“I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.” IfsThinkingDifferentPlayWould BeActorsChallengesRolesTypeAspire Author:Vanessa Lengies
“I checked out all types of tobacco trying to find one that would be easiest to live with, I ended up using pipe tobacco. It burned slower, and it wasn't as harsh on my throat... It also smelled better.” TryingWould BeTypeThroatBurnedHarshPipeTobacco Author:David Strathairn
“When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.” WritingYearsPlayWould BeSchoolTypeComputerEightPlaywright Author:Gabrielle Zevin
“Once you become successful, people know where you live, the type of house you live in, the kind of car you drive, the clothes you wear, and so it would be patronising to go and talk like a welder. Welding's a mystery to me now. You can't go back, your life changes every day.” PeopleKnowsKindWould BeHouseSuccessfulMysteryCarTypeClothesLife ChangingSuccessful PeopleBecoming SuccessfulWhere You LiveWeldingClothes You Wear Author:Billy Connolly
“....chemotherapy's success record is dismal. It can achieve remissions in about 7% of all human cancers; for an additional 15% of cases, survival can be "prolonged" beyond the point at which death would be expected without treatment. This type of survival is not the same as a cure or even restored quality of life.” HumansWould BeQualityCasesRecordsAchieveTypeSurvivalCancerExpectedCuresTreatmentQuality Of LifeChemotherapyRemission Author:John Diamond
“Well, number one I like dancing. Number two I knew it would be challenging because I had never done this type of dance before. I always wanted to and I happened to have the courage to go out there and give it my best shot.” GivingWellsTwoDoneWould BeWantedChallengesNumbersHappenedTypeShotsDancingDanceBest Shot Author:Evander Holyfield
“Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them.” PeopleThinkingMeanMightWould BeTodayInformationTypeCreditSellingCardsNot SureBuyingOnlineCredit CardThink TwiceBuying And Selling Author:Bill Gates
“I would be curious about one of those Jane Austen women - you know - long-suffering, dutiful - but all right in the end - a plump 19th century type, five foot four, ringlets, brown eyes, long fingers.” KnowsLongEndsWould BeEyeSufferingFiveFourFeetCenturyTypeFingersCuriousBrownJane19th CenturyAustenLong SufferingBrown Eyes Author:Peter Greenaway
“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.” IfsThinkingShouldWritingFirstsPersonsIdeasCharacterWould BeRunningSchoolMovingLinesPerfectHellKnowingFourProduceTypePagesCapableHundredHigh SchoolDespiseGraduatesTrappedTenseFirst PersonProtagonistsMonologuesGraduating High School Author:Craig Johnson
“I always knew that I would be some type of public figure, but I never knew that it would be rapping.” Would BeFiguresTypeRapPublic Figures Author:Freddie Gibbs
“The people who came to hear me perform or to buy my records were not the type who would be offended [by the song 'The Vatican Rag']. But I gather that there were other people who were offended.” PeopleWould BeRecordsTypeOffended Author:Tom Lehrer
“We're headed for what is called Type 1 Civilization, planetary civilization. Type 2 would be stellar civilization, like Star Trek. Type 3 Civilization would be galactic, like Star Wars. We are Type 0. We get our energy from dead plants, oil and coal. But the question is: Will we make it? Will we make the transition from Type 0 to Type 1? It's not clear.” WarWould BeEnergyStarsClearTypeCivilizationPlantOilTransitionCoalStellar Author:Michio Kaku
“The government would be making decisions about what type of care is given, what procedures can be performed, and the kind of medications prescribed. It would be a very profound change from the ideal to which we aspire.” KindGovernmentWould BeCareGivenDecisionTypeIdealsProfoundAspireProceduresMedicationMaking Decisions Author:Nan Hayworth
“There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.” IfsMenLooksIdeasWould BeMovingSpiritReadingStrongBornProgressWillingTypeCivilizationBattleStandardsIntelligentInstinctAverageConservativeCurrentsNewspapersResistanceDullStableNew IdeasStatus QuoAdventurousPromptsAverage ManBrakeHereditaryFears Of LifeAdventurous Spirit Author:Gertrude Atherton
“In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.” PeopleWritingKindChildrenPersonsTwoStatesWould BeLawGoalTeachCasesTeacherSacrificeExampleTypeProtectGainsOrganizationFunctionUnionsIncludingInvestingIronRepresentativesIncompetent Author:Jerry Pournelle
“The most extreme types, like Murray Rothbard, are at least honest. They'd like to eliminate highway taxes because they force you to pay for a road you may never drive on. As an alternative, they suggest that if you and I want to get somewhere, we should build a road there and charge people tolls on it. Just try generalizing that. Such a society couldn't survive, and even if it could, it would be so full of terror and hate that any human being would prefer to live in hell.” PeopleIfsWantShouldTryingHumansMayWould BeHateForceHuman BeingsPayHellHonestTypeTaxesTerrorExtremesSocialismAlternativesHighwaysTolls Book:How the World Works Source: How the World Works
“It's interesting in this day and age to do a film about political espionage and wiretapping. I don't think that those types of secrets that J. Edgar Hoover was able to obtain and keep for such a long period of time would be possible in today's world, with the Internet and WikiLeaks.” ThinkingWorldLongWould BeAgeTodayAbleFilmPoliticalInterestingSecretTypeInternetPeriodsThis DayEspionageLong Periods Of TimeToday's WorldWikileaksHooverJ Edgar Hoover Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“I am completely open to doing a romantic comedy, but I will never do something just for the sake of doing a specific genre or because it's the time or place to do a different type of movie. I think that would be a huge mistake.” ThinkingDifferentWould BeMistakeComedyHugeTypeSakeGenre Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“I do believe that the very tense relationship between the United States and Iran presents a challenge to the United States. But to discuss Iran as that type of a threat I find somewhat unconvincing, mindful of the fact that Iran actually doesn't have those military capabilities that would be needed to refer to it as that type of threat.” BelieveStatesFactsWould BeChallengesUnitedUnited StatesMilitaryTypeNeededThreatIranCapabilityTense Author:Trita Parsi
“If you didn't have the amalgam of Blacks and African-type sensibility and European sensibility, you wouldn't have jazz. Even in the negative and in the positive ways - if there was no slavery and the abolition of slavery, there would be no jazz.” IfsWayWould BeTypeNegativeSlaveryJazzSensibilityAbolitionAbolition Of Slavery Author:Wynton Marsalis
“Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.” WorldWayWould BeSpiritValuesReligiousJudgingTypeMessagesProphetManhoodAnother WaySprungReligious Experience Book:The religious thought in Islam Source: The religious thought in Islam
“If you have 50 different plug types, appliances wouldn't be available and would be very expensive. But once an electric outlet becomes standardized, many companies can design appliances, and competition ensues, creating variety and better prices for consumers.” IfsDifferentWould BeCompanyDesignTypeCreatingCompetitionAvailableVarietyConsumersExpensiveElectricOutletsPlugsAppliances Author:Bill Gates
“What's the best type of light? Why that would be available light... and by available light I mean any damn light is available.” MeanLightWould BeTypeAvailableDamn Author:W. Eugene Smith
“It feels good, you know. It feels like you're out there, you know, doin' your own thing, know what I'm sayin'? It's like, people can't really compare it to anything, and that kinda feels good. It opens me up to a lot of different arenas, a lot of different type of situations, you know like Tony Hawk will call. You know what I'm sayin'? I can just image if my songs was about shootin' up, and like sellin' cocaine, I doubt Tony Hawk would be callin' you know?” PeopleIfsKnowsFeelsI CanDifferentWould BeSongSituationDoubtLike YouTypeFeel GoodCompareArenaCocaineHawks Author:Lupe Fiasco
“Different types of sex work are differently supportive. If I were working in a strip club, I would be competing with my colleagues, and while there would be support, there would be financial motivation not to offer too much support.” IfsDifferentWould BeMotivationSexSupportToo MuchTypeOffersFinancialClubsColleaguesCompetingSupportiveSex Work Author:Molly Crabapple
“The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.” PeopleKnowsNeedsFeelsMeanIdeasSelfHardProblemWould BeFoundUnderstandingTeachingIdentityTypeEssentialsAbsolutesFixedMistakenSelflessnessNo ProblemUnchanging Author:Robert Thurman
“I don't know if it was related to the type of music that we were doing at that time or what, but Todd Cook actually just turned to me and was like, "You know what would be a great name for a metal band? Dead Child." We talked half-jokingly that we were going to do a band. I guess as time went on, I started writing songs that were more metal sounding, and it just evolved from there. It actually started with the name first, and then the songs came second.” IfsKnowsWritingFirstsChildrenWould BeSongNamesHalfLike YouTypeBandCooksRelatedMetalsWriting SongsMetal Band Author:David Pajo
“I was young, but to me that was underground music. I had never heard anything like Venom or any of that stuff growing up in Louisville. That was sort of the only weird records I could find. All that stuff would be in the import section. And sometimes there would be some sort of goth type of stuff. But that was the stuff I was attracted to.” SometimesWould BeYoungStuffGrowing UpRecordsGrowingHeardTypeSectionsImportsGothVenomLouisvilleUnderground Music Author:David Pajo
“Would I love to run around and check out if Jennifer Aniston was looking for a boyfriend? Yeah, it would be interesting for a minute. But would I trade in my life to get her and Angelina [Jolie]? No way. I've got something better. And I don't need the neuroses of two type-A personalities in my life. One is enough.” IfsWayNeedsTwoEnoughWould BeRunningInterestingMinutesTypePersonalityYeahTradeChecksSomething BetterNeurosisJennifer Author:Jon Bon Jovi
“Any type of commercialization or, like I said, watering that idea down would be so damaging and frankly, be pretty uninspiring to me, because the fact that every piece is like my dream thing that I just can't get enough of and am just so excited to wear, is just the whole point of it.” SaidIdeasEnoughWholeFactsDreamWould BePiecesTypeExcitedCommercializationUninspiring Author:Rumi Neely
“There's quite obviously the desire to open the rule sets that allow for inclusion or disclusion. I think that my hope would be that my work set up certain type of precedent, that allowed for great institutions, museums and viewers to see the possibilities of painting culture to be a bit more inclusive.” ThinkingWould BeDesireCertainCultureBitsPossibilityPaintingTypeInstitutionsMuseumsInclusionViewersPrecedent Author:Kehinde Wiley
“I mean, there's obviously only one Leo [DiCaprio] but I look at guys like Mark Wahlberg and Tom Cruise and think I'd like to have that type of career... that would be really great if I could have that.” IfsThinkingLooksMeanWould BeGuyCareersTypeMarkIf I CouldTomsReally GreatCruiseLeo Dicaprio Author:Scott Eastwood