All Quotes

If I were living in France, I'd vote for Jacques Chirac, despite the fact that he can't seem to keep his hands out of the cash till.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn

If I were mayor, I'd invite everyone to have free boat trips on the river and free balloon rides over the city. I'd let the elderly in residential homes wander free.
‐‐ Jane Birkin

If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

If I were not a public figure, I wouldn't fly with Thai.
‐‐ Thaksin Shinawatra

If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
‐‐ Alan Lightman

If I were not able to separate the art from the artists, I think I would limit myself a great deal, and life wouldn't be nearly as interesting.
‐‐ Jessye Norman

If I were not African, I wonder whether it would be clear to me that Africa is a place where the people do not need limp gifts of fish but sturdy fishing rods and fair access to the pond. I wonder whether I would realize that while African nations have a failure of leadership, they also have dynamic people with agency and voices.
‐‐ Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
‐‐ Alexander the Great

If I were offered a cochlear implant today, I would prefer not to have one. But that's not a statement about hearing aids or cochlear implants. It's about who you are.
‐‐ Marlee Matlin

If I were old, fat and ugly, I don't know if anybody would be interested in me.
‐‐ Georgette Mosbacher

If I were on the field, I'd want the manager sticking up for me. Sometimes players are dead wrong, ranting and raving, but you stick up for them. They appreciate that.
‐‐ Bobby Cox

If I were overweight because I ate too much, I would have far more of a complex. I would know if I just stopped eating and showed a little discipline I would be thin. But there's not a hell of a lot I can do about being short. You just gotta run with it.
‐‐ Michael J. Fox

If I were packing for a deserted island, I would bring sunscreen, a water purifier, something to start a fire with, my sister, and something for protection.
‐‐ Gracie Gold

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all.
‐‐ Anne Roiphe

If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
‐‐ Ed Rendell

If I were president of the United States, I'd build a great wall along the Mexican border and not let anybody in.
‐‐ Dave Mustaine

If I were president of the United States, I would include Moslems in my presidency.
‐‐ Jerry Falwell

If I were put into a college lecture hall right now and told to pay attention for 45 minutes, it would be physically impossible for me to do. I'm one of those people who believe that ADD is a gift. It's tough to manage, but if you can harness it you can do great things.
‐‐ Jeff Kinney

If I were really being myself. I'd just curl up in the corner and knit.
‐‐ Shamir

If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.
‐‐ Tao Lin

If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.
‐‐ Dree Hemingway

If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one's life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.
‐‐ Bernie Siegel

If I were running a campaign, I'd urge taking the mountain of money reportedly squandered on pizza, coffee and bagels and spending it more wisely - on a talented young comedy writer.
‐‐ Dick Cavett

If I were running against Chuck Schumer. I would take every one of his Sunday press releases - and there are 52 for as many years as he's been there - and I would ask, 'How many of the things he said he was proposing became law?' I doubt many.
‐‐ Ed Koch

If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

If I were Sarah Palin, would I want to sit in an interview with someone who was secretly out to get me? Probably not.
‐‐ Megyn Kelly

If I were somebody who spent the majority of my time saying things that were harsh and difficult to hear, I would want my visual aesthetic to be something soft and feminine, warm and easy to be around.
‐‐ Kerry Washington

If I were still twenty years old, I would really move to America.
‐‐ Theo Van Gogh

If I were sufficiently romantic I suppose I'd have killed myself long ago just to make people talk about me. I haven't even got the conviction to make a successful drunkard.
‐‐ John Dos Passos

If I were surrounded by angels who were purely rational and had no inclinations at all, I couldn't do anything for them. I couldn't make them happy; I couldn't make them sad, I would be entirely useless as a moral agent.
‐‐ Thomas Pogge

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.
‐‐ Aung San Suu Kyi

If I were the president, I would be very concerned... and I would do what was reasonably necessary to find a way to get my people confirmed.
‐‐ Max Baucus

If I were the president of the United States, I would make unions illegal. They no longer serve a functional purpose in democracy, in my view.
‐‐ Kevin O'Leary

If I were to adopt pure mechanism as a philosophy, there would be no way I could choose to be a scholar.
‐‐ Kenneth L. Pike

If I were to agree to write the music for your beautiful poem, it would tie your poem up for some years as I have agreements and obligations which I must respect.
‐‐ Jules Massenet

If I were to ask you for example right now to go back with me and define those moments in your life that shaped you as a person and you began to reexamine them, something would happen.
‐‐ James Lipton

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
‐‐ David Hilbert

If I were to be cast as Cyrano or a Connecticut prep-school teacher or a gay boutique owner, it would only happen if some director I had worked with in the past said, 'Why don't we give Rispoli a shot at it?'
‐‐ Michael Rispoli

If I were to call it black music, that would be untrue. I don't know what that is, unless it would be some African drums or something.
‐‐ Dexter Gordon

If I were to categorize what I sing, I have many different influences, and a lot of them are from back in time.
‐‐ Haley Reinhart

If I were to compare the Olympic decathlon to fatherhood, I would say fatherhood is a lot tougher.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

If I were to continue on with 'The Host,' which is a possibility, there are characters and stories that could continue... If I went ahead with that, it would be two more... Next would be 'The Soul,' and then 'The Seeker.'
‐‐ Stephenie Meyer

If I were to continue to work in an established mode, it stands to reason the work would be limited by this - that it would never surpass the prior work in quality.
‐‐ Patrick deWitt

If I were to describe myself as any particular type of owner, it would be a fans' owner because you really get great satisfaction when you can go out on the streets and scream you're No. 1 and you're world champions.
‐‐ Jeffrey Lurie

If I were to die thinking that I'd written three poems that people might read after me, I would feel that I hadn't lived in vain. Great poets might expect the whole body of their work, but most of us - well, I would settle for a handful.
‐‐ Andrew Motion

If I were to do a foundation, it would be to promote solar energy. And I'm worried about drilling for oil. I think it is harming the earth, 'cos it drains the layer of oil under the surface, and that could be causing earthquakes. It's like we're giving the earth arthritis. I don't know if that sounds crazy.
‐‐ Debbie Harry

If I were to do a movie about Apollo 13, I'd be at NASA studying what it took to go into space. It's part of your job to go deep, to interview the right people.
‐‐ F. Gary Gray

If I were to do a musical, I think I would rather make a film musical.
‐‐ Seth MacFarlane

If I were to do this over I'd play a lot more shows before I made a record.
‐‐ Duncan Sheik