Three Wishes Quotes

• Three wishes - no substitutes, exchanges or refunds

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  Robin Williams

  Inspiration   Wish   Three  

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• Make three wishes and they shall all come true. Make three hundred and I will honour every one

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  Jeanette Winterson

  Wish   Three   Hundred  

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.19, Random House

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• When I was growing up I had three wishes. I wanted to be a Lindbergh-type hero, learn Chinese, and become a member of The Algonquin Round Table.

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  John F. Kennedy

  Growing Up   Hero   Chinese  

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• If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an '88 and shove that barrel up Hitler's ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn't need two more wishes.

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  George S. Patton

  Girl   Two   Wish  

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• The three wishes of every man: to be healthy, to be rich by honest means, and to be beautiful.

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  Plato

  Beautiful   Mean   Men  

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• I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.

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  Maynard James Keenan

  Writing   Men   Wish  

  "Maynard James Keenan on baling hay, genies, and ruining family photos". Interview with Jonathan K. Dick, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2015.

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• The trouble with magic is that there's too much it just can't fix. When things go wrong, glimpsing junkyard faerie and crows that can turn into girls and back again doesn't help much. The useful magic's never at hand. The three wishes and the genies in bottles, seven-league boots, invisible cloaks and all. They stay in the stories, while out here in the wide world we have to muddle through as best we can on our own.

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  Charles de Lint

  Girl   Hands   League  

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• If I had Aladdin's lamp and the usual three wishes, the first would always be, 'Give me the first day of June.

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  Gladys Taber

  June   Giving   Wish  

  Gladys Bagg Taber (1948). “The book of Stillmeadow”

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• I suppose that if we in intelligence were one day given three wishes, they would be to know everything, to be believed when we spoke, and in such a way to exercise an influence to the good in the matter of policy.

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  Sherman Kent

  Exercise   Wish   One Day  

  Sherman Kent, Center for the Study of Intelligence (U.S.). History Staff (1994). “Sherman Kent and the Board of National Estimates: collected essays”

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