"What if you're practicing wrong? Then you get very good at doing something wrong."
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"So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again."
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"Nobody is smarter than you are. And what if they are? What good is their understanding doing you?"
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"What if you love knowledge for its own sake, not necessarily as a blueprint to action? What if you wish there were more, not fewer reflective types in the world?"
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"What if you're Gaudi and you know you're the best architect and everyone is saying that you're saying you're the best architect the wrong way?"
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"What if they gave a war and nobody came?"
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"Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply."
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"The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?"
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"What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin."
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"It's easy to dislike the few senior women out there. What if women were half the positions in power? It would be harder to dislike all of them."
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"It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do?.. Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either."
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"What if Eminem was black? would he have sold five mil. Or would he be 1 out of 5 million rappers with no deal?"
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"What if life is just a cosmic joke, like spiders in your underwear."
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"What if the man could see Beauty Itself, pure, unalloyed, stripped of mortality, and all its pollution, stains, and vanities, unchanging, divine,... the man becoming in that communion, the friend of God,... ?"
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"What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating."
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"It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?"
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"But what if I fail? You will. A better question might be, ‘after I fail, what then?’ If you’ve chosen well, after you fail you will be one step closer to succeeding, you will be wiser and stronger and you almost certainly will be more respected by all of those that are afraid to try."
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"You don't have to think exactly like me. When people go, "I don't agree with everything you say," you know what, if you agree with everything anyone says, you're an idiot."
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"It's funny that some ideas start with a little "What if?" and then suddenly you're spending a million dollars to shoot the scene and hoping that it works."
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"What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?"
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