If I Could Quotes - Page 35

• If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

  Joss Stone

  Song, Doctors, Save A Life

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• If I could have picked two guys on the planet, to have some exposure to at that age, those were the two right guys [Phil Woods and Charles McPherson].

  Jon Gordon

  Two, Guy, Age

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• I've had the privilege of coaching the best basketball team in the history of the world, and that's the USA national team. I've had a chance to coach them for eight years. If you were to ask me if I could end my career only coaching one team for the rest of my coaching career, I don't think it could get better than that, especially with the players that I've had during those eight years. When you've coached at that level, you know, you've coached those players, it's pretty hard to say, I would rather coach anybody else.

  Geno Auriemma

  Basketball, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I was raised to give back. I was born to immigrant parents and was fortunate to become successful at an early age. I've always felt a strong sense of national service to my country, and I may have been able to provide leadership in the political arena. I don't regret the decision not to enter politics, I just wonder sometimes if I could have changed anything.

  Lee Iacocca

  Country, Strong, Regret

  Source: www.caranddriver.com

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• It's probably simply a matter of temperament that I never stopped to wonder if I could "match" what I had done, never choked off my writing by competing with myself, or with anybody else for that matter. My ambition was absolutely centered on the work itself, never on what it would bring me, or "who" it would make me. I never cared about that at all.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Writing, Ambition, Done

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In the winter, I enjoy cross-country skiing and raising orchids and amaryllises. If I could grow tropical flowers as perennials, I would, especially hibiscus and mandavilla.

  Diane Ackerman

  Country, Flower, Winter

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• I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

  Sade Adu

  Nice, Thug, Long

  "Why Sade is bigger in the US than Adele" by Sophie Heawood, www.theguardian.com. March 13, 2012.

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• If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Humor, Race

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• Oh, if I could but live another century and see the fruition of all the work for women! There is so much yet to be done.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Fruition, Done, Century

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• I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

  Richard Avedon

  Hate, Eye, Wish

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• I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Ambition, Wish, Would Be

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• I love a massage. I'd go every day if I could. I don't need to be wrapped in herbs like a salmon fillet, but I do love a massage.

  Jason Bateman

  Salmon, Needs, Herbs

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• If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

  Cate Blanchett

  Disappointment, Perfect, Expectations

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

  Russell Brand

  People, Would Be, Analysis

  "Russell Brand: This charming man". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2010.

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• If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

  Emily Bronte

  Work, Silence, Effort

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• If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.

  Lord Byron

  Want, Companionship, Should

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  Lord Byron

  Math, Two, Giving

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• If I could have been a marine biologist I would have, but I didn't have that kind of intelligence. Numbers were never my strong point.

  Nicolas Cage

  Strong, Marine, Numbers

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• People say, "You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous". Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  People, Giving, Natural

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

  Nick Cave

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• I don't really know what 'selling out' is exactly. I would sell out if I could, but nobody's buying it. I would love to go mainstream, but my comedy is too edgy. It's always too dirty. It's always too filthy. I'm dying to sell out. But I love doing comedy, I love touring, and I think I would do everything for free.

  Margaret Cho

  Dirty, Thinking, Dying

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• I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.

  Camille Claudel

  Art, Jobs, Careers

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• Jenny McCarthy was the one I thought could turn me straight. I thought that if I could just get my shot with her, it could happen.

  Andy Cohen

  Jenny, Shots, Turn Me

  "Drama King" by Daniel Riley, www.gq.com. December 17, 2012.

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• I don't know if I could rebuild an airplane engine, but I know a little bit about rotors and rivets.

  Dane Cook

  Airplane, Littles, Knows

  "Dane Cook Talks Planes, Working on a Disney Animated Movie, Learning Aviation Jargon, and Planes Sequel". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 6, 2013.

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• If I could set a world record, it would be that I have 150 business partners, all with thriving businesses of their own that started with nothing and I made the difference to make them all billionaires.

  Barbara Corcoran

  Differences, Would Be, Records

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