Wish Quotes - Page 39

• Let us show great humility towards the peoples we wish to help, for we have very little to teach them.

  Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan

  Humility, Littles, Helping

  Source: simerg.com

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• It's an absurdity to just wish for a world of chaos without anything viable in its place. I'm loyal to my culture, my creed, the human race and my people and I don't want to see them all end up in a Mad Max movie.

  John Lydon

  Race, People, Mad

  Source: mojo20.com

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• I wish we had a more open discourse. It's just a shame that with our 24-hour news media and the Internet, people have become so fragmented. They only want to support their own worldview.

  Jim James

  Media, People, Support

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We always have the movies that are more toward real life, but they don't have that much drama or suspense, or we have the full of drama or suspense, but they're far away from real life. Always when I was watching a film, films with good drama, I was thinking, "I wish they were more close to real life." But when I was watching real life films I was thinking, "Well I wish it had more drama." I've tried, in the movies that I worked so far, to get these two things closer and closer to each other.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Drama, Real, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I hate to be sporty and athletic. I wish that I could be, but I just wasn't born that way.

  Rob Pruitt

  Hate, Athletic, Way

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I wish I were the Commander in Chief in India... I should do my utmost to exterminate the Race upon whom the stain of the late cruelties rested.

  Charles Dickens

  Race, India, Should

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I can never plan out what direction my poems will take in terms of either form or content. I wish I could but it doesn't work that way for me. If I try to write something, I'd probably end up doing the opposite.

  Elaine Equi

  Writing, Opposites, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not a poet. I wish I was a poet but I'm not. I'm a playwright. And so I have a different set of antecedents.

  Tony Kushner

  Different, Poet, Playwright

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Everybody wants the easy stuff, "Okay, I wanna be a rapper. I wish I could fight in order to get more money." They see the finished product, they see this guy Derek Jeter hitting the homerun and whatnot and say "Ooh, I wanna make $20 million a year," but they didn't see him playing sandlot ball.

  Mr. T

  Fighting, Rapper, Order

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• I wish I could be the guy who did the right thing at every time but unfortunately, that's not the case.

  George Stults

  Guy, Cases, Right Thing

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• All I wanted to do while I was a teenager was go out and play most of the time and just enjoy life and have fun. I wasn't big into school, you know, I look back now and wish I would have spent more time studying and enjoyed it more. It's not for everyone and I didn't enjoy it that much like going to school and studying - some stuff I did but some of it I didn't. My attention span wasn't there.

  George Stults

  Fun, Teenager, School

  Source: www.thestarscoop.com

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• Now that I'm almost forty, I look back at some of the decisions I made when I was younger - decisions that I thought of as courageous, or generous, or otherwise befitting a writer; befitting someone who had taken it as their life's goal to understand the human condition - and I wish I could go back in time and be like, "Hey, you don't actually have to do that - you're allowed to look out for yourself a little bit."

  Elif Batuman

  Taken, Goal, Decision

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• There's an amazing line in Marcus Aurelius: "The healthy eye ought to see all visible things and not to say, I wish for green things; for this is the condition of a diseased eye." Maybe green is your favorite color - but if you saw everything as green, that wouldn't be a blessing, it would be an eye disease. By the same token, if there was no heartbreak, and everything happened exactly as you want - it would be a less beautiful and meaningful story than the actual story, where you're a part of a huge complicated mysterious whole.

  Elif Batuman

  Beautiful, Meaningful, Eye

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• It's been years, but I still say that I went out with the same progressive values and liberal ideals that I went in with. I made a couple of mistakes, I will honestly admit. In retrospect, there are a few votes I wish I could take back. But, through it all, I kept my support for organized labor, I kept my support for income equality, I kept my support for making sure that kids that come from poor families have access to education. So, yes, I still believe that you don't have to give up your ideals and go along. One person can still stand up and make a difference.

  Tom Harkin

  Giving Up, Couple, Mistake

  Source: progressive.org

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• The use of rock, folk, or pop music serves a purpose. It gets people into the church. But an inexperienced guitar player who doesn't have much to say, for example, can make me wish to leave the church immediately, whereas one great jazz or classical guitarist can confirm that I will have a spiritual experience in the church.

  Dave Brubeck

  Spiritual, Player, People

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

  Mary J. Blige

  Mistake, My Mistakes

  Source: www.artistdirect.com

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• Perhaps one could appoint three or four professional people specially concerned with the task of bridge building between the majority and the minority. Bridge building of this kind requires an effort from both sides. It's no good if the majority alone do it. The question is whether there is any response, whether people on the other side of the river also wish to try to build a bridge.

  Norbert Elias

  People, Effort, Trying

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• I started these Rush Revere and these children's books, I mean, there was a mission. It was to teach the truth of American history because, ego-wise, I love America. I wish everybody did. And I hope everybody will.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Book, Mean, American History

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I wouldn't mind removing all the mistakes I have made. That would be exhausting and take forever. Honestly, it's one of the spells of my life that has been the most perfect. Not because I did the job perfectly, because of course I did it very imperfectly, but because I enjoyed it so much. What would I change? I complain a lot. I whinge, I more or less communicate in levels of complaint so I wish sometimes I didn't just spend all my time saying, 'I'm working so hard, what do I get in return for this?'.

  Steven Moffat

  Mistake, Perfect, Forever

  Source: www.gq-magazine.co.uk

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• If I had my choice, I wish this country, America, were running great. I wish I could stand up and say, "Wow, this place is really running fantastically."

  Donald Trump

  Running, Country, Choices

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• The political vibe of late-'40s Hollywood through the mid-'50s is something we're seeing a lot of echoes of right now, and in a scary way, where I'm wishing for an Edward R. Murrow to stand up and start somehow calling people on stuff. But as far as the way the industry works, I feel like we're in a place where you see companies slowly moving back to only doing their own stuff.

  Ed Brubaker

  Moving, People, Scary

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• With comics, you can only really learn what you're doing wrong or what works best when you see your work published. I've been publishing comics since my 20s, and still, when I flip through any of my new comics, I still only see the things that I wish I'd done better. But that's how you learn, by seeing it.

  Ed Brubaker

  Done, Publishing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• At the core of every person or belief, there's a pain and a thorn. There's always something, whether it's a physical thing, a health thing, or an I wish I had someone or something in my life thing. We all know some level of pain, so I like to see the ugliness of characters. It's a side that we show, only when we strip down in the bathroom mirror.

  Michael K. Williams

  Pain, Character, Belief

  Source: collider.com

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• I was in school for jazz voice, which is the dumbest way to spend $35,000 a year. I just felt like a rip-off of good jazz singers. I didn't feel like I was being anything special, and I always wanted to be special. It's like you know you have something inside you that's gonna make you different than everybody else and make you somebody in this life, but you wish you could figure out what it is, because at most things, you're either mediocre or really, really bad.

  Nellie McKay

  School, Special, Different

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The hard thing for me, and it took me many years to understand, the concept of Hollywood not being a meritocracy - I am a middle child, and as most middle children will tell you, that never goes away, wishing the world was fair and understanding.

  Suzanne Todd

  Children, Understanding, World

  Source: collider.com

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