I Quotes
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“If someone offered me a hundred million dollars to make a movie? I would first remind him that there are 850 million people in the world who don't have enough to eat.”
“If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is a compass that tells us what to do, and a compass that perpetually stuck on north is worthless.”
“If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.”
“If someone offers you a gift, and you decline to accept it, the other person still owns that gift. The same is true of insults and verbal attacks.”
“If someone offers you a three picture deal at 20 you'd take it. I would have killed for it.”
“If someone offers you an amazing opportunity but you are not sure you can do it, say yes - then learn how to do it later!”
“If someone offers you an opportunity to get closer to your enemy, you always take it. I know that without having learned it from anyone.”
Source: Allegiant
“If someone opens a glorious Scotch or a bottle of wine, it's no more than a whimsy, but after nearly 40 years I'm used to it. I don't find it difficult not being drunk when other people are, but I get uncomfortable because they're uncomfortable with where I am.”
“If someone or something is not affecting our lives positively, the best way to deal with it is to grow apart from it.”
“If someone, or thousands, hundreds of thousands, or millions starts seeing you as a guru, you're on the wrong path, because the issue isn't about you being seen as something special; the issue is about enabling the masses you want to help to benefit from your ideas! If it's your ideas that shine, not you, then you're on the right path; if your ideas become the guru, not you, then you're on the right path!”
“If someone out of work knows only three words about their impending job-hunt, I’m willing to bet those
three words will be: resumes/CV, interviews, and networking.”
“If someone pays you a compliment, that is nice. If you genuinely find something nice to say back to them, that is kindness.”
“If someone picks up one thing you've written, you want them to go, 'Wow, this is pretty good.'”
“If someone plays a brooding actor in a film, people think they're brooding all the time.”
“If someone points a finger at you, point all fingers back at them and tell them to shut up.”
Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote
“If someone points out to you that your pet theory of the universe is in disagreement with Maxwell's equations - then so much the worse for Maxwell's equations. If it is found to be contradicted by observation - well, these experimentalists do bungle things sometimes. But if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.”
“If someone praises you with what you are not, they are in essence criticizing you of a deficiency in you.”
“If Someone prefers to Frighten you, Afterall, he is more Frightened about You”
“If someone proved to me that Christ is outside the truth, and that in reality the truth were outside of Christ, then I should prefer to remain with Christ rather than with the truth.”
“If someone provokes the body and one accepts it [as happening to himself], then dehadhyas (the belief that 'I am the body') exists. It is dehadhyas, if one says, "Why did you do that to me?”
Source: The Flawless Vision
“If someone pushes you, you push right back.”
Source: Here to Stay
“If someone puts his trust in God in a matter, let him not argue with his brother about it.”
“If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again.”
“If someone puts too much pressure on me, I will automatically rebel.”
“If someone puts up $100 million on a movie, they're gonna be concerned about whether they'll get it back. So they're not gonna make a movie about three girls, you know?”
“If someone puts up the argument that King Louis gave the Romagna to Pope Alexander, and the kingdom of Naples to Spain, in order to avoid a war, I would answer as I did before: that you should never let things get out of hand in order to avoid war. You don't avoid such a war, you merely postpone it, to your own disadvantage.”
“If someone puts you in front of a 30m high wall, tells you to get over it, and then comes back two years later and you're still there, you've made no progress. You should find another wall.”
“If someone realises the piece they are wearing is inspired by me then it only broadens my audience.”
“If someone really loves you, they'll do the right thing... for you.”
“If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.”
“If someone really wants to hurt you, they'll find a way whatever. I don't want to live my life worrying about it.”
“If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“If someone remarks "What an excellent man you are!" and this pleases you more than his saying, "What a bad man you are!" know that you are still a bad man.”
“If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'”
“If someone rescues someone, the reader expects that one of three things will happen.
What are the three things?
Right. Well, they can become best friends, they can fall in love, or...they'll end up killing them.
Which of the three do you think happens for us?
We'll have to wait and see I guess. But I'm really hoping I don't kill you; I look horrible in orange.”
Source: When Summer Ends
“If someone robs a 7-11, they took $500 and they were able to settle the next day for $50 and no admission of wrongdoing, they'd knock over that 7-11 again.”
“If someone's a racist, punch them in the mouth so they will be sadder, and therefore less likely to stereotype. (Even if Fargas's theory is flawed, on the upside, at least you've punched a racist in the mouth.)”
Source: The Good News About What's Bad for You . . . The Bad News About What's Good for You
“If someone’s been signing on for six months with still no sign of finding gainful employment, then in order to continue to receive their Unemployment Benefit or Jobseeker’s Allowance they should complete at least 30 hours of compulsory work a week with the idea being that not only do they benefit their own communities, but this would also assist them in developing basic employability skills”
Source: 100 Common Sense Policies to make BRITAIN GREAT again
“If someone's behavior makes no sense to us, passing judgment on it feels very natural.”
Source: Laziness Does Not Exist
“If someone's exit from your life brought you peace, you lost nothing.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“If someone's personhood is in doubt (or seen as lacking), all the easier to direct death wishes at them. When a tiny minority of them transgresses, their crimes of violence only confirm their abjection from the human [. . .] Anxiety, threat, dread, fear, and prejudice feed into the explanatory mechanisms that construct them as somehow beyond human, beyond mercy.”
Source: Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond
“If someone said, "Here, you have your pick, you can do either a musical, Moulin Rouge type of movie, where you sing and dance, or an action movie, or a Shakespearian or Elizabethan movie," I would definitely love to do a movie that was based on a musical, where I would get to sing, dance and act, all at the same time.”
“If someone said, "Would you like to do the period drama?," I'd say, "Hell, yeah! I'd love to do that!" To dig into history and do a story in some period would be great.”
“If someone said, I want to translate your novel into Igbo, I would say, Go ahead. But when I write in the Igbo language, I write my own dialect. I write some poetry in that dialect.”
“If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.”
“If someone saw a movie of your life so far, when the credits rolled, would they say, “Wow, that was awesome?” Or would they scratch their heads and say, “I wonder what that was all about?”
“If someone say you are fat than you are fat.”
“If someone says " I love you " it would be foolish to say " I love you too " So you say " I knoe " tht is trulie wht love is. <3”
“If someone says "You're not doing that right," hand him the shovel, sit and watch. That's the right way to garden.”
“If someone says 'Give me one word of advice,' I say 'be fearless.' And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give - who they are - is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor.”