- My Own
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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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- Guilty
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think every actor would wish there is some challenge that is left. I would consider to be creatively dead if I were to say that I am satisfied now.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think criticism is often so pallid, so tame. I wish it were more performative.
- Nov 07, 2020
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been speed dating! I sort of wish I had, just for the experience of it.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I will always wish the best to Madrid.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish there was a season where I was playing and didn't have no aches, no pains, no bruises, no nothing.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Samuel Johnson called it the vanity of human wishes, and Buddhists talk about the endless cycle of desire. Social psychologists say we get trapped on a hedonic treadmill. What they all mean is that we wish, plan and work for things that we think will make us happy, but when we finally get them, we aren't nearly as happy as we thought we'd be.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I suppose we carry photographs now, but I think it's rather wonderful that people used to carry drawings and watercolours. I wish people did that more often.
- Bridge
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- Nov 07, 2020
I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.
- Fools
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- Nov 07, 2020
People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools.
- Film Festival
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- Nov 07, 2020
This worldwide spread of recognition is insane. I was brought up in a small country. If you made a Swedish film that just got into a film festival somewhere, that was like the biggest thing you could wish for.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020