Quotes with could

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  • John Lennon I've had the boyhood thing of being Elvis. Now I want to be with my best friend, and my best friend's my wife. Who could ask for anything more?
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Ted Turner I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.
    Ted Turner
    American media mogul and philanthropist (1938 - )
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  • Joan Collins I've never yet met a man who could look after me. I don't need a husband. What I need is a wife.
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  • Baz Luhrmann I've tried to make 'Strictly Ballroom' impossible to date. It does feel a bit '80s but I consciously made sure there was no technology in the movie that could date it.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Ernest Hemingway I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If a house was on fire there could be but two parties. One in favor of putting out the fire. Another in favor of the house burning.
    Second Speech at Leavenworth, Kansas, 5 December 1859
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Benjamin Franklin If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Eldridge Cleaver If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.
    Eldridge Cleaver
    American afro-amerikan leader, writer (1935 - 1998)
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  • W. M. Thackeray If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Aretha Franklin If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
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  • Ouida If all feeling for grace and beauty were not extinguished in the mass of mankind at the actual moment, such a method of locomotion as cycling could never have found acceptance; no man or woman with the slightest aesthetic sense could assume the ludicrous position necessary for it.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg If another Messiah was born he could hardly do so much good as the printing-press.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong If Britney would paint her ass green, I'm sure you could spot green asses all over LA as soon as the word was out.
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Lawana Blackwell If courage wasn't a standard result of aging, it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • Andy Rooney If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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  • John Maynard Keynes If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Emily Brontë If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
    Wuthering Heights (1847)
    Emily Brontë
    British writer, poet (1818 - 1848)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Lord George Byron If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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