't understand, you didn't mean to offend somebody but you've offended somebody. But they will all say it just does something.

  Michael Emerson

  Mean, Confusion, Leader

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I seem to enjoy making my life miserable by taking on too many projects and always wishing I could put more time into all of them.

  Colin Marston

  Miserable, Projects, More Time

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• You start to do shows and people come up to me and say, "I wish more people were here, how come more people aren't here?" and that just starts to get a little.

  Nina Nastasia

  People, Littles, Come Up

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We just have to plan everything in advance and concentrate it so that we get everything done in time. It's not as laidback as I wish it could be.

  David Pajo

  Done, Plans

  "Dead Child". Interview with Stephen M. Deusner, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.

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• Moving is what the deal is. I wish I could spend more time in places, but I find I either want to be in a place for an afternoon or like 10 days or a month. I don't like the two-day thing, so I just wish the drives were shorter so you could wake up, take a walk, and spend three hours in one part of the town. I always thought there should be 28 or 30 hours in a day - you know what I mean?

  Justin Vernon

  Moving, Mean, Two

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I realize I have made a lot of mistakes and done things wrong. I've done things I wish I could have done in another way. I didn't come in with the same kind of desperation that I may have had on the first or second record. I didn't come in thinking, 'Oh God, please. I hope this does well because I have nothing else and I worked so hard at this.'

  Michael Buble

  Mistake, Thinking, Doe

  "Patiences pays off for Michael Buble". The Associated Press Interview, www.today.com. May 26, 2007.

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• I wish I had a better range, but I really have a super-limited one. Barely a tenor, dips into baritone - that's about it.

  Colin Meloy

  Dip, Range, Baritones

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wish that I myself did have faith in God, that I had a religion, sometimes. But not always.

  Hutch Harris

  Have Faith, Faith In God, Sometimes

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wish transphobia, biphobia, homophobia didn't exist, and I wish that's what the show could just be, but sadly that's not the situation around the world.

  Ellen Page

  World, Situation, Shows

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• There is San Diego - this retirement village, with its prim petticoat, that doesn't want to get too near the water. San Diego worries about all the turds washing up on the lovely, pristine beaches of La Jolla. San Diego wishes Mexico would have fewer babies. And San Diego, like the rest of America, is growing middle-aged.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Baby, Beach, Retirement

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• If you want to live in Tennessee, God bless you, I wish for you a long life and starry evenings. But that is not where I want to live my life. I want to live my life in Carthage, in Athens. I want to live my life in Rome. I want to live my life in the center of the world. I want to live my life in Los Angeles.

  Richard Rodriguez

  Rome, Long, Want

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• The "coalition against terrorism" means the United States. It does not wish anyone else to interfere with its strategy.

  Tariq Ali

  Mean, United States, Doe

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2002.

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• It was great and I had fun that day even though I was so sort of pleased when it was over to get through it. I didn't realize at the time that usually they screen test a number of actresses for the part, but they only tested me. So I think they knew then they wanted me to do it, and I wish they told me because I wouldn't have been so nervous. That was quite funny.

  Gemma Arterton

  Fun, Thinking, Numbers

  "Female Bond-ing". Interview with Bonnie Laufer-Krebs, quantumofsolace.tribute.ca.

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• For some people they say, it's about wish fulfillment, it's about the things you are never able to do in your day you are actually fulfilling at night. There are other people who will say that it's actually telling you something.

  Shelby Harris

  Night, People, Able

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I think there’s a really selfish part of me that wishes I had the tools that I had today in the context of a designer practicing in the middle part of the 20th century when creating a single expression of an idea was the norm.

  Khoi Vinh

  Selfish, Thinking, Expression

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• There's a site on the internet that swears up and down that I'm worth $46 million and that I'm one of the most highly paid and richest guys in show business. I really wish it was true! Then there's those where it's like my mother was raped by a martian and that kind of thing. National Enquirer-type stuff. They just make it up.

  David Crosby

  Mother, Guy, Stuff

  "David Crosby answers our 11 questions". Interview with Corbin Reif, music.avclub.com. March 18, 2016.

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• When you get people who are out of office, suddenly their tongues loosen up and suddenly they say the things that you wish they'd said or did when they were in office.

  Bill Maher

  People, Office, Tongue

  "Comedian Bill Maher Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. December 16, 2011.

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• I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly.

  Jenny Slate

  Enjoyed, Left

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I wish I wrote drafts and then revised them, but I don't. What I do is I seem to revise as I go.

  Edward Hirsch

  Seems

  "Embracing the Mess of Poetry". Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• I got a lion on my back because I'm a Leo, and I also just love lions. But I wish I'd researched the artwork a little more. My little sister saw it and said, "Why do you have the Lion King on your back?"

  Stephen Dorff

  Kings, Little Sister, Lion King

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

  Joe Biden

  Aftermath, Mature, My Family

  "On Becoming Joe Biden". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. August 1, 2007.

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