Should I Quotes - Page 2

• Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

  Lou Reed

  New York, Writing, Careers

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• I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.

  Nancy Reagan

  Believe, Abortion, Want

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• I do not think I responded immediately, for it took me a moment or two to fully digest these words of Miss Kenton. Moreover, as you might appreciate, their implications were such as to provoke a certain degree of sorrow within me. Indeed- why should I not admit it? - at that moment, my heart was breaking.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Broken Heart, Thinking, Two

  Kazuo Ishiguro (2009). “The Remains of the Day”, p.176, Faber & Faber

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• Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Cities, Choices, Firsts

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• You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.

  Ted Dekker

  Believe, Ocean, Men

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• I've had some movies that have been ridiculed, but that's OK with me. I don't feel that really defines me. Should I change who I am to be popular?

  Kevin Costner

  Movie, Halloween, Who I Am

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• But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

  Christopher Columbus

  Gold, Purpose, Spices

  Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas (1827). “Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of Columbus to America: From a Manuscript Recently Discovered in Spain”, p.54

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• You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.

  Benjamin Carson

  People, Giving, Important

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• If I have stepped on some people at times because I am at the top, it couldn't be helped. What should I do if someone gets hurt... retire?

  Maria Callas

  Hurt, People, Should

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• Why I came here, I know not; where I shall go it is useless to inquire - in the midst of myriads of the living and the dead worlds, stars, systems, infinity, why should I be anxious about an atom?

  Lord Byron

  Stars, Atoms, Useless

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• I wear Spanx to smooth things out. I read that Jessica Alba wears them and if she wears them, then so should I.

  Amanda Bynes

  Smooth, Should, Spanx

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• Every single second of every single day... I don't know if I feel like a bad mom, but at the end of the day I'm always plagued with, 'Did I do enough? Should I go in a different direction?'

  Sandra Bullock

  Mom, The End Of The Day, Different

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• I guess I felt attached to my weakness. My pain and suffering too. Summer light, the smell of a breeze, the sound of cicadas - if I like these things, why should I apologize?

  Haruki Murakami

  Summer, Pain, Light

  "A Wild Sheep Chase". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1982.

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• Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do. So let's make our steps clear so the other may see. And I'll wait for you...should I fall behind wait for me.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Dream, Fall, Waiting

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• All these non-singing, non-dancing, wish-I-had-me-some-clothes fools who tell me my albums suck. Why should I pay any attention to them?

  Prince

  Clothes, Dancing, Singing

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• The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

  Pablo Picasso

  Music, Art, World

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• Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.

  Sam Peckinpah

  Giving, Interviews, Should

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• People have tried to corner the market on being offended, corner the market on language and corner the market on opinion. Should I lose my job 'cause I offended somebody? No, of course not. Your life should never be affected by public opinion.

  Patrice O'Neal

  Jobs, People, Public Opinion

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• I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine.

  Spike Milligan

  Reading, Should, Sonnet

  "Spike Milligan with Jeremy Taylor Live at Cambridge University", December 2, 1973.

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• Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?

  Groucho Marx

  Funny, Crazy, Silly

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

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• You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

  David Mamet

  Choices, Use, Actors

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• Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid.

  T. S. Eliot

  Greatness, Ice, Cake

  "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" l. 84 (1917)

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• Thou art my father, thou my author, thou my being gav'st me; whom should I obey but thee, whom follow?

  John Milton

  Art, Father, Should

  John Milton, Raymond de Verninac de Saint Maur, Elijah Fenton (1784). “Paradise lost: a poem in twelve books”, p.73

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  Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?

  Albert Camus

  Suicide, Coffee, Optimistic

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• Especially in music, you wonder, Okay, should I still be doing this? Like, are you overstaying your welcome at the party? But I don't know.

  Beck

  Party, Welcome, Wonder

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