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My mom would take me to restaurants, and the first thing I'd ask for would be a pen and a napkin, and I'd sketch shoes and shoes and shoes.
It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.
I have absolutely no skill set that would suggest that I would be able to do directing. [...] If I were able to, I'd like to get into that.
I've never stunned anyone except in our D.A. lessons," said Luna, sounding mildly interested. "That was noisier than I thought it would be.
Faith enables many of us to endure life's difficulties with an equanimity that would be scarcely conceivable in a world lit only by reason.
We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.
Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
If we were able to live at the level of the soul all the time, there would be no need for hindsight to appreciate the great truths of life.
If we could just trust the moment that we're in and live it in the way that you best can embrace it, it would be much better for all of us.
It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States.
Show me a sexual practice that involves ice cubes and hot sauce, and I will show you a sexual practice that would be improved without them.
I suppose you know where this country would be, where the world would be, if everyone who got depressed by the papers stopped reading them.
I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day.
We are in conflict with the world; otherwise, there would be no necessity to put forth tremendous effort to meet the world and its demands.
I didn't know if it would be a success-ful one, or what the stages would be, but I always saw myself as a lifetime musician and songwriter.
Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another.
The thing was, if I had found a way to escape- even for just a little while- I knew the pain would be there waiting for me when I got back.
And when I got sick I felt confident that if it was the last thing I ever recorded before I left this earth, I would be really proud of it.
The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.
I gather a repulsive nobody writing in a paper no one of any decency would be seen dead with has written something loathesome and inhumane.
Quantum mechanics as it stands would be perfect if we didn’t have the quantum-gravity issue and a few other very deep fundamental problems.
Financial planners who take commissions have a built-in conflict of interest...even with disclosure, my choice would be a Fee-Only planner.
As for total disarmament, there are almost 50,000 nuclear weapons in the world today; even if they were banned, not all would be destroyed.
If God rewarded the righteous immediately, we would soon be engaged in business, not godliness...we would be pursuing not piety,but profit.
I've always believed everything was about protecting the Clinton power structure and anyone would be sacrificed who got in the way of that.
Emotions are the color of life; we would be drab creatures indeed without them. But we must control these emotions or they will control us.
Yes, he would be gone, but she knew now what it meant to love. She might not know what it meant to be loved, but loving was almost as good.
But in the end she merely shrugged, knowing at the very least it would be interesting. Knowing, in her gut, it might just be the beginning.
You can practice for 30 years and still not be a Mozart. The most lethal combination would be a Mozart who practiced for thousands of hours.
I tend to think in dramatic terms. In life, there may be an actual drama, but it would be the fictionalized, imagined drama that engaged me.
Relations between black and white would be greatly improved if we were more accepting of our fears and our feelings and more vocal about it.
If I had to pick out a therapist in a movie that I'd like to go see as a personal therapist, it would be Robin Williams in Goodwill Hunting.
If all were nonviolent, there would be no anarchy and there would be no question of anybody being armed for meeting aggression from without.
When I'm recording something (especially because I produce my own music) I might consider how hard it would be to replicate a song on stage.
I thought it would be a great opportunity to work with someone that I really like and really respect as an artist [like Alessandro Michele].
What would be awful would be to die and look back miserably - seeing only the bad things, the opportunities missed, or what could have been.
He said there are thousands of Shadowhunters, but great love comes once in a lifetime if one is lucky, and one would be a fool to let it go.
Perhaps a day might come when there would be at last be enough to go round, and when posterity could enter into the enjoyment of our labors.
The idea that our son would be like Raymond Babbitt was a shocking reordering of everything. And something we couldn't quite fathom, really.
It used to be that we imagined that our mobile phones would be for us to talk to each other. Now, our mobile phones are there to talk to us.
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
The NYPD was ubiquitous. They were always around Malcolm X. Whenever Malcolm spoke, there would be one or two dozen cops all over the place.
When asked "If you could meet any famous person living or dead," I always ask whether the dead person would be alive again when I meet them.
I'm an independent, straight in the middle. I've donated to candidates that I thought would be good that are Republican and Democrats alike.
I thought it would be an enormous amount of fun to make a movie that heads out into space, which is something that we had never done before.
I've never had a chance to go to the Finals, and I don't have a ring - and that would be the only thing that would get me to think about it.
If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.
All unhappiness is due to the ego. With it comes all your trouble. If you would deny the ego and scorch it by ignoring it you would be free.
That the young rich smell the stink of the poor and learn to find it a bit amusing. They had to laugh, otherwise it would be too terrifying.