What If Quotes - Page 18

• I'm big into stocks. I've invested in a lot of stocks. One day I was talking to my accountant, and he was like, "Yo, what if I could turn a million dollars into $20 million?"

  Fetty Wap

  Talking, One Day, Dollars

  Interview with Trevor Noah, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 8, 2016.

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• What if happiness is in fact more about remembering who we are, rather than attempting to change anything or anyone at all?

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Who We Are, Facts, Remember

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• We haven't developed a progressive vocabulary. We say something is "public," but we just mean it's viewable online. Or we say it's "open," but we just mean it's accessible. I would like for us to think about terms critically and maybe change our vocabulary a bit. What if pubic actually meant publicly-funded, or social meant socialized.

  Astra Taylor

  Mean, Thinking, Vocabulary

  Source: therumpus.net

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• What if someone hit us with an EMP, cyber-attack, and dirty bomb all at once? That would be pretty bad.

  Benjamin Carson

  Dirty, Cyber Attacks, Would Be

  "We Are Live-Blogging the GOP Debate in South Carolina" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. January 15, 2016.

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• What if the New York Times gave out free, cheap Kindles to everyone and said this is how we're doing it now. You know? Maybe that's a way to go. The technology gets cheaper and cheaper, and at some point it has to be cheaper than all these trucks and all this gas, to just say, let's give away a Kindle to everyone.

  Biz Stone

  New York, Technology, Giving

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I decided to be confident one day, and then I just was. I think it's a conscious decision. Everything in society tells you to hate yourself, but you know what? If you decide to love yourself, it's an act of revolution.

  Gaby Dunn

  Hate, Love You, Thinking

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• It's gone on my whole life, this David and Goliath syndrome that a lot of these smaller guys always have. They think the only reason I've ever had any success in my career is because of my physical size. And you know what? If that's the case, so be it. I really don't care. Because I have that size.

  Kevin Nash

  Thinking, Careers, Guy

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

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• What if life could be this way? Only the happy parts, none of the terrible, not even the mildly unpleasant. What if we could just cut out the bad and keep the good? This is what I want to do with Violet - give her only the good, keep away the bad, so that good is all we ever have around us.

  Jennifer Niven

  Cutting, Giving, Want

  Jennifer Niven (2015). “All the Bright Places”, p.138, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• What if what has been said one time not only does not cease to be said but always recommences, and not only recommences but also imposes upon us the idea that nothing has ever truly begun, having from the beginning begun by beginning again.

  Maurice Blanchot

  Ideas, Doe, Said

  Maurice Blanchot (1993). “The Infinite Conversation”, p.343, U of Minnesota Press

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• [On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

  Naomi Klein

  Climate, World, Hoaxes

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• What if we fail to stop the erosion of cities by automobiles? ... In that case America will hardly need to ponder a mystery that has troubled men for millennia. What is the purpose of life? For us, the answer will be clear, established and for all practical purposes indisputable. The purpose of life is to produce and consume automobiles.

  Jane Jacobs

  Men, America, Erosion

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.370, Vintage

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• When I am thickening my plots, I like to think 'What if ... What if ... ' Thus my imagination can move from the likely, which everyone can think of, to the unlikely-but-possible, my preferred plot.

  Patricia Highsmith

  Moving, Thinking, Imagination

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• when I first began this diary I said I would give a record of my inner life. I begin to wonder if I have said anything about my inner life. What if I have no inner life?

  Janet Frame

  Giving, Diaries, Records

  Janet Frame, Carole Ferrier (1995). “The Janet Frame reader”, Womens Pr Ltd

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• I began thinking about the idea of a 24 hour concert. What if you tied songs to certain hours of the day - creating a 24 hour world of lyric and melody. So that was the inspiration for this project.

  Jon Foreman

  Song, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: blog.noisetrade.com

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• Some people are going to be impatient no matter what. If I wrote two books a year, someone out there would be pissed I wasn't writing three.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, Writing, Years

  "INTERVIEW: Author Patrick Rothfuss on his Worldbuilders Charity, Writing, Reading and Giving". Interview with Matthew Jackson, nerdbastards.com. December 9, 2013.

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• There's a school of thought that says if you legalize drugs it will solve the problem. We're all good liberals, we said let's do it and see what happens. We wanted to be honest about it. So in our brainstorming sessions we'd say, what if? The finding was that all the negative things came out also. The answer is that we didn't believe in the full legalization of drugs. But we don't believe in the criminalization of drugs, either.

  George Pelecanos

  Believe, School, Drug

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• I think we have to be active in teaching our children, and teaching each other. We have to be active about kindness and about peace. I've always fantasized that it would be great if there was a Department of Peace. We have a military, but what if there was a department devoted entirely and truthfully to finding peaceful resolutions?

  Dave Matthews

  Children, Kindness, Military

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• Parents spend a lot of time talking over kids. My son went through a vocabulary burst as I was writing The Bear. I thought, What if I just stopped and listened?

  Claire Cameron

  Writing, Kids, Son

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• What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.

  Bob Weir

  Children, Glasses, Ashes

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• What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?

  Herge

  Whole Life, Whole, Ifs

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

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• But Thee, but Thee, O sovereign Seer of time,
  But Thee, O poets' Poet, Wisdom's Tongue,
  But Thee, O man's best Man, O love's best Love,
  O perfect life in perfect labor writ,
  O all men's Comrade, Servant, King, or Priest, --
  What IF or YET, what mole, what flaw, what lapse,
  What least defect or shadow of defect,
  What rumor, tattled by an enemy,
  Of inference loose, what lack of grace
  Even in torture's grasp, or sleep's, or death's --
  Oh, what amiss may I forgive in Thee,
  Jesus, good Paragon, Thou Crystal Christ?

  Sidney Lanier

  Best Love, Jesus, Kings

  Sidney Lanier (1999). “Poems of Sidney Lanier”, p.32, University of Georgia Press

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• So what if I can't spell Armaggedon? ... it's not the end of the world.

  Stewart Francis

  World, Ends, Spells

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• From the very beginning, all of my films have divided the critics. Some have thought them wonderful, and others have found very little good to say. But subsequent critical opinion has always resulted in a very remarkable shift to the favorable. In one instance, the same critic who originally rapped the film has several years later put it on an all-time best list. But of course, the lasting and ultimately most important reputation of a film is not based on reviews, but on what, if anything, people say about it over the years, and on how much affection for it they have.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Years, People, Important

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The Polar Express began with the idea of a train standing alone in the woods. I asked myself, What if a boy gets on that train? Where does he go?

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Boys, Ideas, Doe

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• In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and whats behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.

  Trent Reznor

  Dark, Doors, Floating

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