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“If you're preparing a dinner for friends or a holiday dinner, make sure to only prepare recipes you are comfortable with and have cooked before. Cooking for others is not the time to try out a recipe for the first time. You end up spending all your time in the kitchen instead of enjoying your company.”

Ifs Trying Firsts Ends Enjoy Company Comfortable First Time Cooking Dinner Spending Kitchen Holiday Preparing Recipes Cooking For Others

Author:Rachael Ray

“If you're presenting yourself with confidence, you can pull off pretty much anything.”

Ifs Confidence Self Confidence Esteem Presenting Have Confidence Boost Boost Self Confidence Boost Self Esteem Self Esteem And Confidence Confidence In Yourself Confidence Boosting Boost Your Confidence Boost Your Self Esteem Raise Self Esteem Presenting Yourself

Author:Katy Perry

“If you're proactive, you don't have to wait for circumstances or other people to create perspective expanding experiences. You can consciously create your own.”

People Ifs Motivational Waiting Perspective Circumstances Expanding Proactive

Author:Stephen Covey

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition

“If you're producing a movie you're involved in every aspect of the movie and that can be daunting and then going and doing a movie where you're just an actor for hire, and you can kind of sit back and giggle where you can see somebody sitting over there wasting time and wasting money.”

Ifs Kind Actors Involved Sitting Aspect Wasting Time Giggle Wasting Money

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“If you're prosperous in soul, you'll be prosperous in whole, regardless of how many and how much physical possessions you have”

Ifs Soul Whole Possession Prosperous

Author:Mark Victor Hansen

“If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.”

Ifs Way Want Might Lost Derivatives

Author:Chrissie Hynde

“If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young].”

Ifs Young Youth Keys Staying Something New Staying Young Learning Something New

Author:Dave Bautista

“If you're put on a pedestal, you're supposed to behave yourself like a pedestal type of person. Pedestals actually have a limited circumference. Not much room to move around.”

Ifs Persons Moving Rooms Type Behave Pedestal

Author:Margaret Atwood

“If you're put on a set with a lot of people, it's just nice to see everyone working together.”

People Ifs Together Nice Working Together

Author:Tom Felton

“If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.”

Author:Van Morrison

“If you're putting your name on something, it's really important to be a part of it, or else people will just do whatever they want with it. And then it's not really you, and it won't be true.”

People Ifs Want Important Names Being True

Author:Lauren Conrad

“If you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy and colorful and lively.”

Ifs Inspirational Color Quiet Rainbow Lively Colorful Noisy

Author:Mel Brooks

“If you're raised in a house where it's okay for one group to eat and another to cook, or for one group to get more education money than the other or to be more free than the other, or where one parent gives in to the will of the other or may be verbally or even physically abused by the other. This gives you an idea of human worth.”

Ifs Giving Humans May Ideas House Parent Groups Okay Raised Cooks

Author:Gloria Steinem

“If you're raised in a household where questions are encouraged, you're the minority. It's sad. One of the things that has resonated the most for me is that, in the '50s, if your sex life was unfulfilling, it was your fault, as a woman. It was never the man's fault. Millions of women thought they were working with faulty equipment. If they couldn't have orgasms from having sex with their husbands, then they were broken. That's insane, and everybody believed it.”

Ifs Men Sex Millions Broken Husband Faults Raised Insane Minorities Household Equipment Having Sex

Author:Lizzy Caplan

“If you're ranked number one in the world it's because you've earned it, and I think the only way to really get there is to have that ability and to have it nurtured in a very competitive environment at an early age.”

Ifs Thinking World Way Age Ability Numbers Environment

Author:Andre Agassi

“If you're reading a book that I've written in the first person, without named characters, you will periodically perhaps as a reader remind yourself: Well, this is or isn't the author. This is a character.I think the second person turns that dynamic onto you, or situates it within you: This isn't really me, but what aspect of the character is really me? That creates a loop of seduction.”

Thinking Book Character Reading Seduction

Author:Douglas A. Martin

“If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.”

Giving Film Reading Audience Speed Comic Composer

Author:John Kricfalusi

“If you're reading an exciting book, it raises an expectation but it also raises a fear that the author is not going to deliver, that the expectation is not going to be met, you're going to be disappointed by a wrong turn. But when the thing is completed, the exhilaration and gratitude are deeply intense. You've gotten to read a great thing at its moment of emergence.”

Book Moments Reading Gratitude Expectations Exciting Intense Great Things Disappointed Wrong Turn

Author:Jonathan W. Galassi

“If you're reading it in a book, folks, it ain't self-help. It's help.”

Ifs Book Self Helping Reading Self Help Folks

Author:George Carlin

“If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible.”

Ifs Writing Looks Guy Reading Next Winning Mom Prize Physicist Nobel Underwear Basements Nobel Prize Plausible Prize Winning

Author:Barack Obama

“If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.”

Ifs Knows Life Inspirational Reading Alive Smile Congratulations I Smile Your Smile Cheer Up Just Smile What Is Life My Smile Make You Smile

Author:Backseat Goodbye

“If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.”

Ifs Way Writing Different Simple Position Ordinary Deserve Day To Day Honored Good Writers Likelihood Craftsman Ordinary Days

Author:Rod Serling

“If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly and eat poop.”

Ifs Mean Persons Karma Truthful Reincarnation Mean People Poop Bad Karma Mean Person

Author:Kurt Cobain

“If you're really a rapper, you can't stop rapping.”

Author:Ice T

“If you're really being honest with yourself when you're acting, part of it is touching the real you. You can only separate yourself so much from the character. Those vulnerable moments do touch me.”

Ifs Real Moments Character Acting Honest Vulnerable Being Honest Touching Touch Me Real You Honest With Yourself Be Honest With Yourself

Author:John C. Reilly

“If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent.”

Ifs Giving Years Cutting Taxes Percent Concerned Billions Budgets Deficit Tax Cuts

Author:Barack Obama

“If you're really driven and you want something deep, hard enough in life, you're going to get it.”

Ifs Want Hard Enough Driven Want Something

Author:Robert Greene

“If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.”

Ifs Way Faces Artist Voice Personality Ambition Greed Access Artistic Uncomfortable Purity Avarice

Author:Billy Corgan

“If you're really good, you should express yourself...a lot.”

Ifs Should Express Yourself

Author:Michael Eisner

“If you're really invested in feeling bad about the world, there are a lot of media outlets out there that you can turn to.”

Ifs World Feelings Turns Media Outlets Feeling Bad

Author:Daryn Kagan

“If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.”

“If you're really looking for something in particular, it helps to take your time.”

Ifs Helping Particular Take Your Time

Author:Billy Gibbons

“If you're really mind-full, and if you underline that aspect of fullness, wholeness, or wholeheartedness, it reveals the gift character of everything.”

Ifs Mind Character Aspect Revelations Wholeness Fullness Wholeheartedness

Author:David Steindl-Rast

“If you're really on some heavily addictive drug, you think about the drug, and everything else is secondary. You try and make everything work, but the drug comes first.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Firsts Drug

Author:Mick Jagger

“If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal”

Ifs Causes Bits Water Mass Appeals

Author:Brad Paisley

“If you're really serious about protecting people's incomes, you've got to consider how you're going to protect the dollar. If you don't have the dollar maintaining its value, no matter where you put the money you're not going to have any value.”

People Ifs Matter Values Money Serious Protect Dollars Income Maintaining

Author:Ron Paul

“If you're really special, meaning you're doing something unique and original, it could scare people.”

People Ifs Special Unique Originals Scare

Author:Nicolas Cage

“If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.”

People Ifs Mean Enough Lying Successful African American Liars Smarter Bullshit Smart People Hanging Around

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“If you're really thinking prayer can stop rockets or bullets, you have to ask why some people do get hit by rockets or bullets. Are they people who no one prayed for? Are they people who God just didn't like? I don't think so.”

People Ifs Thinking Asks Prayer Bullets Rockets

Author:John Shelby Spong

“If you're really tired, I could put you to sleep," he said. "Tell you a bedtime story." She looked at him. "Are you serious?" "I'm always serious”

Ifs Said Stories Sleep Serious Tired Bedtime Bedtime Stories

Author:Cassandra Clare

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“If you're really truthful with yourself, it's a wonderful guidance.”

Ifs Wonderful Guidance Truthful

Author:Charlie Chaplin

“If you're really worried about the effect of "Silent Night" on the kids, you need a hobby or something, and I'm glad you're pointing that out.”

Ifs Needs Kids Night Effects Silent Glad Worried Hobbies Pointing Silent Night

Author:Howard Dean

“If you're recording the song on your four-track in your kitchen, when you finished writing the song, you're recording, and it's cool, and honor that. And maybe that's the version that should be released. And if you're recording the song again, it shouldn't be because there's a version you love that you're chasing. It should be because "You know what? I made a recording, but I don't love it emotionally." So, okay, then record again. And be in it and take advantage of the buzz and energy of "I'm getting to record right now!" It's such a beautiful and cool privilege.”

Writing Beautiful Song Energy Honor Okay Kitchen

Author:Jon Brion

“If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door.”

Ifs Giving Littles Doors Involved Dragons Uncles Incidents Referring Nudge Frodo Fellowship Of The Ring Frodo Baggins

Author:J. R. R. Tolkien

“If you're regularly willing to give a critique, but not willing to take one, you're not a leader, you're a cynic.”

Ifs Giving Leader Willing Critique Cynic

Author:Ed Stetzer

“If you're religious or not, the world and society lacks as much of community spirit as it had.”

Ifs World Spirit Community Religious Community Spirit

Author:Luke Pritchard

“If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.”

Ifs Giving Religious Perspective

Author:Martha Beck

“If you're religious, it's like looking at God.”

Author:Milton A. Rothman

“If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life.”

Ifs Reluctant Complete Life

Author:Ray Bradbury

“If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.”

People Ifs Like You Remarkable

Author:Seth Godin

Source: Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable