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"I loved the filthy, gorgeous rawness of Charles Jeffrey. You just wish you could be young enough and cool enough to be part of his gang. That's what fashion's all about."
"I wish I could just project everything on the paper."
"If someone didn't want to be filmed, or my children said, "Don't film me anymore," [Steven Sebring] didn't try to sneak a shot or cajole them; he just respected their wishes."
"Be realistic: always wish the impossible."
"When God wants to drive a person insane, he grants that person's every wish."
"I wish someone would ask me to design a cathedral."
"I don't wish to be a slave any longer to the stringent exigencies of literature."
"The signore...wishes her to begin at the beginning."
"Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say."
"Normal" isn't an adjective you wish to hear after putting that much effort into making sure it was spectacular."
"I would have thought you'd import an English staff?" "Good heavens, no! I would not wish a British chef on anyone except the French tax collectors."
"One can be tired of Rome after three weeks and feel one has exhausted it; after three months one feels that one has not even scratched the surface of Rome; and after six months one wishes never to leave it."
"Joys, which we do not know, we do not wish."
"Ronald Reagan got a lot of democrats. I wish he hadn`t. I got to Congress with Reagan coming to the Whitehouse. The Reagan Program, a very radical one, a very drastic one passed because he had a lot of democrats. He worked at it personally and also because Reagan retained a popularity."
"Alec Baldwin has done this great Donald Trump. I wish somebody would hire Leslie Jordan to play Jeff Sessions. The only way is to put the two of them out there. it is the most bizarre, pathetic silliness I can imagine at what should be the most serious deliberations in the American government."
"I wish Elton Brand the best. He's a great guy. He's always going to be a great friend of mine, regardless of what goes on."
"I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring."
"I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction."
"I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war."
"I am always for the man who wishes to work."
