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“I require every Taipei student to swim; if they can't pass the test they won't graduate. Why do I do that? Because I think that is very, very important integral part of their education.”

Ifs Thinking Important Students Tests Swim Graduates

Author:Ma Ying-jeou

“A good writer cannot avoid having social consciousness. I don't mean this about small pieces of writing, but about a big book. If it's a big book, there has to be more than one undertow.”

Ifs Writing Mean Book Bigs Social Consciousness Pieces Good Writers Small Pieces Big Book Social Consciousness Undertow

Author:Marguerite Young

“I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.”

Ifs Real Talent Devotion

Author:Marguerite Young

“If you know anything about James Whitcomb Riley, you know that Little Orphan Annie is one of the most fantastic characters who ever lived in America before Charlie Chaplin.”

Ifs Knows Littles Character America Fantastic Charlie Orphan Annie Chaplin

Author:Marguerite Young

“And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.”

Ifs Thinking Wells Looks Sometimes Reason Objects Shapes Reason Why Criticize

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“Because, if we understand how a building is to be produced and we find a way that it can be more simply produced, then obviously we are contributing to building better buildings more easily.”

Ifs Way Artist Building Contributing

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“If you examine this, I think that you will find that it's the mechanics of Japanese architecture that have been thought of as the direct influence upon our architecture.”

Ifs Thinking Has Beens Artist Influence Direct Architecture Mechanic Japanese Architecture

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“If you look at the buildings, you'll find that one part looks as if it was designed by one man, and you go around and look at another facade and it looks as if it was designed by another man, you see.”

Ifs Men Looks Artist Building One Man Another Man Facade

Author:Minoru Yamasaki

“If somebody says to me, 'Oh, you're gonna get married and you'll never be attracted to anybody else again,' I'm like, right, sure. It's just not practical to me on an emotional level. Just because I'm married, I'm not dead.”

Ifs Levels Emotional Married Practicals

Author:Sean Young

“If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.”

People Ifs Want Persons Reason Bigs Responsibility Clear Terrible Happenings Taking Responsibility Inclination Untrue Lawsuit

Author:Sean Young

“I don't know if I've ever had a memorable body check. It's not really part of my game.”

Ifs Knows Body Games Sports Checks Memorable

Author:Steve Yzerman

“I knew if I wanted to be a general manager, I was going to have to leave to work for another organization.”

Ifs Wanted Organization Managers General Manager

Author:Steve Yzerman

“I like documentaries because there's nothing to nitpick or criticize about scenes if they aren't just right. It's about honesty and real-life circumstances coming out. Granted it can be swayed by how people tell that story, but overall, I like it because it is true.”

People Ifs Real Stories Honesty Circumstances Scene Real Life Granted Criticize Coming Out Documentaries

Author:Steven Yeun

“If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.”

People Ifs Whole Situation Darkness Records Happened Burning Gloaming

Author:Thom Yorke

“People have got to get used to making low carbon choices. If they have a direct incentive to do so they will think about it. Many times a day you have a choice between a low carbon option and a high carbon option, whether it is at home or at work.”

People Ifs Thinking Home Used Choices Lows Direct Carbon Incentives

Author:Tim Yeo

“I think it just came with me evolving as a person and me understanding that it's not right to judge or to say anything derogatory about other people, especially if I don't know them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Persons Understanding Judging Evolve Say Anything Derogatory

Author:Will Ferrell

“I've always been noted for being original and doing different thing. So for me to hop on the train that's going on would be - shoot, if I wanted to hop on the train, I might as well have hopped on gangsta rap back when it was popular and tried to do that.”

Ifs Wells Different Might Would Be Wanted Originals Train Rap Hops Different Things Back When Gangsta Being Original Gangsta Rap

Author:Will Ferrell

“I like challenging myself. I like the challenge of rapping to fast beats, rapping to beats that are super slow, whatever. I like the challenges, so I'm not afraid to take on any piece of music and create a song to it if it feels right to me.”

Ifs Feels Song Challenges Pieces Beats Rap Not Afraid Feels Right Challenging Myself

Author:Will Ferrell

“I just had some of the same journalists that panned Electric Circus at the time, they just listened to Universal Mind Control and they loved it. And then they went back to tell me that Electric Circus, if it came out at today, it would've had a different reception. One of them told me, "Hey, man. You need to bring it out again." And I said, "Hey, it's cool. It is what it is."”

Ifs Men Needs Mind Said Different Today Universal Hey Journalist Electric Circus Mind Control Just Listen Reception It Is What It Is

Author:Will Ferrell

“If I worried about what the media said I wouldn't get much sleep and I'm able to sleep pretty well.”

Ifs Wells Said Able Sleep Media Worried

Author:Mitt Romney

“I respect Senator McCain a great deal and believe he has many - many good ideas and suggestions that I would certainly want to avail myself of if I were in a setting that - that required the input of other leaders. Senator McCain would be one of those that I'd want to hear from.”

Ifs Want Believe Ideas Would Be Deals Leader Setting Settings Good Ideas Senators Suggestions Input Mccain

Author:Mitt Romney

“Ronald Reagan was one of our great foreign policy Presidents. He did not come from the Senate. He did not come from the foreign policy world. He was a governor, but his resolve, his clarity of purpose, his intelligence, his capacity to deal with complex issues and solve tough problems served him extremely well, and if I were elected President, I hope I could rely upon those same qualities.”

“Having strength, having a strong military, is the ally of peace. Exercising that strength through military action is not always necessary if you have the confidence and clarity of vision and purpose which America demands.”

Ifs Action America Purpose Strong Vision Military Exercise Demand Clarity Allies Having Strength Military Action Clarity Of Vision

Author:Mitt Romney

“We can't tell particularly smart stories if we want to keep our audience big enough to pay for these big spectacle films that we want to do.”

Ifs Want Enough Stories Bigs Film Pay Audience Smart

Author:Duncan Jones

“The process of making music is more interesting to me than the end result. If I was a cook, I'd be more interested in cooking food than eating food.”

Ifs Ends Process Interesting Results Eating Music Is Cooking Cooks End Results Eating Food

Author:Ryan Adams

“I'm not the cool thing, and I'm not going to be the cool thing for a really long time, and it isn't like I'm not the cool thing and I sell 3,000,000 records every time. I'm not the cool thing, and I barely sell 150,000 records, if that, ever. So I'm obviously working really hard to sustain myself. I'm actually a target to be dropped, because that's just not enough records for a big company.”

Ifs Long Hard Enough Bigs Company Records Long Time Sells Target Cool Things Really Long Big Companies Working Really Hard

Author:Ryan Adams

“I don't have any jokes about my divorce or my ex-husband, who is a lovely person. It really is about how I was an idiot trying to push this guy to get married when I wasn't even sure if I wanted to.”

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Author:Jen Kirkman

“Whatever my life looks like, I want it to be real and big and full. I want when, if I get hit by a car, I want to know that I have deep and real friendships, people to visit me in the hospital.”

People Ifs Knows Want Looks Real Bigs Car Hospitals Being Real Real Friends Real Friendship

Author:Jen Kirkman

“I don't know if I don't believe in monogamy. I think I do believe in it depending on the person or situation or something.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Believe Persons Situation Don't Believe Monogamy

Author:Jen Kirkman

“I wonder if that's the difference between fathers and mothers. I'm friends with people who have kids that are like 5 and under, and they're still in that intense mother-bonding phase. It might just be that. Because the dads haven't changed.”

People Ifs Stills Might Kids Mother Father Differences Wonder Havens Changed Dad Intense Phases Bonding

Author:Jen Kirkman

“If I could make crazy money just doing stand-up, that's what I would do.”

Ifs Crazy If I Could

Author:Jen Kirkman

“If, for some reason, everyone knew who I was without me having to have my own TV show, that's what I would do. That way, I could do less shows a year.”

Ifs Way Years Reason Shows My Own Tvs Tv Shows

Author:Jen Kirkman

“My brain does like the idea of hosting a late-night show. My brain does like the idea of maybe having a show about me. So, I often pitch ideas and work on scripts and do that just because I may not be right about how I feel, so why not just do this, and if it happens and I got my own show, well maybe I would really end up falling in love with it.”

Ifs Feels Wells May Doe Ideas Ends Shows Happens Night Fall My Own Brain Late Falling In Love Scripts Why Not Late Night I May Not Be

Author:Jen Kirkman

“The whole notion that I don't appeal to the demographic - all my fans are young men. Someone asked me the other day, "So are your shows just full of 40-year-old single women?" I'm like, "I would be rich if that were true."”

Ifs Men Years Whole Shows Would Be Young Rich Fans Notion Appeals Young Man Demographics Single Women

Author:Jen Kirkman

“The Obama administration's plan is to have the Federal Reserve regulate banks that might pose a 'systemic risk' if they were to fail.”

Ifs Might Plans Failing Risk Administration Reserves Federal Reserve

Author:Thomas Frank

“We used to say in the black community that if somebody else caught a cold, we caught pneumonia.”

Ifs Used Black Community Cold Caught Black Community Pneumonia

Author:Gwen Ifill

“If you're hiring, if you're the person doing the hiring, forgive a scar or two. Remember that when we were young, we were also idiots. There were just no cameras there to catch it.”

Ifs Persons Two Remember Young Cameras Forgiving Idiot Scar Hiring

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.”

Ifs One Thing These Days Delay Gratification Delayed Later In Life Delayed Gratification

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“Take a job, do it for ten years and work at it, and you'll succeed. Can I just add, take a job that you enjoy. If you don't enjoy the job, it's going to be a decade of hell.”

Ifs Years Jobs Enjoy Hell Succeed Ten Add Decades

Author:Eric Bolling

“I have friends my age who started smoking pot when they got out of college. They didn't get anywhere. But if they drank, they managed to go somewhere. Does that make sense?”

Ifs Doe Age College Make Sense Smoking Pot Drank Smoking Pot

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“I have so much to grapple with, I don't think too much about me. People call it the "dance of a thousand egos" when you make a movie. If only I had time to worry when I was making a movie about what the hell I was doing. It's sort of a marathon every day. And then at the end of it, you beg the producers for five more marathons.”

People Ifs Thinking Ends Worry Hell Five Too Much Thousand Ego Producers Marathon

Author:Andrew Niccol

“You know a Senate race is obviously a much smaller deal than a presidential race. What I think makes a very hard job considerably easier when you're going to debate is if you have reminded yourself - or somebody has reminded you during the course of your campaign - that consistency is enormously important. That people don't want to hear you say one thing in one part of the state and another thing in another part of the state.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Want Important Hard States Jobs Courses Deals Race One Thing Easier Campaigns Debate Presidential Senate Consistency

Author:Michael Bennet

“With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."”

Ifs Thinking Men Actors Streets Texas Southern Georgia

Author:Lucas Till

“But the U.S. has to be careful. If our strategy depends on Sunnis doing the fighting to clear Mosul and Ramadi - and, as near as I can tell, that is the strategy - then you have to be careful that Sunnis don't perceive the U.S. to be operating arm in arm with Iran or with Iranian-backed Shiite militias that Abadi - Prime Minister Abadi is using in Iraq, so that, in effect, we're fronting for Iran.”

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Author:David Ignatius

“There's no doubt, that if you were a Clinton Foundation donor and you wanted your calls returned, I have no doubt that people got their returned.”

People Ifs Wanted Doubt Foundation Clinton No Doubt Donors

Author:Kimberly Guilfoyle

“I guess if your heart's in the right place, the trash can go anywhere.”

Ifs Heart Trash Right Place Trash Cans

Author:Greg Gutfeld

“It looks like bribery. I mean,there is every appearance that Hillary Clinton was bribed to grease the sale of, what, 20 percent of America's uranium production to Russia, and then it was covered up by lying about a meeting with her home with the principals, and by erasing e-mails. And I presume we might know for sure whether there was or was not bribery if she hadn't wiped out you know, out thousands of e-mails.”

Ifs Knows Looks Mean Home Might America Lying Percent Meetings Clinton Productions Appearance Russia Covered Mail Principal Grease Bribery Uranium Covered Up

Author:Jedediah Bila

“If you can maintain the diet over a period of time, that's very good. If you're taking statins and you're not following a diet, you could partially undo the effects of statins.”

Ifs Effects Periods Very Good Following Diets

Author:Antonio Gotto

“If you are an incredibly reactive person and you are working on your lowest level, and if you continuously give into your dark side and are angry, and screaming, and breaking things, and you do that for hours and hours on end, you are going to be incredibly exhausted. That's just the way life is.”

Ifs Way Giving Persons Ends Life Is Sides Hours Dark Levels Angry Exhausted Lowest Dark Side Breaking Things

Author:Jeremy Piven

“If McNamee is lying, then he has acted inexcusably, and he has made Clemens an innocent victim. If Clemens isn't telling the truth, then he has acted shamefully and has smeared McNamee. I don't think there's anything in between.”

Ifs Thinking Made Lying Victim Innocent Telling The Truth Innocent Victims

Author:Jim Lehrer

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