If I Could Quotes - Page 18

• If, in 2008, I could have not been in equities, I wouldn't have been in equities. If I could have not bet on the Seahawks in the Super Bowl, I wouldn't have bet on the Seahawks. Life and statesmanship are not lived with the benefit of hindsight.

  Bret Stephens

  Benefits, Super Bowl, Hindsight

  Source: www.wsj.com

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• I think that would be great, if I could be in a city and wasn't even allowed to work.

  Jemaine Clement

  Thinking, Cities, Would Be

  "'Conchords': HBO's new 'mascots' for New Zealand". Interview with Christine Fenno, ew.com. June 14, 2007.

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• If I could relive my life, what I would do is work with scientists. But not one scientist, because they're locked into their little specializations. I'd go from scientist to scientist to scientist, like a bee goes from flower to flower.

  Agnes Denes

  Flower, Littles, Bees

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You hear about actors who were doing five years on a series as lovers and actually hated each other. I don't know if I could pull it off.

  Julianna Margulies

  Years, Actors, Lovers

  Source: variety.com

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• If I could only see one miracle, just one miracle. Like a burning bush, or the seas part, or my uncle Sasha pick up a check.

  Woody Allen

  Uncles, Sea, Miracle

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• If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.

  Lee Trevino

  Sports, Children, Taken

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• Work is nearly always a torture. If I could find something else I would be much happier, because I could use this other interest as a form of relaxation. Now I cannot relax.

  Claude Monet

  Relaxation, Suffering, Would Be

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• So once I shut down my privilege of disliking anyone I choose and holding myself aloof if I could manage it, greater understanding, growing compassion came to me.

  Catherine Marshall

  Success, Compassion, Understanding

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• If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Men, Tragedy, Would Be

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• I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.

  Terry McMillan

  Men, Would Be, Kind

  Terry McMillan (2006). “Waiting to Exhale”, p.40, Penguin

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• Formula One is definitely what I want to do. I would get back in the car today if I could.

  Scott Dixon

  Car, Want, Today

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• If I could leave this body with one wish, it would be that we never give up that search for common ground, .. The politics of common ground will not be found on the far right, or on the far left. That is not where most Americans live. We will only find it on the firm middle ground, based on common sense and shared values.

  Tom Daschle

  Giving Up, Common Sense, Wish

  "Daschle: 'Grateful for every moment", www.cnn.com. November 19, 2004.

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• I would think I'd accomplished it all if I could get to play Quasimodo.

  Elias Koteas

  Thinking, Play, Accomplished

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.

  Jennifer Damiano

  Girl, Song, Writing

  "DIVA TALK: Catching Up With Venice Star Jennifer Damiano". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. May 31, 2013.

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• If I could explain golf, I'd be a genius.

  Davis Love III

  Golf, Genius, Ifs

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• If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

  Brady Udall

  Years, Would Be, Seven

  "The Miracle Life of Edgar Mint: A Novel". Book by Brady Udall, www.npr.org. 2001.

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• I have been very interested in labor movement. If I could have wished another life, I would have loved to be a pioneer woman in the beginning of labor movement.

  Astrid Lindgren

  Labour Movement, Pioneers, Another Life

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• If I could rest anywhere, it would be in Arkansas, where the men are of the real half-horse, half-alligator breed such as grows nowhere else on the face of the universal earth.

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Real, Men

  "5-year-old descendant of Davy Crockett kills bear" by Heather Crawford, www.espn.com. October 4, 2010.

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• If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we're all OK

  Jewel

  Would Be, World, Just One

  Song: Hands, Album: Joy: A Holiday Collection

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• People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Greatness, People

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• If I could kick the person in the tail that causes me the most problems I could not sit down for a week

  Will Rogers

  Inspiration, Tails, Causes

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• If I could get one message to you it would be this: the future of this country and the welfare of the free world depends upon our success in space. There is no room in this country for any but a fully cooperative, urgently motivated all-out effort toward space leadership. No one person, no one company, no one government agency, has a monopoly on the competence, the missions, or the requirements for the space program.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Space, Agency

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• Parenting is the hardest thing I have ever done. I tried to find the balance between the strict, traditional Chinese way I was raised, which I think can be too harsh, and what I see as a tendency in the West to be too permissive and indulgent. If I could do it all again, I would, with some adjustments.

  Amy Chua

  Thinking, Chinese, Balance

  "Is strict parenting better for children?". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• I learned to put my trust in God and to see Him as my strength. Long ago I set my mind to be a free person and not to give in to fear. I always felt that it was my right to defend myself if I could. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

  Rosa Parks

  Long Ago, Years, Knowing

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• Catch-and-release, that's like running down pedestrians in your car and then, when they get up and limp away, saying -- 'Off you go! That's fine. I just wanted to see if I could hit you.'

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Running, Car, Get Up

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