If I Could Quotes - Page 22

• If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

  Anita Baker

  Birthday, Dumb, Junk

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• It's really hard for actors to cross over and get any respect as a singer, and if I could just keep it separate and not use my music in movies, it's cool.

  Taryn Manning

  Use, Actors, Singers

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• There have been times when I wanted children and other times I've been grateful not to have them. I am a mess if I have to say goodbye to my dog for longer than five days. I don't know how I would deal with kissing my children as I left for work. I know there are women who are able to do that. I don't know if I could.

  Anjelica Huston

  Goodbye, Dog, Children

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• I don't have children, and I am not sure if I have wanted them or never wanted them. It's weird not to be able to decide. I don't know if I could stand that kind of commitment, or if I am really honest, I don't think that I could handle being that vulnerable to someone else.

  Margaret Cho

  Children, Commitment, Thinking

  "Kids" by Margaret Cho, margaretcho.com. September 6, 2012.

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• If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!

  Dai Vernon

  Men, Magic, Would Be

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• ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Giving Up, Animal, Men

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• If I could sing, I wouldnt be a guitarist.

  Robin Trower

  Guitar, Ifs, Guitarist

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• I thought comedy would be the hardest thing I could do, and if I could do that, I could do anything.

  Rodney Carrington

  Would Be, Comedy, Hardest

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• What's amazing to me now is that I actually recall fixating on the fact that my thighs a-l-m-o-s-t touched at the top....If I could go back in time and slap my eighteen-year-old self, I would. I would tell her to snap out of it, because that's the best you thighs will ever be. You should take pictures of your thighs right now so you can remember how amazing they were!

  Anita Renfroe

  Self, Years, Facts

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• I have wished a bird would fly away,
  And not sing by my house all day;
  Have clapped my hands at him from the door
  When it seemed as if I could bear no more.
  The fault must partly have been in me.
  The bird was not to blame for his key.
  And of course there must be something wrong
  In wanting to silence any song.

  Robert Frost

  Song, Keys, Doors

  Robert Frost, Robert Faggen (2006). “The Notebooks of Robert Frost”, p.331, Harvard University Press

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• I grew up with siblings, so if I could just snap my fingers and have four [children], I would have four

  Kim Kardashian

  Children, Sibling, Four

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• If i could be a superhero, i would be Superman. He can fly, he is strong... even though i'm not that strong

  Greyson Chance

  Strong, Superhero, Would Be

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• If I could express the same thing with words as with music, I would, of course, use a verbal expression. Music is something autonomous and much richer. Music begins where the possibilities of language end. That is why I write music.

  Jean Sibelius

  Writing, Expression, Use

  Interview with Berlingske Tidende, June 10, 1919.

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• If I could give you one line about writing worship songs, it would be ‘Sing your prayers.’

  Paul Baloche

  Song, Prayer, Writing

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• Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Memories, Believe

  "A god among animators" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• If I could put one word on my journey over the last couple of years it would definitely be ‘turbulent’.

  Karise Eden

  Couple, Journey, Years

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• If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Silence, World, Modern

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• The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

  Jahangir Khan

  Winning, People, Pressure

  "England happy to wait until they can step out from All Blacks' shadow" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2017.

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• I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Bible, Book, Writing

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• If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

  Helen Keller

  Hearing, All Alone, Feels

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• To truly live without regrets, pay attention. Ask yourself hard questions and see where they lead. Do I really want this job? Is this relationship right for me? If I could do anything, would it be what I'm doing today ... or something different?

  Chris Guillebeau

  Jobs, Regret, Different

  Chris Guillebeau (2014). “The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life”, p.68, Harmony

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• I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Thinking, Order, Feet

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• I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

  Max Ehrmann

  Humble, Noble, Mood

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: Words for Life”, p.45, Scholastic Inc.

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• My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's don't obsess with this notion that you have to turn everything you do into a business, because that ends up being a small version of a large company. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

  Anita Roddick

  Skills, Giving, Goal

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• If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them interviewed, I love the way they talk about their art. They're very self-assured, they're funny, they're inviting. I love it.

  Neko Case

  Art, Self, Records

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