If I Could Quotes - Page 37

• If I could write a story that would do for the Indian one-hundredth part what 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' did for the Negro, I would be thankful the rest of my life.

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Uncles, Writing, Being Thankful

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• I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

  Henry James

  Hate, Names, Usa

  Henry James (1974). “Letters”, p.31, Harvard University Press

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• So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be most interested in - and if I could hack, as we called it, a senior class, I would continue. I didn't hack the senior class.

  James Earl Jones

  Senior, Years, Class

  "The Voice of Triumph". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.

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• I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, White, People

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• If I could make a device where people could just intuit everything you are thinking - a little cable you plug into, like, a USB port, I would make a billion dollars.

  Mindy Kaling

  Thinking, People, Littles

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• I don't have a favorite song that I've written. But I do have a favorite song: 'Always on My Mind,' the Willie Nelson version. If I could sing it like he do, I would sing it every night. I like the story it tells.

  B. B. King

  Song, Night, Always On My Mind

  "B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.

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• If I could meet my mother and marry her, I would. I would be with my mother now, if she weren't my mother, as sick as that sounds.

  Shia LaBeouf

  Mother, Sick, Sound

  "Celebritology Live: Remembering Farrah Fawcett, More". www.washingtonpost.com. June 25, 2009.

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• Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Thinking, White, Giving

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• When I heard that there were artists, I wished I could some time be one. If I could only make a rose bloom on paper, I thought I should be happy! Or if I could at last succeed in drawing the outline of winter-stripped boughs as I saw them against the sky, it seemed to me that I should be willing to spend years in trying.

  Lucy Larcom

  Winter, Artist, Years

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• I wouldn't mind seeing China if I could come back the same day.

  Philip Larkin

  Mind, China, Seeing

  Philip Larkin (1989). “Philip Larkin: the man and his work”, Univ of Iowa Pr

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• I don't want to have kids for like 10 years. I still have a lot to do. I don't even know if I could handle a dog right now. I'm so not ready. Someday I'll be a mom but not until I'm in my 30s.

  Avril Lavigne

  Motivational, Mom, Dog

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• If I could do shoes for anyone, it would be a special project for the Queen of England.

  Christian Louboutin

  Queens, Shoes, Special

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• If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Fire, Would Be, World

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• If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.

  Ian Mcewan

  Writing, Perfect, Dies

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• If I could only get people to rub my belly for good lucky and then throw money in my fountain, it'd be a perfect world.

  Christopher Meloni

  People, Perfect, Lucky

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• It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.

  Kevin Mitnick

  Hacking, Bugs, Becoming

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• If I could sell 500 million records every time, it would be great. But I've also had the luxury experience of having it when I was a teenager, in a very kind of model version of it.

  Alanis Morissette

  Teenager, Luxury, Would Be

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• In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

  Jack Nicholson

  Crazy, Real, Thinking

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• I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Art, Flower, Paint

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• David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Mom, Mother

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• Gabriel Garcia Marquez is one of my all-time favorite writers. I feel spiritual when reading his words, even though they're translated. I wish desperately that I could read it in its original language. I already feel like I'm going to church when I read him; imagine if I could read it in the original.

  Conor Oberst

  Spiritual, Reading, Wish

  "He's wide awake, he's talking". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. February 7, 2005.

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• If I could wake up in a different place, at a different time, could I wake up as a different person?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Different, Wake Up, Literature

  Chuck Palahniuk (2005). “Fight Club: A Novel”, p.33, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't know if I could ever really be cast in a heartthrob role apart from 'Twilight,' which I didn't really know was a heartthrob role. I really don't feel I am one.

  Robert Pattinson

  Twilight, Roles, Casts

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• If I could walk into the 'Friends' audition again and go or not go, I have to say it's 50-50.

  Matthew Perry

  Auditions, Walks, Ifs

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• If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

  Ezra Pound

  Believe, Views, Church Music

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