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“I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.”

Ifs Needs Writing I Can Literature Imagination Creative Majors Creative Writing Workshops Writing Workshop

Author:Vikas Swarup

“If you're in the minor leagues, you want to get to the majors.”

Ifs Want Majors League Minors

Author:Ryne Sandberg

“If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.”

Ifs World Way Want Should Country Process Decision Economic Majors Trade Democratic Agreement Decision Making Trade Agreements Countries Of The World Democratic Country Decision Making Process

Author:Dana Rohrabacher

“You know, 97 percent of the time, if you come into a hospital, everything goes well. But three percent of the time, we have major complications.”

Ifs Knows Wells Three Majors Percent Hospitals Complication

Author:Atul Gawande

“Where America has got to move is not growth for the sake of growth, but it`s got to move to a society that provides a high quality of life for all of our people. In other words, if people have health care as a right, as do the people of every other major country, then there's less worry about growth. If people have educational opportunity and their kids can go to college and they have child care, then there's less worry about growth for the sake of growth.”

People Ifs Children Country Care Kids America Moving Opportunity Growth Quality Worry College Majors Sake Educational Health Care Quality Of Life High Quality Child Care

Author:Bernie Sanders

“I told the truth about the Miami life. It's a nice place to visit, but you don't want to live here. I lived through two major riots and three Category 5 hurricanes, I don't know if a lot of people could say that.”

People Ifs Knows Want Two Three Nice Majors Categories Hurricanes Riot Miami

Author:Trick Daddy

“Some years ago one oil company bought a fertilizer company, and every other major oil company practically ran out and bought a fertilizer company. And there was no more damned reason for all these oil companies to buy fertilizer companies, but they didn't know exactly what to do, and if Exxon was doing it, it was good enough for Mobil and vice versa.”

Ifs Knows Years Reason Enough Company Majors Years Ago Vices Oil Ran Good Enough Vice Versa Oil Companies Fertilizer

Author:Charlie Munger

“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

“If you want to know how to please a woman, just talk to a neuroscience major from Columbia.”

Ifs Knows Want Know How Please Majors Neuroscience Columbia

Author:Bob Dylan

“If there's a major foreign policy event, the President gets on TV, the Congress doesn't.”

Ifs President Events Policy Tvs Majors Congress Foreign Policy

Author:Nate Silver

“Homicide is the major leagues, the center ring, the show. It always has been ... It goes beyond academic degrees, specialized training or book learning, because all the theory in the world means nothing if you can't read the street.”

Ifs World Mean Has Beens Book Shows Streets Theory Degrees Majors Training Rings League Academic Major League Homicide Book Learning

Author:David Simon

“I am about to put foward some major ideas; they will be heard and pondered. If not all of them please, surely a few will; in some sort, then, I shall have contributed to the progress of our age, and shall be content.”

Ifs Ideas War Age Progress Heard Military Please Majors

Book:The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

Source: The 120 days of Sodom and other writings

“When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.”

Ifs Feels Art Enough Hands Love Is Century Mines Poet Holy Majors Supreme Idolatry Nineteenth Century Cromwell

Book:Three Plays for Puritans

Source: Three Plays for Puritans

“I truly believe that our major social ills would disappear if we just spent our lives perfecting the art of connecting with each other.”

Ifs Believe Art Social Our Lives Majors Disappear Connecting

Book:Get Off Your

Source: Get Off Your

“Many evangelicals believe religious freedom, if not religion itself, faces major problems with the government in the future.”

Ifs Believe Problem Government Christian Faces Religious Majors Religious Freedom Major Problems

Author:Joel Hunter

“My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.”

Source: The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“A speech from Ernest Bevin on a major occasion had all the horrific fascination of a public execution. If the mind was left immune, eyes and ears and emotions were riveted.”

Ifs Mind Eye Left Emotion Speech Majors Ears Occasions Execution Fascination Immune Horrific

Author:Michael Foot

“The ongoing war in Afghanistan is being imposed on us, and Afghans are being sacrificed in it for someone else's interests. We are not blocking the interests of the United States or other major powers. But we are demanding that if you consider Afghanistan the place from which to advance your interests, then you should also pay attention to Afghanistan's interests.”

Ifs Should War States Reality Politics Interest Justice United Pay Attention United States Policy Majors Ethics Block Ideology Pay Attention Afghanistan Foreign Policy Diplomacy Ongoing

Author:Hamid Karzai

“I think a lot of times when people have "creative blocks" and I know my share of friends do as well if they're at just some stuck point. They're not sure what to do with their lives or their writing or their photography or their filmmaking or whatever it is that they're doing. I think the best advice is you have to change your life up completely; to go on a trip, to go spend a year being of service. Be willing to take some major drastic action to get you out of your comfort zone and go inside, not outside.”

“Introduce your main characters and themes in the first third of your novel. If you are writing a plot-driven genre novel make sure all your major themes/plot elements are introduced in the first third, which you can call the introduction. Develop your themes and characters in your second third, the development. Resolve your themes, mysteries and so on in the final third, the resolution.”

Ifs Writing Firsts Character Novel Mystery Development Elements Majors Thirds Finals Driven Genre Theme Plot Resolve Resolution Introducing Introduction Main Characters

Author:Michael Moorcock

“In Washington, if you're a congressman or a senator or the President, you make much more money than the average American, but you'd think that if you were the leader of the free world you'd be making major bank, and you don't.”

Ifs Thinking World President Leader Majors Average More Money Senators Congressman Free World

Author:Beau Willimon

“President Bush announced a major new plan for the United States to put a man on the moon, which would be a really big story if this were 1962. Bush said he didn't remember anything about the 60's - I guess he wasn't lying.”

Ifs Men Said States Stories Bigs Would Be Remember Lying President United United States Plans Moon Majors President Bush

Author:Jay Leno

“...if use is not an appropriate criterion for decision making in the academic life, what is? Love. ...The virtues of love as a criterion for choosing a college major...it is not pretentious. "Use" is pretentious because it claims to know something about the future that it doesn't really know. Love is immediate... [love] guarantees that you will work to your highest potential...it is part of who you are, and not just something you think, often wrongly, that you can use.”

“The ubiquitous and acutely conscious presence of our adolescents is a major problem, especially since much of their consciousnessseems to be focused on sexuality--ours and theirs. They expect us to ignore them if they are kissing their dates in the family room; but let us so much as wink at one another, and they whistle loudly.”

Ifs Problem Sex Rooms Kissing Majors Conscious Sexuality Focused Major Problems

Author:Augustus Napier

“I realize that artists can become fatigued from touring the world over, but if it's your first major tour, you've got to buckle down and do it, said Sami Jarroush, a music blogger for Consequence of Sound. Short of suffering from an actual medical emergency, saying you're going to stop performing so you can take a vacation isn't exactly going to make you look good in the eyes of however many fans you have left.”

Ifs World Firsts Looks Said Eye Artist Suffering Left Sound Realizing Music Fans Majors Consequence Down And Medical Performing Vacation Emergencies Touring Bloggers Buckles

Author:Iggy Azalea

“To win a major tournament you have to face the top teams at some point, but if you avoid those at the beginning then you can win games and build confidence. I think the key is just to get off to a good start.”

Ifs Thinking Faces Games Winning Team Keys Majors Tournaments You Can Win Building Confidence

Author:Jermain Defoe

“The Southbank Centre Unlimited Festival was a distinct moment in time, an amazing counterpoint to the London 2012 Paralympics. There is no question that a major shift in perspective is taking place, that the world is waking up and greeting - as if for the first time - the extraordinary community of people with disability.”

“If I don't already know a song's chord progression, I'll stop writing and try to figure it out. I can occasionally listen to unstructured, amelodic ambient music, but I prefer no music. I don't need silence - I can write just about anywhere - but music is a major distraction.”

Ifs Knows Needs Writing Trying I Can Song Silence Figures Majors Music Is Distraction Chords Progression Ambient Ambient Music

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“If you want to blow up hang around me because all of my friends we would hang out and next thing I know they are major worldwide superstars.”

Ifs Knows Want Next Majors My Friends Blow Hanging Out Superstar

Author:Tamar Braxton

“For Twilight, I wasn't thinking it was going to be a crazy success, or anything. It had been rejected by all the major studios. Nobody wanted to make it and they didn't think it would make any money, but I read the book and I thought, "Wow, I want to capture that feeling of just being crazy in love. I wonder if I can do that in a film." That was my challenge.”

Ifs Thinking Want I Can Book Feelings Wanted Film Can Do Challenges Wonder Crazy Majors Studios Capture Wow Twilight Just Being Rejected Being Crazy Crazy Love

Author:Catherine Hardwicke

“Political correctness is a major defect of the western ethos. Some Western countries have even passed blasphemy laws that would put you in legal hot waters if you say anything negative about Islam. This means that the truth about Islam cannot be said but Muslims are given total freedom to spread their religion with lies. Islam thrives were truth is suppressed. That is one reason that westerners convert to Islam. They are lied to. How do you expect a society to survive when truth is banned and lies are allowed?”

“I think in general I personally have a tendency to protect other people's feelings, and I've noticed that becomes a major hindrance to communication. It's better to just be honest, even if it's painful.”

People Ifs Thinking Feelings Honest Communication Protect Majors Painful Tendencies Being Honest Hindrance

Author:Joe Swanberg

“Entertainment is like any other major industry; it's cold, big business. The business end wants to know one thing: Can you do the job? If you can, you're in, you're made; if you can't, you're out.”

Ifs Knows Want Made Ends Bigs Jobs One Thing Cold Industry Majors Entertainment Big Business

Author:Johnny Carson

“I'm not sure if that answers the question and I have absolutely no problem with any major world religion on Earth.”

Ifs World Problem Earth Answers Majors Not Sure No Problem World Religions

Author:John Hodgman

“When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.”

Ifs Way Writing Made Majors Discovery Great Things Disagree

Author:Ray Bradbury

“If anxiety is the major force of our contemporary condition, a lot of poetry - including my own, mostly - sort of tries to escape that, fly off into magical thinking or bewilderment or whatever.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Force My Own Conditions Anxiety Majors Including Contemporary Bewilderment Magical Thinking

Author:Mike Young

“The support is absolutely crucial. If you have the right people helping you in the lead up to a major event, then you know when you're lining up to start the race you have them there with you, willing you on. And I'm not only referring to the coaches, mechanics, physios, administrators, but also family and friends.”

People Ifs Knows Helping Race Support Events Willing Majors Coaches Crucial Family And Friends Mechanic Referring Administrators Lining Up Physio

Author:Chris Hoy

“If you're following the news, you know that the major religions differ in their interpretation of the holy books. For example, one way to interpret God's will is that you should love your neighbor. An alternate reading of the holy books might lead you to rig a donkey cart with small mortar rockets and aim it at a hotel full of infidels. In summary, po-tay-to, poh-tah-to. Religions are very flexible.”

“Millions of working, uninsured Americans go to bed every night worrying what will happen to them and their families if a major illness or injury strikes.”

Ifs Happens Night Millions Worry Bed Majors Illness Strikes Injury Every Night

Author:Tim Ryan

“A spiritual sensibility encourages us to see ourselves as part of the fundamental unity of all being. If the thrust of the market ethos has been to foster a competitive individualism, a major thrust of many traditional religious and spiritual sensibilities has been to help us see our connection with all other human beings.”

Source: The Politics of Meaning: Restoring Hope and Possibility in an Age of Cynicism

“Setting can be something that is a major player in a scene, something that makes the mood leap from the page. But if an author doesn't handle it right, it falls flat or seems overdone. It is a challenge getting it "just right".”

Ifs Seems Fall Challenges Player Scene Majors Pages Mood Handle Setting Settings Flats Leap

Author:Kim Smith

“All films created by Walt Disney at the time of his major outpouring of work were carefully crafted to fit scenes, characters, moods and situations. If these elements changed in any way, songs - no matter how good they were - were discarded. Others were written for the new scenes. Many times, character songs were dropped because characters were dropped...sequences were dropped etc.”

Ifs Way Matter Character Film Song Situation Written Changed Fit Scene Elements Majors Mood Etc Sequence Discarded Walt

Author:Richard Sherman

“I went to Oberlin College, and they don't have a film major, but they do have what's called an individual major, where you can sort of pitch to a committee your own course study, and if they approve it, you have essentially just designed your own major. So Oberlin doesn't have a film major; they do have a film minor... And then my spring semester of my junior year, I went off to NYU film school as a visiting student - they have a program for kids from other schools to come in for a semester.”

Ifs Years Kids School Film Courses Individual Study Students College Majors Spring Program Minors Committees Juniors Visiting Film School Semester Nyu Junior Year

Author:Ed Helms

“But before any of the small appliances who may be listening to this tale should begin to think that they might do the same thing, let them be warned: ELECTRICITY IS VERY DANGEROUS. Never play with old batteries! Never put your plug in a strange socket! And if you are in any doubt about the voltage of the current where you are living, ask a major appliance.”

Source: The brave little toaster: a bedtime story for small appliances

“If I was going to go into an office I wanted it to be with people I would choose to be around even if we didn't have to work together and so that was one of the major reasons why I decided out of all the different companies we invested in to work with Zappos.”

People Ifs Different Reason Wanted Together Company Office Majors Decided Reason Why Working Together

Author:Tony Hsieh

Source: Einstein: His Life and Universe

“People can write jokes five minutes after a major world event happens, and have hundreds of thousands of people read them within 10 minutes. Whereas before you write a joke, you don't know if anybody is really touching on it or not, and you tell it onstage the next night. For joke writing it has changed things.”

People Ifs Knows World Writing Happens Night Next Five Minutes Events Changed Majors Jokes Touching Five Minutes World Events

Author:Nick Thune

“Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India.”

People Ifs Today Jobs Waiting Degrees Majors India Hot Wave Heat Sweating Heat Wave Outsourced

Author:Jay Leno

“If you want the other person more than anything else in the world, you're in major trouble and the relationship is a wobbly pivot. It's different if the thing you want most in the world is truth, and your partner is the person you want most in the world.”

Ifs World Want Persons Different Trouble Majors Partners

Author:Stephen Levine

“For memetics to be a reasonable research programme, it should be the case that copying, and differential success in causing the multiplication of copies, overwhelmingly plays the major role in shaping all or at least most of the contents of culture. Evolved domain-specific psychological dispositions, if there are any, should be at most a relatively minor factor that could be considered part of background conditions.”

Ifs Should Play Culture Roles Cases Conditions Majors Research Backgrounds Psychological Factors Reasonable Copies Minors Disposition Domain Programmes Copying Multiplication

Author:Dan Sperber

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