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“Well, I've just gotten accustomed to just being in Canada for five and a half months a year.”
“Well, I've just played a midwife but never for a second would I think that I could ever deliver a baby! So, to that essence, it's still pretending. But it's worked out ok so far, touch wood, because you're doing so many different things - if you're playing a lawyer or someone medical, you can dip your toe into a lot of different things.”
“Well, I've learned a lot from Bill Belichick. I've said time and time again, before I got to New England, I thought I knew a lot about football. But I think he taught me a lot from A to Z. I still carry it to this day.”
“Well, I've learned something from Michael Robison just about maximizing your shots. For example, if I'm shooting a scene and someone's driving at the wheel, you could steal an insert in the same shot.”
“Well, I've liked Star Wars since the late '70s. I liked it a lot.”
“Well, I've lost my wife. I've lost my job. I've lost 20 MINUTES OF MY LIFE! Damn the decaf.”
“Well, I've maybe gotten 200 requests for interviews about Marilyn, and I just decided I'm gonna do my own.”
“Well, I've never been in a touring rock band, it was all just high school and college, playing toga parties in frat houses.”
“Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I was brought up in that Pentecostal church, where I heard about God's love and God's forgiveness.”
“Well, I've never looked upon myself as being a beauty, per se.”
“Well, I've read through that handbook for the recently deceased. It says, 'live people ignore the strange and unusual. I, myself, am strange and unusual.”
“Well, I've ruffled a few feathers at all the institutions I've led. But I think that's part of leadership.”
“Well, I've seen a bunch of acupuncturists and one of my sister-in-laws is an herbalist. So I know a lot about alternative medicine. I don't know a lot about the practice but I know about the world.”
“Well, I've thought about donating, but they get so many damn donations already. I read about one foundation that raised over 100 million dollars. Well where the hell did that go? For all I know every starving child has a 2 story house by now. Or maybe they're all raging alcoholics, like homeless people. Homeless people who are more effective when it comes to raising money. Who wants to support alcoholic children? Not me.”
“Well, I've thought many times when my career was in the toilet, that I was going to have to seriously consider getting another job, I don't know what I'd do.”
“Well, I, you know, I think at PIMCO we always try and be open with the press and the public. I mean, isn't that what voters want from their politicians? Mohamed El-Erian, our CEO, writes several op-eds a week.”
“Well, I`ve never really been one to try to be politically correct. I just feel truth is truth, and sometimes I probably offend some people.”
“Well, Id say all of us are a combination of moods and emotions. In my day to day life I dont go around skipping, but at times one can feel sheer exhilarating joy at the world.”
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?”
“Well, if Democratic members in the House elect Nancy Pelosi as their leader, it's almost as if they just didn't get the message from the voters this election. I mean, the voters outright rejected the agenda that she's been about. And here they're going to put her back in charge.”
“Well, if everything stays the same forever, you stop enjoying what you've got. And stop appreciating people.”
“Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.”
Source: The Merchant of Venice: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition
“Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.”
Source: The Jungle Book (World Classics, Unabridged)
“Well, if I am not drunk, I am mad," replied Syme with perfect calm; "but I trust I can behave like a gentleman in either condition.”
Source: The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton
“Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But truth never. My book is not even remotely suggestive. I call things by their names. That is all.”
“Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?”
“Well, if I can be of any help at all, you are in worse trouble than I thought.”
“Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps.”
Source: The Complete Works of Louisa May Alcott (Illustrated): Novels, Short Stories, Plays & Poems: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, The Abbot's Ghost…
“Well, if I don't get at least 16 hours, I'm a basket case.”
“Well, if I hadn't have been an actor I would have gone on to play college sports.”
“Well, if I use Hispanic culture I get corruption and really good salsa music. If I use Chinese culture I get rigid thinking and decent Szechwan. If I use Islamic culture I get...not damned much of anything. And ditto for Africa although at least the rhythm is good and you can dance to it. But if I use Western European Culture I get industry, higher standards of living, longer lifespans and a generally happier society. Damn, I think I'll just have to go with WesternCiv even if I do have to put up with the Lutherans.”
“Well, if I were in charge, they would know that waterboarding is how we baptize terrorists.”
“Well, if I'm only a result of past causes, then I'm a victim of those past causes. There is no deeper meaning behind things that gives me a reason to be here.”
“Well, if it can be thought, it can be done, a problem can be overcome.”
“Well, if it's a symbol, to hell with it.”
Source: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
“Well, if it's naive to want peace instead of war, let 'em make sure they say I'm naive. Because I want peace instead of war. If they tell me they want war instead of peace, I don't say they're naive, I say they're stupid. Stupid to an incredible degree to send young people out to kill other young people they don't even know, who never did anybody any harm, never harmed them. That is the current system. I am naive? That's insane.”
“Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they'd still want love.”
“Well, if storytelling is important, then your narrative ability, or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too.”
“Well, if the excitement's over, I think I'll take a bath.' 'Wow. The harsh lifestyle of a succubus. I wish I had your job.' 'Hey, our side's always recruiting. You might need to be a little prettier to be an incubus, though. And a little more charming.' 'Untrue. Mortal women go for jerks. I see it all the time.' 'Touché.”
“Well, if the NATO countries don't make more of their troops usable and don't get the equipment to get them fast where the action is, then the organisation will suffer and will increasingly become irrelevant.”
“Well, if there is a spectrum between ethnic and civic forms of nationalism, which is a rather schematic way of looking at it, all nationalism contains elements of both, but Scotland is very far on the civic end of the spectrum. That is partly because nobody has ever been stupid enough to say that Scotland is an ethnicity in a genetic sense. A kingdom of Scotland existed long before anybody talked of a Scottish people. So that is one thing we have been spared.”
“Well, if there's an infinite amount of chances for something to happen, then eventually it will happen - no matter how small the likelihood.”
Source: The Beach
“Well, if they are trying to kill you, on the whole they're the people you have to kill, aren't they?”
“Well, if you ask any filmmaker how they got into it, everyone came a different route. Ive never actually watched another director work.”
“Well, if you can't then write in the press or put on television the importance of parents changing what they're doing, then the safe way out is to say, "Look, learning disabilities is probably genes. ADHD, probably genes." And that is the political alternative to not blaming the victim.”
“Well, if you count my phone as an access point (which I do), I'm pretty much constantly online unless I'm at an event or practice or something.”
“Well, if you don't have a flag, then you can't have a country. Those are the rules... that I just made up!”
“Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back. -Oibore (Enishi's dad) to Yahiko and Misao”
“Well, if you look at all of the cultures in America, this is a great opportunity for us to really get acquainted with the rest of the world. America is the only place you can do that, but we don't have sense enough to take advantage of that.”
“Well, if you look at the whole story, I mean there's only Jews and Romans in the story. I mean I just wanted to flesh that character out and make that a drama about the people around Christ when he was going through this passion.”