Wish Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• The fortunate and successful New Urbanists will be the ones who can find local infill projects in small towns and small cities associated with farming, water transport, (perhaps rail too) and water power. I do not believe personally that we will retrofit much of suburbia in the way many people wish we might. The capital won't be there, and I'm rather convinced that the population is headed down - though this will be a lagging effect, because even starving people have sex.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Sex, Believe, Successful

  Interview With Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• I was [ on Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition] with Ralph Bowen, and Joel Frahm, Jimmy Greene, John Ellis. You can't play the saxophone better than any of those guys play. So many of those things that those guys could do I wish I could do now, let alone then.

  Jon Gordon

  Play, Guy, Competition

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• The thing that I find so bad about anger is the desire for payback. Of course, it is very human to wish for revenge. Your mother has died in the hospital, and the first thought a lot of people have is, I'll sue the doctor. You feel helpless, and you think, I'm less helpless if I'm doing something active that makes someone else pay. And social media make it easy to inflict all kinds of pain on other people. But what good does it do?

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Mother, Pain, Revenge

  Source: www.neh.gov

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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've never really prided myself as being quick on my feet. Maybe you've had the experience where somebody's asked you a question and you give an answer, then later in the day you think, "Oh, I wish I'd said that!" I tend to journal these things and put the answers in sermons.

  Max Lucado

  Thinking, Feet, Giving

  Source: www.sermoncentral.com

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• I just wish there was more media that was trailblazing and independent. And, this to me is a big danger right now in this set up is you've got these corporations, like the New York Times, and Amazon now with the Washington Post, and Time-Warner, and all of them seem to be the same! This is what's frightening!

  Matt Drudge

  New York, Independent, Media

  Source: noworldorder.com

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• You are what you dream you are and become. And, I wish Americans would get out of the sickness and just become greater.

  Matt Drudge

  Dream, Sickness, Greater

  Source: noworldorder.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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People sometimes talk about me as being a brand, having a strategy and whatever else. I wish. Seriously. I wish I had it together enough to have a strategy. But it's so instinctual. It usually comes down to two things: the person I'm working with - the director is really important to me - and a line in a script.

  Emma Watson

  People, Important, Together

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Making a movie is like a stagecoach ride through the Old West: at first you wish for a pleasant trip, and after a while you just hope you reach your destination.

  Steven Spielberg

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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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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• We all wish we were better. I wish I were a better artist, wish I were a kinder person, wish I were all kinds of things. But we're stuck with ourselves. I have good friends. And that in itself convinces me that I deserve to live.

  Edward Sorel

  Good Friend, Artist, Kind

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I was always nervous, always scared. That's stayed with me my whole life. I think it's all our genes. We're all stuck with ourselves. I wish I were calm. Never get scared, always calm, but that's not me. I panic easily.

  Edward Sorel

  Thinking, Calm, Scared

  Source: classic.esquire.com

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• I agree completely that nothing is more important for transgender people than to have access to excellent health care in trans-affirmative environments, to have the legal and institutional freedom to pursue their own lives as they wish, and to have their freedom and desire affirmed by the rest of the world. This will happen only when transphobia is overcome at the level of individual attitudes and prejudices and in larger institutions of education, law, health care, and kinship.

  Judith Butler

  Attitude, People, Important

  Source: www.transadvocate.com

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• I wish we could make buildings that could constantly explode and come back in different ways. The idea of a changing environment suggests that if your environment changes all the time, then maybe your ideas will change all the time.

  Vito Acconci

  Different, Environment, Building

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• I wish people knew how down to earth and cool I am. A lot of people think that I'm this high and mighty, bourgeoise girl born with a silver spoon in her mouth. I'm a super fun girl that is obsessed with my family and friends and just love to have fun and be a blessing to people! That's it! I'm very simple!

  Kierra Kiki Sheard

  Girl, Fun, Blessing

  Source: www.ebony.com

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