#weren

If it weren't for Philo T. Farnsworth, inventor of television, we'd still be eating frozen radio dinners. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#dinners #eating #frozen #inventor #radio

I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#ambitious #gross #i #i am #monstrosity

You don't have to find out what someone's mechanical abilities are. All those factors are already a known commodity. I've seen teams win championships and have their entire team quit the next day because they weren't happy. ↗

— Larry Dixon

#because #championships #commodity #day #entire

Burroughs was never really that pleased with the way popular culture and society treated his character. He tried to make a few movies of his own as a result, but they weren't very good. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#character #culture #few #good #his

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it? ↗

— Michael Gambon

#acting #come #exact #exist #got

Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting. ↗

— Bill Gates

#day #debt #e-mail #every #every day

Really, the values under which my generation was raised in the '50s were immigrant values even though we weren't immigrants. The greatest thing you could be was a college-educated Negro. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#even #generation #greatest #greatest thing #immigrant

That was real baseball. We weren't playing for money. They gave us Mickey Mouse watches that ran backwards. ↗

— Bill Lee

#baseball #gave #mickey #mickey mouse #money

One is that if women's sexuality in Africa wasn't under assault, if women were able to say no, if women weren't subject to predatory attacks by men, or predatory behaviour generally, then you would have a disease in Africa called AIDS. But you wouldn't have a pandemic. ↗

— Stephen Lewis

#africa #aids #assault #attacks #behaviour

Although my dad was a doctor, we weren't necessarily a super-artsy family. We were just a classic, traditional family who got to take a lot of piano lessons and became a bunch of musicians. ↗

— Lisa Loeb

#became #bunch #classic #dad #doctor