All Quotes

If you are a creative person, you try to create things that are an extension of yourself.
‐‐ Rob Reiner

If you are a Democrat, and you get less than 90% of the black vote, you are going to likely lose your election.
‐‐ Roland Martin

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

If you are a friend of somebody and that friend is in trouble, you don't just drop them.
‐‐ David Tang

If you are a friend of the Constitution as I am, I hope you will consider engaging me in the topics of my posts whether you agree or disagree with my position on a particular subject.
‐‐ John Jay Hooker

If you are a gay couple living in Alabama, you know one thing: your family has no standing under the law; and it can and will be violated by strangers.
‐‐ Andrew Sullivan

If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write.
‐‐ J. B. Priestley

If you are a good missionary, you will return home with the desire to continue to serve the Lord, to keep His commandments, and to do His will.
‐‐ Gordon B. Hinckley

If you are a good person, you will probably be a good father. Try not to worry too much. If you don't feel apprehensive just before your first child arrives, you are abnormal. Though catastrophe doesn't come as often in childbirth as it did a few generations ago, we naturally fear it.
‐‐ Clyde Edgerton

If you are a great dramatic actor then you often don't know if people are enjoying your stuff at all because they are sitting there in silence.
‐‐ Steve Coogan

If you are a great news organization, you can't have the best obtainable version of the truth if your vision and your scale is reduced to a fraction of its former self.
‐‐ Carl Bernstein

If you are a gun manufacturer, the product you make is not subject to safety regulation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Toy guns are subject to safety regulation; water pistols are, but not real guns.
‐‐ Michael D. Barnes

If you are a housewife, take pride in that.
‐‐ Anthea Turner

If you are a junkyard dog, you assume that that's what life is: chained up, barking all day.
‐‐ Bruce Robinson

If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
‐‐ Caitlyn Jenner

If you are a lawyer, and you want to take on easier cases, you can prosecute traffic violations or something. You'd have a very high rate of success, and you probably could sleep more easily at night. But that's not what drives me.
‐‐ Amal Clooney

If you are a leader, you should never forget that everyone needs encouragement. And everyone who receives it - young or old, successful or less-than-successful, unknown or famous - is changed by it.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

If you are a lousy teacher, you should be fired.
‐‐ Geoffrey Canada

If you are a manufacturer, an Internet company doesn't suit you. An Internet company does not display your product; it can't upsell. But we do a better job than any of the opposition.
‐‐ Gerry Harvey

If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing.
‐‐ Edward Burnett Tylor

If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.
‐‐ Michael Schenker

If you are a musician who has released albums, it would perhaps be morbidly interesting to know how much you would be owed if everyone who now has your music had actually bought your record.
‐‐ Henry Rollins

If you are a Northern Irish actor, maybe subconsciously more than consciously, you do have an instinctive responsibility at some point to tackle the recent history of where we have come from. It's not only a responsibility, but a privilege.
‐‐ James Nesbitt

If you are a novelist of a certain type of temperament, then what you really want to do is re-invent the world. God wasn't too bad a novelist, except he was a Realist.
‐‐ John Barth

If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor and play all the games, and have tea with the other mothers, but wouldn't you like to think that's not all there is? That you haven't hung up your high heels without knowing how to walk in them?
‐‐ Tori Amos

If you are a parent, the horoscope will aid you to detect the evil latent in your child and teach you how to apply the ounce of prevention. It will show you the good points also, that you may make a better man or woman of the soul entrusted to your care.
‐‐ Max Heindel

If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

If you are a plumber, you can work on a shed, or you can work on a mansion. It's just scale.
‐‐ Martin Freeman

If you are a pop band, don't say you're a metal band. Poison and Warrant were about as metal as the Backstreet Boys.
‐‐ Geezer Butler

If you are a reader of 'Harper's Bazaar,' to me, you are a woman who loves fashion, but not just fashion; you love fashion, you love travel, you love art, you love music.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld

If you are a really good marathoner, you have to run New York.
‐‐ Haile Gebrselassie

If you are a Representative and want to be a Senator, you must be careful not to do anything which might upset the various forces you need to harness to get elected.
‐‐ Gore Vidal

If you are a researcher, you are trying to figure out what the question is as well as what the answer is.
‐‐ Edward Witten

If you are a responsible scientist, you are going to present your new results in a paper, and maybe if, over time, things are established, and it's prime time for the public to hear about it, then you include it in a book.
‐‐ Lisa Randall

If you are a rich person straining every sinew to keep every last pound in your pocket, there comes a point when you realize you are not just escaping the clutches of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. You are passing a greater burden on to people poorer than yourself, and depriving even poorer people of your support.
‐‐ Clive Anderson

If you are a Rothschild, a Rosenwald, a Gimbel, or even a Waldbaum, growing up Jewish can be a rich experience. For the rest of us, it could be just so-so.
‐‐ Gene Saks

If you are a serious writer or just a normal one, in one way or another, you are writing in the service of freedom. All writers know, understand, or dream that their work will be in the service of freedom.
‐‐ Ismail Kadare

If you are a short-term trader, you have the right to come and go from our funds.
‐‐ Louis Navellier

If you are a singer and you lose your voice, you realize that you have other skill sets when that is taken out of the equation.
‐‐ Annie Golden

If you are a single parent, make friends with others in similar situations and develop friendships with married couples. Counsel with your priesthood leaders. Let them know of your needs and wants. Single parenthood is understood by the Lord.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

If you are a skinny, baby-faced teenager, the last thing you want to hear is that you're cute.
‐‐ Jamie Dornan

If you are a small company taking on a big company, you need to have a sense of humor.
‐‐ Richard Branson

If you are a successful actor, which is what I am, then you tend to get labelled very quickly and easily.
‐‐ Kristin Scott Thomas

If you are a superstar, or whatever you want to call yourself, a person who's had outrageous success, and you decide to go indie and tell the record companies to screw themselves? That takes a certain amount of courage. And bullheadedness, really.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

If you are a woman with your own money, you have confidence. You have the pick of the litter.
‐‐ Loni Love

If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
‐‐ Dani Shapiro

If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework you can still be writing, because you have that space.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and look at how the world is changing.
‐‐ Roddy Doyle

If you are a young writer today, it's very hard.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
‐‐ Jules Renard