What If Quotes - Page 34

• I think that the "what if" game is what you guys get to do. I don't have to do that. I hate the "what if" game. I'm such a believer in everything happening the way it's supposed to happen.

  Bruce Willis

  Hate, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I've been extremely lucky to work with Elmer Bernstein, Howard Shore over the years, but I've always imagined films with my own scores, because I don't come from that world or that period of filmmaking. And so how could I make up my own score on a film like this where it isn't necessarily made up of popular music from the radio or the period; it isn't necessarily classical music. But what if it's modern symphonic music?

  Martin Scorsese

  Years, Lucky, World

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Alternate history fascinates me, as it fascinates all novelists, because 'What if?' is the big thing.

  Kate Atkinson

  Novelists, Bigs, Big Things

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• Fantasy is a genre that allows me to create anything I want. That, in turn, allows me to explore any sort of idea I'm curious about. I love it because Fantasy is a genre that asks, "What if...?" That's my favorite question.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Ideas, Want, Fantasy

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• I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend that there's someone outside with a gun that's saying, 'Don't come out until you write something.'"

  Andrew Bird

  Writing, Gun, Littles

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong.

  George Leonard

  Very Good, Ifs

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• The attitude is in my personality. It's going to come out in the songs no matter what. If you're pushing the vocal constantly at 10, there's no room for any dynamics. There's no room for any variation in tone. There's no room for anything.

  Mike Ness

  Song, Attitude, Personality

  "Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Matt Schild, music.avclub.com. January 18, 2011.

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• You have to keep walking, no matter what. If you don't, it's a living death. You're just standing in one place dying.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Dying, Matter, Standing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now, here is my definition of success: A few simple Disciplines practiced every day. Do you see the distinction? A few disciplines... Here's a little phrase we've all heard, An apple a day keeps the doctor away. And my question to you is, What if that's true? How simple and easy is that plan?

  Jim Rohn

  Simple, Doctors, Apples

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• I'm very scared to do it. What if I don't come back? With the whole light-years thing, what if I come back 10,000 years later, and everyone I know is dead? I'll be like, 'Great. Now I have to start all over'.

  Paris Hilton

  Light, Years, Scared

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• Most people experience history as one damn fact after another in high school. But if you can wonder, "Wow, what if the US hadn't gotten involved in World War II?", you can become enthralled by the imaginary possibilities.

  Gavriel David Rosenfeld

  War, School, People

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• What if we actually demonstrated God's love for the world instead of just talking about it?

  Richard Stearns

  Talking, World, God's Love

  "Lausanne's legacy lacks promise" by Matthew Cresswell, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2010.

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• What if I couldn't handle people's opinions of me? I know that shouldn't dictate a person's degree of peace or happiness in life, but the problem is, I chose a business saturated in judgment.

  Chris Evans

  People, Degrees, Opinion

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• Each time I take a role, I'm always nervous about it at the beginning and I'm always afraid what if that, what if this. Every time I take a role and I'm somewhat terrified at the beginning and I get into it and I start working, that's a big win for me. So, really it is stepping forward in the face of whatever fears that I've created for myself and going forward anyway and those are always big moments for me.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Winning, Roles, Faces

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• The song 'Humiliation' is kind of about what if, outside of a dinner party or something, I was blown up by a drone missile, out by the pool. What an embarrassing way to go.

  Matt Berninger

  Song, Party, Drones

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• What if I say that it is not unjust but according to law that when a woman gets into debt her husband should bear it? And with the church of God sinning, it was but right that her Husband, who had espoused her unto Himself, should become the debtor on her behalf. The Lord Jesus stood in the relationship of a married Husband unto His church, and it was not, therefore, a strange thing that He should bear her burdens.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Husband, Law

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2008). “The Doctrines of Grace”, p.93, Lulu.com

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• What if you have failed in the past? So, at one time did every man we recognize as a towering success. They called it "temporary defeat.

  Napoleon Hill

  Leadership, Past, Men

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• What if the Church and the State
  Are the mob that howls at the door!
  Wine shall run thick to the end,
  Bread taste sour.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Wine, Government

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.80, Hayes Barton Press

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• Self-realization sounds good. But what if only an enraged dwarf emerges?

  Mason Cooley

  Dwarves, Self, Sound

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• There's no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers.

  Jenny Han

  Giving, Asking, Use

  Jenny Han (2012). “We'll Always Have Summer”, p.311, Simon and Schuster

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• The establishment of a rating system, voluntary or otherwise, opens the door to an endless parade of moral quality control programs based on things certain Christians do not like. What if the next bunch of Washington wives demands a large yellow J on all material written or performed by Jews, in order to save helpless children from exposure to concealed Zionist doctrine?

  Frank Zappa

  Christian, Children, Doors

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

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• You have to understand what they (pitchers) do. That's my job. You have to find a way to get them
  through the game if they're not feeling good. When everything is going good and
  they're feeling one-hundred percent, it's my job to keep them that way. And you know what? If I see something, I'm going to let them know.

  Jorge Posada

  Jobs, Games, Feel Good

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• Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye.
  What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high,
  And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher,
  Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Fire, Feet

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.193, Hayes Barton Press

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• If we start worrying whether our nose is too big or too small, we should think, “What if I had no head? - now that would be a problem!” As long as we have life, we should rejoice. If everything doesn't go exactly as we'd like, we can accept it. If we contemplate impermanence deeply, patience and compassion will arise. We will hold less to the apparent truth of our experience, and the mind will become more flexible. Realizing that one day this body will be buried or burned, we will rejoice in every moment we have rather than make ourselves or others unhappy.

  Chagdud Tulku Rinpoche

  Thinking, Compassion, Worry

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• And what if there’s nothing in there?’ You die and there’s nothing beyond that. Nothing. Nothing remains. Someone might remember you for a little while after but not for long.

  Dmitry Glukhovsky

  Remember You, Remembers You, Long

  Dmitry Glukhovsky (2014). “METRO 2033: The cult bestseller behind the METRO LAST LIGHT and METRO 2033 video games”, p.165, Dmitry Glukhovskiy

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