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Illusion is an anodyne, bred by the gap between wish and reality.
Herman Wouk
Reality
Illusion
Wish
Between
Bred
Gap
Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.
Hesiod
Age
Marriage
Women
Cause
Old
Wish
Old Age
Wed
Sorrows
Deadly
Does
Fleeing
Whoever
I wish I'd known more about how to build a startup when I was younger.
Hilary Mason
Wish
Build
Startup
About
More
Known
How
Younger
People work out so hard for even 10 years and still aren't able to achieve the body they wish for. But luckily, my body type helped me lose weight really fast, and I became fitter.
Hina Khan
Work
Me
People
Achieve
Wish
Lose
Type
Out
Able
Weight
Became
Still
Years
Fitter
Work Out
Really
Body
Hard
Helped
Luckily
Even
Fast
I wish ghosts were real!
Holly Madison
Wish
Ghosts
Real
Were
Poets wish to profit or to please.
Horace
Wish
Profit
Please
Poets
I wish to note that intellectual property theft by a government represents the very essence of organized crime.
Howard Berman
Government
Property
Crime
Wish
Intellectual
Intellectual Property
Very
Essence
Represents
Theft
Note
Organized
I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.
Howard Hodgkin
Myself
Happy
People
Wish
About
Pictures
Talk
Devoutly
Am
Expected
Them
They said it was against the rules to take sides on a controversial issue. I said, 'I wish you had told me that during World War II, when I took sides against Hitler.'
Howard K. Smith
War
Me
You
World
Wish
Took
Sides
Rules
Take
Had
Said
Issue
Controversial
Against
World War
World War II
People have come to me over the years and said to me: 'I admire the culture of Starbucks. Can you come give a speech and help us turn our culture around?' I wish it were that easy. Turning a culture around is very difficult to do because it's based on a series of many, many decisions, and the organization is framed by those decisions.
Howard Schultz
Me
You
Culture
People
Organization
Wish
Difficult
Framed
Our
Those
Easy
Admire
Give
Over
Come
Because
Around
Said
Were
Years
Very
Decisions
Turn
Us
Turning
Help
Many
Series
Starbucks
Based
Speech
But I wish to point out that it is entirely wrong to say that the Chinese are not religious.
Hu Shih
Wish
Say
Out
Religious
Entirely
Point
Wrong
Chinese
I'm a terrible actor. I'm still learning. When I first started, I wish I knew then to trust myself more, really. I was in a terrible panic in the early part of my career.
Hugh Grant
Myself
Learning
Trust
First
Wish
Panic
More
Part
Knew
Terrible
Still
Then
Really
Actor
Early
Started
Career
I'm in total sympathy with Dick Smith's sentiments; I only wish there were grounds for saying we Australians would never tolerate such appalling treatment of refugees being carried out in our name.
Hugh Mackay
Saying
Wish
Sympathy
Our
Carried
Out
Would
Total
Only
Never
Name
Smith
Were
Australians
Refugees
Being
Sentiments
Appalling
Grounds
Tolerate
Treatment
I wish I could have seen Andy Kaufman live.
Hugh Skinner
Seen
Wish
Live
Andy
Could
I wish Obama would focus on governing the United States and would forget his country's imperialist pretensions.
Hugo Chavez
Focus
Wish
Country
States
Obama
Would
Imperialist
Governing
His
Forget
United
United States
I wish we could begin a new period of normal relations with the government of the United States.
Hugo Chavez
Government
Wish
Relations
States
Could
New
Period
Normal
Begin
United
United States
We believe democracy to be the only real guarantor of stability and we have sought to create a 'Jordanian model' that might also inspire others in our region. I wish democracy and peace to be my legacy to my people and the shield of generations to come.
Hussein of Jordan
Democracy
Peace
People
Inspire
Wish
Believe
Others
Our
Only
Generations
Come
Also
Sought
Real
Shield
Legacy
Model
Stability
Region
Might
Create
Classical music only really came into my life in 1969. I wish I had heard classical music and church music when I was a teenager or even as a child.
Ian Anderson
Life
Music
Church
My Life
Wish
Teenager
Classical
Classical Music
Only
Had
Came
Heard
Child
Really
Even
I'm very grateful for the other bands and artists that stood up for us with a view to our induction - that's nice of them. But I wish that the Hall Of Fame had had the discretion to ask us first. It's now become a debate in which we are too late to have the final word.
Ian Gillan
Grateful
Too Late
Debate
Word
First
Wish
Become
Nice
Too
Other
Late
Final
Final Word
Our
Had
Hall
Fame
Up
Discretion
Very
Bands
Stood
Artists
Which
Them
Ask
Us
View
Now
I wish I had read more and majored in literature rather than theatre. I think I would have been a better artist for it. I am trying to play catch-up now.
Idina Menzel
Theatre
Better
Wish
Think
Would
Rather
More
Had
Read
Am
Been
Than
Trying
Artist
Literature
Now
Play
I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.
Iggy Azalea
Music
Me
Videos
Dance
Made
Wish
Gone
Dance Classes
Music Videos
Dancing
Kid
Classes
Like
Learn
How
Hip-Hop
Were
Want
Which
Cool
Watching
Everybody has their cross to bear, and everybody has their issues. But it still never once occurred to me that I'm not as good as everyone else. And that's a gift I wish I could give to every girl.
Iliza Shlesinger
Good
Me
Gift
Girl
Wish
Every
Everybody
Else
Everyone
Everyone Else
Once
Cross
Give
Bear
Could
Never
Occurred
Still
Issues
I wish I was in my 20s during the '90s to really fully live it. I feel like that was a pretty exciting time being from Chicago, seeing Jordan win six rings.
Iman Shumpert
Time
Win
Wish
Live
Rings
Seeing
Pretty
Jordan
Exciting
Exciting Time
Feel
Like
Chicago
Six
Being
Really
Fully
We do not wish to impoverish the environment any further, and yet we cannot for a moment forget the grim poverty of large numbers of people. Are not poverty and need the greatest polluters?
Indira Gandhi
People
Poverty
Wish
Further
We Cannot
Environment
Greatest
Forget
Any
Cannot
Grim
Moment
Large
Large Numbers
Need
Numbers
I wish somebody had given me the news that ideas don't just fall on your head like fairy dust. You have to treat that like a job. You have to spend hours each day, where you're just like, 'This is the part of the day when I'm looking for an idea.'
Ira Glass
Day
News
Me
You
Treat
Job
Somebody
Wish
Looking
Fall
Dust
Spend
Given
Had
Part
Head
Idea
Like
Hours
Ideas
Fairy
Just
Where
Your
Each
Each Day
It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
Irrfan Khan
Wish
Every
Out
Reach
Always
Audiences
Maximum
Actor
Inner
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