If I Could Quotes - Page 24

• I just wanted a song to sing, and there came a point where I couldn't sing anything...nobo dy else was writing what I wanted to sing. I couldn't find it anywhere. If I could I probably would never have started writing.

  Bob Dylan

  Song, Writing, Wanted

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• When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high enough to beat on it with both hands all my wishes would come true.

  John Dos Passos

  Kids, Moon, Hands

  John Dos Passos (1934). “Three Plays: The Garbage Man, Airways, Inc., Fortune Heights”

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• I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could.

  Jason Bateman

  Salmon, Herbs, Massage

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• If I could make anything disappear, it would be hate.

  Michael Jackson

  Hate, Would Be, Disappear

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• You know obviously a big TV or film break would be lovely, but I find that I’m essentially a theatre trained actor and that’s what I love doing. I love fringe theatres in London, I love theatres like the Royal Court, Soho and the National obviously and if I could work in any of those and be a jobbing actor for a while then I’m very lucky.

  Kit Harington

  Lovely, Theatre, Would Be

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• I don’t know if I’d do an action movie because I don’t know if I could keep a straight face honestly, I just think it’s so silly. Like I love watching them but I can’t imagine me doing one. Actually, you know what I’ve done, just for fun because I didn’t think there was any way that I could be in a superhero movie, so I’ve done a scene in the new “Thor” movie, just for that. I just do like one scene, which was quite fun.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Fun, Silly, Thinking

  "Interview: Chris O’Dowd on Shooting ‘The Sapphires’ in Vietnam and Taking a Role in ‘Thor 2’ for Fun". Interview with Mark Lukenbill, www.indiewire.com. March 19, 2013.

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• All I really want to do is someday be in a western. If I could be on a horse with a rifle, I would be a really happy camper.

  Lily Rabe

  Horse, Rifles, Would Be

  Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have this feeling that if I could sort out what's on my dining room table, everything would fall into place.

  Alan Rickman

  Fall, Feelings, Tables

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• I'd like a pop-up magazine with 45 articles on Russell Crowe. I'm like a teenager. I'd have 'Teen Beat' if I could, for grown-ups.

  Caroline Rhea

  Teenager, Magazines, Beats

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• I am totally, completely, 100% in love with fashion. I would wear Chanel gowns to the grocery store if I could. I'm a huge fan of Chanel and Versace, and I actually have always dreamed of designing my own line one day.

  Ksenia Solo

  Fashion, Design, One Day

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• If I could've made Muhammad Ali smaller I would have fought him.

  Sergio Martinez

  Motivation, Fighter, Muhammad

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• I'm a woman that's living in this world of everybody telling everyone how they should look, and what they should be eating and how people can lose this much weight this fast, and it just kind of overwhelms our senses. If I could just make the tiniest bit of difference in getting rid of that because it is so annoying, I would love that.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Differences, People, Looks

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• If I could take your troubles
  I would toss them into the sea,
  But all these things I'm finding
  Are impossible for me.
  I cannot build a mountain
  Or catch a rainbow fair,
  But let me be what I know best,
  A friend that is always there.

  Khalil Gibran

  Sea, Rainbow, Poetry

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• I went out to some advertising agencies and asked if I could do anything.

  Renny Harlin

  Agency, Advertising, Euthanasia

  Interview with Kenneth Plume, www.ign.com. April 27, 2001.

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• If I could go back in time and see any band, It would be Link Wray and the Raymen.

  Neil Young

  Guitar, Would Be, Band

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• If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.

  Scott Wolf

  Life, Stars, Would Be

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn't love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

  Paul the Apostle

  Love, Angel, Age

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• Here was I worrying about my journey, while God was helping me all the way. It made me realize that I am very weak; my courage is only borrowed from Him, but, oh, the peace that flooded my soul; and although I know that I may be held up at the border , I am at peace within, because I know that He never faileth.

  Gladys Aylward

  Christian, Believe, Journey

  "Gladys Aylward, One of the Undefeated: The Story of Gladys Aylward as Told by Her to R.O. Latham".

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• Out upon merry Christmas! What's Christmas time to you but a time for paying bills without money; a time for finding yourself a year older, but not an hour richer...? If I could work my will," said Scrooge indignantly, "every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' upon his lips should be boiled with his won pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Christmas, Heart

  "A Christmas Carol". Book by Charles Dickens, 1843.

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• Ah, if I could only pray the way that dog looks at meat.

  Martin Luther

  Dog, Meat, Looks

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• I'd be a billionaire if I could get a dollar for all the bullsh*t that I hear a day.

  Big Sean

  Dollars, Billionaire, Ifs

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• If I could be anyone, it would be Brad Pitt.

  David Fincher

  Would Be, Brad, Ifs

  "Directing is masochism" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2002.

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• I'm not ready to be that guy who can meet with world leaders and all that. It's tremendous what Bono does. I don't know if I could do it, not the way he does. I don't think many people could.

  Eddie Vedder

  Thinking, People, Guy

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• There's still a lot I'm angry about, a lot of human behaviour that's appalling and despicable, but you choose what you can fight against. I always thought if I could just put something in words perfectly enough, people would get the idea and it would change things.

  Neil Peart

  Fighting, Ideas, People

  "Q and A with Neil Peart of Rush". Interview with Mike Doherty, www.macleans.ca. August 13, 2012.

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• I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the magic when you read or hear something wonderful - there's no one that has all the answers.

  Regina Spektor

  Hate, Magic, Answers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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