"I wish my name started with a comma. That would be so dramatic."
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"I think it would be worse to get mauled by a dancing bear than just a regular bear because you can't totally blame the dancing bear."
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"I am everything and I am nothing. I am just kidding; I am not everything and nothing. That would be ridiculous. I am just everything."
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"The enjoyment of freedom which could be exercised without any motivation would be the real hallmark of a maniac."
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"If you could use the Internet somehow to see how a Fiji sailor is doing, rather than having to read a text version of it somewhere a day later, that would be great."
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"If forgiving depended on the culprit owning up, then the victim would always be at the mercy of the perpetrator. The victim would be bound in the shackles of victimhood."
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"Gentle he would be, denied he would not."
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"I would be inclined to say 'if you are not willing to cooperate and follow the rules of your international federation you are not the right track and field association to be part of the USOC."
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"I am not gay, but if I were, I would be the first one running out of the closet."
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"Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven."
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"If everyone knew exactly what I was going to say, then there would be no point in my saying it, would there?"
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"You cannot see what I see because you see what you see. You cannot know what I know because you know what you know. What I see and what I know cannot be added to what you see and what you know because they are not of the same kind. Neither can it replace what you see and what you know, because that would be to replace you yourself." "Hang on, can I write this down?" said Arthur, excitedly fumbling in his pocket for a pencil."
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"Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arrive five hours and a few extra minutes late, but triumphantly in command."
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"So you can imagine what happens when a mainland species gets introduced to an island. It would be like introducing Al Capone, Genghis Khan and Rupert Murdoch into the Isle of Wight - the locals wouldn't stand a chance."
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"There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony."
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"I'm kind of ADD. So I try to do one thing at a time. Otherwise, I would be sort of scattered and won't be 100% where I need to be for certain things."
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"If you had only truth, goodness, and harmony on your side, and the complete absence of the other, there would be no creative impulse."
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"Even if yoga only enhanced physical fitness, the time spent in practice would be fully worthwhile."
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"When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be my label rather than the ginger one or the red-faced one."
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"There are a lot of roles in Shakespeare, basically. If I feel that the script is a movie, I would be interested in doing any role of Shakespeare's."
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