Wish Quotes - Page 33

• You can't just wish to be a millionaire; you have to figure out how to earn it.

  Dolly Parton

  Figures, Millionaire

  "Q&A: Dolly Parton learned early that giving leads to getting". Interview with Chris Taylor, www.reuters.com. November 29, 2016.

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• I do not wish disaster to British arms.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Arms, Disaster, British

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, Believe, Minorities

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doubt, Trying, Missions

  Source: gandhiking.ning.com

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• Unfortunately, The End of Nature turns out to be correct, although I wish it were not so. The only places that I was incorrect was, as with environmental science at the time, the estimation of the speed at which we see the effects of global warming.

  Bill McKibben

  Environmental, Global Warming, Speed

  Source: theotherjournal.com

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• There was no way to have a decent life and to be gay. So I was terrified that I was going to be caught, and I had already experienced quite a bit of bullying. And, you know, I just thought that only misery lay ahead, and that if I - when I got caught that would be the solution. I wish I could say that was a thing of the past. But, you know, it's not.

  Cleve Jones

  Bullying, Gay, Past

  "LGBTQ Activist Cleve Jones: 'I'm Well Aware How Fragile Life Is'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, kccu.org. November 29, 2016.

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• I wish I gardened. I don't have a space for a garden. I'm in an apartment in New York but I do lots of stuff. I read and write and hang out with people. I go see movies.

  Emma Stone

  New York, Writing, Garden

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them; he just respected their wishes.

  Patti Smith

  Children, Trying, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I would never wish to say that I've finally waved goodbye to any character, it's just that the emphasis tends to shift.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Goodbye, Character, Emphasis

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• The one thing I would never wish it to be thought is that you play serious roles in order to achieve some sort of respectability which you can't if you're playing comedic roles.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Order, Play, Serious

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• [Maigret] is terribly self-contained, not that I would ever wish him to be any more comic, particularly, but in the second film we've made you see he's a little more ironic from time to time. But as I say, that's just work in progress.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Self, Ironic, Progress

  Source: news.tvguide.co.uk

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• There were tactical decisions that I wish I could have done differently: mission accomplished, not revealing my drunken driving charge prior to my run for the presidency, flying over New Orleans on Katrina and the pictures being released and people saying, "he's aloof and doesn't really care."

  George W. Bush

  Running, New Orleans, People

  Source: www.texasmonthly.com

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• That's what kids were like then. So I really like the movie [Dude, Where's My Car? ], I think it's genuinely funny, and I wish I hadn't been so arrogant about it. And, of course, I didn't know it was going to be my best work, either.

  Brent Spiner

  Kids, Thinking, Car

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Most of all I hope the tournament [The 2017 Africa Cup of Nations] will help unite our people [in Gabon]. My wish is to celebrate a big party all together.

  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

  Party, People, Together

  Source: news.xinhuanet.com

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• I wish we had more [Dwight] Eisenhower Republicans in this [Donald]Trump cabinet.

  E. J. Dionne

  Dwight Eisenhower, Cabinets, Republican

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• What I wish I had said in the book [Falling Upward] is that part of the attraction of conservative religions, such as Mormonism, Mennonite, Amish, groups we would consider very traditional, is that they actually do the first half of life very well. They are often very happy people.

  Richard Rohr

  Book, Fall, People

  Source: rccapilgrims.ning.com

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• I think at the end of the day she [Rose from "Fences"] is a strong woman in the truest sense of the word. I think all of that is in the narrative; it's already there. The hope is there; the playfulness is there; it's there. I wish I could take credit for it, but it's there.

  Viola Davis

  Strong Women, Thinking, Rose

  Source: shadowandact.com

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• Internet has considerably changed the rules. Some artists do not try to become celebrities: the internet does the job for them and makes them, slowly, famous.... without them wishing to become celebrated.

  Richard Clayderman

  Jobs, Artist, Trying

  Source: performancereviewed.com

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• As for these 60 years, and in general more than a hundred years, we have had different periods in relations and there have been tragic pages in our history, but since 1956 when we restored diplomatic relations, regrettably, we have not had a foundation on which to build ties that would correspond to our wishes and that are currently required in bilateral cooperation with Japan.

  Vladimir Putin

  Japan, Years, Ties

  Source: www.rt.com

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• I wish that in the course of my visit to places the Prime Minister [Shindzo Abe] calls home, all of a sudden, we would reach a clear understanding on how we can resolve the matters. We will be very glad if that happens. Are there any chances? Perhaps.

  Vladimir Putin

  Home, Understanding, Matter

  Source: www.rt.com

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• On Obamacare, every day that goes by I have more evidence that I wish I could put in my book, on how difficult it is for the Republicans to eliminate this law. They have no real alternative. They're afraid to take away health care from the 20 million people who now have it.

  Jonathan Chait

  Real, Book, Law

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Donald Trump does what everybody who voted for him wishes would happen every time the left pipes up.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Doe, Trump, Pipe

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• As far as I know, you can fancy someone, you can enjoy their company or you can wish them well. But what being in love is, I don't know.

  Quentin Crisp

  Being In Love, Love Is, Fancy

  Source: davidbenson.webs.com

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• People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

  Quentin S. Crisp

  Creativity, Buddhism, People

  Source: www.teemingbrain.com

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• [Steven Spielberg makes] human movies. Movies [...] that reflect the life we wish it would be, not necessarily as it is. And the happy ending, you know. Life is a tough thing to begin with, and I like the happy ending.

  Janusz Kaminski

  Would Be, Tough, Happy Endings

  Source: screenrant.com

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