If I Could Quotes - Page 35

• If I could be the "condom queen" and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would weara crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!

  Joycelyn Elders

  Sex, Queens, United States

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• Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.

  Garrett Fort

  Hope, Stars, Lying

  "Fictional character: Henry Frankenstein". "Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. November 21, 1931.

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• I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Giving Up, Memories, Reading

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• I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."

  Eva Mendes

  Heart, Thinking, Eight

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I figured if I could get really good people who were going to be able to have a big impact in the world over the next decade to come together once a year for ten years and actually sign a pledge to take action themselves, if we did that every year for ten years we could do a lot of good in the world. That's the difference between my meeting and any other. If you don't want to promise to do something, don't come to my meeting, stay home.

  William J. Clinton

  Home, Years, Differences

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

  Nick Cave

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• I have scary eyes. I look like the guy in 'American History X,' yes. I remember coming home from school and asking my mum if I could get an eye transplant, and of course she declined.

  Tim Ferriss

  Eye, Home, School

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• If I could explain it to the average person, I wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Average, Nobel, Persons

  Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.342, Princeton University Press

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• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fire, Would Be, World

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• If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Perfect, Dies

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• If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.

  Christopher Meloni

  People, Perfect, Lucky

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• It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Hacking, Bugs, Becoming

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• If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Teenager, Luxury, Would Be

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• In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

  Jack Nicholson

  Crazy, Real, Thinking

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• I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

  Nicole Krauss

  Nice, Would Be, Mouths

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat

  Eduardo Galeano

  Sleep, Eyelids, Stuck

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• If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Brain, Would Be, World

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• Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Joy, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Demitra Papadinis “Renaissance Acting Editions: Much adoe about Nothing [Much Ado About Nothing]”, Demitra Papadinis

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• This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Mistake, Thinking

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.286, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If I could do it all again, I'd be a plumber.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Plumber

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• if i could be assured of your destruction, i would in the interest of the public, cheerfully accept my death.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Destruction, Accepting, Interest

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• If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Jobs, Girl Interrupted, World

  Girl, Interrupted, www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• A beautiful and binding morning The world outside begins to breathe See clouds arriving without warning I need you here to shelter me. If I could make these moments endless If I could stop the winds of change If we just keep our eyes wide open Then everything would stay the same And I know that only time will tell me how We'll carry on without each other So keep me awake for every moment Give us more time to be this way We can't stay like this forever But I can have you next to me today

  Josh Groban

  Beautiful, Morning, Eye

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• If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy.

  Jane Austen

  Heart, Easy, Knows

  Jane Austen (2006). “The Complete Novels: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.242, Penguin

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• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Philosophy, Party, Men

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.410, Cambridge University Press

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