"If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life."
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"I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend."
"If you have any requests. keep them to yourselves. we don't play requests!"
"No one told me that you could be alive and be happy. No one told me, and if someone had I wouldn't have believed them. I thought that you had to die - physically die - to escape."
"Don't do anything that goes against your conscience, even if your country says so."
"If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new."
"I have reached an age where if someone tells me to wear socks, I dont have to"
"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
"If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me."
"If you can't think of anything nice to say, come sit here beside me."
"Where women are, the better things are implied if not spoken."
"Whither should we aim if not towards God?"
"For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable."
"If I see an ending, I can work backward."
"If I have to be alone I want to be by myself."
"If you analyse anything, you destroy it."
"If you tell a guy you don't like being tickled and he tickles you anyway, that's a red flag."
"If I'm killed - if I'm removed - there is nowhere else for me to go but to my ancestors."
"If she come, I be happy. If she don't, I be content."
"If you don't make mistakes you can't make decisions."