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• Well, yes. I believe that children's souls are the inheritors of historical memory from previous generations. It's just that as they grow older and experience the everyday world that memory sinks lower and lower. I feel I need to make a film that reaches down to that level. If I could do that I would die happy.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Children, Memories, Believe

  "A god among animators" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2005.

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• If I could put one word on my journey over the last couple of years it would definitely be ‘turbulent’.

  Karise Eden

  Couple, Journey, Years

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• If I could prescribe only one remedy for all the ills of the modern world, I would prescribe silence.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Silence, World, Modern

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• The pressure began to mount as I kept winning every time and people were anxious to see if I could be beaten.

  Jahangir Khan

  Winning, People, Pressure

  "England happy to wait until they can step out from All Blacks' shadow" by Andy Bull, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2017.

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• I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could write a book like that.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Bible, Book, Writing

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• If I could have only one of my senses then I would choose hearing, Then I wouldn't feel so all alone.

  Helen Keller

  Hearing, All Alone, Feels

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• To truly live without regrets, pay attention. Ask yourself hard questions and see where they lead. Do I really want this job? Is this relationship right for me? If I could do anything, would it be what I'm doing today ... or something different?

  Chris Guillebeau

  Jobs, Regret, Different

  Chris Guillebeau (2014). “The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life”, p.68, Harmony

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• I don't think I could be a foot soldier. I don't know if I could take orders too good. I'm a little lazy.

  Benicio Del Toro

  Thinking, Order, Feet

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• I should like, if I could, to leave a humble gift -- a bit of chaste prose that had caught up some noble moods.

  Max Ehrmann

  Humble, Noble, Mood

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: Words for Life”, p.45, Scholastic Inc.

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• My goal was livelihood. We don't use that word often enough. If I could give one piece of advice to anyone it's don't obsess with this notion that you have to turn everything you do into a business, because that ends up being a small version of a large company. But if you can create an honorable livelihood, where you take your skills and use them and you earn a living from it, it gives you a sense of freedom and allows you to balance your life the way you want.

  Anita Roddick

  Skills, Giving, Goal

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• If I could ever be on a Missy Elliott record, I could then die. Missy Elliott, Mary J. Blige - I love hearing them interviewed, I love the way they talk about their art. They're very self-assured, they're funny, they're inviting. I love it.

  Neko Case

  Art, Self, Records

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• I believe that one of the saddest things in the world today is that some people don't have enough food to nourish themselves. It's the 21st century and that's really not acceptable, so if I could do something that would change that I would be really happy.

  Izabel Goulart

  Believe, People, Would Be

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• If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them.

  Elif Batuman

  Thinking, Starting Over, Answers

  Elif Batuman (2010). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.290, Macmillan

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• I was bullied by a few people who were much older than me. I went to camp to learn boxing. I was 12, and my coach was 24. I felt like if I could fight him, I could stand up to anyone.

  Liam Payne

  Fighting, People, Boxing

  "One Direction Exclusive Interview". www.seventeen.com. October 10, 2012.

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• If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

  Nile Rodgers

  Cities, Venice, Turns

  "On my radar: Nile Rodgers". Interview with Ellie Bothwell, www.theguardian.com. July 6, 2013.

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• If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.

  Alice Walker

  Stars, Writing, Moon

  Alice Walker (2013). “The World Has Changed: Conversations with Alice Walker”, p.85, The New Press

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• The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other...

  C. S. Lewis

  Beautiful, Sight, Ideas

  C. S. Lewis (1980). “Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I know exactly what I want. Everything. Calm, peace, tranquility, freedom, fun, happiness. If I could make all that one word, I would - a many-syllabled word.

  Johnny Depp

  Happiness, Peace, Fun

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• If I could go back and give myself advice, it would be to embrace failure.

  Mary Sue Milliken

  Giving, Advice, Would Be

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• If I could go back in time and tell my younger self that eventually that I'd become very successful writing Dune books after Frank Herbert's death, I would have laughed myself silly, I think, at how strange that prospect would be.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Silly, Book, Writing

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• I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the very air. It seems as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south winds calls into being.

  Richard Jefferies

  Song, Healing, Sunshine

  Richard Jefferies (1884). “The Life of the Fields”

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• In my relations with my father, which are difficult and where I'm often met by coolness and indifference, I am constantly tempted to be cold and indifferent. Yet I know that this is a test if I could take it rightly.

  Evelyn Underhill

  Father, Tests, Cold

  Evelyn Underhill (2011). “Fragments from an Inner Life: The Notebooks of Evelyn Underhill”, p.94, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If I could have made the change sooner I daresay I should never have given a thought to the literary delights of Paris or London; for life in the country is the only state which has always completely satisfied me, and I had never been allowed to gratify it, even for a few weeks at a time. Now I was to know the joys of six or seven months a year among fields and woods of my own, and the childish ecstasy of that first spring outing at Mamaroneck swept away all restlessness in the deep joy of communion with the earth.

  Edith Wharton

  Country, Spring, Years

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• Go! you may call it madness, folly; You shall not chase my gloom away! There 's such a charm in melancholy I would not if I could be gay.

  Samuel Rogers

  Gay, May, Madness

  'To - , 1814'

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• Scotty heard that I was thinking about quitting Apple because of his actions, so he called me into his office and asked what it would take for me to stay? I said, maybe if I could work on the Mac project, which Steve had just taken over from Jef Raskin.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Taken, Thinking, Apples

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