Would Be Quotes - Page 38

• My advice to any filmmaker would be to figure out what it is that you bring to the table. What makes you different? What is your voice?

  Megan Griffiths

  Voice, Advice, Different

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Sometimes I would be very upset because my memories are very murky from my childhood, but there are certain emotional memories or emotional truths that are painful, and things that I know to be the case and I had to nail them down, and that was difficult.

  Justin Torres

  Memories, Emotional, Childhood

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I often think it would be really interesting to take all of those who would wage war to the battlefield cemeteries, and say, explain yourself to the dead. Explain yourself to the dead!

  Jacqueline Winspear

  War, Thinking, Interesting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Am I doing the movie because I'm really excited about it and want to do it, or am I doing it because it seems like it's a big budget or something like that? It would still have to be the right thing, because my lifestyle's really cheap and I'm able to exist doing smaller movies, so if I'm able to do that, I'm happy to do that. But if something bigger came along that seems really cool, then that would be great.

  Joe Swanberg

  Want, Able, Excited

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• When I would be on the stage singing, I would see a movie of something that happened, I would be telling the story. I would be describing the story in sound, but my goal would be to make somebody else run their own movie.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Running, Goal, Singing

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, People, Different

  "Extremely Dead and Incredibly Gross". Interview with Kiera Butler, www.motherjones.com. November 25, 2009.

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• Overall, The Population Bomb was probably too optimistic. I was writing about climate change - Anne and I actually wrote the book. We discussed whether or not you'd have to take a gondola to the Empire State Building, and that sort of thing, but we didn't know at the time whether the climate change would be in the direction of heating or cooling. We just didn't know enough about it.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Book, Optimistic, Writing

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• I thought if the climate was heating that CO2 was the only forcing, and it would be late in the century before we had trouble. Now that we know about the other half of the forcing, it's obvious that the trouble is coming much sooner.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Half, Climate, Trouble

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• My first policy move would be to try to get a conversation going in the US about what people stand for and what we really want. Do we want to keep adding people to the world and to our country until we move to a battery-chicken kind of existence and then collapse? Or do we want to think hard about what really is valuable to us, and figure out how many people we can supply that to sustainably?

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Country, Moving, Thinking

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• People have to decide, first of all, how they'd like to live, and how secure they want to be from disaster. After that, scientists can help determine what would be necessary to achieve that.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  People, Want, Firsts

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Not wasting energy. It is the least sexy, but the single most important and always the least expensive. You would be very interested in a report by the McKinsey consulting firm that concluded that 40 percent of everything that we have to do to mitigate our emissions are net economic winners. They are cost effective and the most cost effective is not wasting energy. That's actually going to be the largest part of this whole journey, I believe - using less energy with the same beneficial results.

  Jay Inslee

  Sexy, Believe, Journey

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

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• You could reduce people's fears if you gave them some useful information before things went wrong. It's really important to create a sense of confidence in the public in their own abilities before a disaster because they're the only ones who are going to be there. No one's going to help you for at least 24 to 72 hours. So it would be good to know more about it.

  Amanda Ripley

  People, Important, Information

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't think the whole of Iraq would be under al-Sadr, but I think he would be the predominant force on the Shia side. Quite contrary to his sort of maverick, firebrand image, he's shown a propensity to deal with the other side, to look for compromises, to negotiate. You might have a loose federation [in Iraq].

  Patrick Cockburn

  Thinking, Iraq, Looks

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Administrators tend to lump Asians in Chicago into one group, not understanding that these kids would be fighting each other, the Cambodians and the Vietnamese. We started a thing called cultural gift sharing, where everyone comes and says what his culture is, so the teachers and the administrators could understand they are different.

  Malik Yusef

  Teacher, Kids, Fighting

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I always wanted an older brother. That was my thing. My mom would be like, "What do you want for your birthday?" I'd be like, "I want an older brother."

  Emmy Rossum

  Mom, Brother, Want

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I do believe that the very tense relationship between the United States and Iran presents a challenge to the United States. But to discuss Iran as that type of a threat I find somewhat unconvincing, mindful of the fact that Iran actually doesn't have those military capabilities that would be needed to refer to it as that type of threat.

  Trita Parsi

  Military, Believe, Iran

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• From the Israeli perspective, the fear is that if pressure is off of Iran, Israel would be left having to accept the balance of power in the region significantly shifting toward Iran. It's not an existential threat, but it would definitely be a problem for Israel.

  Trita Parsi

  Israel, Iran, Perspective

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• To have insurance and have a diagnosis and to have doctors, I just felt it would be immoral on some level to complain.

  Eve Ensler

  Doctors, Complaining, Levels

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Writing, Men, Wish

  "Maynard James Keenan on baling hay, genies, and ruining family photos". Interview with Jonathan K. Dick, www.avclub.com. February 11, 2015.

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• I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand, that's what they're talking about: what it means to kill.

  Nina Berman

  Mean, Thinking, Talking

  "Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq". Interview with Tucker Foehl, www.motherjones.com. October 28, 2004.

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• It would be very hard to bring a wife to Afghanistan. In America, I'd have no problem with her doing whatever she wanted, but in Afghanistan, that's not the case.

  Hyder Akbar

  America, Wife, Problem

  "A Tale of Two Countries". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. December 2005.

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• I have a good memory. But I would be interested in memory even if I had a bad memory, because I believe that memory is our soul. If we lose our memory completely, we are without a soul.

  Umberto Eco

  Memories, Believe, Soul

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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• I would've never dreamt that my skydive would trigger such gushing enthusiasm. I still don't really understand exactly what I've accomplished, although I always suspected it would be a truly spectacular moment.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Enthusiasm, Moments, Triggers

  "Death-Defying Skydiver Felix Baumgartner 'It's Never Been about the Thrills'". SPIEGEL Interview, www.spiegel.de. November 1, 2012.

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• I think the best way to crash a stranger's party would be to arrive as the pizza person, buy pizza, buy some sort of pizza shirt, walk in like you're delivering the pizza, put it down and proceed to party while eating the pizza.

  Hannah Hart

  Party, Thinking, Down And

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I didn't choose to be gay. It would be more accurate to say that it was determined by nature.

  Jens Spahn

  Gay, Determined, Accurate

  "Out on the Right: On Being Gay, Conservative and Catholic". Interview with Markus Feldenkirchen and René Pfister, www.spiegel.de. November 23, 2012.

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