Ifs Quotes - Page 9

• I like intensity. If it's too mellow, I feel like, bleah. I like intensity, because it's way of reaching spaces inside of you, and it's my need of knowledge, of knowing about myself regardless.

  Juliette Binoche

  Knowing, Space, Needs

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• Animation is about creating the illusion of life. And you can't create it if you don't have one.

  Brad Bird

  Creating, Illusion, Animation

  "The 77th Annual Academy Awards". Music, www.imdb.com. 2005.

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  I've got a theory that if you give 100% all of the time, somehow things will work out in the end.

  Larry Bird

  Motivational, Basketball, Sports

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• If there was a payment to the bank due, and we needed shoes, she'd get the shoes, and then deal with them guys at the bank. I don't mean she wouldn't pay the bank, but the children always came first.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Children, Mean

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• I do try and wear stuff by unknown designers, and I make sure I pay because if nothing else I have money.

  Bjork

  Trying, Pay, Stuff

  "Maybe I'll be a feminist in my old age" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2005.

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• I feel that I'm at my best as a person and that I'm coming home when I walk on to a set, or on to a stage, so if I can perform in one way or another I think I'll be okay.

  Claudia Black

  Home, Thinking, Way

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• The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption.

  Conrad Black

  Country, Israel, Numbers

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• If you're working out in front of a mirror and watching your muscles grow, your ego has reached a point where it is now eating itself. That's why I believe there should be a psychiatrist at every health club, so that when they see you doing this, they will take you away for a little chat.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Health

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• If the people of New Zealand want to be part of our world, I believe they should hop off their islands, and push 'em closer.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Believe, Humor

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• If we're not going to tax the rich anymore, we're going to create class warfare.

  Lewis Black

  Class, Warfare, Rich

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• If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

  Lewis Black

  Book, Government, Why Not

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• You don't want another Enron? Here's your law: If a company, can't explain, in one sentence, what it does... it's illegal.

  Lewis Black

  Law, Doe, Want

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• One of the most important things, especially when you're leaving school, is to realize you're going to be dealing with a lot of idiots. And a lot of those idiots are in charge of things, so if you're in an interview and you really want to tell the person off, don't do it.

  Lewis Black

  School, Leaving, Important

  "Lewis Black's Life Advice for Millennials" by Gwynne Watkins, www.gq.com. August 22, 2013.

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• I do the same gig. I might change it a little; I might slow it down if I'm in the South. I talk fast, and they're not used to people talking that fast.

  Lewis Black

  Talking, People, Littles

  Interview with Amelie Gillette, tv.avclub.com. June 7, 2006.

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• I like indoor Christmas trees. And I like people who decorate their homes with lights and all that crap. I think it's a healthy outlet for them. If they weren't covering their lawns with twinkling lights, they'd be doing something that was really, really creepy.

  Lewis Black

  Home, Thinking, Light

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• The thing that makes my generation The Greatest is our ability to hang out. We're spectacular at it. If you take somebody from my generation and sit them on a couch and bring them food and plumbing, they'll sit there and talk to you about anything you want until the day you die.

  Lewis Black

  Generations, Want, Couches

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• What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things through a sequester. What does that word have to do with budgeting? It's like if you have a family budget and go, 'We really don't know what to take out economically from the budget, so we're going to whack out protein for this week.'

  Lewis Black

  Adults, Doe, Budgeting

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• I can turn on some jazz guitarist, and he won't do a thing for me, if he's not playing electrically. But Jeff Beck's great to listen to.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Guitar, Jazz, Turns

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• I'm very moved by Renaissance music, but I still love to play hard rock - though only if it's sophisticated and has some thought behind it.

  Ritchie Blackmore

  Rocks, Play Hard, Renaissance

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• If I look back I feel frightened, not happy, because my life is a bit of a mystery to me.

  Manolo Blahnik

  Looks, Mystery, Life Is

  "Manolo Blahnik: 'There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes'" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. November 20, 2012.

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• My mother encouraged it so much. She was so supportive. Even if as a kid, I would do the dumbest trick, which now that I look back on some things, she would love it, she would say that's amazing, or if I'd make the ugliest drawing, she would hang it up. She was amazing.

  David Blaine

  Mother, Kids, Drawing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Conflict is not inevitable, but disarmament is... everyone now accepts that if there is a default by Saddam the international community must act to enforce its will.

  Tony Blair

  Community, Conflict, Accepting

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• The threat today is not that of the 1930s. It's not big powers going to war with each other. The ravages which fundamentalist political ideology inflicted on the 20th century are memories. The Cold war is over. Europe is at peace, if not always diplomatically.

  Tony Blair

  Memories, War, Europe

  Tony Blair (2004). “Tony Blair in His Own Words”, Politicos Pub

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• I have this system where if I buy three or four new things, I give away three or four things. Sometimes, it's a very painful system, but shopping is even better when you know that someone else who needs it will be getting. Keep the clothing karma going, I say.

  Sara Blakely

  Karma, Shopping, Giving

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• What I most identify with is effortless fashion, looking as if someone's not put a lot of effort into their look.

  Sara Blakely

  Fashion, Effort, Looks

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