Wish Quotes - Page 32

• Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

  Christopher Rice

  Alcohol, Generations, Retrospect

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• I hate thinking about what I'm doing. I wish I didn't think about it at all.

  Nicolas Jaar

  Hate, Thinking, I Hate

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Don't get me wrong, I think "Portlandia" is really funny, and quite brilliant, but I like to be in a city where I can hang out in Powell's Bookstore most nights and go out with my friends in a liberal, relaxed atmosphere. I wish more cities were like that.

  Johnny Marr

  Night, Thinking, Cities

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions - most of it imposed by Israel - who straps dynamite around himself and then throws himself into a crowd of Israelis. I've never condoned or agreed with it, but at least it is understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded out of life and all of his surroundings, who sees his fellow citizens, other Palestinians, his parents, sisters, and brothers, suffering, being injured, or being killed. He wants to do something, to strike back.

  Edward Said

  Brother, Men, Israel

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I would say courage first; then wisdom, which is a sense of knowledge and confidence; and also the wish and desire to uplift. The underlying notion is "How do I help?" That attitude really is a spiritual journey and a path.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Uplifting, Spiritual, Attitude

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• What is my great wish and intention, is to make a base of compassion and to encourage people to work to shift the energy.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Compassion, People, Energy

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's kind of an "it." It just submerged itself. Because the way I had always written was just that it came out. It just happened.

  Joan Baez

  Song, Writing, Way

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• The Super Bowl is something you can't put into words. It's such a great feeling. I wish I could put it into words, but you just have to be there to know the experience.

  Raylee Johnson

  Feelings, Super Bowl, Bowls

  Source: prod.www.broncos.clubs.nfl.com

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• Whoever will be president, if they wish to save America from the Wrath of God and the course that America is on, which will bring about America's destruction, they must consider justice for the Black and the Red and the Brown. If they do not consider that by separating the Black man and woman and allowing us to go free to build a nation of our own, this and this alone will turn away the wrath of God, will lessen the storms, and lessen the increased Judgment of God using the forces of nature.

  Louis Farrakhan

  Men, America, Wrath

  "Farrakhan: 'I never endorsed Mr. Trump or any of the candidates'". Interview with Richard Muhammad, www.finalcall.com. March 8, 2016.

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• I wish Howard Ashman was still alive so I could just meet him and tell him his words are magic. It's so fun to say. He has such great alliteration and paints the most vivid images with his lyrics

  Tituss Burgess

  Fun, Magic, Alive

  Source: www.broadwayworld.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I loved WICKED. I wish there were a part I could play in it.

  Hugh Panaro

  Play, Wicked

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

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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 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 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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• 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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• 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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• If you wish to see the blessings which "God has prepared for those who love Him" (I COR 2:9), then take up your abode in the desert of the renunciation of your own will, and flee the world. What world? The world of the lust of the eyes, of your fallen self (I JN 2:16), the presumptuousness of your own thoughts, the deceit of things you can see.

  Niketas Stethatos

  Eye, Blessing, Self

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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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