Would Be Quotes - Page 9

• The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

  Jack Kirby

  Real, Guy, Beats

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

  Jack Kirby

  Artist, Guy, Actors

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• If I just got up in the morning and had no place to go and was retired or something, I would be sitting there and be thinking, "Gee, what is the purpose of life? Why are we all finite? Why do we get old and die? Is there nothing out there? Why is it so tragic? Why do our loved ones perish? Why do we generate?" Who wants to think about that stuff?

  Woody Allen

  Morning, Thinking, Purpose

  "Woody Allen Discusses "You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger". Interview with Raffi Asdourian, thefilmstage.com. October 16, 2010.

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• There is an advantage in having a routine and working with the same people when you can and in writing as a regular thing and filming as a regular thing. That routine pays off for you. You get a lot of productivity that way, rather than sitting around waiting for inspiration and waiting for the perfect thing to happen. I would be much less productive that way.

  Woody Allen

  Inspiration, Writing, People

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• I don't rely on anybody except my own judgment. I don't get much input. I don't know if that's helped me or if I would be better off if I did rely on someone.

  Woody Allen

  Input, Judgment, Rely

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• In my early childhood, I was a performer by nature. I used to do puppet shows as a kid and entertain kids in classes and the teachers would make it a point that I was the entertainer of the class, but only after high school and in college that I started doing theater and acting classes, because I thought it would be fun.

  Michael Jai White

  Teacher, Fun, School

  "Interview with Falcon Rising star and martial artist Michael Jai White". Interview with Bobby Blakey, www.axs.com. September 8, 2014.

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• I wish that those who believe in the doctrines of grace would be more gracious. That's all I'd say... I'm an evangelical. I believe the doctrines of grace.

  Rick Warren

  Believe, Grace, Wish

  Source: thrownscabbard.blogspot.com

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• I'd still like to be the President, of course, and I think the best way to do that would be to raise an army and seize the Capital. This strikes me as true democracy.

  Gore Vidal

  Army, Thinking, Democracy

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Now my playmates never failed to wink and smile mockingly at me when one of them called 'Man flies!' for at the word I would always lift my finger very high, as a sign of absolute conviction; and I refused with energy to pay the forfeit. The more they laughed at me, the happier I was, hoping that some day the laugh would be on my side.

  Alberto Santos-Dumont

  Men, Laughing, Energy

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• There is no theory that would guide us through interplantary space to another world even if we could control our departure from the earth; there is no means of carrying the large amount oxygen, water, and food that would be necessary for such a long journey; and there is not known way of easing our ether ship down on the surface of another world, if we could get there.

  Forest Ray Moulton

  Mean, Journey, Oxygen

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• Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.

  William Booth

  Food, Cooking, Extravagance

  William Booth (2014). “In Darkest England and the Way Out”, p.135, Cambridge University Press

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• It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

  James Hansen

  Inspirational, Motivational, People

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• But I was waiting for some magical moment, that would prove to me, forever would be fine. Meanwhile, my first love was standing first in line.

  Goapele

  First Love, Waiting, Forever

  Song: First Love, Album: Change It All, 2005

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• I would hope that wherever I was I would be me. I have been influenced by some wonderful people who showed me that there is an integral relationship between faith and life at home. Evil is evil, repression is repression anywhere. And if it is not consistent with what one believes is God's will, then I would hope that one would be able to witness it, and there are wonderful people who do so in very great risks to themselves.

  Desmond Tutu

  Believe, Home, Evil

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• Fanaticism in many lands has surfaced as the greatest threat to the world. Indifference to its consequences would be a serious mistake.

  Elie Wiesel

  Mistake, Land, Serious

  "The Elevator Interview – Elie Wiesel (Exclusive)". The Algemeiner Interview, www.algemeiner.com. September 23, 2011.

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• Recording studios are filled with technology. They are set in their ways. And to update them means you'd have to change them back. That would be my idea of upgrading. And this will never happen. As far as I know, recording studios are booked all the time. So obviously people like all the improvements. The more technically advanced they are, the more in demand they become.

  Bob Dylan

  Mean, Technology, Ideas

  "Bob Dylan interview: 'Passion is a young man's game, older people gotta be wise'". Interview with Robert Love, www.independent.co.uk. February 7, 2015.

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• You can think whatever you want to and laugh, but I believe if I would have never learned to put my stuff back on the right grocery store shelves, and I would have never learned to put my cart back where God told me to, I don't believe I would be standing here today preaching this message to you. And I think there are literally millions of people who miss the will of God for their life because they think little things don't make any difference.

  Joyce Meyer

  Believe, Thinking, Differences

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"

  Stephen King

  Morning, Jobs, Fun

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• My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores. You could get your Acapulco gold or your whatever it happened to be - your Augusta gold or your Bangor gold. And people would come from all the other states to buy it, and there could be a state tax on it. Then everybody in Maine could have a Cadillac.

  Stephen King

  Running, Dope, People

  Stephen King, Tim Underwood, Chuck Miller (1988). “Bare bones: conversations on terror with Stephen King”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I think gender plays a part in most things, but I don't know how it would be different because I've never been a man. And my fame is different from Nicole Kidman's or Sharon Stone's. I think everybody's fame is different.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Men, Thinking, Play

  "Ellen The Generous". Interview with Patricia Marx, www.elle.com. October 12, 2007.

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• I'm not thinking about forcing my kids to watch my movies. It's always awkward when someone says: "Hey, I wrote a song, can I play it for you?" That would be the dynamic, if I was like: "Hey, you're my son, watch my work!" I don't want to put them in that awkward position. Just because when they get older, that's when I'm worried, that they'll judge me and say: "Yeah, my father's ******* Jack Black. He was in that cheesy movie." So, I'm going to keep it all high quality. It'll be a quality controller.

  Jack Black

  Song, Father, Kids

  "Kung Fu Panda - Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman and Ian McShane interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• I don't have any bone to pick with critics. In fact, if I wasn't a filmmaker I would probably be a film critic. Most of my bone is I would be a better film critic than most of the film critics I read.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Film Critics, Facts, Bones

  "Inglourious Basterds - Quentin Tarantino interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• There are a lot of ideas I have that I think would be very marketable and commercial, but they're not as compelling to me as the ones that are unmarketable, uncommercial, and unprofitable.

  Todd Solondz

  Thinking, Ideas, Compelling

  "Director Todd Solondz Interview DARK HORSE". Interview with Phil Brown, collider.com. September 14, 2011.

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• No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment.

  Karl-Johan Persson

  Jobs, World, Environment

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• We [H&M] believe that growth, profit and sustainability are not contradictory. Our ambition is to be a fair and profitable company, because otherwise we couldn't open any new stores, we couldn't produce new designs and no new jobs would be created. H&M would soon cease to exist.

  Karl-Johan Persson

  Jobs, Believe, Ambition

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