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“There is some pressure when you are a woman doing what I do that you must support all other women unconditionally, no matter what they're projecting, or writing, or producing, or putting forth as their art. I think that's equally arbitrary and random and unfair, and kind of sexist. The secretly sexist way. I have really high standards for what I think is funny. I have that for everything, and I think it would be disingenuous of me to blanket-ly love everything a woman has produced simply to make a statement that we're all in this together.”

Thinking Way Writing Kind Art Matter Would Be Together Support Standards Pressure No Matter What Statements Unfair Arbitrary Blanket Sexist High Standards Disingenuous

Author:Mindy Kaling

“Songwriting is not particularly easy for me. I think it would be easy for me if I didn't have such high restrictions and feelings about what I want my music to be. I'm not precious at all when it comes to producing music and I can bring that to an artist and let them expand their horizons.”

Ifs Thinking Want I Can Feelings Would Be Artist Easy Songwriting Horizon Restriction Producing Music

Author:John Congleton

“I consider myself a logical person and, you know, a lot of people try to categorize me in one way or another. You know, there are some of the things that I say that probably would be considered very much non-conservative. But I don't think really conservative or liberal; I think: What makes sense? What's going to help the American people? What's going to give them what they need? Not only in health care but in terms of jobs, in terms of education, in terms of a whole host of issues.”

People Thinking Knows Way Needs Giving Trying Persons Whole Helping Would Be Care Jobs Term Issues Conservative One Way Health Care Make Sense Logical Host

Author:Benjamin Carson

“Just because you have superpowers, that doesn't mean your love life would be perfect. I don't think superpowers automatically means there won't be any personality problems, family problems or even money problems. I just tried to write characters who are human beings who also have superpowers.”

Thinking Writing Humans Mean Character Problem Would Be Human Beings Perfect Personality Love Life Superpower Family Problems Money Problem

Author:Stan Lee

“Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There's editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency.”

People Thinking Whole Home Dream Would Be Artist House Havens Cameras Paint Piano Capture Efficiency Editing Equipment Supplies Microphones Recorders

Author:Will Smith

“Don't ever make the mistake with people like me thinking we are looking for heroes. There aren't any and if there were, they would be killed immediately. I'm never surprised by bad behaviour. I expect it.”

People Ifs Thinking Would Be Mistake Hero Like Me Behaviour

Author:Gore Vidal

“We may not usually think that we have an effect on the lives of others, but we would be amazed at how wrong we could be. We do not need to make great contributions to the world-just small, consistent ones to those whose lives we touch. We could help so many people by just taking the time to listen to them, comfort them or just bring them hope.”

People Thinking World Needs May Helping Would Be Effects Comfort Contribution Consistent Amazed Lives Of Others

Author:John Harricharan

“I've had small depressions, days when I've woken up and felt sad, especially when I'm so far away from home. I've got my religion and that is my therapy, although I think it would be good for me to have someone I can talk to. But I have friends. I haven't got a therapist but maybe I should.”

Thinking Should I Can Home Would Be Felt Havens Be Good Therapy Far Away Therapists Away From Home

Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I think that taxes would be fair if we first get rid of the tax code.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Would Be Taxes Fairs Code

Author:Herman Cain

“If I had a long-term partner, I dont think Id be an actor. Itd be too much of a strain; you have to work too hard to balance that life with a family and a mortgage and all that stuff - it would be too much.”

Ifs Thinking Long Hard Would Be Actors Stuff Term Too Much Balance Partners Long Term Strain Mortgage

Author:Rory McCann

“Im from a family of doctors, and I think they really wanted me to be a doctor. I even sort of assumed I would be a doctor.”

Thinking Would Be Wanted Doctors

Author:Kumail Nanjiani

“I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.”

Thinking Would Be Natural

Author:Zach Gilford

“I think it would be great to play a superhero. That will be one of my goals.”

Thinking Play Would Be Goal Superhero

Author:Liana Liberato

“The word "utopia" has two meanings. It means both "good place" and "nowhere". That's the way it should be. The happiest places, I think, are the ones that reside just this side of paradise. The perfect person would be insufferable to live with; likewise, we wouldn't want to live in the perfect place, either. "A life time of happiness! No man could bear it: It would be hell on earth," wrote George Bernard Shaw, in his play Man and Superman.”

“I don't look like Catherine Zeta-Jones, so I don't think Hollywood would be that interested in me, to be honest. I just want nice work.”

Thinking Want Looks Would Be Nice Honest Hollywood Being Honest Zeta Nice Work

Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“Music is a language, and it's like a dictionary that has a lot of words, but if you limited yourself to a couple of definitions you would be illiterate. If one limits oneself to a peculiar definition like 'new music,' 'avant-garde,' or something like that, I think it's like cutting out half the dictionary.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Language Half Cutting Couple Limits Music Is Oneself Definitions Peculiar Dictionary Illiterate Avant Garde New Music

Author:Archie Shepp

“I wrote 'Lights' a long, long time ago. And I expected it to be on the album, because it was - I wrote it with 'Biff' Stannard. And he wrote every single Spice Girls song and every single pop song of the 90s, basically. So I thought, you know, I was really lucky to work with him, but I didn't think it would be a big song for some reason.”

Thinking Knows Long Reason Bigs Light Would Be Song Girl Lucky Long Time Albums Pops Expected Long Time Ago Spices Pop Song Spice Girls

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system. This shift minimizes - indeed, deletes - the role of wealth in the economic and social system. And it sheds the adverse connotation going back to Marx. Instead of the owners of capital or their attendants in control, we have the admirably impersonal role of market forces. It would be hard to think of a change in terminology more in the interest of those to whom money accords power. They have now a functional anonymity.”

Thinking Hard Would Be Force Social Interest Wealth Roles Gone Economic Fashion Capitalism Owners Shed Accord Approved Anonymity Adverse Social Systems Connotation Terminology

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“There's one thing about freedom ... each generation of people begins by thinking they've got it for the first time in history, and ends by being sure the generation younger than themselves have too much of it. It can't really always have been increasing at the rate people suppose, or there would be more of it by now.”

People Thinking Firsts Has Beens Ends Would Be Freedom Too Much Generations One Thing First Time Rate

Author:Rose Macaulay

“It would be nice to think that a censor could allow a genuine work of artistic seriousness and ban a titillating piece of sadism, but it would take a miracle to make such a distinction stick.”

Thinking Would Be Pieces Nice Miracle Sticks Genuine Artistic Distinction Censorship Being Nice Seriousness Bans Sadism

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“How many people would like to be good, if only they might be good without taking trouble about it! They do not like goodness well enough to hunger and thirst after it, or to sell all that they have that they may buy it; they will not batter at the gate of the kingdom of heaven; but they look with pleasure on this or that aerial castle of righteousness, and think it would be rather nice to live in it.”

Source: The Complete Novels of George Macdonald (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, The Princess and Curdie, Phantastes, At the Back of the North Wind, Lilith, David Elginbrod, Malcolm, Ranald Bannerman's Boyhood, Wilfrid Cumbermede and many more

“One would think that the larger the company is in which we are engaged, the greater variety of thoughts and subjects would be started into discourse; but, instead of this we find that conversation is never so much straightened and confined, as in numerous assemblies.”

Thinking Would Be Company Greater Subjects Conversation Variety Engaged Discourse Confined Assembly

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Joseph Addison (Illustrated)

“Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness.”

Source: The Complete Works of George Orwell: I have tried to tell the truth, 1943-1944

“If thinking men would have the courage to think for themselves, and to speak what they think, it would be found they do not differ in religious opinions as much as is supposed.”

Ifs Thinking Men Would Be Religion Found Speak Religious Opinion Thinking Man

Book:Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers

Source: Memoirs, 4: Correspondence and Private Papers

“I used to think there would be a blinding flash of light someday, and then I would be wise and calm and would know how to cope with everything and my kids would rise up and call me blessed. Now I see that whatever I'm like, I'm pretty well stuck with it for life. Hell of a revelation that turned out to be.”

Thinking Knows Wells Light Would Be Kids Used Know How Hell Wise Blessed Calm Stuck Revelations Someday Call Me Flash Being Wise

Author:Margaret Laurence

“There is probably no country so barbarous that would not disclose all it knew, if it received equivalent information; and I am apt to think that a person who was ready to give more knowledge than he received would be welcome wherever he came.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Persons Country Would Be Information Ready Travel Welcome More Knowledge

Book:Essays, poems and plays

Source: Essays, poems and plays

“Who do you think made the first stone spears? The Asperger guy. If you were to get rid of all the autism genetics, there would be no more Silicon Valley.”

Ifs Thinking Firsts Made Inspiration Would Be Motivation Guy Stones Valleys Autism Genetics Spears Silicon Silicon Valley Aspergers

Author:Temple Grandin

“It has always puzzled me, in my business, that people think they have to answer questions, no matter how disagreeable or dangerous, just because they were asked. Of course, we journalists would be out of business if they didn't.”

People Ifs Thinking Matter Would Be Courses Answers Dangerous Journalist Disagreeable Puzzled

Book:Style and substance: a comedy of manners

Source: Style and substance: a comedy of manners

“I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. You think there is no pleasure to be had in life. That is because you are heartsick and-and tired, as you say. With one sad story ended you are afraid to begin another-a sequel-feeling it would be equally sad. But why should it be? Isn't the joy or sorrow equally divided in life?”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)

“If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.”

Ifs Thinking World Children Soul Helping Would Be Care Spiritual Interest This World Eternity Appeals Improving Enthusiastic

Book:His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

“Let's say tomorrow that there was a president, that we elected a president that eliminated the bulk collection of data. Let's just say it happened. What do you think would happen? People are like 'the sky would fall. We would be overrun with jihadists.' Maybe we could rely on the Constitution. Maybe we could get warrants. ... If you make the warrant specific, there's no limit to what you can get through a warrant.”

People Ifs Thinking Happens Would Be Fall President Happened Sky Tomorrow Limits Constitution Data Rely Collections Nsa Warrants

Author:Rand Paul

“I am a big supporter of experiments to complement representative gov't with randomly selected representative bodies of citizens, sure. I think most Americans would be surprised to learn just how much better we are at gov't than our gov't.”

Thinking Body Bigs Would Be Citizens Experiments Representatives Supporter Selected Complement

Author:Lawrence Lessig

“I'm not a wealthy person and I don't think that I would be able to prioritize that much money to go for a ride to a place that I have already lived. But if the price comes down or I win a lottery or something, why not?”

Ifs Thinking Persons Would Be Able Winning Wealthy Why Not Lottery Prioritize

Author:Chris Hadfield

“I think the sensible thing would be to focus on one thing and be the best you can be at it. There is always that risk of spreading yourself too thin if you try to do too much.”

Ifs Thinking Trying Would Be Too Much Focus Risk One Thing Being The Best Sensible Focus On One Thing

Author:Doc Brown

“I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.”

Thinking Would Be Pain Lost Wish Realizing Emotional Arms Legs Disability Physical Pain True Things Mental Pain

Author:Nick Vujicic

“If the people in a relationship were able to get rid of this torment within and replace it with happiness, love, and a sense of well-being, they would never think to hurt another human being. They would be filled with an understanding of others and an appreciation of others and have an ability to reconcile differences without any violence whatsoever, to reconcile differences in a very loving way, a very happy way.”

“Depending on what you do and how you do what you do, I wouldn't recommend for everyone to allow themselves to be public online. I think it also in some way, shape or form allows you to answer questions that otherwise would be lingering and dictate your own path instead of having your path dictated by the media.”

Thinking Way Would Be Form Answers Path Media Shapes Online Lingering

Author:Ashton Kutcher

“I think perhaps I've learned to be myself. I have a theory that all artists who would be important - painters and writers - must learn to be themselves. It takes a very long time.”

Thinking Long Important Would Be Artist Theory Long Time Authenticity Painter I've Learned

Author:Margot Fonteyn

“I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.”

Thinking Would Be Age Hundred Fifty

Book:Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around

Source: Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around

“I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Wells Hands Would Be Pain Remember Lying Pleasure Break Blood This World Bears Patterns Flesh Pleasant Life Death Flesh And Blood Love Death

Author:Stevie Smith

“Anybody who thinks there is any vague chance of adult exchange with a child is up the spout; and would be much less disappointed if they recognized the chasm unbridgeably dividing them.”

Ifs Thinking Children Would Be Chance Adults Disappointed Vague Dividing Chasms

Author:Caitlin Thomas

“The best would be to have friends who came and went away; but if I had to choose between their never coming or never going away, I think I would choose that they do not come.”

Ifs Thinking Would Be Solitude Going Away

Book:Rungli-Rungliot means in Paharia, Thus far and no further

Source: Rungli-Rungliot means in Paharia, Thus far and no further

“Blessed is he who invented recording! But what a pity that he was not born centuries earlier! Think only of all that we would be able to hear and therefore understand better. Oh, the unending research in libraries and museums, the readings and collations of texts, the maddening desire to know the truth!”

Thinking Knows Would Be Able Desire Reading Born Music Century Research Blessed Library Pity Museums Unending

Author:Wanda Landowska

“the thing I would wish for anybody I loved would be the possibility of never coming to the end of discovery. I think it is what makes life worth living.”

Thinking Ends Would Be Wish Possibility Discovery Curiosity Worth Living Life Worth Living

Book:Joyce

Source: Joyce

“I don't think there's ever been someone with as much presence as Elvis Presley, I mean if he walked into a room I think everyone would be looking at only him. Even when he was dying and through all that when you looked at him it seemed all put together. It fascinates me.”

Ifs Thinking Mean Would Be Together Rooms Dying

Author:Eddie Murphy

“Perhaps one would be wise when young even to avoid thinking of oneself as a writer - for there's something a little stopped and satisfied, too healthy, in that. Better to think of writing, of what one does as an activity, rather than an identity - to write, I write; we write; to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun; to keep working at the thing, at all hours, in all places, so that your life does not become a pose, a pornography of wishing.”

Thinking Writing Littles Doe Would Be Young Wish Hours Wise Identity Calling Healthy Activity Oneself Satisfied Pornography Being Wise Verbs Nouns

Author:Lorrie Moore

“Sometimes I'll trust my gut more than my head. Logical information might lead me in one direction and my feelings in another. Whereas I would have followed my head ten years ago, now I'm as likely or more likely to go with my gut feeling. It's ironic - you'd think the opposite would be true as you move to the top but it's not.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Feelings Might Would Be Moving Leadership Information Ten Years Ago Opposites Intuition Being True Guts Logical Ironic Leading Me One Direction Gut Feelings

Author:Donna Shalala