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It [Obama's Nobel peace prize] would be like giving someone an Oscar in the hope that it would encourage them to make a decent motion picture.
Can you imagine what it would be like to know that your life was just going to be a series of days that were all the same, that were do-overs?
If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
My heroes among filmmakers would be people like Buñuel and Pasolini, who were of very high cinematic intelligence, but tread on a lot of toes.
How very different it would be to live somewhere where people weren't afraid to reveal themselves, where emotion was prized instead of hidden.
Once you have something so deeply infused in your culture and your brand, it would be very difficult to reverse that inertia if you wanted to.
We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources... there would be little wealth for anyone.
Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.
In an age where television is viewed as the best medium to 'tell stories,' narrative often stands in for substance on would-be prestige shows.
After I've done a good job, then I can get excited. Obviously, it would be very easy to get carried away, but I wanted to own that excitement.
If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
My advice would be to write -never to stop writing, to keep it up all the time, to be painstaking about it, to write until you begin to write.
If I could get any semblance of - it's not really anonymity, but a little bit more - control over my public image, I guess that would be nice.
It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment.
It would be unthinkable in Canadian public life today for the public inauguration of our supreme political figures to be accompanied by prayer.
My ideal role would be anything that allows me to play anyone the public is familiar with and to be able to show them that, but in a new light.
If I were confined to a corner of a garret all my days, like a spider, the world would be just as large to me while I had my thoughts about me.
Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.
It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them.
If our government servants had to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act as they have forced all of American business to do, they would be in jail.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
It isn't necessary to make things large to make them monumental; a head by Giacometti one inch high would be able to vitalize this whole space.
I think that the photos that we like were made when the photographer knew how to disappear. If there were a secret, certainly that would be it.
I never thought I would be one of those wacky chicks who say, 'I loved my labor,' but I loved every part of it. It was the best day of my life.
The EU is not going to attack the United States. Supposedly, China or the EU was doing this on the UScan you imagine what the blowout would be?
If anyone wanted ter find out some stuff, all they’d have ter do would be ter follow the spiders. That’d lead ‘em right! That’s all I’m sayin’.
I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't warm up, and I don't know how other singers do it.
Show me someone who doesn't have some sort of experience that they would be uncomfortable for people to know about and I'll show you a dullard.
I had a dream my life would be different from this hell I am living, so different from what it seemed. Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.
I've been very luckily - I bought a house, I work, my life's been very blessed. I thought it would be funny to exaggerate the non-working side.
What capital I give for the spade merely replaces what the manufacturer had already invested in the expectation that the spade would be needed.
I feel that it would be tedious for a person to have only one life. It would be much better to have two or three lives going on simultaneously.
Under communism, no one would be living in marginal conditions as they do under capitalism today and where the greatest part of humanity lives.
I'm pretty content with what I have, but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.
I love cycling, but if I could find a way of building something above the streets for cyclists, that would be amazing. We need even more space.
If there were one city I should pick to live in, it would be New York. It is a city where I walk down the street and feel anything is possible.
This crusade is much more important than the anti- lynching movement, because there would be no lynching if it did not start in the schoolroom.
If there were 'intelligence flu', there would be so many people walking around in the damn cold weather, hoping to be contaminated by that flu!
Like, What is the least often heard sentence in the English language? That would be: Say, isn't that the banjo player's Porsche parked outside?
He [Stanley Matthews] told me that he used to play for just twenty pounds a week. Today he would be worth all the money in the Bank of England.
It's safe to assume that no matter where you stand, someone would be happy to be in your shoes, just as you'd be happy to be in someone else's.
Lord Chiltern recognizes the great happiness of having a grievance. It would be a pity that so great a blessing should be thrown away upon him.
One who knew how to appropriate the true value of this world would be the poorest man in it. The poor rich man! all he has is whathe has bought.
Obviously I attach myself so much to my songwriting. If I didn't attach myself to that being my sole attribute, then I would be fine with those.
It came to me that hell would not be fire and smoke after all but arctic, everything white and frigid. Hell would be not anger but indifference.
I would die for you. You know that. I would die without you. If it were not for you, I would be dead a hundred times over these past five years.
We would be deliberately violating the fundamental obligations we assumed in the Act of Bogota establishing the Organization of American States.
He would be the finer gentleman that should leave the world without having tasted of lying or pretence of any sort, or of wantonness or conceit.
Adele's amazing, I think the world of her and her music and I think Tinie Tempah is cool. To work with someone like Kanye West would be awesome.