Quotes 6141 till 6160 of 15856.
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If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing.
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If you would win the world, melt it, do not hammer it.
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If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not.
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If you'll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives.
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If you're a pioneer and you come up with something that can change the world and you turn round and say 'I'm not going to share this idea with anyone,' then you only impact the few and not the many.
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If you're a single man and you happen to be in this business, you're deemed a player. But I don't see myself as a ladies' man.
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If you're an adult and you choose not to believe in science, fine, but please don't prevent your children from learning about it and letting them draw their own conclusions.
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If you're doing something like 'Arcadia' by Tom Stoppard, which has been done millions and millions of times, and it's been played some unbelievably well-respected actors, there's a lot more pressure there. But I try not to think about all the other people who have done it before me. You've got to try and be original.
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If you're going to play football, why not be the best at it that you can be and fulfill your potential?
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If you're going to play hockey now, you have to be able to play. If you have the ability to fight and play, you're an unbelievable commodity. But if you can only fight, there might be six of those guys left in the league, and I can guarantee they're going fast.
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If you're going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won t.
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If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
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If you're in a car crash, you're mostly involved in trying to not go off the bridge, and later on you say, 'Oh my God!'
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If you're just a nice guy - you don't let people walk on you - but if you're just a nice guy and treat people right, good things happen.
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If you're not a risk taker, you should get the hell out of business.
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If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.
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If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.
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If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary.
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