Quotes on Ifs

I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine.

An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

If any thing is sacred, the human body is sacred.

There is no week nor day nor hour when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their roughness and spirit of defiance.

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

If you're walking with your lady on the sidewalk, I still like to see a man walking street-side, to protect the lady from traffic. I grew up with that, and I hate to see something like that get lost. I still like to see that a man opens the door. I like those touches of chivalry that are fast disappearing.

I think it's always important for academics to study popular culture, even if the thing they are studying is idiotic. If it's successful or made a dent in culture, then it is worthy of study to find out why.

Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

I don't know that I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want some one who made it interesting.

Fashion is here to help make people look very important. If they have good taste and choose what suits them, I give them options on how they can do that. It's always sexy, and it's always with the same result: making women look fantastic.

If you wear clothes that don't suit you, you're a fashion victim. You have to wear clothes that make you look better.

If you're too big to fit into fashion, then you just have to do your own fashion.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?

You can't get much done in life if you only work on the days when you feel good.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.

Censorship is saying: "I'm the one who says the last sentence. Whatever you say, the conclusion is mine." But the internet is like a tree that is growing. The people will always have the last word – even if someone has a very weak, quiet voice. Such power will collapse because of a whisper.