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“I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that.”

Ifs Knows Mean Said Next Rooms Dying Involved Right Now Get Up Get Involved

Author:Bill Gates

“I mean, if we're concerned genuinely with writing, I think we probably get on with our work. I think this is very true of English writers, but perhaps not so true of French writers, who seem to read each other passionately, extensively, and endlessly, and who then talk about it to each other - which is splendid.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Mean Seems Concerned Splendid Very True

Author:William Golding

“I mean, if we're regulating cigarettes and sex and cuss words, because of the effect they have on our younger generation, why aren't we regulating things like calling people fat?”

People Ifs Mean Sex Generations Effects Calling Fats Cigarette Younger Generation Cuss Words

Author:Jennifer Lawrence

“I mean, if you are directing actors to do one thing and then directing them to do something else entirely because the one thing you wanted them to do may not work, then you are just shattering their confidence in the project.”

Ifs May Mean Wanted Actors One Thing Projects Shattering Directing Actors

Author:Atom Egoyan

“I mean, if you asked me what I’m going to be doing when I’m 85, I’d make a quick picture in my mind and, well, I’ll be singing.”

Ifs Mind Wells Mean Singing

Author:David Johansen

“I mean, if you could have a wizard grant a wish, would you waste it on going to Kansas?”

Ifs Mean Wish Waste Grants Wizards Kansas

Author:Michael Buckley

Source: Once Upon a Crime

“I mean, if you decided to go out today and get you an instrument and do whatever it is that you do, no one can tell you how you're going to do it but when you do it.”

Ifs Mean Today Decided Instruments

Author:Ornette Coleman

“I mean, if you degrade someone, you isolate them, you control them, you call them names, you demean them. That's a horrible existence for people.”

People Ifs Mean Names Existence Horrible Degrade

Author:Phil McGraw

“I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time.”

Ifs Mean Used Pieces Majors Percent Eight Legislation 1960s Filibuster

Author:Tom Udall

“I mean, if you have to wake up in the morning to be validated by the editorial page of the New York Times, you got a pretty sorry existence.”

Ifs Mean Existence Morning New York Pages Wake Up Sorry New York Times Editorials

Author:Karl Rove

“I mean, if you love what you do-whether you're an auto mechanic or you sew clothes or you cook-it's all about personal passion and love that really makes the thrust to the level that you want to get it to.”

Ifs Want Mean Passion Levels Clothes And Love Cooks Mechanic Thrust Love And Passion Auto Mechanic

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“I mean, if you pause over what it means at the age of 76 that Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, the happiest single day of her life was the day she made the first team at field hockey. Field hockey is a team sport. Field hockey is a knockabout - I mean, picture Allenswood, the swamps of north London. It's a messy sport. So she really enjoyed playing this rough-and-tumble sport in the mud of Allenswood, a team sport. And she was very competitive. And she loved being competitive, and she loved to win. And that, I think, was all of the things that Allenswood enabled.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Mean Made Age Winning Sports Team Fields London Enjoyed Rough Hockey Pauses Mud Messy Swamps Eleanor Sports Team Field Hockey

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“I mean, if you think about - if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Problem Fine Office Posts Post Office

Author:Barack Obama

“I mean, if you turn on the radio, love is 90 percent of the music.”

Ifs Mean Turns Love Is Percent Radio Turn-on

Author:Enrique Iglesias

“I mean, if you want to hurt yourself, go ahead. It's like, if you want to jack off, go ahead, just don't 'spoo' on a public bus or something . Do whatever you want to do. Just don't get it in somebody else's face.”

Ifs Want Mean Faces Hurt Bus Do Whatever You Want

Author:Frank Zappa

“I mean, if you were to find a shattered mirror, find all the pieces, all the shards and all the tiny chips, and have whatever skill and patience it took to put all that broken glass back together so that it was complete once again, the restored mirror would still be spiderwebbed with cracks, it would still be a useless glued version of its former self, which could show only fragmented reflections of anyone looking into it. Some things are beyond repair. And that was me.”

Ifs Mean Stills Self Shows Together Pieces Broken Skills Reflection Mirrors Glasses Tiny Versions Former Useless Cracks Chips Shattered Back Together Fragmented Broken Glass

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.”

Ifs Mean Two Together Rooms Asking Fellows Sentences Absurd Two Things Knives Carving

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

Source: The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1: (Jeeves & Wooster)

“I mean, if you're being directed very precisely by somebody who has admiration and who's really smart, it's great. If you're being told what to do by a nincompoop - and luckily that hasn't happened very often - it can be very frustrating.”

Ifs Mean Happened Smart Admiration Frustrating Really Smart

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“I mean, if you're gonna purposely lose your mind, you want to get it back some day. Don't you? Okay, maybe not.”

Ifs Want Mind Mean Loses Okay

Author:Ellen Hopkins

Source: Impulse

“I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?”

Ifs Wells Mean Done Happened Military Proud Complaining Unhappy Bragging

Author:Karl Marlantes

“I mean, if you've ever been a governor of a state, you understand the vast potential of broadband technology, you understand how hard it is to make sure that physics, for example, is taught in every classroom in the state. It's difficult to do. It's, like, cost-prohibitive.”

Ifs Mean Hard States Difficult Technology Example Taught Cost Physics Classroom Governors Broadband

Author:George W. Bush

“I mean, if you've ever spoken to someone with two heads, you know they know something you don't.”

Ifs Knows Mean Two Two Heads

Author:Diane Arbus

“I mean, if your about to tell me something like I'm dead, that i need to start acquiring a taste for blood, and I can't even eat sushi, I wont be able to handle it. Or if you're going to tell me that I'm going to start howling at the moon, eating peoples cats, and will spend the rest of my life having to get waxed if I want to wear a bathing suit, then I don't think I can handle it, either. I like cats and I tried waxing once, and that hurt like a son of a gun." -Kylie”

Ifs Thinking Want Needs Mean I Can Able Hurt Blood Son Taste Moon Eating Gun Cat Handle Suits Bathing Sushi Bathing Suits Waxing

Author:C.C. Hunter

Source: Born at Midnight

“I mean, imagine how some unfortunate Master Criminal would feel, on coming down to do a murder at the old Grange, if he found that not only was Sherlock Holmes putting in the weekend there, but Hercule Poirot, as well." ~ Bertram "Bertie" Wooster”

Ifs Feels Wells Mean Found Imagine Masters Murder Criminals Weekend Unfortunate Holmes Hercule Poirot

Author:P. G. Wodehouse

“I mean, in 1979 I was seven. I do remember punk, though, as a playground phenomenon, and remember that it was exciting to us. It really was, to a five- or six-year-old, quite a thrilling enticement to revolt. The anarchy sign scratched in desk tops, and so on.”

Years Mean Remember Five Six Exciting Seven Phenomenon Anarchy Punk Desks Thrilling Revolt Playgrounds Six Year Olds Enticement

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“I mean, in a way, I feel that one of the reasons for learning about Darwinian evolution is as an object lesson in how not to set up our values and social lives.”

Way Feels Mean Reason Values Social Objects Evolution Lessons Social Life

Author:Richard Dawkins

“I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God.”

World Way Mean Country Standing

Author:Evan Thomas

“I mean, in general, the danger is from Oriental faiths and Islam.”

Mean Danger Islam

Author:Vladimir Zhirinovsky

“I mean, in many ways, you know, I felt very connected to Ian (Dury) on, on a lot of levels. I mean, politically, & sort of, socially, our, kind of, social backgrounds are quite similar in many ways, as well as our kind of artistic endeavors. So there were many, many things that sort of chimed in for me, and kind of made me feel very instinctive about playing him, and, and although, there was sort of a certain amount of impression involved, actually, there's a lot of myself in the role.”

Knows Way Feels Wells Kind Mean Made Certain Social Felt Levels Roles Amount Involved Connected Backgrounds Impression Artistic Endeavor

Author:Andy Serkis

“I mean, in rock music terms I'm like a dinosaur.”

Mean Term Rocks Dinosaurs Rock Music

Author:Belinda Carlisle

“I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.”

People Knows Writing Mean Action Law Courses Cases Mean People Libel

Author:Elton John

“I mean, in terms of alternatives, some people have suggested for example that why don't we - why isn't America doing what Berkshire Hathaway is doing? Why isn't that a better deal for America?”

People Mean America Term Deals Example Alternatives

Author:Warren Buffett

“I mean, in terms of comfort, it was horrible, but we knew the sequence was going to be good. That sort of drives you forward when you know what you're working on is going to be fun. You'll go through all manner of discomfort to get the shot.”

Knows Mean Fun Term Comfort Shots Be Good Horrible Sequence Discomfort

Author:Michael Chiklis

“I mean, in the campaign of '24 and in '28 and '32, you know, Eleanor Roosevelt insists that women have equal floor space. And this is a great victory over time. Then she wants women represented in equal numbers as men. And she wants the women to name the delegates. And the men want to name the delegates. Well, Eleanor is absolutely furious. And because they don't want her to walk away in 1924, she wins. And this is a great political victory. She has floor space equal to the men, and she has the right to name the women.”

Knows Men Want Wells Mean Political Winning Names Space Walks Numbers He Man Victory Equal Campaigns Furious Delegates Eleanor Great Victory Great Political Political Victory

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“I mean, in the editing room, you sit there, and you're so happy about a lot of it. You've got these great actors, and the DP's great, and you love it... And then there's so much you're mad about. Cause you've made so many mistakes. So yeah, there're scenarios where you're like, "Ah, I wish I could change this. How do I make this better?" "No matter what I do, the scene's not working, what do I do?"”

Mean Wish Mistake Mad

Author:Chris Messina

“I mean, in the foreword to Impro in Denmark is by Søren Iversen, who I taught long ago, he was a Danish director, after he left. He said he'd read about [Eugeny] Vakhtangov. I'm a fan of his. When he heard that Vakhtangov had lots of tricks, he thought this was very bad. But when he came to be my student, he realised it was very good to have a lot of tricks. You saw some this morning.”

Mean Long Said Left Morning Saws Heard Fans Students Taught Directors Very Good Tricks Long Ago Realised Denmark Danish

Author:Keith Johnstone

“I mean, in the history of poetry there have been a lot poetries where you have to inherit the position of poet from your ancestors and I think that if you just leave anyone to become a poet based on an aristocratic society, then a lot of people are left out who might have something to offer.”

People Ifs Thinking Mean Has Beens Might Left Position Poet Offers Ancestor Left Out Aristocratic

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me I'd rather [my daughters] were independent, interesting, idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny - a thousand things, before 'thin'. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”

“I mean, is there a chance for me? To have another life after this, a better one?”

Mean Chance Another Life

Author:Cassandra Clare

“I mean, it [Southern Comfort] is basically a story about the folly of our misadventure into that war, done in the context of these National Guard weekend warriors who wander into a world about which they know nothing and then wind up wreaking havoc on themselves.”

Knows World Mean War Done Stories Wind Comfort Wander Warrior Folly Southern Weekend Havoc National Guard Misadventure

Author:Keith Carradine

“I mean, it blows me away that I have fans or I have people that know me in Iraq that are protecting me.”

People Knows Mean Fans Iraq Blow Wwe Know Me

Author:The Miz

“I mean, it didn't matter to me that there were people, it didn't matter that I was shy Just the sound was so captivating that it helped me to get rid of those inhibitions.”

People Mean Matter Sound Shy Mean People Inhibitions Captivating

Author:Eric Clapton

“I mean, it feels like a homecoming in a really wonderfully comfortable place to be - the same director, the same musical director, my same dressing room! [laughs] It's a great place to build something with freedom.”

Feels Mean Rooms Laughing Directors Comfortable Musical Dressings Homecoming Dressing Rooms

Author:Kelli O'Hara

“I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature from dawn 'til dusk, unless it's a pigeon, which isn't really wild, which might come and settle near them.”

Mean Country Might Citizens Creatures Travel Extraordinary Dawn Settling Proportion Dusk Pigeons Extraordinary Things Dawn And Dusk Wild Creatures

Author:David Attenborough

“I mean, it is the perfect situation to really love someone to death and to want to rip their clothes off at the same time, isn't it?”

Want Mean Perfect Situation Clothes Love Someone Rip

Author:George Michael

“I mean, it makes me sick when I see a white man sitting there smiling at me being entertaining, man. When I know what he's gonna do after he gets through. You know, when you see that thing on their face - like: "Entertain me." You know what I mean? Even the black guy that's trying to be white - even he can have that crap on his face.”

Knows Men Trying Mean Faces Guy Black White Audience Sitting Sick Entertaining Crap White Man Black Guys

Author:Miles Davis

“I mean, it really has a lot to do with who is actually physically doing a lot of talking. And we've just noticed that as we've evolved we're still making all the decisions from this, like, "cave."”

Mean Stills Decision Talking Caves

Author:Mark Duplass

“I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.”

Mean Ems Nasty Entourage

Author:Clint Black

“I mean, it was a mummy movie. It was a good film independent of its source. It that looks like Lawrence of Arabia on steroids in a lot of ways.”

Way Looks Mean Film Source Independent Arabia Good Films Steroid Mummy Lawrence Of Arabia

Author:Brendan Fraser

“I mean, it was a rough place ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and you had to wear this kind of cloak that you were a badass, and the most efficient way to do that was with your language. Swearing was just a part of how you got by during the day, and it was quite historically accurate, that depiction.”

Way Kind Mean Language Bills Rough Efficient Accurate Badass Cloaks Swearing Depiction

Author:Keith Carradine

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