All Quotes

If you take 12 waters from the coconut - not the ones you buy in the store, although that's good - but the fresh coconuts, the little brown ones with the three eyes, if you take 12 of those within 24 hours, your blood will go back to the way it was when you were born.
‐‐ Dick Gregory

If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.
‐‐ Matthew Modine

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.
‐‐ Joseph Wambaugh

If you take a band like Nirvana, their biggest hits are structurally the same as even a hair metal band's biggest hits. The structure's not different - the attitude was different. Except it really wasn't. It seemed a little more human.
‐‐ Buzz Osborne

If you take a Baroque commode and put a Baroque clock on top of it, maybe it is not so interesting as when you put a computer on top of it. Then you see both items in a new way.
‐‐ Robert Wilson

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.
‐‐ Jean-Marie Le Pen

If you take a bunch of superstars and put them in a room where they don't have their assistants and entourage, it's funny to see what happens.
‐‐ Daryl Hall

If you take a candy bar in the short run, it gives you a burst of energy, but after a while, it just makes you fat.
‐‐ Ben Bernanke

If you take a cold, blunt view of most religions, and you sort of say, 'Well, here's the basis for it,' most of them sound crazy. It's the belief that makes them real. I was interested in that question: When does a belief become a myth? When does something you believe in become just a story?
‐‐ Alexi Zentner

If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.
‐‐ Elmore Leonard

If you take a galaxy and try to make it bigger, it becomes a cluster of galaxies, not a galaxy. If you try to make it smaller than that, it seems to blow itself apart.
‐‐ Jeremiah P. Ostriker

If you take a guy like a Barack Obama, who's raised millions of dollars from the most donors in the history of this nation, it suggests that there's a deep and profound hunger for a new politics to come forth. And a guy like him has been able to mobilize that and to reach certain parts of the hip-hop generation.
‐‐ Michael Eric Dyson

If you take a lie and allow your desire for the truth, you'll end up with some truth - not fact, but something that gets you closer to the truth. That's what we want. When we go to a play, we need to be assured that the experience we're having.
‐‐ Denis Johnson

If you take a look at history, you will find that the understanding of what is good and evil has always existed before the individual religions. The religions were only invented by people afterwards, in order to express this idea.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie

If you take a look at Medicare, there are things we could do, not just tort reform but truly reform the whole reimbursement system which will help in terms of reducing costs and creating the right kind of incentives for savings.
‐‐ John Hoeven

If you take a loud pride in anything, people will rightly shoot you down.
‐‐ Danny Boyle

If you take a more Darwinian point of view the dynamics of the universe are such that as the universe evolved in time, complex systems arose out of the natural dynamics of the universe.
‐‐ Seth Lloyd

If you take a perfectly well-adjusted normal person of any age from anywhere in the country and stick them in L.A., within about a week I do believe that a lot of their values and morals will start to degrade.
‐‐ Chris Eigeman

If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.
‐‐ Sandra Day O'Connor

If you take a print magazine with a million person circulation, and a blog with a devout readership of 1 million, for the purpose of selling anything that can be sold online, the blog is infinitely more powerful, because it's only a click away.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
‐‐ Christopher Hampton

If you take a reasonable amount of vitamin C regularly, the incidence of the common cold goes down. If you get a cold and start immediately, as soon as you start sneezing and sniffling, the cold just doesn't get going.
‐‐ Linus Pauling

If you take a regular animated film, that's being done by animators on computers, so the filmmaking is a fairly technical process.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

If you take a strong stance and have a clear opinion or statement on any subject online, you're going to polarize people. And without that polarity, there's no discussion. Discussion is what I want, which means that I'm fine with the consequences.
‐‐ Timothy Ferriss

If you take all that I've learned from Joe and all that Joe has learned from me, and you throw all that into a song, not only are you using the gifts that God gave you, but also all the experiences you've had.
‐‐ Steven Tyler

If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
‐‐ K. Eric Drexler

If you take all the money we've spent at NASA since we landed on the moon and you had applied that money for incentives to the private sector, we would today probably have a permanent station on the moon, three or four permanent stations in space, a new generation of lift vehicles.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.
‐‐ Shannon Elizabeth

If you take any populated place - any major city in America - and drive 45 minutes from that spot directly out of town you'll be in about as country a place as you'll ever find.
‐‐ Bubba Sparxxx

If you take any world problem, any issue on the planet, the solution to that problem certainly includes education. In education, the roadblock is the laptop.
‐‐ Nicholas Negroponte

If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
‐‐ Hal Sparks

If you take away a lot of the pretension and grandness from Shakespeare, a true poeticism is revealed.
‐‐ Roger Rees

If you take away money, if you take away the houses and things, who are we really? What is love really about? What is it to love each other? Why do we stay together, and why do all the kids split? All these questions I have really deep inside of me.
‐‐ Sonia Braga

If you take away print and embroidery, you have to challenge yourself a bit more on the cut.
‐‐ Joseph Altuzarra

If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.
‐‐ Malcolm Gladwell

If you take away the predators in the prairies and the national parks, you suddenly have an explosion of elk, and then you have a lack of the food source for the elk, so they strip all the ground bare and that takes away the cover, on and on and on and on. The whole food chain is disrupted.
‐‐ Peter Benchley

If you take 'Cheers' and 'Seinfeld' and watch the early shows, they're kind of awkward. It took a while for the writers and everything to gel.
‐‐ Amanda Peet

If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.
‐‐ Kirk Cameron

If you take Darwinian theory, make a 'scientific' principle out of it, put it into political action, then you have something like Nazi Germany.
‐‐ Bruce Lipton

If you take different mythologies from different cultures, the names may change and the story lines may vary but there is always something in common.
‐‐ Maynard James Keenan

If you take energy and climate change, you really cannot deal with the problems with energy and climate change without European co-operation at a high level. If you take digitalisation, it's an obvious area where European co-operation can actually make a difference.
‐‐ Gordon Brown

If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.
‐‐ Dee Wallace

If you take five taxis a day, one driver will be nasty, and the other four are perfectly nice. You remember the nasty one. But you should remember the four who were nice.
‐‐ Letitia Baldrige

If you take guns away from legal gun owners, then the only people who would have guns would be the bad guys. Even a pacifist would get violent if someone were trying to kill him or her. You would fight for your life, whatever your beliefs.
‐‐ Bruce Willis

If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
‐‐ Christopher Meloni

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.
‐‐ Steven Moffat

If you take my entire golfing life, my favorites are the older courses, the more traditional and the more authentic.
‐‐ Trent Dilfer

If you take my equipment away from me, I might as well retire.
‐‐ John O'Keefe

If you take my own life, the longer you stay in a country, you almost lose your former self and become this third-party person who is caught in between two worlds.
‐‐ Greg Poehler

If you take my performance or my understanding of the role and my appreciation for story and then dress it in CGI, that I guess becomes an action film.
‐‐ Vin Diesel