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I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about.
It hurts, as if someone took a part of me, tore it out, mercilessly stomped all over and threw it out.
Now, if we only had as many casks of butter as there are people here, then I would eat lots of butter!
Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
If I was Simon Cowell for a day, I’d buy a bouncy castle, and jump on it. Then…pour ketchup on myself!
If you’re chopping and changing the team you don’t get that word I can’t pronounce beginning with ‘C’.
If I'm driving to L.A. and have anxiety about making the drive, if I've got Peggy with me, we're cool.
In a democracy one must have the right to express oneself and that's what I do, even if it displeases.
If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.
If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing. -Kelsier
[When asked if she believed in "women's lib":] Not really. Not when I see what most of them look like.
It's an exciting time, when you can make your movie on a cellphone. If it's good, it WILL get noticed.
If you repeat something, it can become pointless. Some things can repeat and be endlessly fascinating.
... if patriarchy can take what exists and make it not, surely we can take what exists and make it be.
If the Royal Family was going to assassinate someone, they would have gotten rid of me a long time ago.
If you have any opinions at all or if you're even remotely verbal then they're going to call you fiery.
Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.
I've never been nostalgic, personally or politically - if the past was so great, how come it's history?
If you just literally stand still for a while, listen and think, things will eventually get sorted out.
For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.
Trust life. If you trust, only then can you drop your knowledge, only then can you put your mind aside.
If you tell someone you're doing something innovative, they'll think you're doing something innovative.
Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
All these kings would do a deal better if they would put down their swords and listen to their mothers.
I'm a pretty happy dude, and don't let much get to me. If something does, I don't like to hold onto it.
I would lay down everything I possess, even my soul, for you. If that isn't love, it's the best I have.
If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.
Failure isn't so bad if it doesn't attack the heart. Success is all right if it doesn't go to the head.
Anyone could learn Lisp in one day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take three days.
If I were a gambling man I would put all my money on there not being anything other than this universe.
Fashion is about owning whatever you're wearing, regardless of if it's a high fashion statement or not.
If you devote yourself to more than yourself ... you will have more than yourself to show for yourself.
If you're gonna fret, fret over something you can change. Then stop fretting and do something about it.
When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.
If there be such a thing as truth, it must infallibly be struck out by the collision of mind with mind.
I was quiet. If I really wanted to say something, I would. I just wasn't interested in saying anything.
If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.
Life has confirmed for me the thoughts and impressions I had when I was 18, as if it was all intuition.
Nature is with us if we can learn how to align with it and not break the basic laws that generate life.
I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.
On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.
There's no free ride. Someone always pays and if you don't know who that someone is, it's probably you.
Learn to leave things. If you don't have an interest in something, you don't need even to transcend it!
Why are we reading, if not in hope of beauty laid bare, life heightened and its deepest mystery probed?
I mean, if a thing works, if a thing is right, respect that, acknowledge it, respect it and hold to it.
You always exaggerate things in a movie. If it makes a good visual and it excites the kids that's good.
Of course, if you're gonna make movies, you gotta make movies, and I'm not gonna say no to a good role.
If one extends knowledge to the utmost, one will have wisdom. Having wisdom, one can then make choices.
If you live in a system that is suppressive, you don't walk upright, you always go with your head down.