If I Could Quotes - Page 32

• I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could - only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she's not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Play, Southern, Missing

  "The Saturday interview: Vanessa Redgrave". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• If I could repeat my childhood, I would repeat it exactly as it was, with the poverty, the cold, little food, with the flies and pigs, all that.

  Jose Saramago

  Pigs, Childhood, Littles

  Interview with Edney Silvestre, 2007.

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• If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Looks, Littles, Feels

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb (2016). “Incerto 4-Book Bundle: Fooled by Randomness The Black Swan The Bed of Procrustes Antifragile”, p.97, Random House

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• Other men have said, "If I could only live, I would establish and perpetuate an empire." This Christ of Galilee says, "My death shall do it." Other martyrs have died in simple fidelity to truth. This martyr dies that He may make His truth mighty over all hearts. He was a man; but was He only a man?

  Herrick Johnson

  Heart, Simple, Men

  Herrick Johnson (1881). “Christianity's Challenge: And Some Phases of Christianity Submitted for Candid Consideration”

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• How happy I would be if I could give figurative expression to the unconscious feeling that often murmurs so softly and sweetly within me.

  Paula Modersohn-Becker

  Expression, Giving, Feelings

  Diary entry in 1898. "Painting in the Twentieth Century, an Analysis of the Artists and Their Work". Book by Werner Haftmann, p. 82, 1966.

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• The thing that happened in Washington -- it happened. All you can do is just grow from it. That took a toll on me. That was probably -- I think if I could've bounced mentally out of that situation faster than I did, I would probably still be in the NBA. But since I couldn't understand why they were trying to treat me like that, I basically gave up. I just didn't want to be a part of it anymore.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Thinking, Nba, Trying

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• I would love to love something, especially if I could do it without feeling like I was watching it die right in front of me.

  Vanessa Veselka

  Feelings, Dies, Ifs

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• Gisele Bundchen I always admired. I think she is an example for all models. If I could have just a little bit of her career would already be a happy girl. She seems to be a determined woman, a fighter, very strong. I think she is an icon of Brazilian people. Gisele is a woman who is extremely inspiring, not only in the fashion world, she also does great things for the world.

  Rosie Huntington-Whiteley

  Girl, Fashion, Strong

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• All of nature talks to me - if I could just figure out what it's saying - trees are swinging in the breeze. They're talking to me. Insects are rubbing their legs together. They're all talking. They're talking to me.

  Laurie Anderson

  Talking, Tree, Together

  RoseLee Goldberg, Laurie Anderson (2000). “Laurie Anderson”, Harry N Abrams Incorporated

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• If I could reincarnate as another player, I might want to reincarnate as Thierry Henry at the top of his game.

  Cesc Fabregas

  Player, Games, Want

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• If I could patent 'being real', I think I could own that.

  Tupac Shakur

  Real, Thinking, Patents

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• I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Forever, Triumph

  Maya Angelou (2012). “The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou”, p.13, Modern Library

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• I always shoot at privates. It was they who did the shooting and killing, and if I could kill a wound a private, why, my chances were so much the better. I always looked upon officers as harmless personages.

  Sam Watkins

  War, History, Shooting

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• If I could have my way I would place the Deity on half-pay as the Government of this Country did the subaltern officers.

  George Holyoake

  Country, Government, Atheism

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• My biggest regret was letting my lifetime average drop below .300. I always felt I was a .300 hitter, and if I could change one thing that would be it.

  Mickey Mantle

  Baseball, Regret, Average

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• That's true that I'm "not religious as that term is conventionally understood," though I've never been an atheist. Atheism is an active faith; it says, "I believe there is no God." But I don't know what I believe. I was brought up a Lutheran in Jamestown, North Dakota. I have trouble with faith. I'm not proud of this. I don't think it makes me an intellectual. I would believe if I could, and I may be able to before it's over. I would welcome that.

  Rodney Stark

  Religious, Atheist, Believe

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• I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since the day I called my father and told him I was going to study acting and maybe try to see if I could do well with that, and he told me: "Don't do that. You don't want to do that, that's just dream stuff. Get a legitimate job and move forward."

  Clint Eastwood

  Dream, Jobs, Father

  "Letters From Iwo Jima - Clint Eastwood interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one thing holding me back. I had finally gotten the tools to stay sober, and it was just a matter of writing the songs.

  Macklemore

  Song, Writing, Careers

  "Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Find Clarity". Interview with Dan Buyanovsky, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 9, 2012.

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• If I could just hope to have a major talent, then I would rather have it in music than in any other field.

  Woody Allen

  Fields, Talent, Majors

  Interview with Douglas McGrath, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 1, 2008.

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• People have asked if I would go back to my 20s, and I'm like, "Only if I could hold onto the wisdom and the things that I've learned." But in reality, I don't think I'd want to even go back then. I'm so happy with where I'm at. My life is very content. Everything feels really good. I wouldn't want to change any of that. I'm happy for all the ups and the downs, and everything that has led me to where I am. I wouldn't want to lose any of that.

  Sutton Foster

  Thinking, Reality, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The longer you stay in the job that you do the more you learn about what those around you do. As an actor I've always nosed around apologetically about: "oh wouldn't it be interesting if I could do that?" I can't imagine not wanting to do this everyday.

  Jason Bateman

  Jobs, Interesting, Everyday

  "‘Bad Words’ Set Interview: Jason Bateman Talks Directing". Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. March 6, 2014.

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• If I wasn't in broadcasting I would like to grow a gigantic beard; and I would like to open a motorcycle garage somewhere in the desert in Nevada and I would disappear and work on bikes, make them really fast. I would love to just race motorcycles for a living if I could do it, but I'm just not that good at it so this is what I'm doing.

  George Stroumboulopoulos

  Race, Motorcycle, Desert

  "George Stroumboulopoulos: 'I like having good conversations with people'". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2013.

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• If I could have two things in one: the peace of the grave, and the light of the sun.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Light, Two, Sun

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (1950). “Second April: and, The buck in the snow [and other poems]”

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• If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.

  Alona Tal

  Office, Pages, Matter

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

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• If I could have any power, I think flying would definitely be up there! Along with speaking every language.

  Roxanne McKee

  Thinking, Flying, Language

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