All Quotes

If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
‐‐ Maia Mitchell

If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.
‐‐ Kevin Kwan

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.
‐‐ Saint Teresa of Avila

If I were to give you a list of names of the people, world political figures, who have been assisted by the CIA, and even assisted to office around the world, you'd be astonished and probably wouldn't believe it. But it's very long, and the names are very distinguished.
‐‐ Charles McCarry

If I were to go back to the Philippines, I would probably end up teaching creative writing at a university. I wouldn't be able to write, for I would become too jaded to be able to view the existing situation objectively.
‐‐ Miguel Syjuco

If I were to have a dream job, it would probably be a poet. Then again, I don't think I'm a very good poet!
‐‐ Jack Gleeson

If I were to just focus on stand-up, I could actually, paradoxically enough, be home way more, because I would leave on a Friday, go do a couple theaters Friday, Saturday, maybe Sunday, come home.
‐‐ Patton Oswalt

If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.
‐‐ Bill Maris

If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

If I were to leave the U.S., I'd live in England. But I'd never leave the U.S. I own a 400-acre farm in Macon, Georgia. I raise cattle and hogs. I own horses, too. I love horses as much as singing. I like to hunt on horseback.
‐‐ Otis Redding

If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
‐‐ B. D. Wong

If I were to listen to people all the time when they say, 'Hey, this is a really high challenge, this is a high climb, the bar is pretty steep,' then I wouldn't have gone to the academy. I wouldn't have become an aircraft carrier pilot. I wouldn't have become a Navy SEAL for sure. And I probably wouldn't have applied to Harvard.
‐‐ Gabriel E. Gomez

If I were to live in Africa, serving the poor, the number-one thing I'd miss wouldn't be running water or electricity - it would be style... being able to get dressed up and feel beautiful.
‐‐ Evangeline Lilly

If I were to look back at my career, I think my greatest achievement is very simple. I've been able to make choices where I could glorify God.
‐‐ Roma Downey

If I were to look back on my work, I think I accomplished probably about 70 to 75 percent of what I could have. Maybe 60 percent. Somewhere in that area; two-thirds of what I could have accomplished. If I had been a really dedicated person, and really worked hard, I think I could have accomplished more.
‐‐ Jack Nicklaus

If I were to look in the United States or in Europe, in some of the garages, you would have a Bentley or two Bentleys or a high-end Mercedes, and you may find a Smart also in that same garage because that person thinks it's a fun extra car to have. He may have four cars but also have a Smart because he thinks it is cute.
‐‐ Ratan Tata

If I were to make an uneducated guess about L.A.'s relationship with folk and psychedelia, I would say it must be the weather.
‐‐ Rain Phoenix

If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
‐‐ Richard M. Nixon

If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
‐‐ Taraji P. Henson

If I were to name my favorite pastime, I'd have to say talking about myself. I love it and I think most other people do too. We need, people like us, more listeners and less talkers.
‐‐ Hedy Lamarr

If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature.
‐‐ John Burroughs

If I were to offer advice to any president of the United States, it would be this: do whatever you can do to keep America the most prosperous and free and powerful nation on earth.
‐‐ Mitt Romney

If I were to play somebody who ran a fish and chip shop, I would not work in a fish and chip shop for three months. Staring at chips is not going to help me in my performance.
‐‐ Ben Kingsley

If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
‐‐ Rabih Alameddine

If I were to put on Barbra Streisand and Duke Ellington, one might say the combination isn't good.
‐‐ Norman Granz

If I were to reason like those who roll out red carpets, I would say we might have some repatriations from the City of London.
‐‐ Emmanuel Macron

If I were to retire, I would keep my family's interest in the company the same and say, Don't sell.
‐‐ Sheldon Adelson

If I were to run for president, then people would debate the pros and cons of what's wrong with me in increasingly aggressive 140 character tweets and Facebook status updates, and, inevitably, everyone would end up fighting.
‐‐ Jen Lancaster

If I were to save one possession in a fire, it would have to be my dad's camera, an old, broken Nikon. I always keep it with me - his personal things mean a lot.
‐‐ Gia Coppola

If I were to say at any point that I feel really confident or really in control, that would be a mistake. Because I don't. I always see where I didn't do things the right way.
‐‐ Vera Wang

If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
‐‐ Arthur Ashe

If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure that it would be the same for everyone.
‐‐ Roberto Bolano

If I were to say you are crazy, what part of that would you find unacceptable?
‐‐ Daisy Donovan

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.
‐‐ Harold Bloom

If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
‐‐ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

If I were to talk to Lindsay Lohan, I'd encourage her to get the hell out of acting and into something soothing. Take up botany or something.
‐‐ Mara Wilson

If I were to tell you that your life is already perfect, whole, and complete just as it is, you would think I was crazy. Nobody believes his or her life is perfect. And yet there is something within each of us that basically knows we are boundless, limitless.
‐‐ Joko Beck

If I were to try and find a unifying emotion that kept me calm and focused while I was dancing or writing or solving a math problem, I think the one unifying thing about all those that keeps my interest is creativity.
‐‐ Catherine Asaro

If I were to try to describe the way in which I write, the only word I would use without qualification is 'slowly.'
‐‐ Mal Peet

If I were to try to identify a turning point I'd say that was it - getting clean.
‐‐ James Taylor

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

If I were to win the Nobel Prize in Literature - which I think it's fairly safe to say is not going to happen - I would still expect the headline on my obituary to read: 'Christopher Buckley, son of William F. Buckley, Jr., is dead at 78.'
‐‐ Christopher Buckley

If I were to wish for two things, they would be as much bandwidth as possible and ridiculously fast browser engines.
‐‐ Matt Mullenweg

If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
‐‐ Zooey Deschanel

If I were to write Web now, it would be a much, much darker book.
‐‐ John M. Ford

If I were trying to avoid embarrassment, I wouldn't have stumbled my way through 'Dancing with the Stars.'
‐‐ Penn Jillette

If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
‐‐ Taylor Lautner

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

If I were very handsome, maybe I'd have been an actor.
‐‐ George Cukor