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“When the babies were very young, I found it difficult to write. I told myself each time that it would be different, I was used to it now, but with every child, for the first four months, I would accomplish nothing.”

Writing Firsts Children Different Would Be Young Used Found Difficult Four Baby Months Accomplish Accomplish Nothing

Author:Ayelet Waldman

“I Am Number Four' definitely borrows from a whole bunch of genres and has a whole bunch of different themes throughout. And I think if it was just one stale two-dimensional thing then it would be kind of boring. And I think they did a fantastic job.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Two Different Whole Would Be Jobs Numbers Four Boring Bunch Fantastic Genre Theme Just One Be Kind Stale

Author:Callan McAuliffe

“If men could get pregnant, abortion clinics would be like Starbucks - two on every block and four in every airport. And the morning-after pill would come in different flavors like sea salt and cool ranch.”

Ifs Men Two Different Would Be Morning Four Sea Block Abortion Salt Pregnant Flavor Airports Pills Starbucks Clinic Morning After

Author:Nasim Pedrad

“Although I was four years at the University [of Wisconsin], I did not take the regular course of studies, but instead picked out what I thought would be most useful to me, particularly chemistry, which opened a new world, mathematics and physics, a little Greek and Latin, botany and and geology. I was far from satisfied with what I had learned, and should have stayed longer.”

World Should Years Littles Would Be Science Courses Study Four Should Have Mathematics University Physics Satisfied Greek Latin Chemistry New World Four Years Geology Wisconsin Botany

Book:Essential Muir

Source: Essential Muir

“So here you are, in your twenties, thinking that you'll have another 40 years to go. Four decades in which to live long and prosper.Bad news. Read the papers. There are people dropping dead when they're 50, 40, 30 years old. Or quite possibly just after finishing their convocation. They would be very disappointed that they didn't meet their life expectancy.I'm here to tell you this. Forget about your life expectancy.”

People Thinking Years Long Would Be Forget Four Paper News Twenties Decades Disappointed Papers Dropping Finishing Bad News Expectancy Life Expectancy Convocation

Author:Adrian Tan

“The things we saw happen in the last four years of the Obama administration would all, or many of them, go away under a President Gingrich. It would be a huge setback.”

Years Happens Would Be Lasts President Saws Four Huge Administration Going Away Four Years Setback

Author:Candace Gingrich-Jones

“After Mitt Romney said it would be naive to go into Pakistan to pursue the terrorists, it took President Obama, against the advice of many, to give that order and finally rid this earth of Osama bin Laden. Ask Osama bin Laden is he is better off now than he was four years ago.”

Ifs Giving Years Said Would Be Earth Order Asks President Four Advice Years Ago Terrorist Pursue President Obama Four Years Pakistan Naive Better Off Romney Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden

Author:John F. Kerry

“The Tories had the legal right to demand extra meetings of the council but I could decide when they would be held and always called them for Friday afternoons, knowing that three or four of the richer Tories went to the country early and were not prepared to stay in the city beyond lunchtime. I realised that nothing in politics is new when I read in Suetonius's The Twelve Caesars that Julius Caesar pulled the same trick when reactionaries in the senate were making his life difficult.”

Country Would Be Three Difficult Cities Knowing Four Demand Meetings Prepared Tricks Extras Afternoon Senate Twelve Friday Council Realised Reactionaries Julius Lunchtime Friday Afternoon

Author:Ken Livingstone

“I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.”

Knows Long Ends Would Be Eye Suffering Five Four Feet Century Type Fingers Curious Brown Jane 19th Century Austen Long Suffering Brown Eyes

Author:Peter Greenaway

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“This is a living planet. Look around. Mars, Venus, Jupiter. Look beyond our solar system. Where else is there a place that works, that is just right for the likes of us? It has not happened just instantly. It is vulnerable to our actions. But it's the result of four and a half billion years of evolution, of change over time. And it changes every day, all the time. It would be in our interest to try to maintain a certain level of stability that has enabled us to prosper, to not wreck the very systems that give us life.”

“I am divorced, and one of the things I am tremendously grateful for is that my ex-husband and I made a decision to go through mediation. I knew a trial would drag on for years, would cost me everything, but worse, would be devastating for our four small children.”

Years Children Made Would Be Decision Four Cost Husband Grateful Trials Drag Exes Divorced Small Child Mediation Ex Husband

Author:Jane Green

“The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.”

Way Ideas Would Be Age Four Husband

Book:Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

Source: Oh, Well, You Know How Women Are: And Isn't that Just Like a Man

“Louis [Leakey] was anxious to initiate a scientific study of these chimpanzees. It would be difficult, he emphasized, for nothing was known; there were no guidelines for such a field study; and the habitat was remote and rugged. Dangerous wild animals would be living there, and chimpanzees themselves were considered at least four times stronger than humans. I remember wondering what kind of scientist he would find for such a herculean task.”

“No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of the rainbow thrown in for good measure. When twenty or thirty of us meet, it is as hard to find three or four with the same complexion as it would be catch greased lightning in a bottle.”

Hard Would Be Three Black White Four Groups Color Twenties Various Range Thirty Thrown Bottles Lightning Rainbow Complexion Colors Of The Rainbow

Author:Mary Church Terrell

“I am the youngest of four siblings, and were all so close. I dont know where I would be without my brothers and sister. I secretly believe that my parents love me the most!”

Knows Believe Would Be Parent Four Brother My Brother Brothers And Sisters Sibling Parents Love

Author:Marissa Jaret Winokur

“You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.”

Would Be Four Minutes Glory Tales Fairy Cake Fairy Tale Olympics

Author:Dorothy Hamill

“We reckoned we could make it because there were four of us. None at us would've made it alone, because Paul wasn't quite strong enough, I didn't have enough girl-appeal, George was too quiet, and Ringo was the drummer. But we thought that everyone would be able to dig at least one of us, and that's how it turned out.”

Made Enough Would Be Able Girl Strong Music Four Quiet Music Is Made It Appeals Strong Enough Drummer Ringo

Author:John Lennon

“Women had been on the verge of taking over the world-the Western world, anyway. Then some sexist pig in Silicon Valley invented the cell phone and women took a sidetrack on which all four billion of them would soon be happily talking to each other twenty-four hours a day, getting nothing else done, and Men Would Be Back.”

Men World Done Would Be Hours Talking Four Twenties Western Phones Billions Cells Valleys Pigs Cell Phone Verge Sexist Western World Silicon Silicon Valley

Book:Gathering Prey: Prey

Source: Gathering Prey: Prey

“Were the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but Im going to be the one guy who kept his word.”

Ifs Would Be Guy Company Four Industry Tomorrow Majors Size Retail Hairdresser Beauty Industry

Author:John Paul DeJoria

“It would be kind of a tragedy if we got to the end of four years of Democratic rule without having really tried any Democratic policies.”

Ifs Years Kind Ends Would Be Four Policy Tragedy Democratic Be Kind Four Years

Author:Bill Maher

“Scientific theories need reconstruction every now and then. If they didn't need reconstruction they would be facts, not theories. The more facts we know, the less radical become the changes in our theories. Hence they are becoming more and more constant. But take the theory of gravitation; it has not been changed in four hundred years.”

Ifs Knows Needs Years Facts Would Be Change Four Changed Theory Becoming Hundred Constant Radical Now And Then Becoming More Reconstruction Scientific Theory Gravitation

Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz

“The S&P is up 343.8 percent for 10 years. That is a four-bagger. The general equity funds are up 283 percent. So it's getting worse, the deterioration by professionals is getting worse. The public would be better off in an index fund.”

Years Would Be Four Percent Investing Fund Better Off Equity Deterioration Index Funds Bagger

Author:Peter Lynch

“If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.”

Ifs Men Children Would Be Four Wife Economic Concepts Our Children Equality Violation Single Man Economic Equality

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“I'd like to do a reality show with four white people...who are dropped off in a really bad black neighborhood. And the show would be called...Cracker Hunt.”

People Shows Humor Reality Would Be Funny Black White Four Neighborhood Hunts Reality Shows Crackers

Author:Zach Galifianakis

“Sometimes HR transformations have been definitions. Just because someone does an e-HR system or puts in a new talent system or changes the HR function does not mean an HR transformation has occurred. We identified four phases of HR transformation. Missing any of the four phases would be an incomplete effort.”

Mean Doe Has Beens Sometimes Would Be Effort Four Talent Missing Function Transformation Definitions Phases Incomplete New Talent

Author:Dave Ulrich

“Four experts had an appointment with an ordinary man. They needed him to ratify their findings, or anything they achieved would be meaningless. As they drove to meet him, they knocked down a man on the road. He was dying. If they tried to save him, they might miss their appointment. They decided that their appointment, which concerned all of us, was more important than the life of one man. They drove on to keep their appointment. They did not know that the man they were to meet was the man they had left to die.”

Ifs Knows Men Important Might Would Be Dies Left Four Dying Missing He Man Needed Findings Ordinary Concerned Decided Experts One Man Meaningless Appointments Ordinary Man Knocked Down

Author:William McIlvanney

“If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break. I'm trying to pay off my apartment so I have something tangible. I actually figured out if I paid off my place my reward would be that I would pay an extra four grand a year in taxes.”

Ifs Thinking Should Trying Years Would Be Kids Pay Break Four Taxes Married Paid Rewards Extras Apartment Tangible Mortgage Hybrid Tax Breaks Paid Off

Author:Bill Burr

“I told all four [Congressional leaders] that there are going to be some times where we don't agree with each other, but that's OK. If this were a dictatorship, it would be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I'm the dictator.”

Ifs Long Would Be Leader Four Easier Agree Dictatorship Dictator

Author:George W. Bush

“Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.”

Knows Way Children Has Beens Would Be Able Parent Four Influence Forty Desirable

Book:Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality

“The right kind of practice is not a matter of hours. Practice should represent the utmost concentration of brain. It is better to play with concentration for two hours than to practice eight without. I should say that four hours would be a good maximum practice time-I never ask more of my pupils-and that during each minute of the time the brain be as active as the fingers.”

Should Kind Two Matter Play Would Be Asks Hours Brain Practice Four Minutes Fingers Eight Active Concentration Maximum Pupils

Author:Leopold Auer

“What helped me get the part was that I turned it down. When I read the script, Venus was just a black guy who came in wearing a big coat and a hat and making jive talk. I'd been up for so many of those! I'd had enough of caricatures, what white writers conceive blacks to be. I told the producer I wasn't interested in doing anything like that for three or four years. He said that it was just a pilot, that Venus would be given a human dimension and would be quiet off-the-air. I wanted that input. I thought that side was as important as the comic side. For 'WKRP,' too much of either would be bad.”

“Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not.”

Ifs Knows Believe Enough Would Be Film Used Three Four Scene Memorable Hitchcock

Author:Clint Eastwood

“That's why basketball was so good, because I didn't really need you or anyone else to play it. It would be better if we played four-on-four or five-on-five, but I could go out there alone.”

Ifs Needs Play Would Be Five Four Basketball Need You

Author:Mike Krzyzewski

“I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.”

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