Would Be Quotes - Page 166

If there was a sense of - a bigger sense of responsibility in the various leadership positions in America, things would be not as grotesquely overly done as they are now.

I started on 'Saturday Night Live' the same time Conan started on 'Late Night.' We just had a relationship because I would be upstairs in the studio and whenever he couldn't get a guest - which was often back then since he was just starting out - he would just call me down to be a guest.

Laws, however divine in origin and institution, would be found of little coercion among men, were the administration of them not committed to mortals.

Lots of people think things would be better some other way. That's why the world's lousy with theme parks.

If people let other people alone, people would be better off. It's always people that screw things up for people anyway.

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

I couldn't tell you the ratio, but probably for every job you see me do, there would be 20 rejections.

I don't know anyone who would be exclusively working on game music, per se.

Private companies can make a personal profile, direct you to things - they will say - that you would be interested in, but that's their choice not your choice.

There are a lot of things that can be done within the framework of existing institutions which would be very valuable for people.

That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called "intellectuals" in standard usage, as he would be the first to agree.

I still think, despite everything, that the US is very unlikely to attack Iran. It could be a huge catastrophe; nobody knows what the consequences would be. I imagine that only an administration that's really desperate would resort to that.

Evolutionary theory has nothing to say, in general, as to whether cheating is more advantageous than cooperating. There are many circumstances in which the contrary would be true, and empirical evidence, though it exists, has little bearing on real situations.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

In a democracy the day when you pay your taxes, April 15, would be a day of celebration, because you're getting together to provide resources for the programs you decided on.

If everybody became a poet the world would be much better. We would all read to each other.

I made a rule for myself that the only television things I would do would be my own stories.

I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

My life wasn’t how I planned it would be. It wasn’t even close. It was a thousand times better.

I thought that somehow your life would be much different when you're famous... and it's not. You just buy more stuff.

At first Babel longed for the use of just two words: Yes and No. But he knew that just to utter a single word would be to destroy the delicate fluency of silence.

I opened my mouth, but nothing came out. It took seven languages to make me; it would be nice if I could have spoken just one.

But once you get down to reality, there's no one to play her and there's no movie. It would be ridiculous.

If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood.

I would love to work with Tim Burton. I think we would be very good together.