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“I believe that the profits will come from the quality of your creative products. Since the beginning, I've always wanted to develop a self-feeding circle of creative productions: the positive financial returns from one show would be used to develop and create a new show, and so on.”

Believe Self Shows Would Be Wanted Used I Believe Quality Creative Products Return Financial Profit Productions Circles Feeding

Author:Guy Laliberte

“I wrote for years before I was ever published, and I don't think I could ever stop. That said, I was also a veterinarian before I sold my first book, and I still volunteer my time to help with animal welfare causes. So that is a career I would be happy to return to - while still secretly writing strange stories back in my doctor's office.”

“The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.”

Has Beens Made Would Be Earth Jesus Christ Enemy Return Authority Jesus Christ Creeds Devoted Founders

Book:Best of Sydney J. Harris

Source: Best of Sydney J. Harris

“My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.”

Ifs Would Be Danger Return Mexico

Author:Gloria Trevi

“There is a further advantage [to hydrogen bombs]: the supply of uranium in the planet is very limited, and it might be feared that it would be used up before the human race was exterminated, but now that the practically unlimited supply of hydrogen can be utilized, there is considerable reason to hope that homo sapiens may put an end to himself, to the great advantage of such less ferocious animals as may survive. But it is time to return to less cheerful topics.”

Humans May Ends Reason Might Would Be Used Animal Race Planets Return Advantage Human Race Bombs Topics Unlimited Cheerful Homo Sapiens Hydrogen Uranium Hydrogen Bomb

Author:Bertrand Russell

“I would be happy to accept asylum, political asylum, in India — a nation I love. In return, I will bring Mayawati a range of the finest British footwear.”

Would Be Political Nations Accepting Return India British Range Finest Asylums Footwear

Author:Julian Assange

“It is time to return to close reading, to a serious and painstaking examination of an author's methods, of his style. Do not be deterred by headaches. First of all, this would be proof of your lack of stamina. And then, migraines, piercing pain and sudden stabs at the temples are more likely the effects of syphilis than of hard work.”

Firsts Hard Would Be Pain Reading Effects Style Serious Hard Work Return Criticism Method Proof Temples Examination Headache Stamina Piercings Syphilis Migraine Close Reading

Author:Louis Aragon

“It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.”

Would Be America Brain Nice Return Politician Accepted Stomach Being Nice Arena Diminishing Returns

Book:Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

Source: Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser

“What did a few ripples in the flesh matter when, all too soon, now or later, that flesh would be making its return journey to dust?”

Matter Body Would Be Journey Return Flesh Dust Ripple

Author:Gail Godwin

“I always have plans to return to the stage. I leave myself very open. I think what would be more likely is if I did a limited run of something, whether it be a play or a musical.”

Ifs Thinking Play Would Be Running Plans Stage Return Musical

Author:Laura Bell Bundy

“I did not want to move. For I had the feeling that this was a place, once seen, that could not be seen again. If I left and then came back, it would not be the same; no matter how many times I might return to this particular spot the place and feeling would never be the same, something would be lost or something would be added, and there never would exist again, through all eternity, all the integrated factors that made it what it was in this magic moment.”

Ifs Want Made Matter Moments Feelings Might Would Be Moving Lost Left Magic Particular Return Eternity Factors Spots Made It Integrated Magic Moments

Book:Cemetery World

Source: Cemetery World

“The danger, though - and there have been signs of this recently - is that Europe begins to demonstrate a return to more nationalist sentiment. To my mind, that would be a great mistake.”

Mind Has Beens Motivational Would Be Mistake Danger Return Europe Sentiments Great Mistakes

Author:Lakshmi Mittal

“There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.”

Ifs World Needs Humans Important Country Would Be Lasts Used Spirit Passion Particular Return Breaths Climate Nationalism Passages Dominant Human Spirit Pennies Homesickness

Book:Three Lives

Source: Three Lives

“The distribution of the market is fat-tailed relative to the normal distribution... For passive investors, none of this matters, beyond being aware that outlier returns are more common than would be expected if return distributions were normal.”

Ifs Matter Would Be Common Return Normal Investing Expected Fats Investors Relative Passive Distribution Outliers

Author:Eugene Fama

“I remember being in buses, hotel lobbies and bars leading up to the 1994 World Cup talking with guys about how great it would be to have a legitimate league of our own, so getting on the plane in Italy to return and be part of the first year of MLS was one of the proudest moments of my life.”

World Life Years Firsts Moments Would Be Remember Guy Talking Return Bars Cups Planes League Hotel Bus World Cup Proudest Moments Hotel Lobby

Author:Alexi Lalas

“It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there's no end to them and they leave a funny taste in the mouth. Then there are words, inside the thoughts, unfinished words, a sketchy sentence which constantly returns...It goes, it goes ... and there's no end to it. It's worse than the rest because I feel responsible and have complicity in it. For example, this sort of painful rumination: I exist, I am the one who keeps it up. I.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Ends Would Be Example Return Taste Mouths Responsible Painful Sentences Flesh If I Could Unfinished Complicity Rumination Sketchy

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon. Plus, if I pursued a flight myself, people would think that was the reason I am trying to generate interest in public spaceflight. And that's not the purpose - I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.”

“A wonderful world would be a place where we can openly, honestly share things and it's done the same way in return. Do you suppose we're going to get that world anytime soon? I don't expect it. So I am practical. I work to have people close to me whom I can openly and honestly share with. And from that base of safety and trust, I can extend my sharing out into the world.”

People World Way I Can Done Would Be Wonderful Share Return Safety Honestly Practicals Start The Day Wonderful World

Author:John Morton

“An adventurer can always return home; an exile cannot. So I decided that my home would be culture.”

Home Would Be Culture Return Decided Exile Adventurer

Author:Jonas Mekas

“A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide.”

Ifs Doe Character Facts Might Would Be Given Causes Judging Return Blow Latter Justify Jury Aggravation Verdict Pun Homicide Aggravated

Book:The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

Source: The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell

“If you're going to buy something which compounds for 30 years at 15% per annum and you pay one 35% tax at the very end, the way that works out is that after taxes, you keep 13.3% per annum. In contrast, if you bought the same investment, but had to pay taxes every year of 35% out of the 15% that you earned, then your return would be 15% minus 35% of 15%-or only 9.75% per year compounded. So the difference there is over 3.5%. And what 3.5% does to the numbers over long holding periods like 30 years is truly eye-opening.”

Ifs Way Years Long Doe Ends Would Be Eye Differences Numbers Pay Return Periods Taxes Investment Work Out Opening Contrast Compounds Minus Eye Opening

Author:Charlie Munger

“In order for the second scenario to win, the world would have to return where the struggle for independence and against Western colonialism and imperialism was lost or abandoned more than 50 years ago. Let's face it: the world was never really completely de-colonized. It would be total hypocrisy to claim otherwise.”

World Years Would Be Faces Order Winning Lost Struggle Return Years Ago Claims Independence Western Hypocrisy Abandoned Colonialism Imperialism Scenarios

Author:Andre Vltchek

“America should really wonder about a President Trump, who had a campaign manager with ties to Putin, pro-putin elements in the Ukraine who had to be fired for that reason. They should wonder when Donald Trump is sitting down with Vladimir Putin, is it going to be America's bottom line, or is it going to be Donald Trump's bottom line he's going to be worried about with all of his business dealings. This would be solved if Donald Trump would release his tax returns as he's told the American public that he would do.”

“My family left Afghanistan in 1976, well before the Communist coup and the Soviet invasion. We certainly thought we would be going back. But when we saw those Soviet tanks rolling into Afghanistan, the prospect for return looked very dim. Few of us, I have to say, envisioned that nearly a quarter century of bloodletting would follow.”

Wells Would Be Left Saws Century Return My Family Communist Afghanistan Quarters Soviet Rolling Invasion Tanks Coups Bloodletting

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“There would be brilliant songs, but, as [Bob] Dylan admitted on the recent Martin Scorsese documentary about him (No Direction Home), the specific muse that inspired "It's Alright Ma" would not return.”

Home Would Be Song Return Inspired Brilliant Bob Muse Documentaries Dylan Alright Scorsese

Author:Bob Dylan

“The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten funds out of the country. It wouldn't make much sense for a ruler to store in his basement large quantities of stolen cash in his own country's currency. A corrupt ruler wants to be able to keep this money safe and to be able to spend it. And for this, he needs to convert it into a Western currency and store it in a bank abroad, where it can also earn investment returns and be bequeathed to his heirs.”

“I'm one of the most adaptable guys I know in as much as travelling is my favourite thing to do in life. With every place I go, I try to stay there long enough to do it justice, long enough so that I can at least imagine what it would be like to live there. Once I imagine that, then it's OK for me to return home.”

Knows Trying Long I Can Enough Home Would Be Guy Justice Imagine Return Things To Do Favourite Imagine That Adaptable Favourite Things

Author:Matthew McConaughey

“Lets talk about the holidays, more specifically, consumption during the holidays. If it's true that 'We are what we eat,' most of us would be unrecognizable during the period that ranges from the night before Thanksgiving through that day in early January when everyone decides to return to the gym.”

Ifs Would Be Night Return Periods Range Holiday Gym Consumption January

Author:Rachel Nichols

“According to the most common interpretation of biblical prophecy, Jesus will return only after things have gone horribly awry. Imagine the consequences if any significant component of the U.S. government believed that the world was about to end and that its ending would be glorious. The fact that nearly half of the American population apparently believes this should be considered a moral and intellectual emergency.”

“But in a country where you hang your dead up on walls and pride whether or not a man bears a javelin more than his character, how am I to persuade you out of a war? It would be suicide for Kildenree to war on Bayern and butchery for Bayern to attack Kildenree. If you don't believe me, then send me back. Or if you don't trust me to leave, I'll return to my little room on the west wall and tend your geese, and you can be sure that on my watch no thieves will touch my flock.”

Ifs Men Believe Littles War Country Character Would Be Rooms Watches Wall Pride Return Bears Suicide West Don't Believe Thieves Believe In Me Trust Me Flocks Don't Trust Geese Javelin Butchery

Book:The Goose Girl

Source: The Goose Girl

“She was tired of hugging pillows, counting on blankets for warmth, and reliving romantic moments only in her dreams. She was tired of hoping that every day would hurry so she could get on to the next. Hoping that it would be a better day, an easier day. But it never was. Worked, paid the bills, and went to bed but never slept. Each morning the weight on her shoulders got heavier and heavier and each morning she wished for night to fall quickly so she could return to her bed to hug her pillows and wrap herself in the warmth of her blankets.”

Love Moments Dream Would Be Night Fall Next Morning Return Easier Bed Weight Paid Bills Tired Shoulders Warmth Hug Wraps Counting Pillow Blanket Better Days Romantic Moments

Author:Cecelia Ahern

“A sixty - eight, he wants you to go down on him but he won't return the favor. It would be sixty-nine but he owes you one.”

Want Would Be Return Eight Favors Nine Sixty

Author:Lisa Kleypas

“You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.”

Source: Piccadilly Jim: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition

“If he could learn to love another, and earn her love in return by the time the last petal fell, then the spell would be broken. If not, he would be doomed to remain a beast for all time. As the years passed, he fell into despair and lost all hope. For who could ever learn to love a beast? -Beauty & the Beast”

Ifs Years Would Be Lasts Lost Broken Return Despair All Time Beast Spells Doomed Petals

Author:Walt Disney

“I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.”

World Writing Said Would Be Able Mother Father Novel Gone Written Return Letters Corners Convinced Limitation Pens Encyclopedia Corners Of The World Supernatural Powers

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

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