- Could
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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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- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
I really wish I had invented the flip-flop. I love flip-flops. It's the one style of shoe I would be so proud of inventing: the Havaiana.
- Fish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know when I was little, having my Thai mom, even I was weird about fish sauce and fish heads and clams. I kind of sided with my dad because he was a big American guy. So, we were very meat and potatoes, but I really wish I had grown up appreciating my mom's taste a bit more.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in the overdub years. I wish there wasn't such a thing as a multitrack tape player, because what you heard would be the record.
- Hero
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I was dating one of the ladies in 'Bollywood Hero.' They're gorgeous. Any of them.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish the 'Dark Phoenix' saga had been done more effectively than it was, but that was out of my hands.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Igbo used to say that they built their own gods. They would come together as a community, and they would express a wish. And their wish would then be brought to a priest, who would find a ritual object, and the appropriate sacrifices would be made, and the shrine would be built for the god.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I had more time to read.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people ask how I came up with the concept for my second novel, 'The Immortalists' - four siblings visit a fortune teller who is rumored to be able to tell anyone the date that they will die - I always wish I had a better answer.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I'd had more fun in college. I spent a lot of time in my dorm room, reading or writing while listening to my Sarah McLachlan Pandora station.
- Economic Development
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should like very much to go to America. I have heard so much of the great industrial and economic development of that great land, and I wish to see things for myself.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are always going to be encounters that you kind of wish went differently. But the average fan really isn't fanatical.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish that I did the things that I really believe in, because when I do, my life goes much smoother.
- Right
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- Nov 07, 2020