All Quotes

If I avoid anything, it's that I don't really go to places that are like a little corner of England. I also never mind going to a dance show because I love it all so much.
‐‐ Anton du Beke

If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me.
‐‐ Saint Patrick

If I became a philosopher, if I have so keenly sought this fame for which I'm still waiting, it's all been to seduce women basically.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

If I become defensive and upset right away, then that's going to adversely affect how I deal with it and it's probably not going to be good press for me and probably be bad just because I'm angry. Just be open and pleasant.
‐‐ Brandon Routh

If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

If I believe that I am right, I will take it to the end of the earth until I am proven right.
‐‐ Bill Ackman

If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.
‐‐ Tim Tebow

If I believe we need free personal care, we need an honest discussion about what it costs with a well-managed, well-trained workforce.
‐‐ Johann Lamont

If I believe your jobs plan, I'm going to vote for you.
‐‐ Rick Scott

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.
‐‐ Jane Wiedlin

If I belong to a tradition, it is a tradition that makes the masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the composer what he ought to have composed.
‐‐ Alfred Brendel

If I book a table at a pub, or I've got an appointment at an optician's or something, I'll walk in and I'll say, 'This is Tom Jones here,' And they'll go 'Awww, I thought it was gonna be him.' They think it's gonna be the real guy. I've been ridiculed a lot throughout my life for it.
‐‐ Tom Weston-Jones

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be.
‐‐ Ryan Lochte

If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.
‐‐ Michael Phelps

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they're my terms, and they're not.
‐‐ Barbara Kruger

If I buy a car, I use the car, you don't, and the market for cars works pretty well. But there are many other sorts of goods, often very important goods, which are not provided well through the market. Often, these go under the heading of public goods.
‐‐ Eric Maskin

If I buy a Fiat Uno, I'll read that, for a man like me, a Ferrari was more suitable. If instead I buy a Ferrari, they'll write that I should have kept my feet on the ground and bought a Fiat. If I smile, I'm not serious. If I don't smile, I'm a rich sulker that doesn't enjoy having the most beautiful job in the world.
‐‐ Mario Balotelli

If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
‐‐ Gabe Newell

If I came in to recruit your son, I would tell you, your wife, and your son, that I will be the most demanding coach your son can play for.
‐‐ Bobby Knight

If I can add, say, 10 great new violin concertos to the repertoire before I'm done, that will be truly exciting.
‐‐ Leila Josefowicz

If I can avoid looking at myself, I will. I don't care to examine myself or see much of what I do. I never care how I look.
‐‐ Scott Bakula

If I can be a leader, I will.
‐‐ Lady Gaga

If I can be an inspiration for someone, that's fine, but just don't look down on me. Don't say, 'Oh, you're in a wheelchair.'
‐‐ Mark Zupan

If I can be cruel; I'm not a big fan of the Audi R8, actually.
‐‐ Richard Hammond

If I can be doing something in the arts till the day I die. I would be very, very happy.
‐‐ Kristen Wiig

If I can be in a place where my image is encouraging people to see different people behind the camera, and my image and the images I make can help open up a certain world view, I think that's all a part of a larger spirit of change and progress, and I'm happy to be part of it.
‐‐ Ava DuVernay

If I can be my crazy, wild self in front of a person, and he still likes me, that's romantic.
‐‐ Preity Zinta

If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
‐‐ David Attenborough

If I can bring joy into the world, if I can get people to stop thinking about their pain for a moment, or the fact the tomorrow morning they're going to get up and tell their boss off... then I'll be successful.
‐‐ Bobby McFerrin

If I can bring some light to bear on problems like that, I feel that people will be enlightened not only on the question but also on a way of approaching such questions.
‐‐ Marvin Harris

If I can build a coalition of people who are interested in what I have to say and what I'm thinking, I hope they'll come with me if I want to go tell a story that doesn't have dinosaurs in it - which I plan to do.
‐‐ Colin Trevorrow

If I can center down and strengthen the core of who I am, and the core of who I am is my relationship with God, then that helps me maintain peace deep down. If I can maintain a healthy spiritual core, I think that's enormous for helping the stress.
‐‐ Anne Graham Lotz

If I can challenge old ideas about aging, I will feel more and more invigorated. I want to represent this new way. I want to be a new version of the 70-year-old woman. Vital, strong, very physical, very agile. I think that the older I get, the more yoga I'm going to do.
‐‐ Jamie Lee Curtis

If I can change bodies with anyone, it would be Britney Spears because how can you not like Britney Spears?
‐‐ Lindsay Lohan

If I can change than anyone can change. I promise you that.
‐‐ Brett Favre

If I can contribute to people having fun, I would feel very fulfilled as an artist.
‐‐ Shakira

If I can create some space that people haven't experienced before and if it stays with them or gives them a dream for the future, that's the kind of structure I seek to create.
‐‐ Tadao Ando

If I can create something that allows a woman to feel better - that is the true reward.
‐‐ Maria Sharapova

If I can create the minimum of my plans and desires, there shall be no regrets.
‐‐ Bessie Coleman

If I can do a romantic comedy with women, that's Everest to me.
‐‐ Joe Carnahan

If I can do concert recitals, adapting the repertoire to my needs, then no problem, that's good enough. But with operas, unless the right circumstances come up, my career is done.
‐‐ Jose Carreras

If I can do one hundredth part for the Indian that Mrs. Stowe did for the Negro, I will be thankful.
‐‐ Helen Hunt Jackson

If I can do something in less than one minute, I don't let myself procrastinate. I hang up my coat, put newspapers in the recycling, scan and toss a letter. Ever since I wrote about this rule in 'The Happiness Project,' I've been amazed by how many people have told me that it has made a huge difference in their lives.
‐‐ Gretchen Rubin

'If I Can Dream' is my all-time favorite Elvis song. It was a big record, but not as big as it could have been. It was one of those records where you'd think it sold 10 billion copies, but it didn't.
‐‐ Darlene Love

If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.
‐‐ Chuck Pagano

If I can feel freedom then I can create.
‐‐ Marc Newson

If I can feel that actual people made the thing, and that they have deeply felt opinions about it, and care about this, and don't care about that and so on and so on - then I think it falls into the 'independent' file.
‐‐ Chris Eigeman

If I can find time to play games, it's console gaming. I don't want to be plugged into my phone all the time. I'm waiting for the new Mario Kart to come out, but I've been playing Donkey Kong and Mario 3D World on the Wii U.
‐‐ Michelle Phan

If I can finish a cartoon in 20 minutes, then that's the ideal editorial cartoon - it's to the point.
‐‐ Paul Conrad