"I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815"
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"If it is by force that we wish to achieve Swaraj, let us drop nonviolence and offer such violence as we may."
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"I do not wish disaster to British arms."
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"My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to."
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"I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses."
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"I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts."
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"I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage."
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"Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time."
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"But you comfort me, Gimli, I'm glad to have you standing nigh with your stout legs and your hard axe. I wish there were more of your kin among us. But even more would I give for a hundred good archers of Mirkwood." - Legolas"
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"Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were."
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"Meant to be?’ It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late."
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"If the thing you wish to do is right, and you believe in it, go ahead and do it!"
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"I think all girls in the world wish they were a Parisian girl - that sort of effortless chic confidence and comfort in their own skin."
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"If you wish to form a clear judgment on your friends, consult your dreams."
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"Schedules are impossible to me. I am excited to be on tour, but there are instances when I wish that I wasn't managed. The shows are fun, but six hour drives burn me out."
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"i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway."
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"Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind." But somebody brought up some wine and that started me off."
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"But night would come and with it the mountain moon and the lake would be moon - laned and I'd go out and sit in the grass and meditate facing west, wishing there were a Personal God in all this impersonal matter."
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"Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth."
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"I rather wish to rest my case on material considerations, not those of the social future but those of the actual historical period of the capitalist world-economy."
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