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“If it be admitted that a man, possessing absolute power, may misuse that power by wronging his adversaries, why should a majority not be liable to the same reproach? Men are not apt to change their character by agglomeration; nor does their patience in the presence of obstacles increase with the consciousness of their strength. And for these reasons I can never willingly invest any number of my fellow creatures with that unlimited authority which I should refuse to any one of them.”

Source: American Institutions and Their Influence

“I've always been able to get inside a song really easily, and if it's my song, I can make it seem honest.”

Ifs I Can Seems Able Song Honest

Author:Rod Stewart

“I’ve always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they’re still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that’s not well organized upside down, it won’t work.”

Ifs Wells Stills I Can Turns Interesting Quality Down And Photographer Photograph Obvious Instance Abstract Organized Upside Down

Author:William Eggleston

“There’s an old writing rule that says ‘Don’t have two character names start with the same letter’, but I knew at the beginning that I was going to have more than 26 characters, so I was in trouble there. Ultimately it comes down to what sounds right. And I struggle with that, finding the right name for a character. If I can’t find the right name I don’t know who the character is and I can’t proceed.”

Ifs Knows Writing I Can Two Character Names Sound Struggle Trouble Findings Letters

Author:George R. R. Martin

“In the crazy world of touring, if something gets stuck at customs, I can do a show with just my amp!”

Ifs World I Can Shows Can Do Crazy Stuck Customs Touring Crazy World This Crazy World

Author:Kerry King

“My job, my whole life, I've always had that kind of doubter, people have always doubted me. And I don't know how I would succeed without it. So I welcome it, and it gives me a challenge, and I will see if I can live up to my challenge.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Kind I Can Whole Jobs Challenges Know How Succeed Give Me Whole Life Welcome Doubted Doubters

Author:Dwyane Wade

“I want to fall in love with beautiful women of all races. Rescue somebody every now and then, improve my painting, and improve my sentence structure. If I can make a living doing that stuff, that's great, and I will keep doing it, and they can do whatever they want with my image. I couldn't care less.”

“The most exciting time is when I think of an idea and how I imagine I can make it. It would be wonderful if there was a projector inside my eye that and it could just put the idea on the screen for people to see.”

People Ifs Thinking I Can Ideas Would Be Eye Imagine Wonderful Exciting Screens Projectors

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Want I Can Stories Light Past Girl Needed Terrible Opposites Seasons Shining Golden Wicked Get Back Prime Do You Know Springtime Parish Daffodil

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“I am proof that one person can rise above any challenge, and if I can, then so will others if they are given the chance.”

Ifs Persons I Can Given Challenges Chance Proof Rise Above That One Person

Book:War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

Source: War Child: A Child Soldier's Story

“My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it.”

Ifs I Can Acting Approach Scripts Intuitive

Author:Morgan Freeman

“I can't go to sleep at night if I didn't accomplish at least something. That's the one thing that keeps me up.”

Ifs I Can Night Sleep One Thing Accomplish Going To Sleep

Author:Marilyn Manson

“I think the fact that I am living my dream and being really productive and embarking on all my lifelong aspirations is proof enough that if I can do it, anyone can. I try to tell everybody to dream big and go after their dreams.”

Ifs Thinking Trying I Can Enough Facts Dream Bigs Can Do Proof Aspiration Productive Being Real Lifelong I Can Do It Embarking

Author:Elliott Yamin

“I have to put down roots where I decide to stay. It wasn't enough for me to be an expatriate Indian in Canada. If I can't feel that I can make social, political and emotional commitments to a place, I have to find another place.”

Ifs Feels I Can Enough Political Social Emotional Commitment Roots Indian Canada Expatriates

Author:Bharati Mukherjee

“One day my dad would say, 'OK, if you want to play tennis I can help you out.' And that's how it started. And I had a goal. I wanted to beat my mom first. And my parents and my brother. And that was the ultimate goal.”

Ifs Want Firsts I Can Play Helping Wanted Parent Goal Brother Mom Dad One Day Beats Ultimate My Dad My Mom My Brother Tennis Ultimate Goal

Author:Caroline Wozniacki

“If the Palestinian Olympic Committee or Palestinian Federation provide good facilities to the athletes then maybe I can become better than these Bahraini or Qatari athletes.”

Ifs I Can Athlete Palestinian Committees Facility Federation

Author:Nader al-Masri

“If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.”

Ifs I Can Busy

Author:Daniel Cudmore

“When I left 'Days of Our Lives,' I was like, 'I don't know if I'm ever working again. I'm going to do the best I can. If it happens, great. If not, well... it sucks for me.”

Ifs Knows Wells I Can Happens Left Our Lives Do The Best

Author:Lindsay Hartley

“If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.”

Ifs I Can Causes Attention Raises

Author:Booboo Stewart

“I've got to wear sunglasses everywhere, all the time, even if its indoors or at night time, to be recognized. That's part of my job. I cannot take off my sunglasses. For me, staying in the United States was so dark because I can't take them off.”

Ifs I Can States Jobs Night Dark United United States Staying Because I Can Sunglasses Night Time

Author:PSY

“I understood that there would be some backlash, and that scared me, honestly. But deep down, I felt like it was the right thing to do. And if I was to run away from what I felt in my soul was the right thing to do, that would make me a coward. I can’t live with that. God wouldn’t be able to put me where I am today, and as far as I’ve come in life, if I was a coward.”

Ifs I Can Soul Running Today Able Felt Understood Scared Honestly My Soul Things To Do Right Thing Coward Running Away Deep Down Backlash

Author:Andrew Hawkins

“If your fear is talking to people, then go out and talk to people. You will find it just keeps getting easier and there's really nothing to be afraid of. However, I can tell you that if I stop for a month, it starts to seem scary again. So, the easiest way to fend off fear is to attack it, embrace it.”

People Ifs Way I Can Seems Talking Months Easier Embrace Scary

Author:Blake Roney

“I guess I can't be a great architect. Great architects have a recognizable style. But if every building I did were the same, it would be pretty boring.”

Ifs I Can Would Be Style Building Boring Architect

Author:Philip Johnson

“It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.”

Ifs I Can Play Fun Can Do Team Willing Quarterback

Author:Robert Griffin III

“There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.”

Ifs Want I Can Done Issues Exciting

Author:Charles Bass

“It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.”

Ifs Trying I Can Moments Song Gun Scripts Right Thing Confetti

Author:Victoria Legrand

“I've got bills to pay like everyone else. I'm a high-earner but I don't see myself as rich. I know in some people's eyes I probably am, but I will always have to work. My son Matt asked me if we were rich the other day and I told him that in my view, being rich is not having to get up to go to work. I can't see myself ever being in that position.”

People Ifs Knows I Can Eye Views Pay Rich Position Son Bills Get Up My Son Being Rich Bills To Pay

Author:Steve McFadden

“If I had to control what I was speaking, it would be a chore. Right now I just feel I've got my shoes off, everybody comes in, I talk. If I was an actor it could be a problem, but right now I just talk all the crap, I can badmouth anybody I want, I can say what I want and move on.”

Ifs Want Feels I Can Problem Would Be Moving Actors Right Now Shoes Crap Chores

Author:Tarsem Singh

“If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.”

Ifs Way Trying I Can Two Done Dies Can Do Acting Security Amount Tomorrow Complaining Hardest This Life Living My Life Hardest Thing

Author:Yul Vazquez

“I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.”

Ifs Knows World Mind Believe I Can Hands Father Heaven Stars Space Darkness Sun Sky Atheism Dog All Things Lonely Shining Positive Atheism Dust Fixed Hung Unbelief Lonely World

Author:Gerald Kersh

“If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.”

Ifs I Can Minutes Ideals Cartoon Editorials

Author:Paul Conrad

“Balancing my film career and my music will be something I'm just going to have to deal with, as it happens. I think I can balance it out; the choices will probably be pretty clear. If there's a movie I just have to do, I will work the music around it.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Happens Film Choices Deals Careers Clear Balance

Author:Lukas Haas

“I really enjoy playing the piano. I took lessons throughout middle school, but I had to drop the lessons. I actually got too busy, but I hope to pick up the lessons when I'm in college if I can.”

Ifs I Can School Enjoy Middle College Lessons Picks Busy Piano Too Busy Middle School

Author:Miranda Leek

“If I can make a living as a writer, I can do anything.”

Ifs I Can Can Do

Author:Richard LaGravenese

“If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.”

Ifs Years I Can Six

Author:George Nethercutt

“Being a mother gives you an incredible feeling of empowerment, you think if I can go through such pain and that level of sleep and still operate and not be grumpy you can do anything. It can be quite scary, you can't function your brain, forget your vocabulary.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Stills I Can Feelings Pain Mother Can Do Sleep Forget Levels Brain Empowerment Function Incredibles Scary Vocabulary Being A Mother Grumpy

Author:Anna Friel

“I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.”

Ifs Should I Can School Sea Paid Reports Fishing Captains License

Author:Mickey Melchiondo

“If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of his fight predictions turned out to be wrong.”

Ifs Thinking I Can Fighting Can Do Fans Boxing Predictions

Author:Muhammad Ali

“Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.”

Ifs I Can Running Imagination What If Fitting

Book:The Major Works

Source: The Major Works

“Well, I am a great believer in supercompensation. Short term overtraining leads to long-term success. I can hear the complaints about injuries, but, in truth, not too many of us suffer injuries that lead to surgery, according to those studies in the 1950′s. In fact, if you are not a druggie and have some common sense, I think you can afford to train harder than you think.”

“Writing is so hard.... The first draft writing is so hard that sometimes in the beginning, before the work itself takes over, carrying you on its flood, you must give yourself rewards. "When I write this chapter, I can call my boyfriend." "When I finish one page more, I can get an ice cream cone." "If I write this section, I'll find a check in the mail."”

Ifs Giving Writing Firsts I Can Sometimes Hard Pages Rewards Checks Ice Mail Chapters Flood Cream Sections Ice Cream My Boyfriend Cones Ice Cream Cones

Author:Sophy Burnham

“If you are a happy person, don't spend your time trying to make an unhappy person happy. Near as I can tell, you have to be a magician to pull it off.”

Ifs Inspirational Trying Persons I Can Unhappy Magician Happy Person Unhappy Person

Author:Ernie J Zelinski

“If you don't read, I don't know how to communicate with you...I can never express who I am in my own words as powerfully as my books can.”

Ifs Knows I Can Book My Own Know How Teacher Communicate Who I Am

Author:Donalyn Miller

“My government currently runs things only because the people 'allow' them to run things. It is my responsibility that I do everything I can to keep tabs on my government, keep them honest and make sure that they always act for the good of the people. They must be reminded that they hold no power over the people that the people do not wish for them to hold. If the government begins working in a way that the people don't agree with, they must be made to know that we will rip it to its very foundations and replace it with something that does.”

People Ifs Knows Way Doe Made I Can Government Running Politics Wish Responsibility Honest Agree Foundation Rip

Author:Derek R. Audette

“Too many commercials. Too many lies. Too many celebrities. I don't recognize. Too many brand names. Too many magazines. I got so much sensation, I can't feel a thing. Simple. Living. Got to get to simple - living. Simple living. Simple... simply living.”

Ifs Feels I Can Light Lying Dies Turns Names Simple Tvs Rivers Magazines Brands Someday Sensations Consumerism Garbage Eagles Turn-on Simple Living Overconsumption Brand Names

Author:Fred Small

“You can focus on me or on any spiritual teacher. Spiritual teachers who have left the body, who are no longer on earth can help you too. When I leave the body someday, I can help people just as effectively if they focus upon me.”

People Ifs I Can Helping Body Earth Spiritual Left Focus Teacher Someday Visualization Spiritual Teachers Focus On Me

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an East or a West issue. It's an issue that all of us have a stake in. And if I can do anything to make sure that not just my daughter but every child in America has green pastures to run in and clean air to breathe and clean water to swim in, then that is something I'm going to work my hardest to make happen.”

“It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show..." I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else.”

Ifs Writing Years Stills I Can Hard Shows Can Do Records Happened Years Ago Vans Touring Can Do Something

Author:Sharon Van Etten

“My music teacher was like, "Ester, you need to pay attention in class." I'm like, "No miss lady, 'cause I can sing." I didn't want anybody to change the way I sung. I learned by gospel CDs and by watching my momma sing; I didn't need this teacher to tell me. I wish I had, because then I would have learned how to play the damn piano or something. I would have a couple of more things under my belt if I wasn't so hard-headed.”

Ifs Way Want Needs I Can Hard Play Wish Causes Pay Attention Class Teacher Missing Couple Pay Attention Damn Piano Belts Cds Momma Music Teacher My Momma

Author:Ester Dean

“Often, I go and see films where I can see the beats coming. So, if I read something where I don't see the beats coming and it takes me somewhere unexpected, that's a great thing to build upon.”

Ifs I Can Film Beats Great Things Unexpected Take Me

Author:David Brooks

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