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“You know, if you love something, you should love it regardless of whether it costs five dollars or 500 or 5,000 dollars. Unfortunately, that's not the way our culture works, and we do collectively buy into this idea that things that are more expensive probably have more value.”

Ifs Knows Way Should Ideas Values Culture Five Cost Dollars Expensive

Author:Moby

“You know, if you make a customer unhappy they won't tell five friends, they'll tell 5,000 friends. So, we are at a point now where we have all of the things we need to build an important and lasting company, and if we don't, it will be shame on us.”

Ifs Knows Needs Important Company Five Shame Customers Unhappy Lasting Five Friends

Author:Jeff Bezos

“You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn't your sport.”

Ifs Knows Needs Sports Rounds Hunting Deer Deer Hunting

Author:Elayne Boosler

“You know, if you play on home soil sometimes funny things can happen and you have that push of the crowd.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Play Home Happens Crowds Soil Funny Things

Author:Ruud Gullit

“You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Earth Voice Powerful Raises Hops Most Powerful

Author:Erika Slezak

“You know, if you use instrument, why, you have to stay on perfect time - timing. And if you do a cappella - I'm so bad, just wonder, you know, maybe I'll sing one verse this way and one verse another. And if you're doing it a capella, you don't have to keep any time. You can just go out as far as you want to with it.”

Ifs Knows Way Want Use Perfect Wonder Instruments Timing Verses

Author:Ralph Stanley

“You know, if you want to meet a lot of Iraqi leaders, the best places are the hotels in Amman or in London. In general the government here is amazingly unpopular.”

Ifs Knows Want Government Leader London Hotel Best Place Amman

Author:Patrick Cockburn

“You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.”

Ifs Knows Writing Software Justified

Author:Richard Stallman

“You know, if you're a human and living on the planet, it doesn't matter what you do; you are not immune to the challenges, the trials, the difficulty. And that fact that I happen to be a coach and a minister and a spiritual teacher doesn't mean anything. I'm still human.”

Ifs Knows Humans Mean Stills Matter Facts Happens Spiritual Challenges Teacher Planets Difficulty Coaches Trials Ministers Immune Living On Spiritual Teachers

Author:Iyanla Vanzant

“You know, if you're an American and you're born at this time in history especially, you're lucky. We all are. We won the world history Powerball lottery...”

Ifs Knows World Born Lucky World History Lottery

Author:Bill Maher

“You know, if you're at home with children, you lose twenty-five IQ points.”

Ifs Knows Children Home Loses Five Twenties Twenty Five

Author:Nathaniel Philbrick

“You know, if you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are. I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair.”

People Mean Honest Like You Who You Are Being Honest Show Business Honest With Yourself Be Honest With Yourself

Author:Ellen DeGeneres

“You know, if you're Guy Kawasaki and you create a car that gets 500 miles a gallon with zero emissions, people on the Internet would say: 'I could have done that in half an hour, and it's been done before. What's the big deal? I expected something more from him.' Meanwhile, they didn't do it, right? They're still living at home with their mothers.”

People Ifs Knows Stills Done Home Bigs Mother Guy Hours Deals Half Car Internet Expected Miles Zero Big Deal Emissions Gallons

Author:Guy Kawasaki

“You know, if you're lucky enough to have two smash hit shows, the traffic of the world goes through your dressing room.”

Ifs Knows World Two Enough Shows Rooms Lucky Traffic Dressings Dressing Rooms

Author:Carol Channing

“You know, if you're trying to mark your territory, you could've just peed on me before I came over here and saved us both a lot of time!”

Ifs Knows Trying Mark Saved Territory

Author:Julie James

Source: Just the Sexiest Man Alive

“You know, if you've got nine people that you've got to get a treat for - because you do have sweet food, even if you're poor - you can't go out and buy a Sara Lee cake. You buy the big bag of cookies, those chocolate and vanilla ones with the icing. That has a lot of trans fat in it, but it goes a long way with a lot of people.”

People Ifs Knows Way Long Bigs Poor Sweet Treats Nine Fats Bags Chocolate Cake Long Way Cookies Trans Vanilla Icing

Author:Sandra Cisneros

“You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!”

Ifs Knows Giving Home Parent Driving Boat Giving Back Benz Mercedes Benz

Author:Richard Simmons

“You know, if you’re caught with an ounce of cocaine, the chances are good you’re going to go to jail. If it happens repeatedly, you may go to jail for the rest of your life. But evidently, if you launder nearly a billion dollars for drug cartels and violate our international sanctions, your company pays a fine and you go home and sleep in your own bed at night, every single individual associated with this. I think that’s fundamentally wrong.”

“You know, Im always surprised when I read profiles, and they make me sound so jaded. I am so not jaded.”

Knows Sound Profile Jaded

Author:Jay McInerney

“You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.”

Knows Running Jobs Cities New York Kitchen New York City Laughed Swiss

Author:Emeril Lagasse

“You know, in a business, you have to operate on the basis of voluntary investment by individuals in a cause. With government, there is no voluntary effort to invest capital. It's just taken and invested. And the same accountability is not at play. The same natural forces in the economy are not at play.”

Knows Play Government Individual Force Causes Natural Effort Economy Taken Bases Investment Accountability

Author:Mike Lee

“You know, in a way, 'Dear Santa Claus' is rather stuffy... Perhaps something a little more intimate would be better... Something just a shade more friendly..." "How about 'Dear Fatty'?”

Knows Way Littles Would Be Dear Intimate Friendly Shade Santa Santa Claus Fatty

Author:Charles M. Schulz

“You know, in a workplace, when you shrink the size of a workforce, there is pain there. But there is no question: we have a government that we can no longer afford.That is the cold, hard fact. So we have to make this more efficient. We have to sunset programs that no longer work. We have to eliminate waste and fraud. We must do this.”

Knows Hard Facts Government Pain Cold Waste Program Size Sunset Fraud Efficient Workplace Shrinks Workforce Workplace Safety

Author:Meg Whitman

“You know, in addition to your mind-reading abilities, I may have absorbed some sluttiness from your blood.”

Knows Mind May Reading Ability Blood Mind Reading

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“You know, in America, Christian fundamentalism vs. science. You know, be it teaching Darwinian evolutionary theory or stem cell res- You know, the whole thing, and then the issue of women being educated in Middle Eastern - I mean, it just seems so contemporary. In terms of spirituality, it's interesting because I actually think (her character in Agora) Hypatia is very spiritual.”

“You know, in an ideal world, people would just be intrigued and go and see a film without knowing anything about it, because that's where you're going to have the most experience of a film, the biggest, the most revelation of a film. But at the same time, I think there are benefits of having seen a trailer where you actually look forward to seeing moments in a film knowing that they're coming up. I don't know which is better.”

People Thinking Knows World Looks Moments Film Knowing Seeing Benefits Ideals Revelations Intrigued Trailers Ideal World

Author:Duncan Jones

“You know, in college, I never got either degree, but I was a double-major in Computer Science and English. And English at Berkeley, where I went to school, is very much creatively-driven. Basically, the entire bachelor's degree in English is all about bullshitting. And Computer Science, which was my other major, was exactly the opposite of that. You had to know what you were doing, and you had to know what you were talking about.”

School College Computer Computer Science Berkeley

Author:Jonathan Blow

“You know, in college, I smoked a little pot, did a little blow.”

Knows Littles College Blow Pot

Author:Barack Obama

“You know, in each segment of ex-Yugoslavia, multi-ethnic life is lost, except I think we somehow still have this in Serbia.”

Thinking Knows Stills Life Is Lost Exes Serbia Yugoslavia

Author:Emir Kusturica

“You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it’s only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body’s a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions. It’s wild and quick and bold down here, but I like wild things and quick things and bold things, too.”

Thinking Knows Persons Said Different Country Body Devil Notion Folks Dragons Nasty They Said Underworld Wild Things

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

Source: The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“You know, in Hollywood you know when somebody is getting pregnant. It's supposed to be this beautiful scene: the rays are coming in and you have these beautiful perfect bodies lying on top of each other and there's the room glowing in one person's eyes and the sun coming up over the other person's shoulder.”

Knows Persons Body Eye Beautiful Lying Perfect Rooms Sun Scene Hollywood Shoulders Supposed To Be Rays Pregnant Glowing

Author:Staceyann Chin

“You know, in life there are only three or four fundamental decisions to make. The rest is just luck.”

Knows Three Decision Four Luck Fundamentals

Author:Raymond Aubrac

“You know, in Los Angeles, you're constantly in your car, you're sealed up, you're not walking around. Whereas in New York, after a while, all your stuff is kind of public, in one way or the other. I'm not saying either one of those is bad; they're both great for a very specific kind of comedian. And I'm glad that they both exist.”

Knows Way Kind Stuff Car New York Walking Glad One Way Comedian Los Angeles

Author:Patton Oswalt

“You know, in my hometown of Hope, Arkansas, the three sacred heroes were Jesus, Elvis, and FDR, not necessarily in that order.”

Knows Order Three Jesus Hero Sacred Hometown Arkansas

Author:Mike Huckabee

“You know, in my music career there was a moment where the irony was just so heavy. There were people in my audience that were the reason I developed neuroses. These people that tortured my life were using my art, my poetry, as fuel for them, to torture other people.”

People Knows Art Reason Moments Careers Audience Heavy Irony Torture Fuel Neurosis Music Career

Author:Fred Durst

“You know, in our culture today, our Western, reductionist, Roman, linear, fragmented... culture, we don't ask how to make a pig happy. We ask how to grow it faster, fatter, bigger, cheaper, and that's not a noble goal.”

Knows Today Culture Asks Grows Goal Bigger Western Noble Faster Pigs Cheaper Linear Fragmented

Author:Joel Salatin

“You know, in physics there's the old law for every action there's a equal amount of reaction. Sometimes that's true in politics. If somebody's out there making nonsensical statements, but wielding power behind them a lot of people say, "Well, I need to react to that." I think that's happening.”

People Thinking Sometimes Action Equal Physics Nonsensical

Author:Al Gore

“You know, in politics when you come in third, it's a win.”

Knows Winning Thirds

Author:Paula Poundstone

“You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.”

People Knows Body Kings Succession Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis

Author:Al-Waleed bin Talal

“You know, in Saudi Arabia, you're innocent until proven Jewish. Female. Guilty! They're guilty!”

Knows Female Innocent Guilty Proven Arabia Saudi Arabia Saudis

Author:Jon Stewart

“You know, in some ways conducting is counter-intuitive. It's like winter driving in Finland - if you skid, the natural reaction is to fight with the wheel and jam on the brakes, which is the quickest way to get killed. What you have to do is let go, and the car will right itself. It's the same when an orchestra loses its ensemble. You have to resist the temptation to semaphore, and let the orchestra find its own way back to the pulse.”

Ifs Knows Way Fighting Loses Natural Car Letting Go Winter Driving Reactions Temptation Wheels Orchestra Intuitive Pulse Jam Conducting Ensemble Brake Finland

Author:Esa-Pekka Salonen

“You know, in ten years you're gonna be playing soccer with your tits, what do you think of that?”

Thinking Knows Years Body Women Ten Soccer Playing Soccer

Author:Bernardo Bertolucci

“You know, in the 1970's, when I was in high school, I belonged to a band called the Happy Funk Band. Until an unfortunate typo caused us to be expelled from school.”

Knows School Band High School Unfortunate Funk Typos

Author:Colin Mochrie

“You know, in the case of most of us, the mind is noisy, everlastingly chattering to itself, soliloquizing or chattering about something, or trying to talk to itself, to convince itself of something; it is always moving, noisy.”

Knows Trying Mind Moving Cases Convince Noisy Always Moving

Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti

“You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.”

Ifs Knows Bigs Names Records Producers

Author:Waylon Jennings

“You know, in the film making business no one ever gives you anything.”

Knows Giving Film Business

Author:James Cameron

Source: James Cameron: Interviews

“You know, in the horror movie you kill the monster, and the hand re-emerges. And if you're not looking, the hand grows back and then the monster's there again. That cannot be allowed to happen.”

Ifs Knows Hands Happens Grows Horror Monsters

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask brand-new citizens to affirm their devotion to the law, is it too much to ask that the president do the same?”

Ifs Knows Different Enough Law Asks President Too Much Citizens Six Devotion Ass Brands Good Enough Bad Ass Oath Brand New

Author:Trey Gowdy

“You know, in the sentence of humanity this place needs to be a parentheses. And when I say parentheses I mean I'm talking like you go around it. Leave it alone. Let it exist. And what I want people to see with this film is not only a respect for this place from the bottom of my heart.”

People Knows Want Needs Heart Mean Film Humanity Talking Like You My Heart Bottom Sentences Parentheses

Author:DJ Spooky

“You know, in the suburbs, most people believe in gravity, but they don't have much of a sense of humor.”

People Knows Believe Sense Of Humor Gravity Suburbs

Author:Paul Laffoley

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