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“Well, it might have been if I'd had success earlier in life, but having success that much later meant I was far more grounded when it came. The last few years of my life have just been surreal and after a lifetime of disappointment and heartache and rejection, I still don't believe this is all actually happening. I'm extremely grateful for my success - I just never expect it to last and my motto, if I have one, is just put your head down and do the job.”

“If I was tall and blonde, I might have been a dancer or singer.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Singers Dancer Tall Might Have Been Blonde

Author:Agnes Varda

“With live-action I think we'd have lost the universal appeal of the Persepolis story. With live-action, it would have turned into a story of 'the Other' - people living in a distant land who don't look like us. It might have been exotic, but also a "Third-World" story.”

People Thinking World Looks Has Beens Stories Might Action Lost Land Thirds Universal Appeals Might Have Been Exotic Third World Persepolis

Author:Marjane Satrapi

“As an African-American, as a woman I think that I've been sensitized to the way in which history privileges the white male and the way in which certain aspects of history, the things that we are taught in school, the things that are handed down never, never entered the picture though they might have been very important.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Important Might School Certain White Taught Aspect Males Privilege African American Might Have Been

Author:Rita Dove

“In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new beliefs of a society based on equality and inclusion, and are told that the judgment of other lifestyles is a crime. ... The "non-judgmental" attitude towards other cultures goes hand-in-hand with a fierce denunciation of the culture that might have been one's own”

“Did you ever get to wondering if taxation without representation might have been cheaper?”

Ifs Has Beens Might Wonder Representation Taxation Might Have Been Cheaper Taxation Without Representation

Author:Robert Orben

“... the radical deficiency of imagist verse, as such, is in its lack of general ideas. Much of it might have been written by an infinitely sensitive decapitated frog. It is hemisphereless poetry.”

Has Beens Ideas Might Written Radical Sensitive Verses Might Have Been Frogs Deficiency

Book:A Study of Poetry

Source: A Study of Poetry

“I thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails than two. I did it for convenience and I now looking back think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning.”

Thinking Has Beens Two Might Would Be Easier Just One Devices Mail Smarter Looking Back Might Have Been Convenience

Author:Hillary Clinton

“If we are ever to become what we might have been, we must cease being who we've become.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Cease Might Have Been

Author:Wendell Johnson

“No man is obliged to be what he might have been.”

Men Has Beens Might Might Have Been Obliged

Author:David Berlinski

“James Edward Oliver might have been one of the great mathematicians of his time had he not been absolutely wanting in the power of continuous work.”

Has Beens Might Mathematician Might Have Been

Book:The reminiscences of an astronomer

Source: The reminiscences of an astronomer

“If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Decision Worry Stress Insignificant Might Have Been Wrong Decision Insignificant Things

Author:Courtney Barnett

“Filming is quite exciting because every day is different, but it can involve long hours standing around in chilly locations. Theatre is a very different challenge because every night you're striving to keep it fresh, even though you might have been performing the same play for months.”

Long Has Beens Different Play Might Night Hours Challenges Months Standing Exciting Strive Theatre Performing Every Night Location Might Have Been Long Hours Chilly

Author:Samantha Bond

“I love what I'm doing. And the world is so mad at everybody. If I do something to make people smile, I'm going to say, I got you. For that moment, if it don't last, I made you forget about the other thing you might have been thinking about.”

People Ifs Thinking World Has Beens Made Moments Might Lasts Forget Mad That Moment Might Have Been Make People Smile

Author:Buddy Guy

“I learned so much about myself from reading this script and doing this movie [Shelter] because the level of judgment and the lack of humanity I saw in myself was disgusting. I never took into account what a homeless person might have been through.”

Persons Has Beens Might Humanity Reading Levels Saws Judgment Accounts Scripts Disgusting Shelter Homeless Might Have Been

Author:Paul Bettany

“It is impossible not to recognise the Long March as one of the great triumphs of men against odds and men against nature. While the Red Army was unquestionably in forced retreat, its toughened veterans reached their planned objective with moral and political will as strong as ever... Their conviction had helped turn what might have been a terrible defeat into an arrival in triumph.”

“There are quite a few things I've done that even I thought might have been one step too far. But if you are willing to make a fool of yourself and make people smile, as long as you do it with a sense of fun, you can get away with it.”

People Ifs Long Has Beens Done Might Fun Steps Willing Fool Get Away Might Have Been Make People Smile

Author:Richard Branson

“As a cancer survivor, I am very aware of how many wasted minutes I don't have. The surest way to waste what is left of your life is to worry about what might happen or what might have been.”

Way Has Beens Might Happens Life Is Left Worry Minutes Waste Cancer Survivor Might Have Been Cancer Survivor

Author:Shelley Hamlin

“If Mozart had power tools, there's no telling how great his music might have been.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Tools Might Have Been Power Tools

Author:Dave Barry

“I don't think I was awake for much of my childhood. I did a lot of napping. This might have been a defensive measure against encroaching depression. Until about the age of eleven or twelve, I had zero interests other than trying to steal gumballs from supermarket gumball machines.”

“Christ, if he had been a woman, might have been nothing but a great complainer”

Ifs Has Beens Might Christ Might Have Been Complainers

Book:The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

Source: The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale

“Yes, Manchester United are the best team in England, but you have to ask how good has the Premier League been since I left? If I was at a top club in England I think the title race might have been a lot closer this year.”

Ifs Thinking Years Has Beens Might Asks Left United Race Team England Clubs Titles League Might Have Been Manchester Best Team Manchester United Premier League

Author:Jose Mourinho

“There's a tradition of reenactment in documentary which is about sort of illustrating what the past might have been like.”

Has Beens Might Past Tradition Documentaries Might Have Been Illustrating

Author:Joshua Oppenheimer

“You might have been able to fool people the first time, or something, but you really can't make a successful sequel today unless people really, really liked the predecessor.”

People Firsts Has Beens Might Today Able Successful Fool First Time Might Have Been Sequels Predecessors

Author:Neal H. Moritz

“I'm kind of happy to know there may be some kid or teenager now who might never have had the chance to see my Broadway performance, but gets a taste for what it might have been like now, because they can see Clint Eastwood's film."”

Knows Kind May Has Beens Might Kids Film Chance Taste Performances Teenager Broadway Might Have Been

Author:John Lloyd Young

“We might have been better off if the question of Obama's patriotism had been raised before he was first elected. Never should we ignore so many red flag warnings again.”

Ifs Should Firsts Has Beens Might Red Raised Warning Flags Better Off Might Have Been Red Flags

Author:Thomas Sowell

“In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at the start of that dispute, will any longer be totally in the right or totally in the wrong. Such a point I believe, has been reached in this debate... Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa.”

Believe Has Beens Matter Might I Believe Party Tragedy Debate Proportion Might Have Been Disputes Unfolding Unprecedented

Author:Nelson Mandela

“It is never too late to be who you want to be.”

“In the past, destruction of your neighbour might have been considered a victory, but today we are all interdependent. We live in a global economy; we face problems like climate change that affect us all. The 7 billion human beings alive today belong to one human family. In the context that others' interests are in our interest and our interest is in their interest, the use of force is self-destructive.”

“The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people (20 per cent of the audience) laughed; one was Chinese, the other, whom I couldn't see, might have been an escaped hyena. This laughless francophobic comedy stars its co-scriptwriter, Steve Martin, in what is, by my reckoning, his eighth lousy remake since 1989.”

People Has Beens Two Reason Might Stars Audience Saws Comedy Performances Presses Chinese Laughed Cents Might Have Been Remakes Reckoning Panthers Hyenas Pink Panther

Author:Philip French

“The fact is that the New Deal did not work. It prolonged what might have been a troubling two-year downturn into a horrifying blow to world prosperity that ended up in a war that killed countless millions. It was one of the greatest acts of wreckage in world history.”

World Years Has Beens Two War Facts Might Deals Millions Blow Prosperity Two Years Working It Might Have Been World History New Deal Wreckage Downturn

Author:Llewellyn Rockwell

“Boethius might have been styled happy, if that precarious epithet could be safely applied before the last term of the life of man.”

Ifs Men Has Beens Might Lasts Term Might Have Been Precarious Epithet

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“In the most rigorous [Roman] laws, a wife was condemned to support a gamester, a drunkard, or a libertine, unless he were guilty of homicide, poison, or sacrilege, in which cases the marriage, as it should seem, might have been dissolved by the hand of the executioner.”

Should Has Beens Hands Seems Might Law Cases Support Wife Guilty Poison Might Have Been Drunkards Homicide Executioners Libertine Sacrilege

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“What's fascinating . . .is that you could now have a business that might have been selling for $10 billion where the business itself could probably not have borrowed even $100 million. But the owners of that business, because its public, could borrow many billions of dollars on their little pieces of paper- because they had these market valuations. But as a private business, the company itself couldn't borrow even 1/20th of what the individuals could borrow.”

Littles Has Beens Might Individual Company Millions Pieces Paper Dollars Billions Selling Fascinating Owners Might Have Been Borrowed Valuation

Author:Charlie Munger

“Had we been as free from all sins as we were from gluttony and drunkenness we might have been canonized for saints.”

Has Beens Might Sin Saint Might Have Been Drunkenness Gluttony

Book:The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography

Source: The Journals of Captain John Smith: A Jamestown Biography

“If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.”

Ifs Has Beens Might Christian Known Might Have Been

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“If we had had time and the occasion to develop a new socialism in the GDR, socialism with a human face, with democracy, this might have been an example also to West Germany. The development would have run the other way.”

Ifs Way Humans Has Beens Might Running Faces Democracy Example Development West Socialism Occasions Germany Might Have Been Human Faces West Germany

Author:Stefan Heym

“I'd love to be in Paul McCartney's shoes for a day. I'd love to pick up a guitar and write songs like he does. Or to experience what it might have been like to be a Beatle for a day.”

Writing Doe Has Beens Might Song Picks Guitar Shoes Might Have Been

Author:Tom Felton

“There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.”

People Feels Has Beens Might Certain Blame Misfortunes Might Have Been How You Feel Obsessing Blaming Others Points In Life

Author:Hugh Jackman

“But in another world, another life, probably growing up in another country, I might have been more of a dancer.”

World Has Beens Country Might Growing Up Growing Dancer Might Have Been Another World Another Life

Author:Hugh Jackman

“I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.”

Long Has Beens Might Politics Design Absence Neglect Might Have Been Sleepers Great Design

Book:King Richard III

Source: King Richard III

“He wanted head and hands and arms on a pillow - in many different positions. I was asked to move my hands in many different ways - also my head - and I had to turn this way and that. There were nudes that might have been of several different people - sitting - standing - even standing upon the radiator against the window - that was difficult - radiators don't intend you to stand on top of them. (On being photographed by Alfred Stieglitz)”

People Way Has Beens Different Hands Might Wanted Moving Turns Difficult Position Arms Sitting Standing Window Different Ways Might Have Been Different Peoples Pillow

Book:Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

Source: Georgia O'Keeffe: A Life

“If I had been born one or two hundred years ago, I might have been a sculptor, but photography is a very quick way to see, to make sculpture.”

Ifs Way Years Has Beens Two Might Born Photography Hundred Years Ago Sculpture Might Have Been Sculptors

Book:Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment

Source: Robert Mapplethorpe: the perfect moment

“I got jumped into a gang, but I never shot anybody or anything. I might have been in the car when something happened, but I was involved in the gangs just for the drugs. After a while, I just became an outcast of the gang because I just liked the drugs. I just wanted to do more drugs, anything you put in my hand.”

Has Beens Hands Might Wanted Happened Car Involved Drug Shots Might Have Been Gang Outcast

Author:Felipe Esparza

“We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.”

Has Beens Dream Might Might Have Been Lethe

Book:Essays of Elia

Source: Essays of Elia

“Sometimes if you jump into something too quickly, you can screw up something that might have been good two years down the road.”

Ifs Years Has Beens Two Sometimes Might Two Years Screws Might Have Been Down The Road Screw Ups

Book:Not Dumb, Not Blonde: Dolly In Conversation

Source: Not Dumb, Not Blonde: Dolly In Conversation

“The Roman Catholic Church is an institution for whose gains the phrase "ill-gotten" might have been specially invented. And of all its money-making rip-offs, the selling of indulgences must surely rank among the greatest con tricks in history, the medieval equivalent of the Nigerian Internet scam but far more successful.”

“Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men.”

“My parents sent me to a school across town, an integrated school, where I had the chance to meet and grow up with people who were from other parts of the world. ... I remember feeling that I would never have anything to contribute on St. Patrick's Day. I couldn't tell the stories that they might have been telling about their forebears and I felt left out.”

People World Has Beens Stories Feelings Might School Remember Left Grows Felt Parent Chance Growing Up Towns Might Have Been Integrated Left Out St Patrick St Patrick's Day

Author:Isabel Wilkerson

“It is never too late to be who you might have been. It is always possible”

Has Beens Might Successful Late Being The Best Too Late Might Have Been Success And Failure Never Too Late Succes Achieving Success Achieving Your Goals Achieved Success Achieving Goals Inspirational Goal Goals And Ambitions

Author:Steve Miller

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