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• I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

  Izabel Goulart

  Believe, People, Would Be

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• If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.

  Elif Batuman

  Thinking, Starting Over, Answers

  Elif Batuman (2010). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.290, Macmillan

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• I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

  Liam Payne

  Fighting, People, Boxing

  "One Direction Exclusive Interview". www.seventeen.com. October 10, 2012.

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• If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

  Nile Rodgers

  Cities, Venice, Turns

  "On my radar: Nile Rodgers". Interview with Ellie Bothwell, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2013.

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• If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

  Alice Walker

  Stars, Writing, Moon

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.85, The New Press

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• The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Sight, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

  Johnny Depp

  Happiness, Peace, Fun

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• If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.

  Mary Sue Milliken

  Giving, Advice, Would Be

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• If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Silly, Book, Writing

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• I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the very air. It seems as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south winds calls into being.

  Richard Jefferies

  Song, Healing, Sunshine

  Richard Jefferies (1884). “The Life of the Fields”

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• In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Father, Tests, Cold

  Evelyn Underhill (2011). “Fragments from an Inner Life: The Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill”, p.94, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Spring, Years

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• Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

  Samuel Rogers

  Gay, May, Madness

  'To - , 1814'

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• Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Taken, Thinking, Apples

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• If I could for a moment just inspire you to love yourself, that would be worth EVERYTHING

  Lady Gaga

  Love You, Inspire, Would Be

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• If I could see one live show before I died, I'd see Lucy Angel

  Benjamin Franklin

  Angel, Shows, Died

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• If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.

  Walt Kelly

  Writing, Letters, Nasty

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• If I could say with words what my dances express, I wouldn’t have a reason to dance.

  Mary Wigman

  Reason, Ifs

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• I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To get a satisfactory print, one that contains all that you intended, is very often more difficult and dangerous than the sitting itself. When I’m photographing, I immediately know when I’ve got the image I really want. But to get the image out of the camera and into the open, is another matter.

  Richard Avedon

  Hate, Eye, Wish

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• If I could do what I want with my eyes alone, I would be happy.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, Eye, Would Be

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• O my Lord Jesus Christ, if I could be in heaven without Thee, it would be hell; and if I could be in hell, and have Thee still, it would be heaven to me, for Thou are all the heaven I want.

  Samuel Rutherford

  Jesus, Heaven, Would Be

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• If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Fashion, Shopping, Would Be

  Twitter post from Feb 02, 2012

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• My birth experience is not right for everyone, but it was so right for me. I am changed because of that experience, i saw my power and I felt my power, and it's gotten me through a lot of hardship. I tell myself that if i could get through that, I can get through anything. I think women are losing an opportunity by not aspiring to have births in which they are active participants.

  Ricki Lake

  Opportunity, Thinking, Hardship

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• Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I'm home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder... If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? 'Cause you know I'd walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight.

  Vanessa Carlton

  Travel, Fall, Home

  Song: A Thousand Miles, Album: Be Not Nobody

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• If I could give you only one advice, I would say: Don't identify with anything. Be completely empty - no one. Be no-body and see if you lose anything but delusion.

  Mooji

  Giving, Advice, Body

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