All Quotes

If you ignore the murdering and the conniving, Francis Underwood is an effective politician.
‐‐ Kevin Spacey

If you imagine b, d, p, and q, those are letter forms that all the children always mess up. They are mirror forms of one another. That feature is emphasized in a font like Arial, where the shapes are literally mirror forms.
‐‐ Bruno Maag

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.
‐‐ Paul Graham

If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I don't manage nearly that... but I have published slightly too much recently.
‐‐ A. N. Wilson

If you imagine your friend is recommending you content on a topic they're an expert on, they can do a really good job of that. They know what you're interested in, they know your personality, they know if you have a scientific type of mind-set or not.
‐‐ Adam D'Angelo

If you imagine yourself as a craftsman at ILM, you spend your days tumbling buses and animating shards of glass. You're doing a lot of visual effects work.
‐‐ Gore Verbinski

If you improve a teacher's self-esteem, confidence, communication skills or stress levels, you improve that teacher's overall effectiveness across the curriculum.
‐‐ Elaine MacDonald

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.
‐‐ Arthur Bloch

If you improve your education system, there's no telling what kind of businesses you'll be able to attract.
‐‐ Shelley Berkley

If you improvise a riff and the crowd immediately reacts to it, you know you're on to something.
‐‐ Dimebag Darrell

If you increase taxes now on - at any level, it's going to make it harder to create jobs And we've lost 2 1/2 million jobs since the stimulus package passed. We're at 9.6 unemployment. So I don't think we tax too little, I think we spend too much.
‐‐ Lindsey Graham

If you increase the sales tax... everybody would be taxed.
‐‐ Robert Strauss

If you individualize an audience, it helps up the stakes of your responsibility to that audience.
‐‐ Norbert Leo Butz

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
‐‐ B. F. Skinner

If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
‐‐ Virginia Woolf

If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
‐‐ Eddie Murphy

If you interview people or friends who work with me, they would say I'm private or internal or don't emote a lot. Yet I do it every day for 10 million people. I just don't do it for the 30 people I'm in the room with.
‐‐ David E. Kelley

If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
‐‐ Bob Woodward

If you introduce person A to person B, and then person B is able to solve a pain point in his life, then you just made a good connection.
‐‐ James Altucher

If you invent something, you're doing a creative act. It's like writing a novel or composing music. You put your heart and soul into it, and money. It's years of your life, it's your house remortgaged, huge emotional investment and financial investment.
‐‐ James Dyson

If you invent the Mini Cooper, pour all your energy and passion into it and it gets made, you should be on a roll. In the film industry you have to start again the next day.
‐‐ Estelle Morris

If you invest in something a little more expensive with longevity, you'll use it more.
‐‐ Nina Garcia

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along; do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.
‐‐ Peggy Noonan

If you join the Boy Scouts without understanding the underlying agendas and biases of the organization, you might grow up to believe that being gay is a bad thing.
‐‐ Douglas Rushkoff

If you judge by what people do to improve their health, they value their lives highly. So adding to your period of vitality is something that most people would certainly do. If there was a pill that would do that, it's clear that everyone would take it.
‐‐ Gregory Stock

If you judge everything by how photographically real it looks, then you're missing out on a lot of what art is about and what communication is. There are ambiguities in life, and that should be reflected in art, cinema, and storytelling, I think.
‐‐ Ben Wheatley

If you judge, investigate.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

If you just analyze, historically, the chances of getting two quarters of more than a 5 percent gain in the dollar index, it has happened only two times since the '70s, so it's very rare.
‐‐ Jens Nordvig

If you just can't seem to get ahead, you might need to check your priorities. If you've had difficulties setting your priorities, ask God to help you.
‐‐ Victoria Osteen

If you just casually look at a baby, it doesn't look like there's very much going on there, but they know more and learn more than we would ever have thought. Every single minute is incredibly full of thought and novelty. It's easy as adults to take for granted everything it took to arrive at the state where we are.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

If you just do 50 to 60 shows a year, it's not that much time away from home.
‐‐ Alan Jackson

If you just do a Google search and type in 'smoking' or 'lung cancer', you will be barraged with never ending facts and numbers, like how one in every three Americans is affected by lung disease and how COPD is the third leading cause of death and if you get lung cancer the odds are 95% that you will die.
‐‐ Matthew Gray Gubler

If you just feel lazy and don't want to cook, then don't cook.
‐‐ Tom Douglas

If you just focus on the smallest details, you never get the big picture right.
‐‐ Leroy Hood

If you just go out there and run 100 miles, it breaks down a lot of barriers in terms of self-imposed limitations.
‐‐ Dean Karnazes

If you just have a single problem to solve, then fine, go ahead and use a neural network. But if you want to do science and understand how to choose architectures, or how to go to a new problem, you have to understand what different architectures can and cannot do.
‐‐ Marvin Minsky

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.
‐‐ Gavin Rossdale

If you just kind of live a regular life and make good 'Hollywood' money, you have a certain freedom.
‐‐ Dana Carvey

If you just love movies enough, you can make a good one.
‐‐ Quentin Tarantino

If you just, pretty much, take a random 15-month-old, just sit and watch them for 10 minutes and count out how many experiments, how much thinking you see going on, and it will put the most brilliant scientist to shame.
‐‐ Alison Gopnik

If you just stay away from junk, and stick with what your mom taught you, you're eating pretty healthy.
‐‐ Sprague Grayden

If you just stop and think, baby, honey, love is a funny thing. Whatever you put in, that's what you expect to gain.
‐‐ Jimmy Reed

If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.
‐‐ Daniel Espinosa

If you just take me as a fiction writer, then you're probably going to find me fairly limited.
‐‐ Geoff Dyer

If you just technically adhere to the law, sometimes that's enough, sometimes it's not; it's really hard to predict. There is definitely a possibility that the Chinese authorities won't find it sufficient.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon

If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior.
‐‐ A. J. Liebling

If you just want instant cool and you don't want to pay a whole lot, just go to Urban Outfitters.
‐‐ Bryan Greenberg

If you just want to be a star, go away.
‐‐ Jenifer Lewis

If you just watch a teenager, you see a lot of uncertainty.
‐‐ Jamie Lee Curtis