If I Could Quotes - Page 14

• I love being a dad. I'd have more kids if I could. I'd take a couple more, one or two more before I croak.

  Richie Sambora

  Couple, Dad, Kids

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• If I could put my finger on it, I'd bottle it and sell it. I came down here originally in 1972 with some drunken fraternity guys and had never seen anything like it - the climate, the smells. It's the cradle of music; it just flipped me. Someone suggested that there's an incomplete part of our chromosomes that gets repaired or found when we hit New Orleans. Some of us just belong here.

  John Goodman

  New Orleans, Smell, Guy

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• I'm not allowed to be as liberal as I would like to be, you know? I'd do a lot more damage if I could!

  Cee Lo Green

  Damage, Be You, Knows

  "Cee Lo Green: 'I'd do a lot more damage if I could'" by Angus Batey, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2010.

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• If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Cat, Yelling, Years

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. August 15, 2001.

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• I think that the whole idea of ‘no regrets’ was always a silly idea to me, because of course I regret all the places I went wrong, but that’s what creating anything, and being human, is all about. Of course if I could go back and knew what I know now, I absolutely would do it differently, I’d do it the right way, but part of being human is that we can’t go back, we can only hope that if we come across that moment again, we’ll do it the right way.

  Jesse Lacey

  Regret, Silly, Thinking

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• Smoking is the great romance of my lifetime. If I could find someone I wanted forty-five times a day, perhaps I could stop.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Smoking, Romance, Lifetime

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• There are things I have wanted so long that I would only consent to have them if I could keep wanting them.

  Robert Breault

  Philosophical, Long, Consent

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• I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.

  Ralph Abernathy

  Kings, Taken, Bullets

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• If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  History, Dinner, Restaurants

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• The wisest people are the clowns, like Harpo Marx, who would not speak. If I could have anything I want I would like God to listen to what Harpo was not saying, and understand why Harpo would not talk.

  Philip K. Dick

  Wisdom, People, Want

  Philip K. Dick (2007). “Vintage PKD”, p.126, Vintage

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• I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.

  Patricia Briggs

  School, Night, Long

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• Actually, if I could deliberately sit down and write a pop hit, all my songs would be pop hits! Let's put it this way. I play what I like to hear. And sometimes I like to hear something poppy, and sometimes I don't.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Song, Writing, Play

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• Young man, if I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.

  Enrico Fermi

  Science, Men, Names

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• If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

  Graham Parker

  Smoking, Ifs, Smoke

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• If I could start with anybody, I would initially draft Tom Brady. Then I would go get Ray Lewis, and then maybe an offensive lineman, or somebody like Adrian Peterson.

  Barry Sanders

  Rays, Offensive, Lineman

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• If I could embed a locator chip in my child right now, I know I would do that. Some people call that Big Brother; I call it being a father.

  Scott McNealy

  Brother, Children, Father

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• I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.

  Forest Whitaker

  Years, Careers, Trying

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• If I could still play, I would be trying. It's been 15 years.

  Joe Montana

  Years, Play, Trying

  "Joe Montana finds empty nest in San Francisco". Interview with Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. July 6, 2010.

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• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Kings, Crazy, Adventure

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• If I could read it, I could play it.

  Nat King Cole

  Play, Ifs

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• It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

  Roger Maris

  Zinc, Uranium Mining, More Money

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• There are interesting forms of difficulty, and there are unprofitable forms of difficulty. I mean, I enjoy some difficult poetry, but some of it is impenetrable and I actually wouldn't want to penetrate it if I could, perhaps.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Interesting, Want

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• Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.

  Victoria Jackson

  Christian, Fun, Successful

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• I would sleep 12 hours a day if I could.

  Ken Baumann

  Sleep, Hours, Ifs

  "Secret Life's Ken Baumann Answers Our 17 Questions". www.seventeen.com. March 23, 2012.

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• If I could create one job in the private sector by helping to grow a business, that would be one more than Congress has created in the last six months.

  Evan Bayh

  Jobs, Would Be, Six Months

  "Bayh: No Chance I'll Switch Parties" by David Morgan, www.cbsnews.com. February 16, 2010.

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