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• I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.

  Frederic Raphael

  Sex, Fidelity, Feels

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• But his Lordship [tells]us that God is wholly here, and wholly there, and wholly every where; because he has no parts. I cannot comprehend nor conceive this. For methinks it implies also that the whole world is also in the whole God, and in every part of God. Norcan I find anything of this in the Scripture. If I could find it there, I could believe it; and if I could find it in the public doctrine of the Church, I could easily abstain from contradicting it.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Bible, God, Believe

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• I am a woman, and even if I could proceed with harshness and rigidity, it would disgust me nonetheless.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Women, Rigidity, Disgusting

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• I tell ya, my wife was never nice. On our first date, I asked her if I could give her a goodnight kiss on the cheek - she bent over!

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Nice, Kissing, Giving

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• Unusual commencement advice: Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen
  would be it.

  Mary Schmich

  Class, Advice, Gentleman

  Chicago Tribune, 1 June 1997. This column became widely misattributed as a commencement address by Kurt Vonnegut to the MIT Class of 1997

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• If I could be the "condom queen" and get every young person who engaged in sex to use a condom in the United States, I would weara crown on my head with a condom on it! I would!

  Joycelyn Elders

  Sex, Queens, United States

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• Have you never wanted to do anything that was dangerous? Where should we be if no one tried to find out what lies beyond? Have you never wanted to look beyond the clouds and the stars, or to know what causes the trees to bud? And what changes the darkness into light? But if you talk like that, people call you crazy. Well, if I could discover just one of these things, what eternity is, for example, I wouldn't care if they did think I was crazy.

  Garrett Fort

  Hope, Stars, Lying

  "Fictional character: Henry Frankenstein". "Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. November 21, 1931.

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• I would not, if I could, give up the memory of the joy I have had in books for any advantage that could be offered in other pursuits or occupations. Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Giving Up, Memories, Reading

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• I'm drawn to a lot of tragedies, and I love a Greek tragedy.But I would think - I start thinking realistically about it, and performing eight days a week, that would take a toll. I take things to heart. I don't know if I could survive, like, "Medea."

  Eva Mendes

  Heart, Thinking, Eight

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I figured if I could get really good people who were going to be able to have a big impact in the world over the next decade to come together once a year for ten years and actually sign a pledge to take action themselves, if we did that every year for ten years we could do a lot of good in the world. That's the difference between my meeting and any other. If you don't want to promise to do something, don't come to my meeting, stay home.

  William J. Clinton

  Home, Years, Differences

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I'd been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I first started directing, I if I could pull this off, I can some day just move in back of the camera and stay there.

  Clint Eastwood

  Moving, Years, Trying

  "Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio Interview, J. Edgar". MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca.

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• I think good art, if I could be pretentious enough to say, I think good art deals with the micro to explain the macro.

  Philip Seymour Hoffman

  Art, Thinking, Enough

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If I could get any semblance of, not really anonymity, but control over my public image, that would be nice. But no, I think it's impossible [to maintain that], for one thing. I don't think anyone can do that, apart from Denzel Washington. It's a strange place that the film industry is at, where you can just play superhero after superhero.

  Robert Pattinson

  Nice, Thinking, Strange Places

  Source: collider.com

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• If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

  Matthew Lillard

  Television, Film, Theater

  "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I've really enjoyed the independent film world. I've had a blast. But, the reality is that I really want to make bigger movies. If I could make movies that carry great characters and great performances and great pathos, and can have an explosion or two, that would be fine with me.

  Matthew Lillard

  Character, Independent, Reality

  "Matthew Lillard Talks FAT KID RULES THE WORLD, Becoming a Director, the Film’s Road to Development and Plans for Future Directorial Projects". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 10, 2012.

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• I would be glad to worship success if I could find her.

  Mason Cooley

  Success, Would Be, Worship

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• If I could do my life over, I would try to cleanse at least my pleasures of self-pity.

  Mason Cooley

  Self, Trying, Pity

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• If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we bathe in it the beauty forsakesall the near water. For the imagination and senses cannot be gratified at the same time.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beautiful, Stars, Hands

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Barbara L. Packer, Joseph Slater, Douglas Emory Wilson (2003). “The Conduct of Life”, p.161, Harvard University Press

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• Vanity, or to call it by a gentler name, the desire of admiration and applause, is, perhaps, the most universal principle of humanactions.... Where that desire is wanting, we are apt to be indifferent, listless, indolent, and inert.... I will own to you, under the secrecy of confession, that my vanity has very often made me take great pains to make many a woman in love with me, if I could, for whose person I would not have given a pinch of snuff.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pain, Vanity, Names

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• I've learned that each mistake was probably a reflection of something that I was (or others were) doing wrong, so if I could figure out what that was, I could learn how to be more effective.

  Ray Dalio

  Life, Mistake, Reflection

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• If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.

  Charlotte Sophia Kasl

  Fun, Children, Home

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• You just work day and night if the cause in your heart is justified. You just go out and drive yourself to get the money. And you have fun doing it. It's a real rush. The people I particularly dislike are those who say 'I'm going to leave it in my will.' What they're really saying is 'If I could live forever, I wouldn't give any of it away.

  Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

  Fun, Real, Heart

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• If I could do just one thing to change the world, I'd make everyone Thom Yorke, and this would be paradise.

  Thom Yorke

  Would Be, World, Paradise

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• I have sold my soul. I would sell my soul, if I could have it all.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Soul, Ifs, Sells

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• I once said to someone, If I could shave my head and wear no makeup and get a part just on my talent, I would be the happiest person in the world.

  Teri Polo

  Makeup, Would Be, World

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