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“If I hadn't had my children, I would have been discouraged a lot quicker. It would have been much more easy for me to say, "You know what, let the whole thing go. Have a good time, because these people, this place - it's just not worth it." You know? I can't do that anymore. I look into those eyes and they look at me so trustingly that I'm gonna make sure that [they're thinking], "Hey, you did a good thing bringing me into the world, daddy. I'm going to have a great life!"”

Source: Dance on the earth: a memoir

“If I hadn't had the experience of being famous, I would have searched for it my whole life. I would have just gone on and on trying to find it.”

Ifs Trying Whole Gone Whole Life Being Famous

Author:Matthew Perry

“If I hadn't had the talent, the networks wouldn't have televised my fights. No one has made me; I made myself. I paid my dues”

“If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.”

Ifs Way Black Watches Forever Sky Lessons Blue Breathe Tricks Better Now

Author:Alice Hoffman

“If I hadn't learned to lay on a two-hander once in a while, I'd never have left Flin Flon.”

Ifs Two Left Lays

Author:Bobby Clarke

“If I hadn't lost my hearing, I wouldn't be where I am now. It forced me to maximize my potential. I had to be better than the average person to succeed.”

Ifs Persons Lost My Own Succeed Average Hearing Average Person

Author:Lou Ferrigno

“If I hadn't made it as an actor, I might have wound up a hood.”

Ifs Made Might Actors Wounds Made It Hood

Author:Steve McQueen

“If I hadn't met those two guys (Billy Martin and Whitey Ford) at the start of my career, I would have lasted another five years.”

Ifs Years Two Guy Careers Five Mets Baseball Five Years Two Guys

Author:Mickey Mantle

“If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.”

Ifs Mets Fallen

Author:Milan Kundera

“If I hadn't of had music in my life, it's quite possible I'd be dead and I'd much rather be alive.”

Ifs Alive

Author:James Hetfield

“If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either.”

Ifs Made Different Would Be Faults Accepted Turned Down

Author:Klaus Kinski

“If I hadn't spent a big chunk of time in academia I might not have the depth of consciousness I do about ideas like that. I might think, for instance, that Freud was no big deal in terms of the shape of social organization then or now. I might think that the discourses of politics and law are real and stable and fair.”

Ifs Thinking Ideas Real Bigs Might Law Social Term Deals Consciousness Shapes Fairs Organization Depth Instance Stable Discourse Big Deal Academia Chunks Social Organization

Author:Lidia Yuknavitch

“If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.”

Ifs Inspirational Trying Years Today Mother Successful Kings Stones Thinker Compassionate Legends Speakers Teresa

Author:Jack Canfield

“If I hadn't started painting, I would have raised chickens.”

Ifs Painting Raised Memorable Chickens

Author:Grandma Moses

“If I hadn’t done Bond, I wouldn’t have been in America doing my series, and I would have had a different life.”

Ifs Has Beens Different Done America Series Different Life

Author:Maryam d'Abo

“If I hadn’t left Texas, I might not have met the director Terrence Malick, and I wouldn’t have met my husband and I wouldn’t have had the children that I’ve had. Life is interesting like that.”

Ifs Children Might Life Is Left Interesting Mets Directors Husband My Husband Texas

Author:Sissy Spacek

“If I hadn’t spent so much time studying Earthlings," said the Tralfamadorian, "I wouldn’t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will.”

Ifs Said Ideas Earth Universe Study Planets Hundred Thirty Reports Free Will Slaughterhouse Five Slaughterhouse 5 Slaughter House 5 Slaughter House Five

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

Source: SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIVE

“If I hammer my own thumb while doing some DIY, it's not nice, but it's not the end of the world. To care obsessively about similar levels of discomfort in animals seems to be a case of mistaken moral priorities.”

Ifs World Ends Seems Care My Own Animal Levels Moral Cases Nice Priorities Mistaken End Of The World Hammers Discomfort Thumbs Diy

Author:Julian Baggini

“If I hate a person, then I must still love him as well.. For the insignificant ones, I don't hate.. I just lose interest and become indifferent..”

Love Hate Indifference Insignificant Uninterested Losing Interest

Author:Laarni Venus Marie

“If I hate her so much as I sometimes do, how can I love her? Can one really hate and love? Or is it only myself that I really hate?”

Love Hate

Author:Graham Greene

Source: The End of the Affair

“If. I hate that stupid word.”

Relatable Mare Red Queen

Author:Victoria Aveyard

Source: Red Queen

“if I hate the sins, I love the sinner, and would do much for his salvation”

Ifs Hate Sin I Hate Salvation Sinner

Author:Anne Bronte

Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Diversion Illustrated Classics)

“If I have a 12 or 14 hour workday, I am home the next. I cut out anything that is frivolous or doesn't need to be done.”

Ifs Needs Done Home Next Hours Cutting Frivolous

Author:Marcia Cross

“If I have a bad hair day, I just think, Well, it will be an OK hair day tomorrow. Just put your head down and go. Life is a bit like being on a roller coaster, which is, You get on and there's no stopping along the way. There are some days when you feel like this is pretty tough, and there are the days that are exhilarating, but you just keep on going.”

Ifs Thinking Way Feels Wells Life Is Bits Hair Tomorrow Tough Down And Stopping Exhilarating Roller Coaster Coasters Bad Hair Bad Hair Day

Author:Mitt Romney

“If I have a blank piece of paper and I draw a red figure, immediately this brings sounds and shapes to my mind. I tried to make a film in which every component supports the others while giving each other space and stimulating the creation of what's yet to come.”

Ifs Giving Mind Film Sound Space Support Pieces Figures Creation Shapes Paper Draws Red Blank Components

Author:Alex Abreu

“If I have a chance to positively impact how the populace views DJs, then I'm going to try to do my part to nudge things in the right direction.”

Ifs Trying Chance Views Impact Positively Right Direction Djs Nudge

Author:DJ Shadow

“If I have a chance to try in Hollywood I will grab it. What is important is that the work is good - if it's a good role I will grab it. I simply want to do good work and I don't mind where it is.”

Trying Mind Important Chance Good Work

Author:Tang Wei

“If I have a choice between looking something up and making it up, I'll make it up every time.”

Ifs Choices

Author:W. P. Kinsella

“If I have a choice between putting my kids to bed and going to a party, I'll put my kids to bed. If I have a choice of going to a restaurant or having friends round, I'll have friends round. Every time.”

Ifs Kids Choices Party Bed Rounds Restaurants

Author:Elle Macpherson

“If I have a choice whether to do the show or throw a straight pass, and we're going to get the basket either way, I'm going to do the show.”

Ifs Way Shows Choices Basketball Baskets

Author:Pete Maravich

“If I have a clear spot in my schedule, I like to tackle the heavy scenes that require the heightened emotion and focus of a long writing session. Otherwise, I have daily obligations that can't be ignored.”

Ifs Writing Long Emotion Clear Focus Scene Heavy Obligation Spots Schedules Ignored Session

Author:Eden Robinson

“If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn't say that my son deserves more money because he's a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.”

Men Son Daughter Deserve Tennis My Son

Author:Serena Williams

“If I have a day off I will play golf.”

Ifs Play Golf Days Off

Author:Dean Norris

“If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.”

Ifs Want Running Courses Hours Four Couple Planes Paris Meals Unexpected Days Off

Author:Ali Larter

“If I have a deeper relationship with myself, my roots go downwards toward an intrinsic sense of worth, not outward toward an extrinsic search for validation, not even in a conditional and often fleeting reputation with myself.”

Self Validation Relationship With Self Extrinsic Value Intrinsic Worth

Author:John Niland

“If I have a drink in my hand, sometimes it accidentally falls in the direction of the person.”

Ifs Persons Sometimes Hands Fall Drink

Author:Jorja Fox

“If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is that much richer.”

Ifs Heart Eye Waiting Ears Harder Dry Productive Spells

Author:Sylvia Plath

Source: Letters Home

“If I have a dynamite bass player - I have Darryl Jones - it's so easy to write for him because he's such a funky kid and he's gifted. He's like a little genius.”

Ifs Writing Littles Kids Easy Player Genius Gifted Bass Dynamite Funky Bass Players

Author:Miles Davis

“If I have a family down the road, I don't know if I could ever raise them in the city because I am a small town girl at heart. I definitely long for the mountains.”

Heart Long Girl Mountain Small Town

Author:Zella Day

“If I have a final word in this life, Let it be of my love for you. If I have but one last deed, Let it be one of my pure devotion to you. If I have but one last breath, Let it be used to say your name.”

Love Truth Romance Poetry Discovery Devotion Soulmates

Author:Tom Grasso

“If I have a foreign accent—which I much regret—it is cosmopolitan, but not Teutonic. I am a daughter of the great Jewish race, and my somewhat uncultivated language is the outcome of our enforced wanderings.”

Ifs Language Race Regret Daughter Wander Outcomes Accents

Author:Sarah Bernhardt

“If I have a fundamental belief that the universe is created by God, then I also come to the belief that that universe reflects God, it gives me some knowledge of Him. Obviously, therefore, the more I know of the universe is, the more enriched my limited knowledge of God is.”

Ifs Knows Giving Universe Belief Give Me Fundamentals Knowledge Of God Limited Knowledge

Author:George Coyne

“If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.”

Ifs Thinking Evening Doom Gigs Flu

Author:Nina Conti

“If I have a girlfriend, I don’t bring her to flaunt her. She doesn’t get to reap the benefits of me being famous.”

Ifs Benefits Girlfriend Reap Being Famous

Author:Nick Diaz

“If I have a goal, then it is to escape from this literalism. I'll never achieve it; in the same way that I'll never manage to describe what really dwells within my character, although I keep on trying.”

Ifs Way Trying Character Goal Achieve Manage

Author:Krzysztof Kieslowski

“If I have a good dream and I wake up happy. When I have an idea, I feel happy. Sometimes achievement and relationships can make me happy. I have a son and to see him grow - he's 22 now - that makes me happy.”

Sometimes Dream Son Achievement Wake Up Make Me Happy Good Dream

Author:Michel Gondry

“If I have a great game, I don't get too high. If I have a terrible game, I don't get too low. I know that there's more to this life and we were created for more than just to play a game.”

Ifs Knows Play Games Terrible Lows This Life

Author:Matt Diaz

“If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed!" (Buck, 65)”

Silver Work Ethic Fruits Of Labor The Good Earth

Author:Pearl S. Buck

Source: The Good Earth

“If I have a hit, then I hope the people who like the hit song go out and buy my album so they can hear it all.”

People Ifs Song Albums

Author:Chely Wright

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