Would Be Quotes - Page 17

• I read that MTV's Real World got 40,000 applications. That's amazing, such an even number. You would have thought it would be 40,008.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Real, Humor

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• If a drink was ice cold, it would be impossible to drink. Because it would be solid. Here's a drink, Mitch - it's ice cold. I guess I could lick it.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Ice

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• That would be cool if the earth's crust was made out of graham cracker. It would disappear just like the ozone layer, but for completely different reasons.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Ozone

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• I am wearing a vest. If I had no arms, it would be a jacket.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Arms

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• I would not want to be a mobile home repo man. Those would be hard to sneak away - "Knock knock - Hi, would you go cut your grass and look that way for a half an hour?"

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Home, Humor

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• If you had a friend who was a tightrope walker, and you were walking down a sidewalk, and he fell, that would be completely unacceptable.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Walkers

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• If Rose's streak was still intact, with that single to left, the fans would be throwing babies out of the upper deck.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Baby

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• If drumsticks are for playing drums, you would think that breadsticks would be for playing bread, wouldn't you? "Would you like some breadsticks?" "No, thank you, I don't play bread. I play drums. Perhaps I'll have a drum roll."

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  George Carlin (1998). “Brain Droppings”, Hyperion

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• If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.

  Lauryn Hill

  People, Facts, Sound

  "Queen of Hip Hop". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 18, 2000.

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• My mother has all my awards, because if I walked downstairs every day and saw all my achievements it would be so easy to become complacent.

  Lauryn Hill

  Mother, Awards, Achievement

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• I was very pleased to get a Supreme Court justice suggesting a column, so I went and did a column about Beano. I went with my wife and another guy to a Mexican restaurant, which we thought would be the ultimate test for an antiflatulance product. There's a reason most of Mexico is located out of doors. And it worked. Several newspapers refused to run that column. But they did run advertisements for Beano.

  Dave Barry

  Running, Doors, Justice

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• I really feel that's part of why audiences go to movies now is to take you to a world you have no access to, whether it's the world of Avengers or Middle-earth or bars in Boston you would be afraid to go into. You see characters there - they aren't hobbits but they're close.

  Ben Affleck

  Character, Boston, Bars

  "The Hollywood Education of Ben Affleck, from ‘Chasing Amy,’ ‘Armageddon’ and ‘Shakespeare’ to his Second Act and ‘Argo’". Interview with Leonard Maltin, www.indiewire.com. February 13, 2013.

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• And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Forgiveness, Heart, Sorrow

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.67, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I can honestly say and swear on my patch that I have never in my life hurt anybody that I really didn't feel had it coming, because they was either trying to hurt me or my friends. If everybody was like that it [life] would be real different.

  Sonny Barger

  Hurt, Real, Trying

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• The part of the brain that is watching the television and is on the computer at the same time, preparing to jump onto the treadmill for 15 minutes, might be able to lead into sex, but it would be hard put to lead us to romance, or to real authentic human connection.

  Marianne Williamson

  Sex, Real, Romance

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• TV is a huge draw. It's a magnet. Even when I was a policeman, if I was on a police scene and the news showed up, I'd race home to see if I would be on TV for 2 seconds!

  Jerry Springer

  Home, Race, Police

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• I don't think the soul is immortal, or at least not immortal in individuals, but it may be immortal as an aspect of the human personality because when I talk about what literature nourishes, it would be silly of me or reductionist to say that it nourishes the brain.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Silly, Thinking, Personality

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories.

  Ray Bradbury

  Stories, Kind, Influence

  Ray Bradbury, Steven L. Aggelis (2004). “Conversations with Ray Bradbury”, p.181, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I was not a natural beauty, and I always wanted to be pretty. I just have such an outgoing personality that it's fitting that I would be overdone.

  Dolly Parton

  Personality, Natural, Fitting

  "Dolly Parton: The Southern Living Interview". Interview with Jennifer V. Cole, www.southernliving.com.

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• There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Past, Google, Interviews

  Source: wwd.com

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• I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so in a female "way." My biggest advice would be to trust yourself.

  Danae Elon

  Character, Advice, Female

  "TIFF 2015 Women Directors: Meet Danae Elon – ‘P.S. Jerusalem’". Interview with Freja Dam, www.indiewire.com. September 11, 2015.

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• If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Anarchy, Aggression, Meetings

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• If I thought it was my identity to be a spiritual teacher, that would be a delusion. It's not an identity. It's simply a function in this world.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Teacher, Identity

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• When you continuously know and sense yourself as the space of consciousness rather than what appears in consciousness - sense perceptions, thoughts, emotions - then it can be said that you are enlightened... except that you wouldn't think or speak of yourself as 'enlightened', because that would instantly create another mind-based conceptual identity and so it would be the end of 'your' enlightenment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Space, Perception

  "Where Are You Now? An Interview with Eckhart Tolle". Interview with Stephen Gawtry, www.watkinsmagazine.com. November 4, 2014.

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• Music came as the best thing for me at home, where no one can tell you anything. For years I was so closed, wanting to do it exactly like I had it in my head, because this would be the only place that was superpersonal.

  Lou Doillon

  Home, Years, Best Things

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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