I Quotes
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“If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.”
“If you want a film and they don't want you, sometimes you have to go fight for it. Sometimes that ends up just being a meeting really, just sitting down with them and just saying here is my vision for it and here is why I really love it. But for the most part, I think filmmakers gravitate towards people that are excited - as excited as they are about the film and as passionate about it. So sometimes going after it isn't so much a function of auditioning as it is just sitting down with the filmmaker.”
“If you want a forgotten corner to be remembered, a featureless place to be loved, a shadowy emptiness to shine, put some flowers there!”
“If you want a free email service that doesn’t use your words to target ads to you, you’ll have to figure out how to port years and years of Gmail messages somewhere else, which is about as easy as developing your own free email service.”
“If you want a free society, teach your children what oppression tastes like. Tell them how many miracles it takes to get from here to there. Above all, encourage them to ask questions. Teach them to think for themselves.”
“If you want a fried fish to fly and enter your mouth, you must keep waiting till the unending time ends. Dead fish doesn't fly. If you want to eat it, your own hands must carry it.”
“If you want a friend, buy a dog.”
“If you want a friend, you don't buy a friend, Eric, you earn a friend through love and trust and respect.”
“If you want a fulfilled life, stop thinking about wealthy people and what they have and you don't. Stop thinking from a place of scarcity.”
“If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream really is alive and well again, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and justice and prosperity in a highly competitive world, you have to vote for Barack Obama.”
“If you want a girl to like you, you have to listen like a woman and love like a man.”
“If you want a glory that does not vanish, then do not glory in a glory that vanishes”
“If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.”
“If you want a good friend, you need to be a good friend!”
“If you want a good handbag and glasses, it's hard to get something without the brand name on it because it's so important to have the charmed inscription. The only way you do it... This handbag was the only one in the shop without a charmed inscription. It's just an ordinary bag. I went into the department store in Sloane Square, because I needed a new bag, because my old one lost its handles. Then I found this one, and I said "Why is it so cheap?" and the seller said, "Because it doesn't have a name!"”
“If you want a government that's going to do the things we ask our government to do, you've got to get it from somebody.”
“If you want a great job, you need something of great value to offer in return.”
Source: So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
“If you want a great site, you’ve got to test. After you’ve worked on a site for even a few weeks, you can’t see it freshly anymore. You know too much. The only way to find out if it really works is to test it.”
Source: Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
“If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.”
“If you want a happy ending, it just depends on where you close the book!”
“If you want a happy ending you have to go out and take it.”
Source: The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War
“If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.”
Source: Orson Welles: Interviews
“If you want a
healthy, nutrient dense, poor man’s diet you can’t go wrong with whole grains and
legumes.”
Source: Health & Not Screwing It Up
“If you want a higher power, go to the goddamn sun. Just go to the sun - and stop destroying the ozone layer.”
“If you want a Khadija, you gotta be a Muhammed”
“If you want a kinder world, then behave with kindness; if you want a peaceful world, make peace within.”
Source: Living on Purpose: Straight Answers to Universal Questions
“If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won't mar the furniture.”
“If you want a life of victory, do not focus on what people did to you. Focus on what God can do for you.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying!”
“If you want a long-term relationship that doesn't require a lot of work, I say, get a dog. They love you no matter what. But when it comes to humans, there's no secret; you really have to appreciate the person every single day.”
“If you want a lot of visual humor, the way to do it is have visual people do it.”
“If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.”
“If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.”
“If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask. If you want a different kind of love I'll wear a mask. If you want to strike me down in anger here I stand. If you want a partner in life take my hand. I'm your man.”
“If you want a major hint at what is consistently part of destroying our environment, I’ll give you one: Factory farming.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
“If you want a man that respects the way you think then show more mind than ass.”
“If You want a man to notice you, just wear red lipstick”
“If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.”
Source: Do You Come Here Often?
“If you want a marriage that thrives, you must live with resolve and an ongoing intentionality to live purposed focused.”
Source: Two Are Better Than One: Build Purpose and Unity in Your Marriage
“If you want a midget to look like a baby, don’t put a cigar in his mouth.”
“If you want a model for what is possible, if you want to see how to build a peaceful and prosperous and dynamic society, then look at Berlin and look at Germany.”
“If you want a more democratic EU, communication has to be among its core tasks. There should be a legal foundation for it: Fifty years after the founding of the European project, communication belongs in the constitution.”
“If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans.”
“If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday.”
Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac
“If you want a new tomorrow, then make new choices today.”
“If you want a particular behavior from someone else, try spotlighting those times when he or she is already doing it.”
“If you want a peace of mind, you'll have to learn to control what you put off in it. You cannot have negative thoughts and expect to have peace in your life. You cannot hold on to the things that make you angry, uncomfortable, irritable, sad...and expect to have a peace of mind. Let go of the negative and think positively.”
Source: My Faith Saved Me
“If you want a person's faults, go to those who love him. They will not tell you, but they know.”
Source: The Complete Works of Robert Louis Stevenson: Novels, Short Stories, Poems, Plays, Memoirs, Travel Sketches, Letters and Essays (Illustrated Edition): The Entire Opus of Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer, containing Treasure Island, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Kidnapped, Catriona and A Child's Garden of Verses
“If you want a place in the sun, you have got to put up with a few blisters.”
“If you want a player to serve and volley more, you need to teach them to do that more, how to move at the net.”