"I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists."
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"The lustful glances thrown his way made me wish he wasn’t such a damned bowl of eye candy." - Cat re: Bones"
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"Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the contract you signed when you decided your wishes were not true or possible; and the exacting of the punishment you agreed to when you knew you would break the contract of your life."
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"You may wish that some parts of (your face) were different, but the actual fact is shown in the mirror. Now, can you look at your conditioning in a similar way?"
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"There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!"
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"I've always been criticised for how filthy my material is. Victoria Wood said to me once, 'I wish I was a bit ruder, like you,' and I said, 'Well, I wish I was a bit cleaner, like you.'"
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"Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life."
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"Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers."
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"But one must know where one stands, and where the others wish to go."
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"I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live."
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"I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them."
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"The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool."
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"We love and understand talent; we wish it be within us. The truly gifted, those exceptional few, must wait for the world to catch up."
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"It's a terrible thing wishing that it can be someone else's tragedy."
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"Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case."
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"The world," he said, "is not a wish-granting factory," and then he broke down, just for one moment, his sob roaring impotent like a clap of thunder unaccompanied by lightning, the terrible ferocity that amateurs in the field of suffering might mistake for weakness."
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"Mom sobbed something into Dad's chest that I wish I hadn't heard, and that I hope she never finds out that I did hear. She said, "I won't be a mom anymore." It gutted me pretty badly."
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"I spent your Wish on that doucheface,” I said into his chest. “Hazel Grace. No. I will grant you that you did spend my one and only Wish, but you did not spend it on him. You spent it on us."
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"We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow."
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"Geez, I wish I could tell you I had a whole bunch of '80s hair bands, you know something you really wouldn't expect, but I don't know that the music police would be that surprised, because most of the stuff that I am influenced by is in evidence in the music."
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