- I Wish
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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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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish people would go and just read about this man's life - about David Koch's life... Of the literally hundreds of millions of dollars that he has given to a variety of different hospitals.
- Destroy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
- Ferocity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was a period... when I used to say, with as much ferocity as I could muster, 'I hate Henry James, and I wish he was dead.' Influence is perdition.
- Routine
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a compulsive writer. I wish I could be compulsive about something. I have no regular writing routine.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I would ever quit acting, but there are other things I am interested in. I wanted to be an architect, and I wish I knew more about landscaping.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I had more time to visit schools.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hateful is the power, and pitiable is the life, of those who wish to be feared rather than loved.
- Blunted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was appalled at the amount of study necessary in order to qualify in medicine, and gradually my desire was blunted by a keener - and secret - wish to become an actor.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish, naturally to prevent the possibility that someone may write an accidental, superficial, incomplete and perhaps untrue picture of me.
- My Own
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.
- Remember
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020