If I Could Quotes - Page 38

• Would I swap what I have achieved as a cook if I could have been as successful as a footballer? Definitely.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Successful, Cooks, Footballer

  "Gordon Ramsay on Rangers". www.theguardian.com. May 05, 2002.

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• I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.

  Nicole Richie

  Responsibility, Drunk, Apologizing

  "Madden, Pregnancy Made Richie Change Her Ways". Interview with Diane Sawyer, abcnews.go.com. August 2, 2007.

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• I don't think I'd be a very good talk show host. I mean, I'm very talkative but I don't know if I could do that all the time.

  Emma Roberts

  Mean, Thinking, Host

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• Playing a concert for 2 hours is pie. I would do that every minute of every day if I could. I love to perform. It's the 22 hours before the next show that kills you.

  Kid Rock

  Pie, Next, Hours

  FaceBook post by Kid Rock from Apr 15, 2014

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• What could make my life better? Oh, if I could only find that magic bottle that lets you never have to sleep. I have so much stuff I wanna do, but... That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste!

  Robert Rodriguez

  Sleep, Eye, Magic

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• If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that.

  Ronda Rousey

  Dream, Home, Fighting

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• The flame that is naturally clear always gives the most light and heat. If I could blend my talent for poetry and music into one, the light would burn still clearer, and I might go far.

  Robert Schumann

  Light, Flames, Giving

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• I think the other honest attraction was that I just grew up loving watching TV and loving watching film, and there's so many directors and actors that I dreamed of working with, I just really wanted to take a crack at it and see if I could ever work with some of those.

  David Schwimmer

  Thinking, Directors, Watching Tv

  "David Schwimmer's Midwest". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 21, 2012.

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• Do I exaggerate? Boy, do I, and I'd do it more if I could get away with it.

  David Sedaris

  Boys, Get Away, Ifs

  "A life in writing: David Sedaris" by Hadley Freeman, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2010.

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• If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Google, Chloe, Scared

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• I love to eat, and if I could, I'd eat every second of my life.

  Maria Sharapova

  Every Second, Ifs

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• I always wanted to see if I could sell a movie to the public without doing any marketing because my philosophy was like, 'Hey man, I'm reaching my audience everyday. I'm twittering with them. I'm in direct contact with them on the podcast.'

  Kevin Smith

  Philosophy, Men, Everyday

  Interview with Robert Fischer, www.gq.com. August 31, 2011.

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• If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera.

  Matt Smith

  New York, Doctors, Cities

  "Matt Smith reveals his favourite Doctor Who moment as sharing a snog with Jenna-Louis Coleman". Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. March 2, 2013.

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• I realized that people had an unreal image of me, that somehow I was a god on Mount Olympus. I decided that if I were going to make use of my role as a Supreme Court Justice, it would be to inspire people to realize that, first, I was just like them and second, if I could do it, so could they.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Justice, Inspire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm never as happy as when I'm pregnant. I literally would have 10 babies if I could!

  Tori Spelling

  Baby, Pregnancy, Being Pregnant

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• I have an affinity for the law. I like looking at the small type on contracts, and if I could have afforded law school, I probably would have gone.

  Octavia Spencer

  School, Law, Gone

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• People asked if I could have played the Terminator. Are you kidding? Not a chance, I never could have played the Terminator.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Chance, Ifs

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• I've considered having my nose fixed. But I didn't trust anyone enough. If I could do it myself with a mirror.

  Barbra Streisand

  Trust, Mirrors, Noses

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• I have no interest in returning to yesteryear. I love the conveniences and delights of today's time. I wouldn't go back if I could.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Yesteryear, Delight, Today

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “Marriage Workbook: From Surviving to Thriving”, p.6, Thomas Nelson

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• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Believe, Doubt, Pay

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.2130, Delphi Classics

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  I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

  Harriet Tubman

  Death, Freedom, Two

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• If I could drink only one wine, it would be Champagne.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Wine, Would Be, Drink

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• If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

  Jesse Ventura

  Fabric, Double Standard, Bras

  Playboy Interview, November 1999.

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• If I could dress anyone, I'd like to dress the Queen - she can handle anything. I'd put her in black - she never wears black - and add a little leather, maybe. A little rock n' roll.

  Donatella Versace

  Queens, Rocks, Black

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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