Would Be Quotes - Page 225

I think a snob would be a person who thinks he is entitled; he has good things in his life and is entitled to them.

If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.

If it's a really well written villain, he probably has more layers than the archetypal good person. So that would be very attractive to an actor. No one chooses to be a villain; it's usually a reaction to something else.

I agree, the world would be a better place if doctors were less enthusiastic about adopting very new drugs.

I and others were mistaken early on in saying that the subprime crisis would be contained. The causal relationship between the housing problem and the broad financial system was very complex and difficult to predict.

To answer the question, though: I didn't always want to direct. I just liked the idea of it. If a friend was making a short and needed someone who knew screen direction, I would jump in. It would be horrible, but it led to a short, then another, and another. It was like student films.

Directing is monumentally complicated and it's a function of all the time you pay to it. I think it would be great to do a movie I'm not in, I could just eat Fritos and just say, 'yeah, it's good!' Some day.

Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.

Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

Lying has become so much the accepted norm that people lie even when it would be simpler to tell the truth.

If you could do what I do then you wouldn't be a hater/writer critiquing me, you would be my opponent facing me on the court.

I have to keep reminding myself that being famous on earth would be nice but I would rather walk the red carpet in Heaven.

With my own music, I try to get away from things that are familiar and things that would be easy for me to go to.

It would be like a cleansing diet. The problem was, the only diet I'd ever been on backfired. Once I tried to go an entire month without chocolate. Not one bite. At the end of two weeks, I broke down and binged on more chocolate that I would have eaten in three months. I hoped my chocolate-free diet didn't foreshadow what would happen if I tried to avoid Patch.

I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.

I would pale in comparison to rock and rollers with my haircut. I would be a lightweight.

Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.

It would be awesome to be so impressive that we could sway people to our way of thinking just by declaiming our thoughts, but probably most of us lack such gravitas. Luckily, there's something even better: evidence, logic, and argument.

I'm an adequatist! I would be happy with something adequate. Perfection's out of the question.

As for an eternity in heaven - that would be hell!

I sometimes wonder what it would be like to be the respected patriarch of an ordinary English family." "Very boring, Emerson.

I think living to be one hundred would be great, but living to fifty twice would be so much better.

It would be naive of me to suggest that with Russia committed militarily, as it is, to supporting what in many cases are barbarous tactics by the Assad regime to crush the opposition.

With respect to some of the specific legislation or initiatives that I've made, it's true that Republicans often opposed these things. Sometimes they opposed them because I proposed them. Now that they are responsible for governing, I think they'll find that reversing them would be counterproductive.

It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States.