- Luck
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wish Quotes
On wishing for more - understanding, time, and change.
Wishing shows up here in very different registers: a scientist wishing ordinary language could capture atomic structure, a wish that Israelis could witness daily life across the border firsthand, and a simple wish to take on more creative work. I Wish continues the theme.
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- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's a cliche, but John Lennon is my hero. He was so rebellious, so outspoken and so publicly opinionated, and I'm someone who's so private. I suppose you admire people who have the qualities you wish you had.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a really good student, first, second grade, third grade, and then fourth grade a little bit. And then I don’t know what happened. I became a very terrible student. I wish I took it more serious.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember in middle school and high school being so concerned with what everybody else thought. I was trying to be someone I wasn't. I wish I could've just let it slide and not cared about it.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's no way I can compete with someone who can write rap or rock and roll. Nor do I wish to. But I've always kept up to date with music changes. I worked very hard not to type myself.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I was a teenager in the 1970s.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I start to feel like I can't maintain the facade any longer, that I may just start to show through. And I wish I knew what was wrong. Maybe something about how stupid my whole life is.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish that I had known back then that a mastery of process would lead to a product. Then I probably wouldn't have found it so frightening to write.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020