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“I think that has to do with my awareness that in a sense we all have a certain measure of responsibility to those who have made it possible for us to take advantage of the opportunities. The door is opened only so far. If some of us can squeeze through the crack of that door, then we owe it to those who have made those demands that the door be opened to use the knowledge or the skills that we acquire not only for ourselves but in the service of the community as well. This is something that I guess I decided a long time ago.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Long Made Use Certain Opportunity Community Responsibility Doors Awareness Skills Demand Long Time Advantage Decided Made It Acquire Cracks Long Time Ago

Author:Angela Davis

“"Ladies and Gentlemen, we're about to begin boarding. If we could ask for your cooperation, please stay seated until you row has been called." ... That's what they say - but somehow, by the time it comes out of the speaker, it sounds like, "Everybody up and rush the door! Everybody up and try to squeeze your big fat butts in the small gate door area! Immediately! ... Do whatever you have to do to get on board. This is the last helicopter out of Vietnam!"”

Ifs Trying Has Beens Bigs Funny Lasts Asks Sound Comedy Doors Please Areas Fats Boards Gentleman Gates Cooperation Vietnam Speakers Helicopters Ladies And Gentlemen Please Stay

Author:Brian Regan

“The arresting officer, who I had literally known, all my life. You know what I mean? This guy lived four doors down the street me, in a town of less than four hundred people. *We've met.* Now, he takes me to jail, and he asks me if I have any aliases. And I was just being a smartass, and I said, "Yeah. They call me, "Tater Salad!" Seventeen years later, I'm handcuffed on a bench in New York with blood coming out of my nose, and this cop goes, "Are you Ron 'Tater Salad' White?"”

“I wrote a mad, passionate letter to the best restaurant in the UK, Le Gavroche in London, and asked if I could work for them. They gave me a job as a dishwasher (Colin laughs). For me that was a joy because I had a foot in the door of this world class restaurant. Just being around the buzz and the pots and pans and the wonderful food and all this produce that was coming in, that was the start of Paul Rankin the chef.”

Ifs World Jobs Joy Class Laughing Wonderful Doors Feet This World Produce Letters Mad Passionate London Restaurants If I Could Pot Just Being Chef Buzz World Class Dishwashers Pots And Pans

Author:Paul Rankin

“It is impossible to draw near to God without sorrows, without which human righteousness cannot remain unchanged... If you desire virtue, than give yourself to every affliction, for afflictions produce humility. If someone abides in virtue without afflictions, the door of pride is opened to him.”

Ifs Inspirational Giving Humans Christian Desire Religious Virtue Impossible Doors Produce Humility Pride Sorrow Draws Orthodox Righteousness Affliction

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.”

“You'd phone or knock on the door of your friend or neighbour if they hadn't appeared at your local pub or bar for a few days, just to make sure they weren't dead in the cellar.”

Ifs Doors Phones Bars Locals Neighbour Pubs Cellars

Author:Jason Flemyng

“If we knock on the door until it opens, not taking no for an answer, our lives will be transformed as we step up into a higher awareness.”

Ifs Spirituality Answers Steps Our Lives Doors Awareness Higher Transformed Step Up Celestine Prophecy

Author:James Redfield

“A lawyer once told a jury that the person his client stood accused of having killed was about to walk through the courtroom door. When the jurors looked startled, the lawyer asserted that if those jurors had wondered, even for one second that the victim might appear, that belief constituted enough reasonable doubt for them to find his client innocent.”

Ifs Persons Enough Might Law Belief Walks Doubt Doors Victim Lawyer Innocent Reasonable Clients Accused Jury Courtroom Jurors Reasonable Doubt

Author:John Adams

“If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that.”

Ifs Want Writing Simple Rooms Doors

Author:Mary Garden

“The earth's a door if you press your ear against it.”

Ifs Earth Doors Ears Presses

Author:David Mitchell

“If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.”

Ifs Doors Wide

Author:Paul Johnson

“This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing--the door is locked and no one can find the key.”

Ifs Mean Rooms Doors One Thing Keys Clean Gas Stations Vacation Locked Gas Stations

Author:Pat Williams

“Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.”

Ifs Trying War Home Faces Names Doors Son Duty Ought Treats Regard Coming Home Unworthy Your Son Shirk Renegades

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me.”

Ifs World Writing Would Be Perfect Doors Comfortable Pages Meals If I Could Slips Perfect For Me

Author:Aaron Sorkin

“I think the public library system is one of the most amazing American institutions. Free for everybody. If you ever get the blues about the status of American culture there are still more public libraries than there are McDonald's. During the worst of the Depression not one public library closed their doors.”

Ifs Thinking Stills Culture Doors Worst Institutions Library American Culture Mcdonalds Most Amazing Public Library

Author:David McCullough

“If I can't find a cat, I stop and quiet my mind, not yelling the cat's name, and focus on connecting with the cat and then I get the message and go to that room or outside door and find the cat.”

Ifs Mind I Can Names Rooms Focus Doors Quiet Messages Cat Connecting Yelling

Author:Bernie Siegel

“When I got home from school, I never knew which mood of my mom was gonna be on the other side of the door. I didn't know what I was gonna get when I turned the doorknob. That's very good preparation if you want to be a producer.”

Ifs Knows Want Home School Sides Doors Mom Very Good My Mom Mood Producers Preparation

Author:Gary Dell'Abate

“Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.”

Ifs Trying Matter Play Games Rooms Break Doors Harder Shoulders Pedigree

Author:Audra McDonald

“See, even if you're stuck in life, if you can describe just exactly the way you're stuck, then you will immediately recognise that you can't go on that way anymore. So, just saying precisely, writing precisely how you're stuck, or how you're alienated, opens up a door of freedom for you.”

Ifs Way Writing Doors Goes On Stuck Recognise Just Saying

Author:David Whyte

“The devil is like a rabid dog tied to a chain; beyond the length of the chain he cannot seize anyone. And you: keep at a distance. If you approach too near, you let yourself be caught. Remember that the devil has only one door by which to enter the soul: the will.”

Ifs Soul Remember Doors Dog Approach Devil Distance Caught Chains Length Tied

Author:Pio of Pietrelcina

“And I say to you that if you bring curiosity to your work it will cease to be merely a job and become a door through which you enter the best that life has to give you.”

Ifs Giving Jobs Doors Curiosity Cease Working It

Author:Robertson Davies

“Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it.”

Ifs Mean Country Shows Common Doors Fronts Expression Appreciate Cameras Front Doors Free Expression

Author:Clint Eastwood

“The stigma of the prostitute is the badge of her identity. That is why the client goes to her. If he wanted someone without a stigma, he'd go and screw the lady next door.”

Ifs Wanted Next Doors Identity Clients Screws Stigma Badges Wanted Someone

Author:Camille Paglia

“The bankers might not have said it in so many words, but gradually their strategy emerged: Target families who were already in a little trouble, lend them more money, get them entangled in high fees and astronomical interest rates, and then block the doors to the bankruptcy exit if they really got in over their heads.”

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Book:A Fighting Chance

Source: A Fighting Chance

“A great door opened by God for work, but while I'm doing the work, all Hell breaks loose. Oh! The idea that when God opens a door and He's with you, you don't have to fight. Oh, what a joke. That is a joke. In fact, if you don't feel the devil fighting against you, that's a bad sign.”

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Author:Jim Cymbala

“I think if you do what's in your heart - Joseph Campbell always says you have to follow your bliss, and if you do, doors open where you didn't even realize there were doors.”

Ifs Thinking Heart Realizing Doors Bliss Follow Your Bliss

Author:Linda Ronstadt

“Every heart has a door; knock it gently! If the door is not opened, leave gently!”

Ifs Heart Doors

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.”

Ifs Knows Walks Doors Missions Bridges Music Love

Author:Angelique Kidjo

“America has always been the most fertile ground for models - and they were always exported to other countries. When Eastern Europe opened up its doors to the rest of the world, a lot of the girls that were basically working there for $1 a month realized that if they were beautiful and that they could go to Paris and work for $1,000 a day versus the $10,000 that the other girls were demanding. So it created a huge imbalance in the financial structure of how clients could budget out campaigns. The market became flooded.”

“Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.”

People Ifs Persons Next Perfect Doors Groups Normal Concerned Fairs Moved

Author:Nigel Farage

“When I moved to New York, I had nothing. And a friend of mine also had nothing. And he said, 'Hey, come with me to the Marriot Marquis. And if you go to the 30th floor, and you wait by this door, and you sneak in, you can get free food.' And I did that for three years. I was prepared if anyone said, 'Can we see your room key?' to be like, 'Do you know who I am? I'm Bob Marriot's nephew.' Um, so great, I'm glad to be here and have free food again. And I didn't have to sneak in!”

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Author:Santino Fontana

“I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Dream Opportunity Easy Views Careers Doors Slam Easy Way Surnames

Author:Tamara Ecclestone

“The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.”

Ifs Children Matter Speak Community Memories Existence Class Doors Middle Adults Concern Middle Class Chicago Potatoes Starving Poignant Niceties

Author:Paul Samuelson

“I am a world-class weenie when it comes to letting people stick needles into me. My subconscious mind firmly believes that if God had wanted us to have direct access to our bloodstreams, He would have equipped our skin with small, clearly marked doors.”

People Ifs World Mind Believe Wanted Class Doors Direct Skins Sticks Access Subconscious Needles Subconscious Mind World Class

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“I always compare reading anything on the Internet to listening at doors. If you don't want to hear anything bad about yourself, you should never do it.”

Ifs Want Should Reading Doors Listening Internet Compare About Yourself

Author:Mark Gatiss

“First of all, women inherently, I think, are quite capable of having lots of balls in the air. And so, like, it's all those skills you use; you analyze the problem, figure out your tools, and then go at it piece by piece.... It's like what you have to do in the morning to get your kids out the door [if you're a parent]. The skills are, I believe, the same. The patience issues are the same.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Believe Use Problem Kids I Believe Parent Morning Issues Pieces Doors Air Figures Skills Capable Tools Balls

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“What makes horror movies work is the idea that "oh my God, what would I do if I were in that situation? How would I get out of that alive? What would I do if I saw the door to my closet creaking open in the middle of the night and a doll on a tricycle comes riding out?"”

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Author:James Wan

“Candor compels me to admit that I have no conclusive research to support my view that jingles are less persuasive than the spoken word. You'd run like hell if a salesman came to your door and began singing at you. Why do it in advertising?”

Ifs Running Views Support Hell Doors Singing Research Advertising Salesman Spoken Word Persuasive Candor Jingles

Author:David Ogilvy

“Just be. Don't try to be yourself, because you already are. Balance your spirit and empower your gifts. If it is in you and you can feel it, see it, and want to share it, then learn to understand it, not become it. We are born with all the wisdom in the world; it's up to us to open the door inch by inch throughout life.”

Ifs World Want Feels Trying Spirit Born Doors Share Balance Being Yourself Empowering Inches

Author:Candice Swanepoel

“This building we're in has doors and windows. If we close the doors and windows, we can't get out. People lock themselves inside a house of delusions. But they're only delusions. They can leave anytime. Actually there is no house to leave. There's not even any leaving. What we see are flowers in the sky, the moon in the water. As for the meditative powers of Zen masters like Hsu-yun, sometimes it's useful to meditate and sometimes it isn't.”

People Ifs Sometimes House Water Doors Sky Building Flower Masters Moon Window Leaving Delusion Locks Zen Master

Book:Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China

Source: Zen Baggage: A Pilgrimage to China

“My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived.”

Ifs Stills Book Form Universe Doors Mom Paper My Mom Smell Locks Tomatoes

Book:Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series

Source: Beautiful Creatures: The Complete Series

“I just hope bluegrass entertainers take care of their music and take care of their fans. If you don't practice, the man next door who is practicing will beat you.”

Ifs Men Care Next Practice Doors Fans He Man Beats Take Care Entertainers Bluegrass

Author:Bill Monroe

“It doesn't do any good to hold the door open for someone if they don't have a way to walk through it. And if they do have a way to pass through it then you probably don't need to hold it open because they can open it for themselves.”

Ifs Way Needs Walks Doors

Author:Ronald Reagan

“It's not as if the stories merge to a point where you think they are your life, but you do let them in the front door and the back door, and it's okay that sometimes certain characters stay for dinner.”

Ifs Thinking Sometimes Character Stories Certain Doors Fronts Okay Dinner Front Doors Back Doors

Book:Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

Source: Tori Amos: Piece by Piece

“If you were to hire household staff to cook, clean, drive, stoke the fire, and answer the door, can you imagine suggesting that they not talk to each other, not see what each other is doing, not coordinate their functions?”

Ifs Answers Fire Imagine Doors Function Clean Cooks Household Staff Suggesting Coordinates Stoke

Author:Nicholas Negroponte

“I have to be able to shake my imaginary life from my real life when I walk through the door with my children who immediately need a lot from me. It's actually kind of a relief, especially if it was a dark day on set.”

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Author:Mira Sorvino

“If all the students who slept through lectures were laid end to end, they'd all be a lot more comfortable. If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door.”

Ifs World Want Ends Doors Stage Students Comfortable Traps Lectures

Author:Paul Beatty

“If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in.”

Ifs Want May Doors

Book:The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

Source: The Heart of Understanding: Commentaries on the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra

“Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.”

Ifs Running Opportunity Wish Doors Track Right Track

Author:Will Rogers

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