If I Could Quotes - Page 39

• My sole ambition is to rid Mexico of the class that has oppressed her and given the people a chance to know what real liberty means. And if I could bring that about today by giving up my life, I would do it gladly.

  Pancho Villa

  Giving Up, Real, Ambition

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• If I could wear any label forever it would be Burberry. It covers a huge span of stuff. You can't go wrong with a classic trench and a pair of jeans.

  Emma Watson

  Jeans, Forever, Would Be

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• I wanted to see if I could write a good book.

  James D. Watson

  Book, Writing, Wanted

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• I have been asked what would I ban immediately if I could. Advertising.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Advertising, Bans, Has Beens

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• If I could play drums like Patrick Carney or Taylor Hawkins, I'd be a really happy person.

  Olivia Wilde

  Play, Happy Person, Really Happy

  "Exclusive: Olivia Wilde on Music, Haiti, and Making a Difference". Interview with Catherine Straut, www.elle.com. October 1, 2012.

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• Maybe I'm stupid or whatever, but to me if I got a concussion, if I could see straight and I could carry a football then I'm not telling anybody.

  Ricky Williams

  Football, Stupid, Concussions

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• I allowed myself to think if I could be doing anything in the world, what would I be doing? And what came to mind is I'd be traveling a little bit, I'd be going to classes and I'd be going back to school.

  Ricky Williams

  School, Thinking, Class

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• Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.

  Robbie Williams

  Blow, Drug, Judgement

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• If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.

  Debra Winger

  Patience, Prayer, Moving

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• If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

  Martin Yan

  Food, Soy Sauce, Flavor

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• If I could find the right kind of property, get tied in with the right movie, I'd love to be involved, but I just find it hard to be motivated to do another screenplay right now.

  Al Yankovic

  Kind, Motivated, Screenplays

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'd actually really love to review books and films and plays, but you can't be an artist and a critic. I would love it if I could.

  Romola Garai

  Book, Artist, Play

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• A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

  Darren Shan

  Past, Differences, Would Be

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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. I did not wish to live what was not life, living is so dear; nor did I wish to practise resignation, unless it was quite necessary. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Cutting, Wish

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• So you didn’t tell me it was a messed-up idea to keep this all a secret because. . .” “Because experience is the only teacher,” Hey-Soos says. “Even if I could have told you, it would have been a lecture. Why do you think kids don’t listen to their parents, or people don’t leave churches and do what the preacher tells them? There’s only one thing that’s universal.” “What’s that?” “The truth.

  Chris Crutcher

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

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• Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Mean, Forever, Transition

  David Wojnarowicz (1994). “David Wojnarowicz: brush fires in the social landscape”

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• If I could talk it like Dahoum, you would never be tired of listening to me.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Tired, Listening, Ifs

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• Everybody was wearing rhinestones, all those sparkly clothes, and cowboy boots. I decided to wear a black shirt and pants and see if I could get by with it. I did and I've worn black clothes ever since.

  Johnny Cash

  Cowboy, Clothes, Black

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• All of us have failed to match our dream of perfection. I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. If I could write all my work again, I'm convinced I could do it better. This is the healthiest condition for an artist. That's why he keeps working, trying again: he believes each time that this time he will do it, bring it off. Of course he won't.

  William Faulkner

  Dream, Believe, Writing

  1956 On his generation of writers. Interview in Paris Review, Spring.

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• If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it.

  Jane Austen

  Ifs

  "Northhanger Abbey - Persuasion".

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• I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

  Nicole Krauss

  Nice, Would Be, Mouths

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.141, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I can't sleep. There is a woman stuck between my eyelids. I would tell her to get out if I could. But there is a woman stuck in my throat

  Eduardo Galeano

  Sleep, Eyelids, Stuck

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• If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Brain, Would Be, World

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• Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

  William Shakespeare

  Silence, Joy, Littles

  William Shakespeare, Demitra Papadinis “Renaissance Acting Editions: Much adoe about Nothing [Much Ado About Nothing]”, Demitra Papadinis

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• This is the biggest mistake I could think would save me. I wanted to give up the idea that I had any control. Shake things up. To be saved by chaos. To see if I could cope, I wanted to force myself to grow again. To explode my comfort zone.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Giving Up, Mistake, Thinking

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.286, W. W. Norton & Company

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