I used to condemn junkies, like they could get off the stuff if they really wanted to, and that is just as stupid as saying, "You could grow eyes in the back of your head if you really wanted to.
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INNA PIDLUSKA The great thing about vinyl is that if you wanted to get a decent-sounding cut, you could really onl... KATE BUSH I'm really happy about my finish. I just wanted to come in and do each dive as best as I could. ERIC CROWLEY Winny and I lived in a house that ran on static electricity... If you wanted to run the blender, yo... STEVEN WRIGHT The girls wanted to see if they could get the boys to cry. BOB STAUBLE I like science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke, Philip K. Dick and Vonnegut, and I really like Margaret At... CONOR OBERST There is something really mysterious about lions. They could rip you apart if they wanted to, but at... LEE RYAN If the religious leaders decided to go all the way to a civil war they could, in no time. And if the... HASSAN BAZZAZ If you really wanted them to, they would just jump in the boat for you. But, no one really wants tha... JAY EBBEN In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast , they always say the heroine is 'a... ALEX FLINN I just wanted to play as long as I could. When you stop playing, you're not going to get it back... IAN RUSH Bottom line? As much as you wanted someone to change and believed they could, they were in cont... J.R. WARD Contemporary literature said that if you could afford it, spend as much as you possibly can on the p... WARE PETZNICK Are you saying,” he asked slowly, “that I rose in your estimation when you found that I wanted y... AYN RAND How could you tell if your instincts were just hope in disguise, and if your hope was really despera... LAINI TAYLOR Companies that could afford to come out in the first place could afford to stay, because they were m... DUSTIN BRUNS You could tell what he really wanted to do in life. Deep down, he really wanted to do it. He wanted ... BRYAN HASSLER Unfortunately they failed to appreciate the best part of you, preferring to lose themselves in the l... THOMAS LIGOTTI I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really l... WILLIAM MOSELEY Men were so violent, she complained. Why were men so violent? You had to be careful as a woma... EDWARD HOAGLAND Was it fair? I think it's pretty stupid, really, if that's what you wanted me to say. BOBBY DAVIS Especially in this city, I think the fans are so happy. They just wanted to get back to hockey. You ... DAN CLOUTIER The love you get, is equal to the love you give. BEN OAK I just wanted to pressure him as much as I could, and he took an off-balance shot. It didn't look li... EARL BOYKINS The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as... CHARLES BUKOWSKI If you say to a woman "I really like you", it won't be as effective as saying to them "You really li... DAVID DEANGELO I always loved running -- it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You c... JESSE OWENS I always loved running / it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You co... JESSE OWENS I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager an... LATOYA JACKSON To do something like that to Neenah, who has scored more that 80 points on some teams, makes you fee... ANDY POLKA Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you c... LANA WACHOWSKI As part of this, you will be able to go into the public part and get up-to-that date information. If... JAY BRADSHAW In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. GAYLE GARDNER If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintage Ali MacGraw, circa 1968. SANDRA BERNHARD I didn't feel as if they always had me [as] part of their plans. It was like I was back on the back ... JUAN DIXON I could not find any way that we could really run the kind of campaign I wanted to run if we were ta... PATRICIA SCHROEDER I was just gassed. And this time I really wanted another match. I was really confident. And I just d... LUKE ROTH If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and the im... LEWIS BLACK If you're wanting glamorous or really beautiful or really sexy, well then, I wasn't really the one, ... KIM NOVAK The graphics are the really freaky thing. I have two stepsons who are really good at the games, and ... KIEFER SUTHERLAND They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything. JOSEPH CONRAD We just wanted to find an open look. Coach told me I could shoot it if I wanted to. There wasn't rea... BRANDON WARREN If I understand you right,' he says, 'you're saying that you're basically a calculating manipulative... DAVID FOSTER WALLACE If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I ... CHANTAL KREVIAZUK I idolised bands like Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, who wanted to reach as many people as they co... NATE RUESS Physically? If you've got really beautiful eyes, you have me in a trance right from the beginnin... RYAN GUZMAN But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to. ALLY SHEEDY We're out of pocket, ... The phone system is getting better, but it's not great yet. I don't know if... DAVID QUINN If the President really wanted to know exactly how Rove and Libby were involved, he could walk down ... BOB FILNER I've never really had specific goals and stuff like that - I think I sort of learned early on th... JANE LYNCH Look. I was pissed off! That's all I could say. I really felt that I wanted to do that shit. At one ... EMINEM Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be. JEFFREY FRY I'm going to get it immediately to get these people off my back, ... I'm in perfectly good shape and... SANDY ANDERSON We had really good possession at midfield, but we could not get that penetrating pass to get behind ... SAMIR HAJ Any complaint on their part of not knowing is just bogus. If they wanted to know, they could know, .... BILL ROBERTSON Shy, insecure, afraid to speak up? “Act as if,” they say. Act as if you’re not. Stand tall whe... TAMARA IRELAND STONE He could be saying stuff that comes across really like a [jerk], ... But you see him and he smiles, ... GREG GARCIA One of the things that occurs when you grow in size is you lose a bit of your entrepreneurship and i... MARK WOODWARD I'm kind of like a samurai. They say if you want to be a samurai, you can't be afraid of dyi... YVON CHOUINARD [Benson] wrestled like he wanted to be here. Our guys wrestled as well as they could. MIKE BURCHETT I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. 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Elegance is all in the mind of the wearer. PHILIP TREACY Hats make people feel good, and that's the point of them. PHILIP TREACY I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis&... PHILIP GREEN I'm in the retail business, not the circus business. PHILIP GREEN You are forced to have the best data capture, the best information, when you have goods in hundreds ... PHILIP GREEN I could have closed down bits of British Home Stores to make more money but it's not my style. I... PHILIP GREEN You've got to love what you do to really make things happen. PHILIP GREEN They already know all about brands... but what 16- and 17-year-olds won't necessarily have is ex... PHILIP GREEN We're in a celebrity culture, and when I turn on the news today I hear about Lindsay Lohan, Tige... PHILIP YANCEY Either I will find a way, or I will make one. PHILIP SIDNEY I am brave, but I take a view. It is an educated view. I am careful. I am not reckless. PHILIP GREEN Royalty is completely different than celebrity. Royalty has a magic all its own. PHILIP TREACY Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise. PHILIP MASSINGER My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a v... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movi... PHILIP ZIMBARDO Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species... PHILIP ROTH Ignorance is not bliss - it is oblivion PHILIP WYLIE All this, and Heaven too! PHILIP HENRY Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what ... PHILIP ZIMBARDO It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is mos... PHILIP SIDNEY Adam and Eve are like imaginary numbers, like the square root of minus one... If you include it in y... PHILIP PULLMAN The hardship of living in a refugee camp made me psychologically strong. PHILIP EMEAGWALI Be willing to make decisions. That's the most important quality in a good leader. Don't fall victim ... PHILIP CROSBY The important thing to recognize is that it takes a team, and the team ought to get credit for the w... PHILIP CALDWELL Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't ... PHILIP LARKIN Nor custom, nor example, nor cast numbers
Of such as do offend, make less the sin. PHILIP MASSINGER I got a good heart but my attitude gat people thinking I'm evil GENEREUX PHILIP A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an arm... PHILIP ROTH A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy un... PHILIP ROTH Why should I let the toad work Squat on my life? Can't I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the bru... PHILIP LARKIN Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagina... PHILIP PULLMAN After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely p... PHILIP STREIFER I don't believe in it. All writing is difficult. The most you can hope for is a day when it goes rea... PHILIP PULLMAN