What If Quotes - Page 23

• Love at first sight is not rare, in fact it is extremely common, it happens to some people a few times a year. The feeling of what if when meeting the eyes of a stranger can be love unrecognized.

  Craig Ferguson

  Eye, Sight, Years

  Craig Ferguson (2010). “Between the Bridge and the River: A Novel”, p.113, Chronicle Books

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• If Joy Behar or Sherri Shepherd was a dude, they'd be off TV. They're not funny enough for dudes. What if Roseanne Barr was a dude? Think we'd know who she was?

  Adam Carolla

  Thinking, Joy, Shepherds

  "The man’s man" by Larry Getlen, nypost.com. June 17, 2012.

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• I choose parts because I don't want to be embarrassed when the movie comes out. What if my friends were to see the movie? What if my niece or nephew wandered into the theater and saw the movie? I don't want to be too ashamed of it.

  Wallace Shawn

  Niece, Nephew, Want

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

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• Do we really need these big, gigantic, heavy rockets? What if we launch a rocket that's empty, and its sole purpose is to act as a source of fuel on the Moon? Who should build that? Well, I think the U.S. should build that.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Thinking, Needs

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• It goes without saying that only inner greatness possess a true value ("une valeur véritable,", Fr.) . Any attempt to rise up (or at rising up, - "s'élever", Fr.) outwardly above others, or to want (or wish) to impose one's superiority, denote a lack of moral greatness, since we do not try to replace ("suppléer", Fr.) in that way (.... in French "par là", Fr.) to what, if we did really possess it, would have no need whatsoever to flaunt itself.

  African Spir

  Greatness, Rising Up, Wish

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• What if you can't do what you once did, like run and jump up and down? You can walk, which is also good for your mind and mental attitude. You can do simpler exercises, like getting up and down from a chair without using your hands. You can stay fairly flexible. The most important thing is to not become sedentary.

  Richard Simmons

  Running, Attitude, Exercise

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• What if my trousers are shabby and worn, they cover a warm hearth.

  Thomas Lansing Masson

  Fashion, Worn, Warm Heart

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• What if the way we perceive a problem is already part of the problem?

  Slavoj Žižek

  Way, Problem, Perceive

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• What if I was the sexual equivalent of popcorn? Suitable for light snacking only?

  Rachel Vincent

  Light, Popcorn, Kaylee

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “My Soul to Save”, p.193, Harlequin

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• It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.

  Golda Meir

  Heart, Laughing, Affair

  Interview with Oriana Fallaci, Ms. Magazine, April 1973.

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• What if you believed that everything in life was like a prize? What if you thought of the world as a big random drawing, and you were always winning things, the world offering them up with a big grin, like an emcee's: Here you go, Hollis. Here is a motorcycle. Here is a little boy who loves you. Here is a weird experience, here is something bad that you should mull over because it will make you a better person. What if you could think that life was this free vacation you'd won, and you won just because you happened to be alive?

  Dan Chaon

  Love You, Thinking, Vacation

  Dan Chaon (2001). “Among the Missing”

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• Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.

  Jodi Picoult

  Might, Cases, Happened

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1152, Simon and Schuster

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• The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as you do are gunning you down?' I said.... Alaska frowned. `Guns are intolerant. Guns are a failure of communication.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Communication, Gun, Alaska

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• They say you’re meant to live everyday as if it were your last, which I’ve always thought was daft, since no one would ever pay the gas bill if that was the case, but what if it were your first?

  Amy Jenkins

  Everyday, Pay, Bills

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• I'd say any good set or any comedy that I've worked on, that's worked, has been comedians pitching ideas back and forth to each other. A lot of like, 'What if you say this? What about this?'

  Amy Poehler

  Ideas, Comedian, Pitching

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• I think that any sort of hindsight, especially in this wrestling industry, is a waste of time, and time is extremely valuable. I don't control that. People ask me to do something, and it is our job, as entertainers, to do the best that we can to accomplish that goal. What I get upset about in this business is that so many people talk about the "what if," instead of the "what is." The "what is" is more important. If someone were to go back 15 years and say, "You should have done this," it's too late. I was told to do "X," and I was trying to do "X" the best way that I could.

  John Cena

  Wrestling, Thinking, People

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.

  Salma Hayek

  Mistake, Cutting, Giving

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• What if Shakespeare had had a test audience for Romeo and Juliet or Hamlet?

  Brendan Fraser

  Tests, Juliet, Audience

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• What if you slept? And what if, in your sleep, you went to heaven and there plucked a strange and beautiful flower? And what if,when you awoke,you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Love, Beautiful, Dream

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, “What If You Slept ...”

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• I love auditioning. Since “The Notebook” and “Wedding Crashers,” I don’t have to audition anymore, and I miss it. You get to show your interpretation of the character. I get nervous when I don’t audition. What if they hate what I want to do?

  Rachel McAdams

  Notebook, Hate, Character

  "Crazy Like A Fox". Interview with Lynn Hirschberg, www.nytimes.com. August 13, 2008.

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• It's very dangerous to wave to people you don't know because what if they don't have hands? They'll think you're cocky.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Cocky, Humor

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• An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument. Isaac Stern takes good care of his violin. What if everybody jumped on his violin?

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Actors, Care

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• Many of my books come from what if questions that I can't answer, things that I'm worried about as either a woman, a wife, a mom, an American.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Book, Wife

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• People always tell me I'm going to regret not having kids. But what if I have one and then I regret having it? Has anyone thought of that option?

  Karl Pilkington

  Regret, Kids, People

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

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• But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?

  Robert Kennedy

  Powerful, White, Racism

  Robert F. Kennedy, Edwin O. Guthman (1993). “RFK: collected speeches”, Viking Pr

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