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• What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Children, School, Kids

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

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• You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught.

  Ray Bradbury

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?

  Ronald Reagan

  Fighting, Differences, Space

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1990). “Ronald Reagan”

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• What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? / Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.

  Carl Sandburg

  War, Forever, Bells

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• So what’s the use of repentance, and what do you care for goodness, and what if you should die in a quake, so who the hell cares? So I walked downtown, so these were the high buildings, so let the earthquake come, let it bury me and my sins, so who the hell cares? No good to God or man, die one way or another, a quake or a hanging, it didn’t matter why or when or how.

  John Fante

  Men, Earthquakes, Use

  John Fante (2014). “The Bandini Quartet: Wait Until Spring, Bandini: The Road to Los Angeles: Ask the Dust: Dreams from Bunker Hill”, p.530, Canongate Books

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• But what if Shakespeare― and Hamlet― were asking the wrong question? What if the real question is not whether to be, but how to be?

  Gayle Forman

  Life, Real, Asking

  FaceBook post by Gayle Forman from Mar 14, 2016

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• What if we could stop being different colors, different backgrounds, and just be in love?

  E. Lockhart

  Color, Being Different, Backgrounds

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.203, Delacorte Press

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• The letter from Dan Gilbert, the booing of the Cleveland fans, the jerseys being burned -- seeing all that was hard for them. My emotions were more mixed. It was easy to say, 'OK, I don't want to deal with these people ever again.' But then you think about the other side. What if I were a kid who looked up to an athlete, and that athlete made me want to do better in my own life, and then he left? How would I react? I've met with Dan, face-to-face, man-to-man. We've talked it out. Everybody makes mistakes. I've made mistakes as well. Who am I to hold a grudge?

  LeBron James

  Mistake, Athlete, Kids

  "LeBron James leaves Miami Heat to rejoin Cleveland Cavaliers" by Martin Pengelly, www.theguardian.com. July 11, 2014.

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• What if I told you insane was working fifty hours a week in some office for fifty years at the end of which they tell you to p*ss off; ending up in some retirement village hoping to die before suffering the indignity of trying to make it to the toilet on time? Wouldn't you consider that to be insane?

  Steve Buscemi

  Retirement, Years, Office

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• There seems to be something in the zeitgeist, and maybe it's a function of - I'm no analyst, nor am I a psychologist - when you look at things and say, What if I could go back and change things? I think we live in a world right now where people are asking those questions a lot. What if we could go back and change what we did? How would we change the way we handled things in the Middle East, and how would we change things with the banking industry, and how would we change economic and educational issues?

  Mark Gordon

  Educational, Thinking, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• The minute you hear subsidies, I don't care what, if it's health care, buying cars, the minute you hear subsidies, you have to understand, whatever's going on here, it isn't market forces.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Car, Care, Health Care

  Source: origin-www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• No one from the intelligence community, anyplace else ever came in and said, ‘What if Saddam is doing all this deception because he actually got rid of the WMD and he doesn't want the Iranians to know?' Now somebody should have asked that question. I should have asked that question. Nobody did. Turns out that was the most important question in terms of the intelligence failure that never got asked.

  Stephen Hadley

  Wmd, Should Have, Community

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• What if Woody Allen called me and said, I'm working on this movie and there's a really divine role for you. We want exactly you! It would be such a fantasy. Forget it! My idol, Woody Allen!

  Isaac Mizrahi

  Idols, Would Be, Roles

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• I don't wanna go throught the motions
  I don't wanna go one more day
  Without your all-consuming
  Passion inside of me
  I don't wanna spend my whole life asking
  What if I had given everything?
  Instead of going through the motions.

  Matthew West

  Passion, Asking, Given

  Matthew West, Angela Thomas (2011). “The Story of Your Life”, p.174, Harvest House Publishers

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• What if my greatest disappointments, or the aching of this life, is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can't satisfy?

  Laura Story

  Disappointment, World, Life Is

  Laura Story (2012). “What If Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops: A 30 Day Devotional”, p.12, Worthy Publishing

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• What if trials of this life, the rain, the storms, the hardest nights, are Your mercies in disguise?

  Laura Story

  Rain, Night, Storm

  Laura Story (2012). “What If Your Blessings Come Through Raindrops: A 30 Day Devotional”, p.12, Worthy Publishing

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• What if I don’t like adventure?
  Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.

  Wally Lamb

  Adventure, Taste, Chance

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• We see a world of abundance, not limits. In the midst of a great deal of talk about reducing the human ecological footprint, we offer a different vision. What if humans designed products and systems that celebrate an abundance of human creativity, culture, and productivity? That are so intelligent and safe, our species leaves an ecological footprint to delight in, not lament?

  William McDonough

  Creativity, Intelligent, Vision

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• Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

  Elin Hilderbrand

  Life, Regret, Done

  Elin Hilderbrand (2014). “The Matchmaker”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• Do goofy stories make people nice? What if, in their goofiness, these stories somehow inspire that in the right way. Is that a social good?

  Matt Stone

  Nice, People, Inspire

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

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• Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission?

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Dream, Earth, Invisible

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• What if your husband’s faults are God’s tools to shape you? What if the very thing that most bugs you about your man constitutes God’s plan to teach you something new? Are you willing to accept that your marriage makeover — the process of moving a man — might begin with you?

  Gary L. Thomas

  Husband, Moving, Men

  Gary L. Thomas (2009). “Sacred Influence: How God Uses Wives to Shape the Souls of Their Husbands”, p.28, Zondervan

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• There is a particular danger with a war that God commands. What if God should lose?

  Garry Wills

  War, Danger, Should

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• Do it no matter what. If you believe in it, it is something very honorable. If somebody around you or your family does not understand it, then that's their problem. But if you do have a passion, an honest passion, just do it.

  Mario Andretti

  Honesty, Motivation, Believe

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

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  One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again?

  Rachel Carson

  Motivational, Change, Gratitude

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.24, Open Road Media

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