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I fell in love with this idea of an old school game character, like Donkey Kong, who looks like a very simple guy but is really wrestling with this very profound struggle: 'What's the meaning of life? What if I don't like this job I've been programmed to do?'
Rich Moore
Life
Love
Character
Game
Struggle
Simple
School
Old
Job
Meaning Of Life
Guy
Wrestling
Idea
Like
Fell
Looks
Kong
Been
Very
What If
Donkey
Meaning
Meaning Of
Really
Old School
Who
Profound
Programmed
Do any of us actually want to live in a world where your boss can decide that he or she is morally opposed to mental health care? What if your employer was morally opposed to getting x-rays or antibiotics? How about just being forced to disclose your private medical information to your employer?
Richard Carmona
Health
Mental Health
World
Care
Disclose
Live
About
Mental
Morally
Boss
He
He Or She
Employer
She
Forced
Health Care
How
Opposed
Private
Antibiotics
What If
Any
Getting
Just
Being
Where
Want
Decide
Information
Us
Your
Medical
Actually
Foreign aid should not be automatic. Countries should have to make their case every year, and American officials should openly decide what, if anything, to fund.
Richard Grenell
Foreign Aid
Year
Every
Aid
Case
Countries
Openly
Make
Foreign
American
What If
Officials
Automatic
Anything
Decide
Should
Fund
I started thinking, 'What if Superman or Batman really existed?' Superman would be doing Nike commercials. The members of Youngblood take the genre of super-heroes and turn it into a business.
Rob Liefeld
Business
Superman
Thinking
Nike
Batman
Members
Would
Would-Be
Take
Genre
Doing
Existed
Commercials
What If
Turn
Really
Started
Every year's going to be a what-if. That's the game of basketball. What if a guy turns his ankle? What if a guy gets in a car wreck coming to the arena? There are so many different aspects that could happen that nobody knows. Only the man upstairs knows.
Robert Horry
Game
Man
Car
Year
Every
Wreck
Guy
Only
Arena
Could
Ankle
Nobody
Knows
Coming
His
What If
Gets
Going
Different
Happen
Upstairs
Turns
Aspects
Many
Basketball
The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
Salma Hayek
Good
Me
Mistake
Thought
Made
Face
Somebody
Would
Would-Be
Gives
Look
Around
Surgery
What If
Stomach
Aches
Cutting
Painful
Plastic
Plastic Surgery
Pulling
'A Court of Thorns and Roses' was actually inspired by three of my all-time-favorite fairy/folktales: 'Beauty and the Beast,' 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon' and 'Tam Lin.' I got the kernel of inspiration by wondering: 'What if 'Beauty' was a huntress?'
Sarah J. Maas
Moon
Three
Beast
Beauty
Thorns
Sun
East
Inspiration
Inspired
Court
Got
West
What If
Wondering
Roses
Actually
Kernel
I got the idea for 'Throne of Glass' when I was sixteen. Music always inspires my books, and when I was listening to the 'Cinderella' soundtrack, I thought, 'What if Cinderella was actually an assassin who liked getting dressed up all pretty and going to the ball, but then she wouldn't mind kicking butt?'
Sarah J. Maas
Music
Listening
Mind
Thought
Cinderella
Books
Kicking
Pretty
Dressed
Throne
Inspires
Glass
Idea
Liked
She
Ball
Always
Got
Soundtrack
Up
What If
Getting
Going
Getting Dressed
Sixteen
Then
Assassin
Who
Butt
Actually
To what extent do we self-construct, do we self-invent? How do we self-identify, and how mutable is that identity? Like, what if one could be anyone at any time? Well, my characters, like the ones in my shows, allow me to play with the spaces between those questions.
Sarah Jones
Time
Me
Those
Characters
Could
Allow
Between
Like
Well
Identity
How
Questions
What If
Any
Anyone
Spaces
Shows
Play
Extent
What if Hiram Bingham had the technology to find hundreds of other archaeological sites at the same time and create entire 3-D maps of the ancient landscape accurate to within a few inches?
Sarah Parcak
Time
Technology
Few
Other
Hundreds
Ancient
Find
Archaeological
Entire
Had
Within
Accurate
What If
Same
Sites
Same Time
Create
Landscape
Inches
Maps
Sometimes I think about, 'What if I'm not the person everyone idealizes me to be? Maybe I'm just a regular old Joe. What if I can't live up to all these expectations? Maybe I'm just not who they think I am or who they want me to be.
Selah Louise Marley
Me
Sometimes
Old
Live
Think
Everyone
Joe
About
Am
Up
Person
Expectations
What If
Maybe
Just
Want
Regular
Who
I like film, and I like Broadway; I just love performing, so whatever God has for me, I'll be happy to just try it and see what happens because no matter what, if I'm performing, I'll be happy.
Shanice Williams
Love
God
Me
Be Happy
Happy
Matter
Try
Whatever
Broadway
See
Performing
Like
Because
What If
Just
Happens
Film
A lot of people see somebody who has one hand and not two, and they think it doesn't make sense. It's like, 'He has one hand, so how can he play football?' What if I say, 'You have two hands. How can you play football?'
Shaquem Griffin
You
People
Somebody
Sense
Think
Say
See
Football
He
Like
Make
How
Hand
Lot
Hands
What If
Who
Play
Play Football
Two
When you're choosing furniture for your home that's supposed to express who you are, what you are also saying is you want other people to infer what you want them to infer. What if they see something different? Wouldn't it be really depressing if you're trying to be bohemian and instead they see you as Rush Limbaugh?
Sheena Iyengar
Saying
Home
You
People
Other
Furniture
See
Rush
Rush Limbaugh
Something
Instead
Supposed
Also
Infer
Trying
What If
Different
Want
Depressing
Them
Really
Your
Choosing
Bohemian
Who
Express
What if the Soviet intervention was a blessing in disguise? It saved the myth that if the Soviets were not to intervene, there would have been some flowering authentic democratic socialism and so on. I'm a little bit more of a pessimist there. I think that the Soviets - it's a very sad lesson - by their intervention, saved the myth.
Slavoj Zizek
Sad
Blessing
Socialism
Disguise
Myth
Pessimist
Lesson
Think
Saved
Intervene
Intervention
Bit
Would
Some
More
Democratic
Were
Been
Very
Authentic
What If
Soviet
Soviets
Little
Little Bit
Flowering
What if I told you every single person in America - every single person on Earth - is African? With a small scrape of cells from the inside of anyone's cheek, the science of genetics can even prove it.
Spencer Wells
You
Science
Single
Every
Earth
Inside
Small
Genetics
Cheek
Single Person
Prove
Person
America
What If
Scrape
Cells
African
Anyone
Even
If I'm hated, so what? If I'm loved, so what?
Stephen A. Smith
Hated
What If
Loved
If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it's a slow pace, and I get beaten by a kicker who leaches off the front, then I'll always wonder, 'What if...?'
Steve Prefontaine
Myself
Slow
Forcing
Lose
Live
Way
Beaten
Well
Always
Least
Off
Wonder
Get
What If
Front
Pace
Then
Who
I know what it felt like to walk into school and have kids say, 'Mr. Spangler's here!' And I thought, what if I gave that power to a parent so the kid looks at them and says, 'Dad, let's make a smoke ring launcher in the garage today.' What parent doesn't want to be a rock star?
Steve Spangler
Today
School
Walk
Thought
Power
Gave
Say
Kid
Says
Kids
Ring
Parent
Like
Know
Looks
Make
Smoke
Felt
Rock
Rock Star
What If
Want
Them
Dad
Garage
Star
Here
I no longer file expense reports, so I no longer experience the pain of it. What if everyone had a virtual assistant to do that kind of effort... like approving time off or submitting time-off requests? We want to really encourage developers to create cool things for Slack.
Stewart Butterfield
Time
Experience
Pain
Virtual
Everyone
Approving
Kind
Had
Developers
Longer
Like
Encourage
Off
Effort
What If
Reports
Expense
Want
Create
Requests
Really
Cool
File
Slack
Things
Assistant
When you're surrounded by the world's leading social innovators, it's impossible not to be inspired by the energy and the 'what if' possibilities all around us.
Tae Yoo
You
World
Impossible
Energy
Innovators
Possibilities
All-Around
Inspired
Leading
Around
Surrounded
What If
Social
Us
The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
Tamora Pierce
Buy
You
People
Job
Made
Somebody
Looking
Thinking
Extra
Corner
Enough
Settings
Adds
Thoroughly
Dimension
Kind
Writer
Most
Well
Well Enough
Around
What If
Done
Wandered
Fantasy
Rooted
Your
Appeals
Here
I characterize myself a little bit as a reluctant filmmaker. I learned from watching my friend in college stay up late at night, at 2 A.M., just to get the lighting right, and I thought, 'You know what, if that's what it's going to be like, I think I'm just going to write,' and I did that.
Tananarive Due
Myself
You
Thought
College
Think
Late
Bit
Characterize
Stay
My Friend
Reluctant
Write
Lighting
Like
Know
Learned
Friend
Up
Get
Did
What If
Going
Just
Little
Little Bit
Right
Watching
Night
Filmmaker
What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
Ted Sarandos
You
People
Changed
Way
Could
Consume
Alter
Make
Content
Get
What If
Wanted
Stories
Radically
Actually
What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped.
Tony Campolo
Wisdom
Together
Experience
Wealth
Collective
Every
Meet
Once
Presidential
Months
Presidents
Obama
Would
Seek
Generally
Untapped
Couple
Advisory
Conference
What If
Goes
Committee
Established
Order
Former
Barack
Barack Obama
Bringing
What if we move to a path to legalization? How do we reconcile that with justice and fairness with those that come here legally?
Trent Franks
Justice
Path
Those
Reconcile
Come
Fairness
How
Legally
What If
Move
Here
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