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• What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Rust, Affliction

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.18, Ravenio Books

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• With a song, it only takes a couple of minutes to go back to the beginning and try it again to see if it works. The novel freaks me out because, what if you get into the eighth chapter and think, 'Let's go to the top and see if this works again? It's going to take me three weeks.' I'm in awe of that.

  Ben Folds

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• As an observer, you can clearly see that Western countries are war-weary and don't want to be pulled into new conflicts. They always proclaim their will to fight for Israel in an emergency. That's good but what if that's not at all true when the time comes?

  Ronald Lauder

  Country, War, Fighting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

  Sam Harris

  Thinking, Oxygen, Logical Arguments

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• What if becoming who and what we truly are happens not through striving and trying but by recognizing and receiving the people and places and practices that offer us the warmth of encouragement we need to unfold?

  Oriah Dreamer

  Encouragement, Practice, People

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• Snowden is almost preternaturally prepossessing and self-possessed. I think of a novelist whose dream character just walks into his or her head. It must have been like that with you and Snowden. But what if he'd been a graying guy with the same documents and far less intelligent things to say about them? In other words, how exactly did who he was make your movie and remake our world?

  Laura Poitras

  Dream, Character, Intelligent

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• When you decide to make a film, it's imperative that it's a story you just have to tell...no matter what. If so, then dive in. It won't be 'work'...it will be a thrilling, deeply satisfying experience.

  Dori Berinstein

  Stories, Matter, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• However the great successes of science - Galileo's telescopic observations, Newton's law of gravity, etc - all of this great success caused people to sort of say, what if we could establish religion on that same successful basis? What if we could have a good rational foundation for religious belief. What if religion could be sort of like science. Of course, that can't be.

  George Coyne

  Religious, Successful, Law

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Often creativity comes from a very pragmatic kind of "well, what if we try this. How about this." You set some parameters and then work through the variations. It's hard to see something as a concept. It literally comes out of the hands on experiment.

  Grant David McCracken

  Creativity, Trying, Kind

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• What if there were no hypothetical situations?

  Christopher Jones

  Situation, Hypothetical, Ifs

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• I've had to learn through experiences not to be afraid to fail. You don't know what the future holds for you. You can hope your dreams come true, but you have to be fearless. I don't want to look back and think, What if?

  Nastia Liukin

  Dream, Thinking, Fearless

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• Well, what if there is no tomorrow? There wasn't one today.

  Philip Connors

  Groundhog Day, Today, Tomorrow

  "Fictional character: Phil Connors". "Groundhog Day", www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I had an experience in a restaurant one time where there was a large trolley with beef being carved up, and I just transposed different images onto it. Like, what if there was a nice little cow there with a bowtie and a knife carving up humans. I was a vegetarian for a couple of years after that.

  Tobe Hooper

  Couple, Nice, Years

  Interview with Kate and Laura Mulleavy, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2014.

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• So what if my face is falling apart? I don't give a damn. Anyway, it gives me character. Everyone thinks that they can stay pretty forever but some come out of Beverly Hills surgeries looking scary to me.

  Robert Redford

  Fall, Character, Thinking

  "Redford slams 'sick Hollywood'" by Patrick Sawer, www.standard.co.uk. January 08, 2002.

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• I therefore suggested that WWF should invite leaders from the major religions to meet together to discuss what - if any - responsibility they felt they had for the natural environment as a "sacred" entity.

  Prince Philip

  Responsibility, Leader, Together

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• What if at school you had to take an 'art class' in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci and Picasso? Would that make you appreciate art? Would you want to learn more about it? I doubt it..........but this is how math is taught and so in the eyes of most of us it becomes the equivalent of watching paint dry. While the paintings of the great masters are readily available, the math of the great masters is locked away.

  Edward Frenkel

  Art, School, Eye

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• Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues... What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear... Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.

  Zsuzsanna Budapest

  Selfish, Positive Life, Casting

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• I'm determined not to lose my name. It's who I am. It has neither aided my progress nor hampered it. It's just who I am. My character. My make-up. My culture and heritage is a very rich one. So what if it's difficult for people to pronounce? We all learned how to say Schwarzenegger.

  Ioan Gruffudd

  Character, Who I Am, Names

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

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• With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.

  Tom Verlaine

  Song, People, Trying

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• Every novel begins with the speculative question, What if "X" happened? That's how you start.

  Tom Clancy

  Novel, Happened, Ifs

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• What if hamsters fought in the American Revolution?

  Colin Mochrie

  Revolution, Hamsters, Ifs

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• The Eleventh Commandment: don't speak ill of a fellow Republican. What if the fellow Republican is doing something that hurts America? Isn't it the patriot who sides with America before he sides with the Republicans?

  Bill Maher

  Hurt, America, Sides

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• So what if someone wrote your obituary... that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.

  Lou Holtz

  Mean, Obituary, Dies

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• What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word 'quality' cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate and direct.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Mean, Simple, Broken

  "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Book by Robert M. Pirsig, 1974.

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• In TV and movies, you kill yourself spending all this time to think up the symbolism or what if that deer that runs across your hero's path somehow conveys what's going on inside your hero's head? When a lot of times, you just want to hear what he's thinking.

  Eric Kripke

  Running, Hero, Thinking

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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