All Quotes

If you look at art history, at Goya or Gainsborough, it's always about acknowledging the people of your time who have influence.
‐‐ Sam Taylor-Johnson

If you look at attitudes today and where they are headed, it's clear to me that supporting equal rights, including the rights to civil marriage, is a net positive for winning elections, as well as the right thing to do.
‐‐ Ken Mehlman

If you look at 'Avatar,' could you imagine if you did 'Avatar' for 50 million dollars? It would be ridiculous! You would almost be getting laughs from the audience, unless you got a real indie director to do something incredibly stylised.
‐‐ Adam McKay

If you look at 'Blade Runner,' it's been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.
‐‐ George Lucas

If you look at body fat, it seems to increase with age, even though your weight does not. That's a physiological fact of aging, they say. Heck it is. It is an adaptive effect of aging.
‐‐ Kenneth H. Cooper

If you look at Buster Keaton or Douglas Fairbanks movies, what still amazes you today is their physical ability. The only special effects that never grow old are what you can do with the human body.
‐‐ Christophe Gans

If you look at casualties, you find countries that had much higher loss rates per capita than the US. Denmark comes to mind, the United Kingdom, they have suffered heavy losses at various points, the Germans as well.
‐‐ David Petraeus

If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.
‐‐ Anthony Horowitz

If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal.
‐‐ Susanne Bier

If you look at Christmas movies, there are certain things in them that lend themselves to a 'Harold & Kumar' movie. In particular, the more out-of-this-world things like Santa Claus and flying reindeer.
‐‐ Hayden Schlossberg

If you look at classic Hollywood films, they tend to shoot close-ups on quite long lenses and the background it out of focus. You know, it's just a mush.
‐‐ Tom Hooper

If you look at coffee, tea, food and juice, we think there are inherent opportunities. If you look at health bars or grab-and-go products that are in our stores, we think we can significantly enhance them and make them more widely available.
‐‐ Howard Schultz

If you look at companies with upside potential, Twitter's right there. They've established a brand in a world where it's extremely difficult to establish a brand. It's a global brand, people recognize it, people want to let you know what their Twitter handles are, etc.
‐‐ Steve Ballmer

If you look at 'Doctor Who,' it's a Time Lord in a blue box who travels around the universe. It's a silly concept, but it's one of the most brilliant, emotional experiences because it's sort of about what is humanity.
‐‐ Margaret Stohl

If you look at Earwolf, we've tried to have a really diverse stable of hosts. Even my show can get a little 'dudey' sometimes.
‐‐ Scott Aukerman

If you look at film, distribution is pre-bought. If you've paid for the distribution, you say, 'I have to make sure it's a film that gets enough butts in the seats.' I think that's the problem: It becomes prohibitively expensive, and you can't develop films for a smaller amount of money.
‐‐ Shane Smith

If you look at films about becoming a man, coming-of-age movies are made with 12-, 16-, 40-, 50-year-olds... For a guy to feel like he's a 100 percent grown-up is almost like giving up. Like admitting that you're on your way into the grave.
‐‐ Kevin Bacon

If you look at firms like General Electric or other large companies, they don't just do one thing; they do many different things to generate sources of revenue.
‐‐ Jan Koum

If you look at footage of the Newfoundland Regiment, you see they are at rest and giddy and being silly with one another. Silliness is the antidote to trench warfare.
‐‐ Michael Winter

If you look at football over the last 50 years there has been a gradual decrease in goals, you don't see too many 10-nils these days, but two, three or four goals per game is a good spectacle.
‐‐ Michael Owen

If you look at 'Golden Son,' it was just a focused, isolated battle for Mars.
‐‐ Pierce Brown

If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.
‐‐ Charles Jencks

If you look at Governor Romney's family, he's been very successful. He's built a great family, very committed to his wife.
‐‐ Rick Scott

If you look at great human civilizations, from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union, you will see that most do not fail simply due to external threats but because of internal weakness, corruption, or a failure to manifest the values and ideals they espouse.
‐‐ Cory Booker

If you look at Griswold, what you can see is the first time the Court recognized the right to privacy, which ends up becoming ultimately the right to abortion.
‐‐ Jay Alan Sekulow

If you look at healthcare today, it's all about disease. It's not about understanding wellness at all.
‐‐ Leroy Hood

If you look at history, and if you look at all these different things that have threatened the movie industry - from Betamax tape to DVDs to the Internet - in the end, it has always turned out right, because ultimately people want to see that stuff.
‐‐ Kim Dotcom

If you look at history, innovation doesn't come just from giving people incentives; it comes from creating environments where their ideas can connect.
‐‐ Steven Johnson

If you look at history, there seems to be a regular pattern: the country with the most powerful military also happens to be the one with the world trade currency. That gives them an enormous economic advantage, which causes goods to flow into their country.
‐‐ David Graeber

If you look at history we've had since I've been in office, in an environment where we haven't had earmarks, we've still been able to get tens of millions of dollars for McLennan County.
‐‐ Bill Flores

If you look at how long the Earth has been here, we're living in the blink of an eye. So, whatever it is you want to do, you go out and do it.
‐‐ Jamie Foxx

If you look at how people use the term 'western,' you can only conclude that it means a movie that has big hats and horses. And if you really want to sound like you've been thinking, then you'll use a term like 'genre.' But all the hell it seems to mean is big hats and horses. Which is not all that deeply analytical.
‐‐ Tommy Lee Jones

If you look at human society, it is very easy, of course, to compare our warfare and territoriality with the chimpanzee. But that's only one side of what we do. We also trade, we intermarry, we allow each other to travel through our territory. There's an enormous amount of cooperation.
‐‐ Frans de Waal

If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

If you look at issues like immigration, gay marriage, gun regulation - these are all things that probably wouldn't be a source of much discussion at all in D.C., if they weren't sources of self-perpetuation.
‐‐ Mark Leibovich

If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there's nowhere to move on to.
‐‐ Clive Anderson

If you look at it from just a pure economic basis, technology is replacing all of the jobs robots can do, and machinery is replacing the jobs that humans once held. If we don't train our children to imagine, to create, they're going to be unemployable.
‐‐ Erwin McManus

If you look at it, the history of comedy has always been strongest among the nations who have been persecuted the most.
‐‐ Trevor Noah

If you look at Jack Benny, George Burns, or Don Rickles, they've all had long, successful marriages. So, I think there's something about laughter and the durability of a marriage.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.
‐‐ Bill Viola

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm.
‐‐ Elizabeth Bowen

If you look at life with any honesty and intelligence, it's clear that human nature is dark, vile, selfish, and despondent. But I also see a force in human nature, namely grace, that sometimes works against our natural moral entropy.
‐‐ Scott Derrickson

If you look at little kids and wild animals, these are two groups of things that whenever I'm with them forces me to be in the moment.
‐‐ Dominic Monaghan

If you look at 'Mad Men,' it's set in the wrong decade. The style of Mad Men is really the 1950s, not the 1960s.
‐‐ Jerry Della Femina

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write.
‐‐ Garth Ennis

If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.
‐‐ Venus Williams

If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.
‐‐ Kevin Hart

If you look at men's roles for the last thousand years, the desire is fundamental. We want to take care of, provide for, and be of service to... women.
‐‐ Matthew Fox

If you look at military and intelligence positions from the 1950s, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has always been against American national interests.
‐‐ Abdullah II of Jordan