Quotes 5861 till 5880 of 15856.
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If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.
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If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.
Reported in Tom Crisp, The Book of Bob: Choice Words, Memorable Men (2007) -
If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.
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If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.
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If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.
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If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.
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If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family.
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If music be the breakfast food of love, kindly do not disturb until lunch time.
Agee on Film: Criticism and Comment on the Movies (1958) -
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
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If my children do not behave according to Islam, if they do not pray for instance, I will punish them.
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If my daughter wants to get into this business, I would support that decision. She's going to have a hard time not being in it. She loves food and she's around it all the time.
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If my father Ninoy Aquino were alive today, he would say that he is not superman or superboy. In effect, heroes are really just ordinary people caught up in extraordinary times and respond properly.
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If nations always moved from one set of furnished rooms to another - and always into a better set - things might be easier, but the trouble is that there is no one to prepare the new rooms. The future is worse than the ocean - there is nothing there. It will be what men and circumstances make it.
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
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If of all words of tongue and pen, The saddest are, It might have been, More sad are those we daily see, It is, but it hadn't ought to be.
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If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
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If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.
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