If you're going to trade me, trade me. Whenever they are going to do, let them do it so I can situated.
‐‐ Antonio Davis
If you're going to try to win an election, you can't be 80 percent. You can't say, I'm for what my Democratic opponent is, for but not quite so much of it.
‐‐ Pete du Pont
If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
‐‐ Branford Marsalis
If you're going to use the public resources, you need the public benefit.
‐‐ Ron Dellums
If you're going to vote for somebody because you think they have a great faith in God, you'd better be sure that God has faith in them.
‐‐ Lewis Black
If you're going to vote on a television contract, there is a certain rationality to saying that the same structures that are applied to Health Plan participation should be placed on the right to vote on a strike.
‐‐ Dick Wolf
If you're going to vote yes and change the law. You have to know what's in it. You can't depend on other people.
‐‐ Justin Amash
If you're going to walk out of the house in jeans and T-shirt, what can you do to make that interesting? Is it putting on a bright-colored pair of high-tops or a cool leather jacket?
‐‐ Brad Goreski
If you're going to win games, you're going to have to come up with the big hits. That's the bottom line.
‐‐ Derek Jeter
If you're going to worry about what people say, you're never going to make any progress.
‐‐ Joseph Murray
If you're going to write a book that might, in its very best accidental career, sell 30,000 copies, you've got to have a day job.
‐‐ Padgett Powell
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
‐‐ Zadie Smith
If you're going to write a song, try to get together with a collaborator because it's better to write with collaborators.
‐‐ Brian Wilson
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life.
‐‐ Nick Flynn
If you're going to write about war, the ugly side is inevitable. Suffering and death are obviously part of war.
‐‐ Phil Klay
If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.
‐‐ George R. R. Martin
If you're going to write an anthem for an old man who's up at political bat for the last time, give him a decent song. Send him off with something that creates some chills or something.
‐‐ Shawn Amos
If you're going to write for a living, you should find something fun to write.
‐‐ Charles Stross
If you're gonna do action movies, you're gonna get an injury at some point. It's inevitable.
‐‐ Jason Statham
If you're gonna fall apart, do it in your own bedroom.
‐‐ Margot Kidder
If you're gonna learn how to do something, you'd better learn to do it right.
‐‐ Christopher McDonald
If you're gonna make connections which are innovative... you have to not have the same bag of experiences as everyone else does.
‐‐ Steve Jobs
If you're gonna pretend to be something, then you have to at least live up to what it is.
‐‐ Marilyn Manson
If you're gonna sing, sing loud.
‐‐ Travis Tritt
If you're gonna start a story, you start from the beginning, right?
‐‐ Luke Evans
If you're gonna tell your life story, you gotta be honest, or don't do it.
‐‐ R. Kelly
If you're gonna use simile, analogy, metaphor, be descriptive and have some flowery adjectives and a few odd nouns and some engaging bits of dialogue or sentiment, then you're sort of writing a novel, really. But rock lyrics are not really known for their sophistication.
‐‐ Ian Anderson
If you're good at it, you can win.
‐‐ Dawn Fraser
If you're good to your body, your body's good to you.
‐‐ Jermain Defoe
If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen
If you're great, I want to work with you.
‐‐ James Wan
If you're growing up in a chaotic world without reason, your instinct is to become a performer and control the circumstances around you. You lead from weakness into strength; you have an undefended back.
‐‐ John le Carre
If you're growing very rapidly, it doesn't matter if you make mistakes, in a way, because the growth kind of bails you out.
‐‐ John Mackey
If you're guilty of something, you can focus on that, but if something terrible happens, and you can't imagine how you could have changed it, that's very difficult for the mind. In some ways, it's more difficult not to be at fault because it's a subtler thing.
‐‐ Darin Strauss
If you're hanging around with nothing to do and the zoo is closed, come over to the Senate. You'll get the same kind of feeling and you won't have to pay.
‐‐ Bob Dole
If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.
‐‐ Robin Wright
If you're happy with what you're doing, then you don't get bored.
‐‐ Paul Mooney
If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
‐‐ Maisie Williams
If you're having dinner with friends and they're always on the phone or always texting, it's just impolite. Unless it's something important - like someone is in the hospital or something - don't do it.
‐‐ Adriana Lima
If you're having fun being yourself and filming something that you would watch yourself, it becomes contagious for other people to watch, too.
‐‐ Zoe Sugg
If you're having problems with someone on the Internet, simply block the person and move on. And if you do want to meet people from online, make sure you do your research to make sure you're talking to the person you want to be talking to.
‐‐ KSI
If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the story, no matter how terrible you think that first draft is. Then let it cool off. In other words, don't look at it for a while. Then you can rewrite it.
‐‐ Kimberly Willis Holt
If you're healthy, if you don't get sick much, if you don't go to the doctor much or use your health insurance much, you are a genetic lottery winner. It has nothing to do with the way you live, nothing to do with doing the right things. It's just sheer luck, and you are gonna pay for that.
‐‐ Rush Limbaugh
If you're here right now in your life, your journey continues and you've lived to tell the story.
‐‐ Mary J. Blige
If you're hit with a lawsuit that's untrue and the reasons you're hit with it aren't clear to you, there's a very big inclination on people's part to want to take responsibility for it - that this must be happening because I'm a terrible person, I did something, and I'm getting repaid for it.
‐‐ Sean Young
If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.
‐‐ Robert Forster
If you're holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.
‐‐ J. K. Rowling
If you're honest with yourself, you're going to find out whether you truly love America, or whether your primary allegiance is to the Republican party.
‐‐ Vincent Bugliosi
If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
‐‐ Karen Salmansohn