All Quotes

If a script comes together, and you end up liking the people who are part of it, that's when you can make magic happen. It's a huge combination of trying to find something you think you can deliver on and a director you think you can collaborate with to make a good picture.
‐‐ Alexa Vega

If a script is good, you are 10 steps into the part just reading it. But my choices are not all down to my taste. It is about people you have worked with before.
‐‐ Olivia Colman

If a senator calls me up and asks me what should we do in Iraq, I'm happy to talk to him.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

If a servant strives to please his master and studies and takes pains to do it, I believe there are but few masters who would use such a servant cruelly.
‐‐ Jupiter Hammon

If a severe pandemic materializes, all of society could pay a heavy price for decades of failing to create a rational system of health care that works for all of us.
‐‐ Irwin Redlener

If a show ever tries to be cool, then it's going to be doing something wrong.
‐‐ Michael Schur

If a show is good, it helps people learn about themselves in some way and in some function. Whatever the genre is, if it's executed well, audiences grow and learn from it, and that's where their passion and enthusiasm comes from.
‐‐ Matthew Davis

If a site is done with pleasure and a fun attitude, it's a great way to communicate with your fans.
‐‐ Christopher Lambert

If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.
‐‐ Harriet Ann Jacobs

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
‐‐ Sydney J. Harris

If a song about blowing your shot becomes popular, that's really funny.
‐‐ Mike Posner

If a song is funny and absurd, and it sounds great, it's just going to be that much funnier. And there's no better example of that than 'Monty Python.'
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, it'll need something to keep you entertained.
‐‐ Jake Bugg

If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
‐‐ Aretha Franklin

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
‐‐ Manuel Puig

If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong.
‐‐ Bernard Baruch

If a star football player can have a mythical girlfriend, why can't I have a mythical Congress?
‐‐ Tina Brown

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.
‐‐ Marilyn Monroe

If a startup stays in Microsoft, it does not have a chance, because all it tries to do goes against what Microsoft is about.
‐‐ Leroy Hood

If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.
‐‐ Nathan Deal

If a story isn't working, I'm simply unable to finish it. That's what usually tells me something is wrong.
‐‐ Len Wein

If a stranger is writing something completely fictitious, or insulting me on a blog or a tabloid, I don't take it personally.
‐‐ Dasha Zhukova

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
‐‐ Haile Selassie

If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.
‐‐ Daphne Koller

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.
‐‐ Alan Dundes

If a studio is going to offer me the opportunity to invite my mother and grandmother and all my friends to visit me free of charge in Thailand, I'm going to take that opportunity.
‐‐ Leonardo DiCaprio

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.
‐‐ Sandra Bullock

If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
‐‐ Norman Ralph Augustine

If a superhero knocks over a building, and there are 5,000 people in the building that we can presume are now dead, does it matter? Because they're not people we know. But if one dog we like gets run over by a car, it's the worst thing we've ever seen. I totally understand where that visceral reaction comes from. I have that same reaction.
‐‐ D. B. Weiss

If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not obey it yet he shall not be dismissed.
‐‐ Francis of Assisi

If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

If a team needs new facilities, and they've been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it's a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate.
‐‐ Bob McNair

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.
‐‐ Michael Arrington

If a terrorist group wanted to hit Britain, all they'd have to do is kill 100 random celebrities. The country would have a nervous breakown.
‐‐ Chris Morris

If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
‐‐ Harriet Martineau

If a test showed you had telomere shortening, it would be a red flag suggesting you should take a look at possible risk factors.
‐‐ Elizabeth Blackburn

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

If a thing is going to represent you, your vision, you should be involved in every aspect of that thing. I like my role as executive producer on anything probably as much as performer.
‐‐ Jerrod Carmichael

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.
‐‐ Gilbert K. Chesterton

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing slowly... very slowly.
‐‐ Gypsy Rose Lee

If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.
‐‐ Pierre Beaumarchais

If a thing moves, it lives.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

If a thing seems to you worth working for at all, if it appears to you of moment enough to challenge any effort, then put into what you do all the enthusiasm of which you are capable, regardless of criticism.
‐‐ Orison Swett Marden

If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out.
‐‐ George Brett

If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
‐‐ John Piper

If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider it. But anything less than that, I'm sure I can do better on my own.
‐‐ J. A. Konrath

If a translation doesn't have obvious writing problems, it may seem quite all right at first glance. We readers, after all, quickly adapt to the style of a translator, stop noticing it, and get caught up in the story.
‐‐ Lydia Davis

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.
‐‐ Carolus Linnaeus

If a trip is worth taking, members of Congress should be prepared to justify paying for it out of their office accounts.
‐‐ Russ Feingold