Would Be Quotes - Page 17

• All the battles and wars I been through, and all the battle scars I got it's been a learning experience. Everything I been through made me the man I am so if it was different I would be different so I would say that I really learned something from every situation.

  Kurupt

  War, Men, Battle

  Source: mensmagdaily.com

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• In a virtuous government, and more especially in times like these, public offices are what they should be - burdens to those appointed to them which it would be wrong to decline, though foreseen to bring them intense labor and great private loss.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Loss, Government, Times Like These

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.44, Modern Library

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• It is tempting to believe that social evils arise from the activities of evil men and that if only good men (like ourselves, naturally) wielded power, all would be well. That view requires only emotion and self-praise - easy to come by and satisfying as well. To understand why it is that 'good' men in positions of power will produce evil, while the ordinary man without power but able to engage in voluntary cooperation with his neighbors will produce good, requires analysis and thought, subordinating emotions to the rational.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Believe, Men, Position Of Power

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• Epcot Center also features pavilions built by various foreign nations, where you can experience an extremely realistic simulation of what life in these nations would be like if they consisted almost entirely of restaurants and souvenir stores.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Humor, Epcot

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.60, Ballantine Books

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• Inexperience because of (President Barack) Obama's inexperience.Look that would be one of the challenges.

  John McCain

  Challenges, President, Inexperience

  Source: www.cnn.com

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• New York has made me so paranoid, too. Whenever I visit another city, I always act like I'm from there, so the cab driver doesn't rip me off. I'm always like, "Yeah, it's good to be back home. Back here where I grew up. Yeah. Here in Tokyo. ... Uh, driver, I need to go to my old stomping grounds. That would be the Holiday Inn. And the address appears to be the pound sign."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, New York, Rip

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• No one would starve in independent India. Its grain would not be exported. Cloth would not be imported by it. Its leaders would not use a foreign language and finding justice in it would be neither costly nor difficult.

  Vallabhbhai Patel

  Motivational, Independent, Justice

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• I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

  V. P. Singh

  Motivational, Disaster, Prime

  V. P. Singh's remarks in the year the Janata Dal was formed, 1988.

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• It would be great to bust through and make history. But what's more important is the opportunity to continue to get roles that are complicated and wonderful, to be a part of the narrative and to get to do what our counterparts are able to do. It doesn't just stop at holding an award.

  Viola Davis

  Opportunity, Awards, Important

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• If I was a guy I wouldn't be bossy, I would be strong. If I was a guy I wouldn't be a micro-manager, I would be across the detail.

  Peta Credlin

  Strong, Guy, Details

  Source: www.smh.com.au

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• I am a feminist. I'm trying to show the relationships between men and women, always the structural relations, not individual villains. I'd never make a husband a villain. I try very hard in my work not to - because if I made one man a villain, the rest would be off the hook. I'm interested in the system of oppression.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Husband, Men, Feminist

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• My motivation has to do with what happened to my family. I want to help young people make important decisions at the most important time in their life. If I didn't do this, it would be like my kids died in vain. I want to help them make the right decisions.

  George Chuvalo

  Motivation, Kids, People

  Source: fightnetwork.com

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• I emphasize the dual mission of the Life Cube Project: involving as many members of the community as possible; and encouraging people to write down their goals, ambitions and wishes. I hope that the concept has an impact on these students' lives - that would be my dream.

  Scott Cohen

  Dream, Writing, Ambition

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• If I really knew how to do good storytelling, I would be a writer. Mystery is not a huge part of it. ... It's tension, it's relationships. I think it's a struggle.

  Scott Cohen

  Struggle, Thinking, Mystery

  Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com

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• I think Churchill is right, the only thing to be said for democracy is that there is nothing else that's any better, and therefore he used to say, Tyranny tempered by assassination, but lots of assassination. People say, If the Congress were more representative of the people it would be better. I say the Congress is too damn representative. It's just as stupid as the people are; just as uneducated, just as dumb, just as selfish.

  Dean Acheson

  Stupid, Selfish, Thinking

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• If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes.

  Peter Kreeft

  Believe, Games, Toys

  Peter Kreeft (2016). “A Refutation of Moral Relativism: Interviews with an Absolutist”, p.59, Ignatius Press

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• For that reason the simple test of the slogan 'Consume Less' as a basis for social action on the environment would be to tell it to the blacks in the ghetto. The message will not be very well received for there are many people in this country who consume less than is needed to sustain a decent life.

  Barry Commoner

  Country, Ghetto, Simple

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• You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different.

  Christian Boltanski

  Parent, Different, Moments

  Interview with Lucy Rees, www.lucyreesart.com. May 13, 2014.

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• You are what you are because your parents made love at that exact moment, and if they made love one second after you would be different. The fact that you were born means that there are no other children born because of you - you've killed them in a way. Is it destiny? Was it written somewhere that this was to be your life? Is it useful that you are here? Or is it simply by chance?

  Christian Boltanski

  Children, Mean, Destiny

  Source: www.lucyreesart.com

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• I would be wary about working in the States because freedom is an important thing. I have made seven films and even on Alien Resurrection I had the freedom. I had to fight and struggle a bit but in the end I won out.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Struggle, Fighting, Important

  Source: www.eyeforfilm.co.uk

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• I would be very nervous to rap I think if it ever comes to that! I'm going to try to steer clear as long as possible.

  Jacob Artist

  Rap, Thinking, Long

  Source: glee-fan.blogspot.com

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• I never thought I would be doing something with television. It changes just in the fact that you walk outside and watch your step and not trust too willingly. Other than that I have stayed true to myself, kept my old friends, and the whole good deal.

  Whitney Port

  Old Friends, Watches, Television

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• The Edith Head Trio, I would say, would be even less of a musical career than playing the accordion, particularly because I played the accordion in The Edith Head Trio. I'm very impressed by your Googling. The Edith Head Trio and another band, Tzamboni, were two bands I was in after college that played at tiny clubs to little acclaim. Our Gypsy tango version of "When Doves Cry" was our biggest hit.But we were not destined for greatness.

  Daniel Handler

  Greatness, College, Careers

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I'd made pretty clear to the people at Paramount and Dreamworks that, if they wanted Lemony Snicket to comment, he would be completely horrified by the entire film. And as long as they understood that, it was okay. I'm not much of a fan of DVD commentaries myself, so this was my way of getting revenge, in a sense, for all the puffed-up directors and stars who talk endlessly about the self-aggrandizing minutiae of making a movie.

  Daniel Handler

  Stars, Revenge, Dvds

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I have this fantasy that the second movie would begin with a brief statement by all of the young actors who had played the children in the first movie, explaining how it had ruined their lives, so we would catch up with Emily Browning drinking heavily in the back of a burlesque bar, and maybe Liam Aiken would be living underneath a bridge, and then instead of the twins who played Sunny, we would just try to find the oldest woman in the world, and get an interview with her sitting in a trailer park.

  Daniel Handler

  Children, Drinking, Bridges

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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