All Quotes

If you aren't good at loving yourself, you will have a difficult time loving anyone, since you'll resent the time and energy you give another person that you aren't even giving to yourself.
‐‐ Barbara De Angelis

If you aren't having fun, if you aren't anxious to find out what happens next as you write, then not only will you run out of steam on the story, but you won't be able to entertain anyone else, either.
‐‐ Tamora Pierce

If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.
‐‐ Gil Scott-Heron

If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?
‐‐ T. S. Eliot

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
‐‐ Jim Carrey

If you aren't just brought up in your tribe but interact with other people either directly or vicariously, through journalism and literature, you see what life is like from other points of view and are less likely to demonize them or dehumanize others and more likely to empathize with them.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

If you aren't overly effusive or really nicey-nice with the press, you get a reputation for being outspoken or difficult.
‐‐ Janeane Garofalo

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid.
‐‐ Thomas J. Watson

If you aren't please tell me how you are going to not have a war.
‐‐ Samantha Smith

If you aren't rich you should always look useful.
‐‐ Louis-Ferdinand Celine

If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
‐‐ Nate Silver

If you ask 20 different readers why they read, they will all be right.
‐‐ Teresa Nielsen Hayden

If you ask 99.9 percent of parents who have children with autism if we'd rather have the measles versus autism, we'd sign up for the measles.
‐‐ Jenny McCarthy

If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
‐‐ Sam Altman

If you ask a hundred people, they all give you different answers.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz

If you ask almost any of them, 'Do you stand behind your theory? Is this the answer?' I think almost everyone would say, 'No, no, no. I'm just trying to expand the range of possibilities.' We really don't know what's going on.
‐‐ Saul Perlmutter

If you ask an actor what he'd prefer to act on, he'd probably say a tangible, real set, or even better, a real location out on a mountainside or by a river. It's just easier because you don't have to imagine anything.
‐‐ Luke Evans

If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.
‐‐ Larry Page

If you ask an introvert a question, wait until she thinks about it. Introverts think before speaking, not through speaking. If you want to get to the good stuff, you need to slow down.
‐‐ Laurie Helgoe

If you ask any couple who have been married 50 years or longer, they will tell you they've experienced it all. The same is true of the Beach Boys.
‐‐ Mike Love

If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.
‐‐ Daniela Bobadilla

If you ask any person on this crew what they think of Hugh Jackman they'll admit they've never seen anything like it. I'll give him an emotional note and he'll hit it every time.
‐‐ Darren Aronofsky

If you ask anyone around the cricket grounds, they will say I always sign loads of autographs and thank the ladies for lunch and try to behave in the right way.
‐‐ Shane Warne

If you ask anyone on any street corner in the world what the Soviet Union looks like, they would probably have very strong opinions. And they probably would be wrong.
‐‐ Rick Smolan

If you ask anyone who my mum's blue-eyed boy is, they will say it is me.
‐‐ Liam Smith

If you ask around, it's pretty easy to find someone who has a bank account overdraft horror story to tell.
‐‐ Carolyn Maloney

If you ask, do you like strong men or weak men, I'd say, I like who I like.
‐‐ Miuccia Prada

If you ask me a question, don't tell me what the question is in advance, 'cause I'd rather not know.
‐‐ Geraldine Ferraro

If you ask me about my success story, the secret is I know when to pull myself back. I don't overexpose myself; I give proper gaps whenever I can. I do not over spend myself, I keep myself busy in lot of activities. I really work hard; I work harder than others, by focussing on my fitness level and studying music.
‐‐ Sonu Nigam

If you ask me about my views on the environment, on women's rights, on gay rights, I am liberal. I don't have a problem with that at all. Some of my best friends are liberal.
‐‐ Bernie Sanders

If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning.
‐‐ Jose Andres

If you ask me about vocal technique, I don't know anything. I could never be a teacher. I just know what my teacher told me: 'Always sing with a full voice. When they tell you, less sound, more piano - no.'
‐‐ Anna Netrebko

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
‐‐ Yogi Berra

If you ask me, 'Are you for or against gay parents?' for example, having kids - it's hard for me to say, 'Yes.'
‐‐ Juan Pablo Galavis

If you ask me, I think 12-step programs are perfectly valid, can be an enormous help. But it depends on the individual.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.
‐‐ Daniel Baldwin

If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.
‐‐ Uday Kotak

If you ask me, rockabilly has had a raw deal for far too long. People never shunned the blues or jazz the way they do rockabilly. But it's the original punk-rock, and it changed the way people looked at music for ever.
‐‐ Imelda May

If you ask me, the place that a story happens is as equal character. It's almost like an ecological viewpoint: These people are living in this piece of land, and in this piece of land in this time this is possible. For me, I almost think location first. It's time first - what year is it - then where are we, and then who is in it.
‐‐ Mike Mills

If you ask me, there's nothing more incredible than a woman who's in charge of her own destiny - and working daily to make her dreams a reality.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

If you ask me to compromise on principle, I will get out the veto pen.
‐‐ Bill Owens

If you ask me to describe my relationship, I mean - words are too clumsy to accurately describe how I feel in that regard, particularly in an interview. It's a strange thing.
‐‐ Ryan Reynolds

If you ask me to play myself, I will not know what to do. I do not know who or what I am.
‐‐ Peter Sellers

If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
‐‐ Ibrahim Babangida

If you ask me what am I, I might say 'I am a Californian,' and if George Bush were here, he would say 'I am a Texan.'
‐‐ George P. Shultz

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.
‐‐ Emile Zola

If you ask me what I'd rather be doing, well, I'd rather be home in California, watching TV, polishing my tools and working around the ranch.
‐‐ Dick Dale

If you ask me what I think about going to work every day, it's 9/11 and preventing another 9/11. There were too many people I knew.
‐‐ Peter T. King

If you ask me what I worry about every morning when I wake up, it's that I don't understand future mainstream Internet users' habits.
‐‐ Ma Huateng