Quotes with would-be

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  • Margaret Atwood If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
    Margaret Atwood
    Canadian writer, poet, criticus (1939 - )
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  • Bryce Courtenay If I were king of the world there wouldn't be boat people, there would only be people coming in boats. I would mix us all up so that we were all exactly one shade of each other.
    Bryce Courtenay
    South African-Australian advertising director and novelist (1933 - 2012)
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  • Alexander the Great If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Bill Maris If I were to leave and raise a venture fund, I would have to find 10 or 100 LPs. They would all give me a bunch of money, and I would take a percentage of that to pay myself. They would expect me to invest that over the next three years, and they want that money back in seven or eight years.
    Bill Maris
    American entrepreneur and venture capitalist
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  • Blake Farenthold If I were to leave Congress and want to start Farenthold TV, it would be very difficult. The fewer players there are, the fewer the opportunities to build a big enough audience to get on.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • B. D. Wong If I were to limit myself to the opportunities that were presented playing only Chinese-American parts, I would be virtually without a career.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Henry James If I were to live my life over again, I would be an American. I would steep myself in America, I would know no other land.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
    Source: The Life and Public Service of Abraham Lincoln (1865) by Henry J. Raymond
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Abraham Lincoln If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Charles Barkley If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming.
    Charles Barkley
    American professional basketball player (1963 - )
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  • Frederick the Great If I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Roberto Clemente If I would be happy, I would be a very bad ball player. With me, when I get mad, it puts energy in my body.
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  • Ben Wheatley If I'd been offered 'Spider-Man,' I probably would have done it. I don't think it's bad to go and do those things.
    Ben Wheatley
    English filmmaker and screenwriter (1972 - )
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  • Bill Gates If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Julius Epstein If I'd known it was going to be a classic, I would have paid attention.
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  • Hunter S. Thompson If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Baba Kalyani If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
    Baba Kalyani
    Indian businessman (1949 - )
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  • Brent Scowcroft If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Brit Hume If it comes to be believed that we are simply a propaganda organ of some kind, as a lot of people believe about some of our competitors, that would be a problem.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Betsey Johnson If it hadn't been for the rise of the working woman's wardrobe, I never would have found the time to sneak a kid in.
    Betsey Johnson
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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