If I Could Quotes - Page 30

• I'm the kind of person where you're never done, you just keep perfecting and perfecting and perfecting, or trying to fix things that drive you crazy. Often times when you watch a film, "if I could just get through this minute, I'll be fine." So I think I'm just hard on myself.

  Cary Fukunaga

  Crazy, Thinking, Trying

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• If I could have any job I would be a cat... but that's not something I'm supposed to talk about in public.

  Iliza Shlesinger

  Jobs, Cat, Would Be

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• If I could go back and talk to the me who was just starting to do comedy, I would have told myself to relax and not worry about things happening right away. That's a mistake a lot of people make - they think a year is a long time and it's really not.

  Christian Finnegan

  Mistake, Thinking, Years

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• You can't take everything that is offered to you. I pass on a lot of stuff, because I truly believe that I will shine better if I could do it 200 percent rather than do it 80 percent and make it so-so.

  J. B. Smoove

  Believe, Shining, Stuff

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• When I was in high school I made the discovery that if I was playing in a jazz club, and there were black people in the club, if I could get the black people to like what I was doing, I was on the right track. So I began to play to those people because they knew what the authentic music was. I've always had that in the back of my head.

  Paul Smoker

  School, Play, Discovery

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• I always felt that when I was photographing, I had a psychic need to see this, to photograph this. And I think if somebody else had been doing this work, and if I could have seen these pictures anywhere at all, then there would have been no need to make them.

  Larry Clark

  Thinking, Psychics, Needs

  "Journal of Contemporary Art" Interview with Jutta Koether, www.jca-online.com.

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• I used to always sit in church looking out the windows at the boys, wondering if I could make an excuse to go out and, you know, go to the bathroom because all the outdoor toilets. But anyhow, I was only going out to see the boys.

  Dolly Parton

  Boys, Church, Going Out

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• I'm happy with my career but I could have been happier if I could have been treated like a champion should have been treated because management and fighters take advantage of fighters.

  Larry Holmes

  Should Have, Careers, Champion

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• I am supposed to be, according to what I am told, one of the children of the cotton plantation owner's sons. If I could prove that, I'd own the whole goddamn everything.

  Eartha Kitt

  Children, Son, Cotton

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• If I could, I would not do anything else. I'd just be in the studio for my whole life. I would never go to parties, events, and red carpets. I would rather just be in the studio for the whole time. I don't even care. Nobody has to know what I look like. I just want to make music.

  Ariana Grande

  Party, Events, Looks

  "Life Is Grande: Ariana Grande On Her Debut Album and the Thrill of Hearing Herself on the Radio" by Dan Hyman, www.elle.com. August 22, 2013.

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• It is for no particular item in the tax-bill that I refuse to pay it. I simply wish to refuse allegiance to the State, to withdrawand stand aloof from it effectually. I do not care to trace the course of my dollar, if I could, till it buys a man or a musket to shoot one with,--the dollar is innocent,--but I am concerned to trace the effects of my allegiance. In fact, I quietly declare war with the State, after my fashion, though I will still make what use and get what advantage of her I can, as is usual in such cases.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, War, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Miscellanies (Annotated Edition)”, p.94, Jazzybee Verlag

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• I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

  Garth Brooks

  Fun, Tin, Roles

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• If I could tour with anyone, I'd go with either Maroon 5, or Dave Matthews. No lets go with Sting, he will be my all time favorite...wait no I want to go on tour with the Police.

  Ryan Cabrera

  Letting Go, Waiting, Police

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• Only if I could be known for being one of the world's greatest and most sincere Christian Evangelists.

  Gloria Gaynor

  Christian, World, Sincere

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• When I first started writing these kind of songs that would eventually become Decemberists songs, I was writing them because I knew that nobody was listening at the time and that it wouldn't hurt to challenge myself and get weirder and see if I could alienate more people

  Colin Meloy

  Song, Hurt, Writing

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• I grew up listening to the quartets and I loved that so much that I wanted to see if I could make music and make it happen. It was just a series of events ... me going to concerts and saying "I think I can do that".

  Bill Gaither

  Thinking, Listening, Events

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• If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

  Jewel

  Times Like These, Worry, Would Be

  Song: Hands

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• If I could make a record in two minutes and thirty seconds, I'd do it. I want the creativity, and I don't give a f - k about the snare sound.

  Nikki Sixx

  Creativity, Two, Giving

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• Everybody, every tradesman that worked for Shafin or built my house got fully paid, well paid. Everybody got paid. I would like that to be said if I could because I haven't said it before, and it's important. People kind of think we left all these plumbers or electricians without getting paid.

  Shane Filan

  Thinking, People, House

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• If I could ask Ken Lay one question right now, do you know what it would be? "Does the Devil really wear Prada?"

  Jay Leno

  Devil, Doe, Would Be

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• I am free in performing an action if I could have done otherwise if I had chosen to.

  George Edward Moore

  Done, Action, Performing

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• If I could go back I wouldn't change anything. If I was popular I would have never left my bubble. I wouldn't have ever tired to do anything different. I would have never become happy.

  Taylor Swift

  Tired, Different, Left

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• If I could have three wishes, one would be to take an '88 and shove that barrel up Hitler's ass so that cocksucker can cry like the little god-damned girl he is. And hell, after that, I wouldn't need two more wishes.

  George S. Patton

  Girl, Two, Wish

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• Even if I could, I would not exahnge their virtues for my own. And that is why they are intent on learning from me.

  Confucius

  Virtue, My Own, Ifs

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• If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

  Kenny Rogers

  Bridges, Water, Done

  Song: Water And Bridges, 2006

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