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  • Bryan White If I ever did cross over I would like to do it tactfully. I don't want to offend anyone in country. Can you have the best of both worlds? I sure like the idea of it!
    Bryan White
    American country music singer and songwriter (1974 - )
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  • Beatrice Webb If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room full of people, I would say to myself, 'You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation... why should you be frightened?
    Beatrice Webb
    English sociologist and economist (1858 - 1943)
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  • Ben Affleck If I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Carol Ann Duffy If I felt, in the event of a royal wedding, inspired to write about people coming together in marriage or civil partnership, I would just be grateful to have an idea for the poem. And if I didn't, I'd ignore it.
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Brigham Young If I had a choice of educating my daughters or my sons because of opportunity constraints, I would choose to educate my daughters.
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Byron Katie If I had a prayer, it would be this: God spare me from the desire for love, approval, and appreciation. Amen.
    Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • William Shakespeare If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Dawn French If I had been around when Rubens was painting, I would have been revered as a fabulous model. Kate Moss? Well, she would have been the paintbrush...
    Dawn French
     
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  • Bernice Johnson Reagon If I had been at a University I don't think I would have been able to have the experience I had in my Smithsonian work. I don't think I have been as successful.
    Bernice Johnson Reagon
    American composer, scholar, and social activist (1942 - )
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  • Billy Crudup If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Anne Seward If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Barry Sternlicht If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Carol Bartz If I had my way, I wouldn't do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated.
    Carol Bartz
    American business executive (1948 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson If I had no duties, and no reference to futurity, I would spend my life in driving briskly in a post-chaise with a pretty woman.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • William Faulkner If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton If I had only one sermon to preach it would be a sermon against pride.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Calvin Coolidge If I had permitted my failures, or what seemed to me at the time a lack of success, to discourage me I cannot see any way in which I would ever have made progress.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Richard M. DeVos If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
    Richard M. DeVos
    American businessman, co-founder of Amway Corp. (1926 - 2018)
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