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“Every time I come to the States, I wish people would react to war like they react to tobacco, for example. Because war really kills in a second lots of people, thousands of people.”

People War States Wish Example Tobacco

Author:Diego Luna

“I wish that every player could feel what I've felt in visiting ballparks. The receptions I've received, it's blown me away. It's absolutely remarkable.”

Feels Wish Felt Sports Player Remarkable Visiting Reception Ballparks

Author:Mark McGwire

“I wish I could do an entire spa day.”

Author:Martina McBride

“I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!”

Should Wish Youth Should Have Clothings Worn Appreciated

Author:Natalie Merchant

“There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.”

Wells Looks Done Moments Wish

Author:Nicholas Meyer

“I wasn't playing mind games with anybody, I just said what I said. I am responsible for it, but I wish everybody would fall asleep for that one and let me go out there and do my thing.”

Mind Said Fall Games Wish Let Me Responsible Let Me Go Mind Games

Author:Pedro Martinez

“I wish people could get over the hang-up of subtitles, although at the same time, you know, that's kind of why I'm kind of pro dubbing.”

People Knows Kind Wish Get Over Hang Ups Subtitles Dubbing

Author:Jodie Foster

“I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.”

Thinking Way Littles Different Kids Able Wish Grows Bits My Own Growing Up One Thing Mystery Birth Little Bit Different Ways Farms Exposure

Author:Rachel McAdams

“My photographs are a celebration of life, fun and the beautiful. They are a world that doesn't exist. A fantasy. Freedom is real. There are no rules. The life I wish I was living.”

World Real Beautiful Fun Wish Fantasy Photograph Celebration Celebration Of Life Fun Life

Author:Ryan McGinley

“I wish that I spoke more languages. I speak a couple languages, but not well enough to really dub myself. French is really the only one, and it's a difficult thing.”

Wells Enough Speak Language Wish Difficult Couple Spokes Difficult Things

Author:Jodie Foster

“If you asked somebody, 'what do you wish for in life?' they wouldn't say 'happiness.' I would have answered 'excitement, knowledge,' God knows - I mean, many, many different things, but certainly not 'happiness'. It seemed like a foreign concept to wish for something that specific and that singular.”

Ifs Knows Mean Different Wish Concepts Excitement Different Things God Knows

Author:Connie Nielsen

“I believe that we all have the potential to love any human being, and that just love who you wish and celebrate it the best you can.”

Believe Humans I Believe Wish Human Beings Celebrate

Author:Kathy Najimy

“I love video games. I love, love, love them! I also love 'Star Wars.' I wish Jedi was a true religion.”

War Games Wish Stars Video True Religion

Author:Kunal Nayyar

“Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.”

Children Wish Born Optimism Simplicity Clarity

Author:Meshell Ndegeocello

“I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.”

Want Giving Humans I Can Wish Poor Rights University Human Rights Gender Inequality Oppressed Lectures Battlefields Showcase Gender Inequality

Author:Taslima Nasrin

“I am one of the writers who wish to create serious works of literature which dissociate themselves from those novels which are mere reflections of the vast consumer cultures of Tokyo and the subcultures of the world at large.”

World Culture Literature Wish Novel Serious Reflection Mere Consumers Tokyo Subculture Consumer Culture Serious Work

Author:Kenzaburo Oe

“I would never wish my upbringing on anyone... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.”

World Wish Upbringing

Author:Mary-Kate Olsen

“I wish my friends at William Morris Endeavor all the best.”

Wish My Friends Endeavor All The Best Morris

Author:Paul Oakenfold

“No, I had no problem communicating with Latin American heads of state - though now I do wish I had paid more attention to Latin when I was in high school.”

States Problem School Politics Wish Attention High School Paid Communicate Latin No Problem Latin America Head Of State Latin American

Author:Dan Quayle

“World War II was fought for the abolition of racial exclusiveness, equality of nations and the integrity of their territories, liberation of enslaved nations and restoration of their sovereign rights, the right of every nation to arrange its affairs as it wishes, economic aid to nations that have suffered and assistance to them in attaining their material welfare, restoration of democratic liberties, and destruction of the Hitlerite regime.”

“Man can only experience good or evil in this world; if God wishes to punish or reward he can only do so during the life of man. it is therefore here below that the just must prosper and the impious suffer.”

Ifs Men World Suffering Evil Wish This World Rewards Jew

Author:Kadmi Cohen

“I only wish Chet Atkins could be here for this joyous occasion.”

Wish Occasions Joyous

Author:Brenda Lee

“I wish I could always look like I've just finished a really good laugh.”

Looks Wish Laughing Finished Good Laugh

Author:Diane Lane

“I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.”

Wells Wish Paint Painter

Author:Jack Levine

“I am married and happy. My only wish is that nothing will change.”

Author:Alexander Pushkin

“Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.”

Stills Wish Ignorance Bliss Ignorance Is Bliss Ignorance Is Not Bliss

Author:Adam Pascal

“I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.”

Kind I Can Wish Can Do Teach

Author:Billie Piper

“With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.”

Wish Social Growing Media Products News Social Media Colleagues Reliance Acquaintance

Author:Erik Qualman

“What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.”

Actors Wish Presses Criminals

Author:Randy Quaid

“I've no wish to appear in celebrity magazines.”

Author:Kelly Reilly

“I've been very fortunate in the things I've had in my life. But, at the same time, I wish I had the same types of memories as everyone else.”

Wish Memories Type Fortunate

Author:Alfonso Ribeiro

“I've watched 'Being There' over 50 times, and every time I watch it, I love every frame. I just wish I had directed it myself.”

Wish Watches Being There Over 50

Author:Brett Ratner

“NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.”

Should Order House Wish White Modern Building Research Should Have Organization White House Nasa Replacements

Author:Burt Rutan

“What do most people say on their deathbed? They don't say, 'I wish I'd made more money.' What they say is, 'I wish I'd spent more time with my family and done more for society or my community.”

People Made Done Wish Community My Family More Time More Money Deathbed

Author:David Rubenstein

“When a band like Blondie re-forms, you wish them the best.”

Form Wish Band Blondie

Author:Joey Ramone

“The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.”

Knows Mean Doe Ideas Wish Party Policy Members Determine Socialism Possessed Bourgeois Enmity

Author:Karl Radek

“I've been an employee all my life. Would I wish, if I could rewind it, to have gone down a different route? Possibly, but I've had a great time. Anyway I'm not ruling it out; I could still buy a business.”

Ifs Stills Different Wish Gone If I Could Employee Routes Ruling Great Times Had A Great Time Rewind

Author:Stuart Rose

“I wish I had been a better mother and a more compassionate and understanding wife in both of my marriages.”

Mother Wish Understanding Wife Compassionate

Author:Alana Stewart

“I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.”

Feels Looks Long Made Dream Wanted Beautiful Used Girl Fun Wish Stuff Hair Normal Opposites Absolutes American Dream Skinny Lighters Beautiful Girl

Author:Gabourey Sidibe

“You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.”

Knows Done Happens Wish Easy Things Happen Wow

Author:Louis Susman

“I wish everybody was just ethnically ambiguous. It would make life a lot easier.”

Wish Easier Ambiguous

Author:Alexander Siddig

“Michael Buble is seriously my favorite entertainer. Have you ever seen the guy in concert? He's hilarious. Women love him. Guys want to meet him. He has everything that I wish I could do onstage. And I'm guessin' he's a good-lookin' guy - although he's not one of 'People' magazine's sexiest men.”

People Men Want Guy Wish My Favorite Magazines Concerts Entertainers Sexiest

Author:Blake Shelton

“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.”

Persons I Can Book Wish Can Do Areas Organized

Author:Elizabeth Strout

“One night I was standing on Third Avenue playing my guitar, when this big Irish policeman came strolling by, and stopped to listen to my singing and playing. When I was done, he politely handed me a ticket for disturbing the peace, while at the same time telling me how much he liked my voice. I wish I still had that ticket.”

Stills Done Bigs Night Wish Voice Singing Standing Thirds Guitar Tickets Disturbing Avenues One Night Policemen Strolling

Author:Frank Stallone

“All knowledge is of itself of some value. There is nothing so minute or inconsiderable, that I would not rather know it than not. In the same manner, all power, of whatever sort, is of itself desirable. A man would not submit to learn to hem a ruffle, of his wife, or his wife's maid; but if a mere wish could attain it, he would rather wish to be able to hem a ruffle.”

Ifs Knows Men Able Values Wish Knowledge Wife Minutes Mere Submit Desirable Maids Hem Ruffles

Book:Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

Source: Dr. Johnson's Table-talk: Containing Aphorisms on Literature, Life, and Manners, with Anecdotes of Distinguished Persons, Selected and Arranged from Mr. Boswell's Life of Johnson

“I almost wish that there would be something like a simultaneous telecast and all Americans would be forced, forced - at gun point no less - to listen to every David Barton message.”

Would Be Values Wish Messages Gun Conservative Simultaneous Conservative Values

Author:Mike Huckabee

“There are a lot of other people out there that some of us wish had run for President, but they didn't. I think Mitt Romney would be a fine President, and he'd be way better than the guy who's there right now.”

People Thinking Way Would Be Running Guy Wish President Fine Republican Right Now Romney

Author:Marco Rubio

“If you wish your children to be Christians you must really take the trouble to be Christian yourselves. Those are the only terms upon which the home will work the gracious miracle.”

Ifs Children Home Christian Wish Term Christianity Trouble Miracle Our Children Your Children Gracious

Book:The papers of Woodrow Wilson

Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson

“Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious, and free, First flower of the earth and first gem of the sea.”

Firsts Earth Wish Sea Flower Thee Glorious Gems

Author:Charles Lamb

“Use power carefully. Don't be afraid to have it. Learn balance and wisdom in addition to the unlocking of the kundalini, if you wish to have a happy and enlightened life.”

Ifs Use Wish Buddhism Balance Enlightened Life Balance Unlocking

Author:Frederick Lenz