All Quotes

If you're small and can speak clearly and you're a cute kid, that's the craft, really. The whole child actor thing can be dangerous sometimes. Other kids were taking piano lessons; I did ballet and acting.
‐‐ Rose McIver

If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
‐‐ Victoria Justice

If you're smart enough to go to college, you should be smart and creative enough to pay for it.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura

If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.
‐‐ David Duchovny

If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

If you're so afraid of failure, you will never succeed. You have to take chances.
‐‐ Mario Andretti

If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?
‐‐ Katherine Paterson

If you're so committed to liberty that you see the Soviet Union as a threat, you're a Republican. If you're kind of indifferent to freedom and the level of the lack of freedom in the Soviet Union is just a question of extent and not really threatening to anybody, then you're a Democrat.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

If you're so pro-life, do me a favour: don't lock arms and block medical clinics. If you're so pro-life, lock arms and block cemeteries.
‐‐ Bill Hicks

If you're so smart, let's see you get out of the Army.
‐‐ Casey Stengel

If you're soft and fuzzy, like our little characters, you become the skinny kid on the beach, and people in this business don't mind kicking sand in your face.
‐‐ Michael Eisner

If you're somebody who writes songs or writes fiction, a writer that people pay for your opinion in any way, you shouldn't be the least bit uncomfortable giving it to them. People want songwriters to tell them how they think and how they feel. That's what a song is. That's what I want to hear in a song.
‐‐ Jason Isbell

If you're speaking of love, you really must include the element of uncertainty - and perhaps it's best approached as the art of constant maintenance.
‐‐ Twyla Tharp

If you're Stephen King and you have a massive body of huge-selling well-respected work, you can pivot and do whatever you want. I don't have that body of work, I don't have that audience that's comfortable with me enough yet to follow my bliss with me.
‐‐ Seth Grahame-Smith

If you're still in a bar when the lights go on, you are a loser.
‐‐ Jessica Cutler

If you're still wondering about details - how am I going to get these two to meet, or whatever - when you're writing, you can't pay proper attention to the sentences themselves.
‐‐ John Irving

If you're strutting around Beverly Hills and hitting up these big industry parties every night when you're not making movies, then it's going to eventually consume you. But for me, I live most of my life in Boston. I do things no different from the way my buddies back home do them, except when I go to work, I go to a film set.
‐‐ Chris Evans

If you're stumbling out of a bar, and people tweet about it, well, don't be dumb. If you're going to get falling-down drunk, stay at home - which I did a lot of.
‐‐ Jason Bateman

If you're successful and growing, you can manage any way you want to. Growth makes so many dimensions of management easier. It's when growth stops that things get tough.
‐‐ Clayton Christensen

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.
‐‐ Andrew J. Bernstein

If you're successful at a young age, no matter the profession, there has to come a time when you reevaluate everything, what it means to you. 'Is this what I want to do for the rest of my life?'
‐‐ Kirsten Dunst

If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.
‐‐ Lou Brock

If you're successful, it's important to enjoy it! I love shopping for clothes, branded clothes. I love shopping in England, Dubai. I like to travel whenever I can.
‐‐ Suresh Raina

If you're successful, you must express a modest appearance.
‐‐ Pim Fortuyn

If you're suddenly doing something you don't want to do for four years, just so you've got something to fall back on, by the time you come out you don't have that 16-year-old drive any more and you'll spend your life doing something you never wanted to do in the first place.
‐‐ Ewan McGregor

If you're supposed to be a 'personality,' then you might as well have a personality.
‐‐ Julian Fellowes

If you're supposed to be doing something, the spirits will come and help you. They have helped me out with lines I shouldn't have known, chords I shouldn't have known. Every once in a while I get lines from somewhere, and I think, I better write this down.
‐‐ Gil Scott-Heron

If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.
‐‐ Irving Kirsch

If you're taking care of yourself, then what can somebody else tell you?
‐‐ Swae Lee

If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week.
‐‐ Erin McKean

If you're talking about Java in particular, Python is about the best fit you can get amongst all the other languages. Yet the funny thing is, from a language point of view, JavaScript has a lot in common with Python, but it is sort of a restricted subset.
‐‐ Guido van Rossum

If you're talking about nuclear physics, I have to defer to the next guy. But if you're talking about football, I don't have to take a back seat to anyone.
‐‐ Joe Greene

If you're talking down to the audience, no matter how brutish it is, they know it and they hate you for it.
‐‐ Bernard Sahlins

If you're talking to a child, you're going, 'This is the wonder of science and here's why I'm so fascinated by it.'
‐‐ Brian Andreas

If you're talking to an architect, he can look at a blank piece of paper, and once the initial design is there, the formula kicks in. Each room should have something unique and different about it - much the same way that in a song, every eight bars or so, a new piece of information should be introduced.
‐‐ Ryan Tedder

If you're teaching today what you were teaching five years ago, either the field is dead or you are.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

If you're telling a story, and somebody is going to come out badly, it better be you.
‐‐ Rob Lowe

If you're telling a story it's always best not to play the ending.
‐‐ John Hawkes

If you're that hypersensitive about color and don't have a sense of humor, don't marry out of your race.
‐‐ Laura Schlessinger

If you're the band leader you ask more of yourself than anyone else, so they tend to raise the bar for me.
‐‐ Kristin Hersh

If you're the cashier at Burger King, of course you make less than the manager or even the CEO. The issue is whether you're stuck being a cashier for the rest of your life.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

If you're the CEO of a publicly traded company, you're worried about quarterly returns.
‐‐ Peter Diamandis

If you're the greatest, it's okay to say you're the greatest. My suggestion to everybody is to be their own greatest fan. Weaker personas and personalities define that as egotistical or arrogant, but what it means is their self-esteem isn't that strong.
‐‐ Gene Simmons

If you're the head of a business, there's a protocol that people have to follow.
‐‐ Robin Wright

If you're the kind of person who likes numbers and statistics, I'm the long shot - the Lotto Powerball winner. I'm the mutation in the DNA that makes evolution a reality. I am the new black.
‐‐ Tracy Morgan

If you're the oldest in a large family, you tend to do everything yourself, particularly if you are the first American. You begin a habit or pattern that makes it easy to reject other help.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

If you're the Olympic champion then they have to wait four more years to get you again.
‐‐ Usain Bolt

If you're the parent, be a parent. You know what I mean? I'm a parent. I have daughters.
‐‐ Eminem

If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.
‐‐ Gail Sheehy