If I Could Quotes - Page 30

• Formula One is definitely what I want to do. I would get back in the car today if I could.

  Scott Dixon

  Car, Want, Today

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• If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

  Tom Daschle

  Giving Up, Common Sense, Wish

  "Daschle: 'Grateful for every moment", www.cnn.com. November 19, 2004.

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• I would think I'd accomplished it all if I could get to play Quasimodo.

  Elias Koteas

  Thinking, Play, Accomplished

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.

  Jennifer Damiano

  Girl, Song, Writing

  "DIVA TALK: Catching Up With Venice Star Jennifer Damiano". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 31, 2013.

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• If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.

  Davis Love III

  Golf, Genius, Ifs

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• If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

  Brady Udall

  Years, Would Be, Seven

  "The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel". Book by Brady Udall, www.npr.org. 2001.

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• I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Labour Movement, Pioneers, Another Life

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• If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Real, Men

  "5-year-old descendant of Davy Crockett kills bear" by Heather Crawford, www.espn.com. October 4, 2010.

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• If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all OK

  Jewel

  Would Be, World, Just One

  Song: Hands, Album: Joy: A Holiday Collection

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• People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Greatness, People

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• If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Tails, Causes

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Space, Agency

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• Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Chinese, Balance

  "Is strict parenting better for children?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Long Ago, Years, Knowing

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• Catch-and-release, that's like running down pedestrians in your car and then, when they get up and limp away, saying -- 'Off you go! That's fine. I just wanted to see if I could hit you.'

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Running, Car, Get Up

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• If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you."

  Antony Sher

  Teenage, Believe, Writing

  "This much I know". Interview with Stuart Husband, www.theguardian.com. May 30, 2009.

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• I'm really bad at describing my books. Journalists like to have things like "It's The Terminator Meets the Seven Dwarfs." And I can't do that with my books. If I could, I probably wouldn't write them.

  Charles de Lint

  Book, Writing, Seven

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• I always feel that there is a curtain, you know, that if I could just peek behind the curtain I'd see how the world really works. And since I haven't had it I have to write about it instead.

  Charles de Lint

  Writing, World, Curtains

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• You know, look, if I could strangle these people and not go to hell and get executed, I would, but I can't.

  Bill O'Reilly

  People, Looks, Hell

  "Countdown with Keith Olbermann", www.nbcnews.com.

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• If I could remake the world, I'd banish women, send them away with all their trouble. Then children would come from a purer source.

  Euripides

  Children, Women, World

  Euripides,, Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro (2011). “The Complete Euripides Volume V: Medea and Other Plays”, p.170, Oxford University Press

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• If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Guitar, Play, Instruments

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt a hundred weaklings - weaker than me, and I was already very weak - I would. I was dying to hurt somebody, to pay it forward.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Hurt, Kids, Hands

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He’s a fantastic talent and the complete footballer, probably the most coveted in the Premiership. It’s a privilege for the rest of us to be on the same field. If i could have anything i wanted for Christmas, i’d take Thierry Henry

  Steve Bruce

  Fields, Privilege, Talent

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• I love any kind of acting, so if I could focus on becoming the best actor I can strictly on my voice, I would love that.

  Jennifer Stone

  Becoming The Best, Voice, Focus

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• What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Hands, Giving, Speech

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 217), 1895.

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