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• As an observer, you can clearly see that Western countries are war-weary and don't want to be pulled into new conflicts. They always proclaim their will to fight for Israel in an emergency. That's good but what if that's not at all true when the time comes?

  Ronald Lauder

  Country, War, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• So what if my face is falling apart? I don't give a damn. Anyway, it gives me character. Everyone thinks that they can stay pretty forever but some come out of Beverly Hills surgeries looking scary to me.

  Robert Redford

  Fall, Character, Thinking

  "Redford slams 'sick Hollywood'" by Patrick Sawer, www.standard.co.uk. January 08, 2002.

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• In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.

  Eric Kripke

  Running, Hero, Thinking

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.

  Tobe Hooper

  Couple, Nice, Years

  Interview with Kate and Laura Mulleavy, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2014.

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• Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Selfish, Positive Life, Casting

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• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. My make-up. My culture and heritage is a very rich one. So what if it's difficult for people to pronounce? We all learned how to say Schwarzenegger.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Character, Who I Am, Names

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

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• What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?

  Colin Mochrie

  Revolution, Hamsters, Ifs

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• The Eleventh Commandment: don't speak ill of a fellow Republican. What if the fellow Republican is doing something that hurts America? Isn't it the patriot who sides with America before he sides with the Republicans?

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, America, Sides

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• So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

  Lou Holtz

  Mean, Obituary, Dies

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• What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it..........but this is how math is taught and so in the eyes of most of us it becomes the equivalent of watching paint dry. While the paintings of the great masters are readily available, the math of the great masters is locked away.

  Edward Frenkel

  Art, School, Eye

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• What if the very reason we have breath is because we have been saved for a global mission? And what if anything less than passionate involvement in global mission is actually selling God short by frustrating the very purpose for which he created us?

  David Platt

  Purpose, Passionate, Reason

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• What if the word of God was enough to inspire passionate worship among his people?

  David Platt

  People, Inspire, Passionate

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• What if a tree fell in the forest and no one knew it's biological name? Did it exist?

  Richard Louv

  Names, Tree, Forests

  Richard Louv (2013). “Last Child in the Woods: Saving our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder”, p.115, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Rust, Affliction

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.18, Ravenio Books

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• It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works.

  Steve Martin

  Ifs And, Ideas, Dollars

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• I worked for dad on the grounds and I was in high school and I said I wanted to go to college, and he said, well, you figure it out. He said I will pay for your college but you're going to go to St. Vincent. St. Vincent College right here. That's about as much as I can afford, you work here, right here at home. I said, what if I can get somewhere else? And he said if I can get there, that's your call.

  Arnold Palmer

  Dad, Home, School

  Source: kellysgolfhistory.blogspot.com

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• I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if..." and it blossoms into a whole novel.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Book, Ifs And

  Source: www.bookclubforum.co.uk

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• It's very easy for me to say that I think everybody should just be treated how they're supposed to be treated and tattoos shouldn't come into play. But what if someone has an offensive throat tattoo that might affect someone's business? I am sure there are a lot of opportunities out there for everybody.

  Nicole Richie

  Tattoo, Opportunity, Thinking

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. July 17, 2014.

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• The problem with prostitutes is, what if you actually like somebody you meet in that situation? Where do you go from there? What do you do?

  Charlie Sheen

  Problem, Situation, Ifs

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• We act like God's only good when the outcome is good. We say, 'We've got a good God because I've got a good job.' But what if I don't have a good job? Does that mean God's not good anymore?

  Max Lucado

  Jobs, Mean, Doe

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• To me, one of the most profound questions we can ask is: "So what?" And so what if there's an indefinite number of worlds with alternate "us-es" in them? The "so what," to me, comes alive when I ask myself: "What if I could find a way to get in touch with those alternate mes who made those choices?" That is, persons who, if I saw them now, I wouldn't even recognize because their choices, once small, have multiplied to make them such different people.

  Richard Bach

  Numbers, People, Profound

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• A writer, or a beginning writer, is faced by the huge walls of self-consciousness. Most people think, "What if I say the wrong thing? What if I don't sound erudite and sophisticated? I'll be considered a fool." In time, with a lot of practice, you realize that's your foolishness is your gift.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Thinking, Self

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• What if life after death is all based within memory: you die, and you don't ascend on a bed of clouds to Jesus, but your brain has a terrain that it can use to propel itself further. It's more of a theoretical afterlife. If that's true, all of these theoretical afterlives of people could potentially interact or network. That space seems way more powerful and exciting than reality. This potential boundlessness is more of what god is to me.

  Blake Butler

  Jesus, Memories, Powerful

  "'We don't realize what we're walking on half the time'". Interview with David Rice, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.

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• I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if I crash into a lake?

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Lakes

  "Dylan Moran: Monster". Documentary, Comedy, 2004.

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• You can't judge a book by its cover, though. People think I'm bad because I got tattoos or snort a little cocaine here and there. They think I'm a killer. But what if I wasn't a killer? Then what? Don't be tripping on me. I pay my damn taxes, OK? Chill.

  Gunplay

  Tattoo, Book, Thinking

  Source: pitchfork.com

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