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TROY PERRY
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder. POPE JOHN I
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder. JOSEPH JOUBERT
If someone had told me I would be Pope one day, I would have studied harder POPE JOHN PAUL I
When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me ... JOHN HENRIK CLARKE Then you would have acted to change history, but you would have replaced one history with another. Y...
DEXTER PALMER If you asked me four years ago where I would be today, I don't know that I would have been able to s...
JENNIFER HEIL
Me and Woody Harrelson, we're twins. We're the same person. I should only make movies with h... LAURA DERN
I would only have been too pleased if someone had asked me for my data. If you really believed in yo... JAMES LOVELOCK
I can remember when I was just, like, about four years old in Compton, and my mother would have me s... DR. DRE
...And then one day you'll find, ten years have got behind you, no one told you when to run, you mis... PINK FLOYD If they would have told me when I was just 18 that I was going to have a career that would last so l...
ENRIQUE IGLESIAS
I had big dreams when I came here, but this is an incredibly amazing gift, ... If somebody had told ... CHARLIZE THERON If you don't go through that trawl of finding out about patents and protecting your ideas, you will ...
DOUG RICHARD I remember, years ago, if I had had an opportunity to leave the Lakers, I would have left for one re...
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NANCY HORAN People are interested in numbers. Would I stay up all night waiting for it? Ten years ago, I would h...
JACK HORKHEIMER
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MATT CITRON If you'd have told me 10 years ago that one of the biggest new phenomena of the 21st century was peo...
ROBERT THOMPSON
They would yell everything you saw in the movie and then they'd look back at Woody and go, 'Yeah, Wo... CHARLIZE THERON The truck would have made it to that fire that day and it would have made it back home again. And my...
MARGARET MCGOWAN
Someone said to me, 'If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should ... MARILYN MONROE If I had my life to live over I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up...
NADINE STAIR She called me at 6 a.m. yesterday and said, 'You know what, if you had asked me, I would have told y...
MEREDITH VIEIRA
The two-piece ball I switched to spun too much. One shot would go the distance I thought it should, ... PAYNE STEWART He came in my office one day and had this sheepish look on his face, like there was something on his...
JEFF PYLE Help Roberto out, make a non-insulting phrase using 'you and you' and 'shit'. If he'd been one of my...
CARLES PUYOL
What if all I'd ever known was how it had been for the past three years - me being an unwanted outsi... P.C. CAST My doctors told me I would have to go into the hospital if I don't get it.
ELLEN SMITH
We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly H... ANTHONY KIEDIS
"I have said to my well-wishers, 'Thank you for the trouble that you are taking with me, but I am to... OSHO I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES I'm no hero. I would have done the same thing for anyone. I told him that if it had happened the nex...
BECKY CHITTOM we would have left the Gaza Strip ten years ago.
SHIMON PERES
She didn’t understand why it was happening,” he said. “I had to tell her she would die. Her so... JOHN GREEN Ten years ago, we would have been blissfully ignorant.
DONALD YEOMANS I was really into '24' at university, and it resulted in a lot of lost hours that could have...
EMILY BERRINGTON
Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten yea... UMA THURMAN Told them that if they would take this it would make them stronger and faster. And he'd give them on...
BILL AARON I had planned on coming back to get clothes for the next day, but I couldn't get in the building. It...
BEN PIERCE I swear, if Sweetface told me that I rode out of town ten minutes ago, I'd believe him.
BUTCH CASSIDY
For two years I would just make that. I would concentrate on making the perfect omelet... It was imp... MARIO BATALI Will that happen? I don't know. Ten years ago nobody would have said NBA All-Star game would be on c...
GREG HUGHES
Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of ... BILL HYBELS If you had told me when he made the switch that he would be on the Olympic team, I would have said h...
PAUL HEDRICK No one told me I had to make something that would sell, but I personally want everyone to like my mu...
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BILL MCCHESNEY It's going to be a mess. For athletes, I hope it didn't mess their future plans up. We had scares tw...
DAN FITZGERALD
If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love wo... MICHELANGELO I knew I could play. I knew that if I would get my shot I would be able to stick, and I finally did....
JASON POMINVILLE Have high esteem of yourself. Believe your mind has the power to attract the good vibrations. With h...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
I told you before, Jem, that you would not leave me. And you are still with me. When I breathe, I wi... CASSANDRA CLARE
My hair would continue to gray, and then one day, it would fall out entirely, and then, on a day mea... GARY SHTEYNGART As I began to prune and shrivel I thought about going to the police and falsely confessing to everyt...
PAUL NEILAN Two years ago I found out about Tate Publishing. Actually, I called them about my children's stories...
CYNTHIA VELENO If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
RICHARD M. DEVOS
Grand illnesses are supposed to be life-clarifying. Instead, I knew I was going to die—but I’d k... PAUL KALANITHI Master Graves was incensed and said, as punishment for my disruption, I would have to write my lette...
JENNIFER A. NIELSEN I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would t...
SUE WHITAKER
He told me that if I hung up, he'd do it. He would commit suicide. He told me that if I called the c... SIERRA D. WATERS That's been a problem since Day 1. I had to build my business and do well there in order to take car...
EDDIE HOFFMAN If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have reti...
GARY SPEED Integrated security will absolutely be a trend. In fact, I would go so far as to argue that if you d...
JOEL CONOVER
Time had not faded my memories (as I had prayed to God it might), nor had it healed my wounds as it ... ORHAN PAMUK
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years ... PINK FLOYD
If you told me when I was a teen that I would end up being a teacher, I would have said you're o... TIM GUNN If I had the answer, I would have done it two months ago. You've got to go out there and keep pitchi...
JASON MARQUIS
I've been there a few times, ... I shot a Western there years ago ... and we would have some time to... VINCE VAUGHN
Tokyo would probably be the foreign city if I had to eat one city's food for the rest of my life... ANTHONY BOURDAIN I think that we just have to educate people, and it's amazing to me that every patient that I see th...
ROBERT STRAUSS I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school ...
DEAN WEEN
There's no easy way out. If there were, I would have bought it. And believe me, it would be one of m... OPRAH WINFREY
For me, already being part of a single parent household and knowing it was just me and my mom, you&#... LEBRON JAMES
If I would make a song dedicated to any woman, it would have to be my mom because, you know, she'... ACTION BRONSON If you are an investor, I hope that you will stay with me for three, four, ten years. But if you ask...
BRUNELLO CUCINELLI I remember many times at the end of the day when the miners were all out, my dad would take me into ...
DORIS WILSON The cancer had been growing for a year and a half. She had been diagnosed with an ovarian cyst five ...
DEXTER KING
I've been told by the BBC that if I make one more offensive remark, anywhere, at any time, I wil... JEREMY CLARKSON If someone would have told me I would have played 20 games in the NHL (this season), I would be shoc...
LEE STEMPNIAK
If you eat the same cereal every day it's gonna get old. And if I had thought about snowboarding... SHAUN WHITE
I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would ... MAYA ANGELOU
IF - and this is the greatest of them all - I had the courage to see myself as I reallyam, I would f... NAPOLEON HILL
But why didn't you leave? Why didn't you take my sister and go to New York?" she would say it didn't... GLORIA STEINEM
I couldn't understand; cheating was the one thing I'd told her all those years ago would be unforgiv... GARTH RISK HALLBERG
If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago? BILL GATES If I had some idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?
RICHARD M. DEVOS
If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end bri... ABRAHAM LINCOLN If I had my druthers, we would have been finished with this months ago,
ALLEN WALKER
You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten y...
PINK FLOYD If I had to ballpark it, I would say around 10 percent of business today would be pre-listing inspec...
MALLORY ANDERSON I told him that I can play it if he wanted to write it, and I would be willing to try and go there e...
HUNTER TYLO This one guy told me that if he had known that, he would have already taken care of it,
BILL WRIGHT It was hard going up there because no one knew what the outcome would be. I will be 80 years old and...
BROOKE BALDWIN
Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d l... JODI PICOULT
If my daughter had been in her right mind, she would never, ever have taken the kids with her that d... CHUCK JONES
Two years ago, if anyone had told me I'd be doing half the stuff I'm doing, I wouldn't h... ZAYN MALIK
Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for... MITCH ALBOM
I feel very strongly we are spiritual beings in a physical body, and we should make our surroundings... 
Dreaming led to disappointment, and disappointment to a kind of depressed funk that wasn’t easy to... 
Never, never, never. I am never going to forget you. 
I'm a monster, you know. I'm one of the dangerous ones.
And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. M... 
No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pa... 
That was one of the saddest things about people--their most important thoughts and feelings often we... 
Millennials give comics the kind of adulation past generations reserved for musicians. We respect La... 
I never thought about writing a novel until I was 13, and that happened by chance. I was on school h... 
When Department of Health and Human Services administrators decided to base 30 percent of hospitals&... 
Meat is an inefficient way to eat. An acre of land can yield 20,000 pounds of potatoes, but that sam... 
In the black sororities, they celebrate achievement academically, and they really do work toward com... 
I think of making a movie in such a romantic way. 
There are so many people I know who could be the greatest film-maker but who will never get the chan... 
The cars we drive say a lot about us. 
Unless everyone grasps the importance of having only two children per couple, wars won't be over... 
People are fascinated with eternal life and physical power - the idea of having no vulnerability. We... 
I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end o... 
What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows. 
What we do today, right now, Will have an accumulated effect on all our tomorrows. 
Gen Y is depicted as self-centred and apathetic when it comes to politics, but it doesn't help t... 