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“What I worry about and don't like is the way in which the ideology of multiculturalism has declined into cultural relativism. I think that's very dangerous. When the Archbishop of Canterbury, for God's sake, says that you can't have one law for everybody... that's stupid.”

Thinking Way Law Worry Dangerous Stupid Sake Ideology Multiculturalism Relativism Canterbury Cultural Relativism

Author:Salman Rushdie

“What I worry about is climate change, because that would have untold effects that we can't even measure yet.”

Worry Effects Climate Climate Change

Author:Susan George

“What I worry about is not just Nissan, but Japanese manufacturers losing motivation to maintain production in Japan. The high yen is definitely a headwind.”

Motivation Worry Losing Productions Japan

Author:Carlos Ghosn

“What I worry about is the lack of understanding in society around the world that there is a divide in the world between those who have and those who do not.”

World Understanding Worry Around The World Divides Lack Of Understanding

Author:Magdi Yacoub

“What I worry about is working in this serial medium, where people are talking about your stories before they're done, we have this instant feedback loop now. I'm very active on Tumblr and I have a very active engagement with readers and I love it, but I don't want to start writing to try to please someone else. I don't want my meter to get skewed.”

People Want Writing Trying Done Stories Talking Worry Reader Please Active Mediums Instant Engagement Comic Book Feedback Meter Serials Loops

Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick

“What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.”

Two Government Would Be House Sides Worry Absolutes Senate Founders Chamber Absolute Power

Author:Barack Obama

“What I would advise, what I advised before the election, and what I will continue to advise after the election, is that elections matter; voting matters; organizing matters; being informed on the issues matter.”

Matter Issues Election Voting Advise

Author:Barack Obama

“What I would argue in my defence is that shows like Britain's Got Talent and The X Factor have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores.”

People Shows Records Talent Stores Arguing Factors Britain Defence Record Stores

Author:Simon Cowell

“What I would argue is that real spirituality is the ability to keep encountering two opposite thoughts at the same time and still maintain some kind of morality and perspective in the world. It is not the elimination of one side of the equation or the elimination of what you don't like; it is the investigation of everything.”

World Kind Stills Two Real Spirituality Sides Ability Perspective Morality Opposites Arguing Investigation Equations Elimination Two Opposites

Author:Eve Ensler

“What I would ask the leaders to do is to better understand the American people. I would insist that the leaders have town meetings and meet the people and listen to them and find out what is on their minds.”

People Mind Leader Meetings

Author:Arlen Specter

“What I would be quite wise to remember is that ‘pieces’ are not the end of what was, but the beginning of what is to be.”

Remember Pieces Birth New Year New Beginnings Create End Endings Beginnings Begin

Author:Craig D. Lounsbrough

“What I would do in order to be popular was, I'd put myself on line and joke around and be funny, and I was always known as the crazy kid.”

Kids Order Lines Known Crazy Jokes

Author:Leonardo DiCaprio

“What I would do is I would just remember the scene and I'd go home and I'd write out the scene from memory. And anything I didn't remember I would just fill in the blanks myself and then go and give it to a classmate and then we'd do it.”

Giving Writing Home Remember Memories Scene Classmates

Author:Quentin Tarantino

“What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.”

Writing Littles Book Stories Sides Happened Draws

Author:Robert Redford

“What I would do to change this planet is have everyone meditate and look inside. Then we'd have a happier, more service-oriented, less-needy world.”

World Looks Planets Needy

Author:Russell Simmons

“What I would do, to myself or anyone else, for the chance to go back home? But no one is there. No one I care about. They're gone, protected, far away. Home is no longer the place we're from. Home is safe with them. I hope.”

Home Mare Barrow Kings Cage

Author:Victoria Aveyard

Source: King's Cage

“What I would give to have those usless things with me now, kneeling by my mother's tomb and resting my head against its rough surface. Not the tomb in the hamlet where she had died, but here, in Luzon, in the cemetery built by Harry just for authenticity's sake. When I had seen his field of stones, I had asked to have the biggest tomb for my own use. On the tombstone I had pasted a reproduction of my mother's black-and-white picture that I carried in my wallet, the only extant image of her besides the rapidly fading ones in my mind, which had taken on the quality of a poorly preserved silent movie, its frames cracked by hairline fractures. On the gray face of the tombstone I painted her name and her dates in red, the mathematics of her life absurdly short for anyone but a grade-schooler to whom thirty-four-years seemed an eternity. Tombstone and tomb were cast from adobe rather than carved from marble, but I took comfort in knowing no one would be able to tell on film. At least in this cinematic life she would have a resting place fit for a mandarin's wife, an ersatz but perhaps fitting grave for a woman who was never more than an extra to anyone but me.”

Author:Viet Thanh Nguyen

Source: The Sympathizer

“What I would give, I thought, to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective. From that moment, my interest in their remarkable friendship was captivated, and it never really waned.”

Giving Has Beens Moments House Interest White Perspective Conversation Ordinary Significant Intimate Remarkable That Moment White House Mary Topics Gowns Captivated

Author:Jennifer Chiaverini

“What I would have liked to do on that show was play a secretary of state who has huge personal business interests throughout the world. That, to me, seems to be more in synch with reality.”

World States Play Shows Reality Seems Interest Huge Secretary Personal Business

Author:William Devane

“What I would hope to do is painting, because I don't think I'm qualified for anything else. My last job would be babysitting, so I don't think Starbucks would even hire me.”

Thinking Would Be Jobs Lasts Painting Qualified Starbucks Babysitting

Author:Kristin Bauer van Straten

“What I would like in my painting is simply a spray of colour that hangs like a cloud, but does not lose its shape.”

Doe Loses Painting Shapes Clouds Colour Spray

Author:Jules Olitski

“What I would like my legacy to be is that of a person who took good care of her family and sang some songs that made a difference in some way. I hope I'll be remembered as somebody who was always down to earth and who handled her career and other people with honesty, integrity and class.”

People Way Persons Made Care Earth Song Differences Class Careers Honesty Integrity Legacy Remembered Down To Earth Honesty Integrity

Author:Martina McBride

“What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.”

Values Left Term Behinds Company Ethics Ancestor Entity Left Behind Exemplary

Author:Ratan Tata

“What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not by exhortation.”

Giving Given Freedom Example Daughter My Daughter

Author:Erica Jong

Source: Fear of Fifty

“What I would like to give my daughter is freedom. And this is something that must be given by example, not exhortation. Freedom is a loose leash, license to be different from your mother and still be loved...Freedom is...not insisting that your daughter share your limitations. Freedom also means letting your daughter reject you when she needs to and come back when she needs to. Freedom is unconditional love.”

Source: Fear of Fifty

“What I would like to leave behind is a simple prayer that each of you may find what I have found—God’s special gift to us all: the gift of peace. When we are at peace, we find the freedom to be most fully who we are, even in the worst of times. We let go of what is nonessential and embrace what is essential. We empty ourselves so that God may more fully work within us. And we become instruments in the hands of the Lord.”

May Hands Found Prayer Simple Behinds Lord Worst Special Letting Go Essentials Empty Instruments Embrace Who We Are Special Gifts

Author:Joseph Bernardin

“What I would like to see is for people to come together and say: Of course we're going to protect and defend the Second Amendment. But we're going to do it in a way that tries to save some of these 33,000 lives that we lose every year.”

People Way Trying Years Together Courses Loses Protect Amendments Second Amendment

Author:Hillary Clinton

“What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.”

People Ifs Choices Economic Ready Prepared Mainstream Good Education Aboriginal Health Services Ready To Leave

Author:Tony Abbott

“What I would like to vote for is a candidate that is socially liberal, a fiscal conservative, broadly libertarian with a small l but sensible and pragmatic and with a chance of winning. Thats more or less the empty set.”

Winning Chance Empty Vote Conservative Libertarian Candidates Sensible Pragmatic

Author:Tyler Cowen

“What I would like to write is a book about nothing, a book without exterior attachments, which would be held together by the innerforce of its style, as the earth without support is held in the air--a book that would have almost no subject or at least in which the subject would be almost invisible.”

Thinking Writing Art Book Would Be Earth Together Artist Language Support Air Subjects Style Invisible Thoughtful Attachment Exterior

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“What I would like you always to do is what I try humbly to do myself, that is, never to say or to do anything which would wound the feelings or the self-respect of any human being, and to give special consideration to all who are in any way repressed.”

Way Giving Trying Humans Self Feelings Human Beings Special Like You Wounds Self Respect Consideration Repressed

Author:Abby Aldrich Rockefeller

“What I would like, I think, is to live a while longer. But not again.”

Author:Keith Waldrop

Source: Light While There Is Light: An American History

“What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the knowledge that there is always somewhere you can go, that you love, and where you're safe. And that's how I feel about my favorite books, wherever I am, if I've got that book with me, I've got a place where I can go and be happy. So if that place is Hogwarts for anyone, then I couldn't be more honored or humbled.”

Ifs Thinking Feels I Can Book Safe My Favorite Honored Favorite Book Hogwarts

Author:J. K. Rowling

“What i would not do is flaunt my Indianess by wearing a saree to work everyday, because it distracts from the Job. So, i would not do that. When in Rome, do as the Romans do. Social events are different. If i feel comfortable in a saree for a social event, I wear it.”

Ifs Feels Different Jobs Social Events Comfortable Everyday Rome Sari Social Events

Author:Indra Nooyi

“What I would not have given to be that young at this time and to be able to experience such unashamed honesty.”

Honesty Coming Out

Author:John Boyne

Source: The Heart's Invisible Furies

“What I would not like is to be ignored. I write from the heart. I don't write for me. I write for my readers.”

Writing Heart Reader Ignored

Author:Ashwin Sanghi

“What I would pay much more attention to are the few points where the player can inadvertently make a career decision. Most players end up back-tracking, though some actually enjoy this.”

Ends Enjoy Decision Pay Attention Careers Player Tracking

Author:Graham Nelson

“What I would really like to do, if I could have a sort of kingship for a short time and organize the group of my dreams - I would make one group which would be a combination of, say, Parliament and Kraftwerk - put those two together and say, "Make a record." Something that would be an extraordinary combination: the weird physical feeling of Parliament with this strange, rigid stuff over the top of it.”

Feelings Dream Together Strange Extraordinary Organize

Author:Brian Eno

“What I would really like to have been, given a perfect world, is a jazz pianist. I mean jazz. I don't mean rock and roll. I mean the never-the-same-twice music the American black people gave the world.”

People World Mean Has Beens Given Black Perfect Rocks Jazz Piano Black People Rock And Roll Pianist A Perfect World

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“What I would really love to happen to me would be if I came upon an idea that would keep me busy until I die so I wouldn't have to go through the business of thinking up a new book. But I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Mind Long Book Ideas Happens Would Be Dies Busy New Books Long Book

Author:Philip Roth

“What I would say about Barney Eastwood is that when our relationship worked, it worked extremely well. He had a lot of strengths as a promoter and a manager.”

Wells Managers Our Relationship Promoters

Author:Barry McGuigan

Source: Cyclone: My Story

“What I would say about me is: What you see is what I get.”

Author:Susan Rice

“What I would say is governments need assistance to run their organisations more efficiently just like businesses do.”

Needs Government Running Assistance Organisation

Author:Andrew Forrest

“What I would say is I've only had one injury in my NBA career, that was probably was because my core wasn't strong enough, when I had a stress fracture in my back.”

Enough Strong Careers Stress Core Injury Nba Strong Enough Fracture

Author:Andrew Bogut

“What I would say is this, that the light is not blinding because God would hide, but because the truth is too glorious for our vision.”

Light Vision Truth Is Glorious

Author:George MacDonald

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“What I would say to a person who is firm in their faith and wants to go into an acting career: It is such a difficult thing to do without compromising your beliefs.”

Want Persons Belief Difficult Acting Careers Compromise Firm Things To Do Difficult Things

Author:Angus T. Jones

“What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go to the place in your own gut where everything is nothing. That's a very Zen thing to say, but that place of nothing is where real creativity comes out of.”

Ifs May Real Inspiration Creativity Draws Filmmaker Guts Arrogant

Author:Lawrence Bender

“What I would say to my friends: “I do not request that you are loyal to me. I am nobody. But, I do request that you are loyal to what is true and right; that you always seek to be better than the person you were yesterday, because I will too. And if either of us should stumble along this journey; that you remember our friendship was born not because we thought the same things were beautiful or ugly, but because we thought about the same things! And though we did not agree on everything, we dream similar dreams. And the kind of future we hope for is more alike than perhaps, we even know. I would remind my friends that they are ‘MY’ friends and that life’s journey, however difficult, is ours to make together.” This...is what I would say”

Friendship Friendship True And Loyal Loyal Love

Author:Tonny K. Brown

“What I would say to the establishment is that there is far more discontent among the American people than they believe.”

People Believe Establishment Discontent

Author:Bernie Sanders

“What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.”

Men Should Heart Done Action Young Fighting Poverty Doubt Conscience Men And Women Young Man Hopeless Hopelessness Zoos Being Done

Author:Abbe Pierre