I Quotes
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“If you gave me just a coin for every time we say goodbyeWell I'd be rich beyond my dreams, I'm sorry for my weary lifeI know I'm not perfect but I can smileand I hope that you see this heart behind my tired eyes.”
“If you gave me several million years, there would be nothing that did not grow in beauty if it were surrounded by water.”
“If you gave me the choice of being CEO of General Electric or IBM or General Motors, you name it, or delivering papers, I would deliver papers. I would. I enjoyed doing that. I can think about what I want to think. I don't have to do anything I don't want to do.”
“If you gave some people every clue, they'd still be clueless.”
“If you gave someone your heart and they died, did they take it with them? Did you spend the rest of forever with a hole inside you that couldn't be filled?”
Source: Nineteen Minutes: A novel
“If you gave up, you've already lost. If you keep going, you get to a new level.”
“If you gave wings to a cat, it would not condescend to be a bird. It would be an angel.”
“If you gave your best to what you were given, at the time, it's going to play out how it's going to play out.”
“If you gave your inner genius as much credence as your inner critic, you would be light years ahead of where you now stand.”
“If you genuinely want something, don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient.”
Source: The Dream: How I Learned the Risks and Rewards of Entrepreneurship and Made Millions
“If you get 10,000 guys to put their ideal woman into a computer, it still comes out looking like Angelina Jolie.”
“If you get 100 million streams on a song and you're only being paid on 20 percent, the check's not going to look good. The money's not going to look fair.”
“If you get a bad review, you take that in your stride.”
“If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.”
“If you get a certain amount of notoriety for doing something, and you can stick to that type of project for the rest of your life and make a decent living, I think you still have a responsibility to stretch. Flexibility is what keeps you alive.”
“If you get a chance to act in a room that somebody else has paid rent for, then you're given a free chance to practice your craft.”
“If you get a chance to be in a film, that's great. One of my goals is to make a record as good as Don Henley's album, Building the Perfect Beast.”
“If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes. Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before, because I was born there and just dropped right into it.”
“If you get a chance, whenever you're traveling, do go to the local boutique comic book shop and don't buy your comics online 'cause those guys are going to go extinct, in a minute here, and we want to be able to have those experiences with our kids.”
“If you get a crush on a girl on Facebook you should quickly get over it by adding him on Whatsapp.”
“If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.”
“If you get a dog, take care of your dog! You can just not have a dog if you don't feel like taking care of one, it's very easy to not have a dog.”
“If you get a drill and drill down 5km beneath the ground, it's teeming with life - millions of tiny living fossils. They resemble the earliest life forms and suggest that life started under the Ground. The bible talks of Eden as a sunny parkland with white fluffy clouds, but it probably ascended from the region that we now associate with Hell.”
“If you get a flow of credit increasing, as we've seen in the last few years - that flow of credit didn't go to more wealth accumulation as we normally use the term in economics, as capital goods. What you got is an increase in bubbles of one kind or another.”
“If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot.”
“If you get a job or promotion because of your race or gender, it is no different than a subsidy. You get something you didn't earn, 'something for nothing.'”
“If you get a little gassy, you've got to let it go. So people used to say to me, 'You're like a whoopee cushion.'”
“If you get a little kitty and he's down on the bottom, and he's laying on his chest, you know tucked up underneath, then that cat is not relaxed.”
“If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.”
“If you get a no from somebody, don't say, 'I'm going to take this as some big cosmic signal.' No, you just got a no, deal with it. Just go to the next step.”
“If you get a President (Hillary) Clinton, you might well find, just as after Vietnam, that there is a retraction from Iraq and of American influence in the world. And in a couple of years the Europeans will be complaining about that too.”
“If you get a reputation for being honest, you have 95 percent of the competition already beat.”
“If you get a show named after you, and then play another character, that's fine. But if you do a show that's an ensemble show like... MASH, then you're in trouble.”
“If you get a song right for its usage at the time, it can be useful to others. ...Those songs are more friendly to other artists looking for material.”
“If you get a ticket, you can go to traffic school, and they make you watch movies for like eight hours: head-on collisions, mannequins flying out the windshield. At the end of the movie, the instructor goes, 'Now what have we learned by this?' Never let a mannequin drive your car.”
“If you get a wrinkle, I don't feel that's indicative of your losing ground. That's ridiculous.”
“If you get agitated every time by a particular behaviour, which is rather expected, of a close one, then the problem lies with you. He or she will be the same each time, you must change.”
Source: The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
“If you get all tangled up, just tango on.”
“If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."”
“If you get an image try to destroy it.”
“If you get an impulse in a scene, no matter how wrong it seems, follow the impulse. It might be something and if it ain't - take two!”
“If you get an infection, you get a fever; the fever is your body dealing with the infection. If you get traumatized, your mind and your brain have a reaction to that trauma. If you're not dreaming about it, something's probably wrong.”
“If you get an opportunity to work with David Simon, anybody with good taste would.”
“If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered.”
Source: Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions
“If you get angry with yourself when you make mistakes with children or anyone, then ask yourself, “Why did I react like that? What made me feel that way? What is the lie that I am believing about myself or them?”
Source: The Flower of Heaven: Opening the Divine Heart Through Conscious Friendship & Love Activism
“If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.”
“If you get arrested, you`re supposed to know why you`re arrested. So, Freddie Gray should have known why he was arrested. His friends, his family, his community, they should have known what he was charged with, why he was arrested. And the police should have come out with that right away.”
“If you get asked to do something that would take place down the road (say you get asked to speak at a conference that's a year away) and you wouldn't want to do it if it were taking place next week, then don't do it. This advice has helped me evaluate the opportunities that I truly want to dedicate my time to and those that I don't.”
“If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth.”
“If you get attached, then it becomes an obsession. If the person is not there, you are unhappy. If you miss the person, you are in misery. And attachment is such a disease that if the person is not there you are in misery, and if the person is there you are indifferent. Then it is okay; it is taken for granted. If the person is there it is okay - no more than that. If the person is not there, then you are in misery. This is attachment.”