If I Could Quotes - Page 29

• I've always done what I thought was good if I could live on what they were offering-and sometimes if I couldn't. So even when I was broke, my career didn't lack for interest.

  Sam Waterston

  Careers, Offering, Done

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• All the best sands of my life are somehow getting into the wrong end of the hourglass. If I could only reverse it! Were it in my power to do sowould I?

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Sand, Ends, All The Best

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1970). “The Works of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Ponkapog papers. A sea turn, and other matters”

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• I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Writing, Opportunity, Class

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• I love 'Harry Potter.' I'm a huge nerd - I would dress up if I could.

  Veronica Roth

  Nerd, Dresses, Potters

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• A mate owned a Bryan Robson top. We were kicking about, and I asked if I could be Robbo for a while. My dad looked out and went ballistic. He wasn’t having his kid dragging the Gerrard name through the gutter. I thought we’d have to move!

  Steven Gerrard

  Dad, Moving, Kids

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• I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.

  Harry Styles

  Writing, Stuff, Would Be

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• If I could just touch the hem of His garment
  I know I'll be made whole

  Sam Cooke

  Hem, Garments, Made

  Song: Touch the Hem of His Garment, 2003

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• If I could keep a single moment for all time, that would be the one. I became the very air; I was full of stars.

  Rachel Hartman

  Stars, Single Mom, Air

  Rachel Hartman (2012). “Seraphina”, p.363, Random House

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• Actually, if I could find a woman who was that wonderful; that understanding, well, I'd give her everything in the world that was in my power to give. And, I'd love her more than I ever thought it possible to love any woman.

  James MacArthur

  Giving, Understanding, World

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• I think I'll be fine in New York. If I could stay here and just get jobs in New York, that would be fine and that's what I'd want to do. I don't want to move.

  Jason Mewes

  Jobs, New York, Moving

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I learned that if I could read, I could cook. I surprised myself I like it.

  Pat Conroy

  Cooks, Ifs

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.239, Open Road Media

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• I'm sitting in the bleachers, watching longingly as all the boys and umbumped girls in my Personal Health and Fitness class play Muggle Quidditch. I don't even like the game very much, I think it's silly, but I so miss physical activity that I'd be thrilled if I could run around the gymnasium with a broom between my legs, chasing after the human snitch wearing a gold pinny.

  Megan McCafferty

  Girl, Running, Silly

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• I'm remixing an R.E.M. track called 'I've Been High' from their last album, 'Reveal.' It's a beautiful song, but record execs didn't put it out as a single because it didn't sound like the R.E.M. we're used to. So I asked Michael Stipe if I could have the tapes to do a remix, and he agreed.

  Lukas Haas

  Beautiful, Song, Track

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I seldom ever missed a Gary Cooper picture if I could manage to see it.

  Clint Walker

  Ifs, Gary, Manage

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• As the chief speaker at the dedication of the national cemetery at the Gettysburg Battlefield, statesman Edward Everett wrote to Lincoln: I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion in two hours as you did in two minutes.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Dedication, Ideas, Two

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• If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.

  Bret Stephens

  Benefits, Super Bowl, Hindsight

  Source: www.wsj.com

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• I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

  Jemaine Clement

  Thinking, Cities, Would Be

  "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.

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• If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.

  Agnes Denes

  Flower, Littles, Bees

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.

  Julianna Margulies

  Years, Actors, Lovers

  Source: variety.com

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• If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

  Woody Allen

  Uncles, Sea, Miracle

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• If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Children, Taken

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• Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

  Claude Monet

  Relaxation, Suffering, Would Be

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• So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

  Catherine Marshall

  Success, Compassion, Understanding

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• If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Men, Tragedy, Would Be

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• I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

  Terry McMillan

  Men, Would Be, Kind

  Terry McMillan (2006). “Waiting to Exhale”, p.40, Penguin

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