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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.
I have no wish to talk nonsense." "If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.
I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else - that would be fatal.
'Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book.
Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?
I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.
It would be madness to let the purposes or the methods of private enterprise set the habits of the age of atomic energy.
Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees.
As a ballplayer, I would be delighted to do it again. As an individual, I doubt if I could possibly go through it again.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
For me, it would be very difficult to express an opinion about our times without humor. I don't think you could do that.
I never imagined myself as an actor who would be in films. I always only thought of myself being in a play or a musical.
If all the young ladies who attended the Yale promenade dance were laid end to end, no one would be the least surprised.
The Iranian acquisition of nuclear weapons would be infinitely more costly than any scenario you can imagine to stop it.
I wouldn't want to try to adapt something of my own. It would be like going back to school and doing all my exams again.
Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned.
If we got rid of everybody in Washington who sold access for donations, then the town would be empty. But it's unseemly.
Choosing my favorite moment in journalism would be like picking a favorite among my children. I can't pick one favorite.
The only thing that would make her jealous would be if I led a parade riding a unicorn while ballerinas sang love songs.
If only people who are ideologically committed to a particular outcome argued to the courts, the law would be worse off.
I never ever thought that I would be in a Bond film, ever, which is weird because I grew up loving these amazing movies.
In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted.
I don't understand it, but every horror film is huge. I would consider one, but I don't know if my heart would be in it.
No, I am a crier and if people ever saw me privately they would be shocked at what a bowl of mush I am underneath it all.
I still wanted to know why. As though somebody was going to answer that for me, as though any answer would be satisfying.
I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.
It would be good for us Africans to accept ourselves as we are and recapture some of the positive aspects of our culture.
There is a kind of courtesy in skepticism. It would be an offense against polite conventions to press our doubts too far.
When I was playing, it would be whatever role I wanted. Now it's whatever they ask me to do, which I kind of like better.
In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.
Someone explained parallax error to me, and I thought Ah, with a cheap camera, it would be pretty easy to behead someone.
we certainly do not want to abolish power, that would be abolishing life itself, but we need a new orientation toward it.
That global poverty would end. That people would be able to eat. It's the worst shame in the world that people go hungry.
If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.
Most kids would be like, 'My dad's never around.' But I saw it as a positive. He was out there working to provide for me.
There is no business in America that would be prevented from taking results into account when making personnel decisions.
I have no clue. I just know I would want to play the least amount of shows that the most people would be able to come to.
I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object and to this day it mystifies me.
I daydreamed that when you grow up there are more bullies and how wonderful that would be if it were true, but, it's not.
If rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!
We've been deceived by the thought that we would be more pleasing to God in our own way than in the way God has given us.
As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write songs for black voices.
I hate the confessional. I love leaving the confessional. I hate going to the confessional. I would be a mess without it.
All Patsy Cline had to do was sing somebody else’s song and her version would outsell theirs because it would be so good!
If we took away the ability to put defibrillators in people in their last years, people would be shouting in the streets.
Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.
It would be a contradiction in terms if the oppressors not only defended but actually implemented a liberating education.
If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence.
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
If it was easy everyone would be a champion, so you've got to decide if you're that person that's going to be a champion.