Would Be Quotes - Page 40

• It would be hard for me to overestimate the importance of reading. Nothing can expand the mind and heart like the magic al world of books. .... Our libraries are an essential resource for our children, our communities, and our future.

  Danielle Steel

  Children, Book, Reading

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• I didn't even know what Chikara was... So I show up at the show, and I'm expecting a normal wrestling show... there's like a f#%ing dude in a dinosaur outfit walking around, and there was a stipulaton that someone would be sent back in time... Not that I disliked it or anything, I was just like, what the hell is going on.

  Dean Ambrose

  Wrestling, Dinosaurs, Normal

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• But I can tell you I myself have made many mistakes. Things sometimes I would be ashamed to admit. But if it weren't for those mistakes I wouldn't have seen the beauty in me. I wouldn't have awoken the goddess that lives in me. You see, goddesses although immortal were all flawed. They were all a bit extreme at their calling, and they were all betrayed and hurt at some point. They were even considered devious but what made them unique was their strength.

  Mirtha Michelle

  Hurt, Mistake, Unique

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• If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.

  B. D. Wong

  Opportunity, Careers, Chinese

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• Editors can be stupid at times. They just ignore that author's intention. I always try to read unabridged editions, so much is lost with cut versions of classic literature, even movies don't make sense when they are edited too much. I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the author's mind, a glimpse of their creative soul. I mean, how would people like it if editors came along and said to an artist, 'Whoops, you left just a tad too much space around that lily pad there, lets crop that a bit, shall we?'. Monet would be ripping his hair out.

  E. A. Bucchianeri

  Stupid, Book, Mean

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• You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences - good or bad - and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!

  Jennifer Connelly

  Needs, Video, Want

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

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• Why allow all the old memories to have supremacy? Make new ones, memories of such luster and beauty that, should the old ones come back, they would be pallid and impotent in comparison.

  Sherry Thomas

  Memories, Supremacy, Should

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• If asked to list my ten favorite American fiction writers, Gail Godwin would be among them. In this, her latest . . . she evokes in a short book the long married life of two artists. Evenings at Five is a strong tale of love-after-death.

  Ned Rorem

  Strong, Book, Artist

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• There are reports that if Joe Biden runs for president, he would promise to serve for only one term - because nothing says confidence like promising your presidency would be over quickly.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Running, Promise, President

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• It would be especially comforting to believe that I have the answer to the question, What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness, persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?

  Mary Roach

  Believe, Light, Naps

  Mary Roach (2010). “Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife”, p.12, Canongate Books

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• I was told there would be no math

  Chip Kell

  Math

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• If you were my queen, truly my queen, our court would be stronger still. If you were mine , without mortal distractions, we'd be safer. We'd be stronger if we were truly together. Summer is a time to rejoice in pleasures and heat. When I'm around you, I want to forget everything else. I love Donia. I always will, but when I'm near you--" He stopped himself.

  Melissa Marr

  Summer, Queens, Forget Everything

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• I would say realistically, and I don't want any headlines, but I would say realistically that next year would be the last year.

  Vin Scully

  Years, Want, Next Year

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• Nobody even mentioned the word losing, losing games. We know we've been a losing franchise. He just wanted to say something back like he's always running his mouth. That's what he does. He runs his mouth all the time. Nobody was blaming him for anything. For him to come back at me was a personal attack. I feel that if there is anything that he is unsure about, tell him I would be more than happy to say it in his face, or any kind of other way, that would make him understand.

  Carl Crawford

  Running, Games, Mouths

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• We were all kind of freaked out recording the first album because we didn't know what it would be like.

  Robby Krieger

  Albums, Firsts, Kind

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• Grief is the natural by-product of love. One cannot selflessly love another person and not grieve at his suffering or eventual death. The only way to avoid the grief would be to not experience the love; and it is love that gives life its richness and meaning.

  Lance B. Wickman

  Grief, Grieving, Giving

  "But If Not". Lance B. Wickman's Address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2002.

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• If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality.

  Mark Cuban

  Writing, Railroads, Steel

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• If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.

  Paul McCartney

  Ifs

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• It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Thinking, Hands, Trying

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• I said I didn't think it would be a collectivist state so much as a wilderness in which most people lived hand to mouth, and the rich would live like princes - better than the rich had ever lived, except that their lives would constantly be in danger from the hungry predatory poor. All the technology would serve the rich, but they would need it for their own protection and to assure their continued prosperity.

  Paul Theroux

  Technology, Thinking, Hands

  Paul Theroux (2011). “To the Ends of the Earth: The Selected Travels of Paul Theroux”, p.154, Ivy Books

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• Suppose there were an experience machine that would give you any experience you desired. Superduper neuropsychologists could stimulate your brain so that you would think and feel you were writing a great novel, or making a friend, or reading an interesting book. All the time you would be floating in a tank, with electrodes attached to your brain. Should you plug into this machine for life, preprogramming your life experiences?...Of course, while in the tank you won't know that you're there; you'll think that it's all actually happening...Would you plug in?

  Robert Nozick

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Robert Nozick (1974). “Anarchy, state, and utopia”

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• I guess it's true what they say: if we could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people.

  C. J. Anderson

  Religious, People, Reason

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• Love's more than holding hands and going to dances. It's two people who struggle to live, even when they should maybe both be dead. When one of them would be better off dead.

  Shaun Hutchinson

  Struggle, Hands, Two

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• I salute my desires with a bow.
  were it not for them to come and play
  mind would be empty just like me.

  Suman Pokhrel

  Play, Mind, Desire

  FaceBook post by Suman Pokhrel from Dec 28, 2016

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• My goal is to be myself, and to challenge stereotypes, and to follow the rules, and break them, and make new rules. It's not about doing something that's already been done. That would be silly.

  Sasha Grey

  Silly, Goal, Challenges

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