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Every child should have a chance to feel special.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

I was born out of due time in the sense that by temperament and talent I should have been more suited for the life of a small Bach, living in anonymity and composing regularly for an established service and for God.

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous

My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

We no longer think of chairs as technology, we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn't worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often "crash" when we tried to use them. Before long, computers will be as trivial and plentiful as chairs and we will cease to be aware of the things. In fact I'm sure we will look back on this last decade and wonder how we could ever have mistaken what we were doing with them for "productivity"

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

I had almost forgotten to tell you that I have already been to the Parliament House; and yet this is of most importance. For, had I seen nothing else in England but this, I should have thought my journey thither amply rewarded.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

IT is curious that, with my somewhat antinomian tendencies, I should have gone to Trinity Hall - which was, and is, before all a Law College - and should thus have been thrown into close touch with the legal element in life.

Aaron Copland was a man that had a very specific point of view about what music should be which was that, he felt that new music should have the composer should show a personality in his music.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

I actually think that secrets are just a part of human nature and that everybody should have some.

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.

Everyone should have a philosophy for living better.

I think the most dangerous word in the English language is 'should.' 'I should have done this.' Or 'I should do that.' 'Should' implies responsibility. It connotes demand. Which is just not the case. Life ebbs and flows.

For I, hearing my Lord's estate amongst many more estates was to be sold, and that the wives of the owners should have an allowance therefrom, it gave me hopes I should receive a benefit thereby.

I mean, everybody should have access to medical care. And, you know, it shouldn't be such a big deal.

I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

I should have considered it wrong to have finished the Frieze before the room for its accommodation and the funds for its completion were available.

So gradually, and then I had an Italian roadster that I built, it took me five years to build it, it was stolen from me and stripped. I said, well maybe we should have another where we shouldn't steal from each other.

The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.

Every man should have laws of his own, I should think; commandments of his own, for every man has a different set of circumstances wherein to work - or worry.

I get anxious about a lot of things, that's the trouble. I get anxious about everything. I just can't stop thinking about things all the time. And here's the really destructive part - it's always retrospective. I waste time thinking of what I should have said or done.

There must be a law against forcing children to perform at an early age. Children should have a wonderful childhood. They should not be given too much responsibility.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

Everyone should have a moment with Ron Howard in their life to give you faith in our industry.

I don't speak Spanish. I've done Spanish 1 and 2 classes. My grandma asked me when I was young if I wanted to learn Spanish, and I guess I was young. I should have, because it would have helped me a lot.

Every golf course should have its carbon rating on the scorecard, alongside its Course Rating, Slope, par and yardage.

Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.

As a director, I've been able to combine with what I've learned as an actor and as a producer: it melds quite nicely into what I feel like I should have been doing all along.

Nobody should have to be a systems integrator to make a convergence network work in their home

Prudence and compromise are necessary means, but every man should have an impudent end which he will not compromise.

In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.

The very important thing you should have is patience.

It depends on the situation. I mean, on one hand there's the argument that people should be left alone on the other hand, there's the argument to wade in a stop slaughters in places like Bosnia and Kosovo and what we probably should have done in Rwanda.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.

People are voting for the kind of country they want to live in, and there are different views about what kind of country we should have.

I spend a lot more time than any person should have to talking with lawyers and thinking about intellectual property issues.

I think Ed Koch is the person most responsible for allowing AIDS to get out of control. It happened here first, on his watch. If he had done what any moral human being should have done in the beginning, and put out alarms, then a lot fewer people would have gotten sick.

A writer should have this little voice inside of you saying, Tell the truth. Reveal a few secrets here.

I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.

Justice requires that everyone should have enough to eat. But it also requires that everyone should contribute to the production of food.

I believe in creative control. No matter what anyone makes, they should have control over it.

The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.

The build-up of personal and collective debt in America and Europe should have sent warning signals to anyone familiar with the biblical institutions of the Sabbatical and Jubilee years, created specifically because of the danger of people being trapped by debt.

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

I feel that the critic and music director should have such a good relationship they can pick up the phone and call each other any time.

I try to bring it across on my record, in my dress, in what I do and what I say because to me humor is important. You should have a dose of that and I guess giving it is what I'm here for.

No one should have to live like that when they've done only good things for the person.

The EU should have consolidated its different presences and purposes in Kosovo earlier.

If I had been censured every time I have run my ship, or fleets under my command, into great danger, I should have long ago been out of the Service and never in the House of Peers.

I do think one should have clean feet.

Artists probably should have some impenetrable aspects of themselves.

I believe in large families: every woman should have at least three husbands.

I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution.

So much of what we are currently seeing as far as human suffering and misery comes from diseases that should have been preventable but were not.

The Bible declares that on the sixth day God created man. Right then and there, God should have demanded a damage deposit.

I don't think journalists in World War II were objective about the Nazis, and I don't think they should have been.

I know I can handle dramatic roles, but I don't think I should have to play a young mother on crack to prove it.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Bush is very clever. When the debate should have been about the deterioration of our cities and the lack of action by government, he sent in his idiot to make an outrageous statement about Murphy Brown.

The teacher's life should have three periods, study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

The only solution to the violence problem in America is a return to traditional parental involvement. This should be encouraged by every elected official. Also, the abandonment and neglect of children by their parents should have civil consequences.

If people knew of ethics violations, they should have sent them to the Ethics Committee. If you think there was serious ethics violation that ought to be looked at, you don't hold it back for retaliatory purposes.

I'm not saying my idea is the one and only idea. We should have other ideas, but the president has not laid down a specific plan as to how he's going to get us to solvency. I do that.

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

No man should have cowboys boots in his wardrobe. That's fair enough, isn't it? Unless you're a cowboy, of course.

I feel like any single woman of color who's been onstage has a Shakespeare monologue in her back pocket, and a monologue from 'For Colored Girls.' It's just part of what you should have, as a woman of color.

Weight is just not a hot button. In fact, during my life, it probably should have been on my radar screen a bit more. I look back at work photos and am shocked. Was I eating the people I was interviewing?! Good Lord, I was big.

For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

The liberal ideal is that everyone should have fair access and fair opportunity. This is not equality fo result. Its equality of opportunity. There's a fundamental difference.

Procrastination is the bad habit of putting of until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.

Every chef should have an understanding of pastries or desserts.

A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.

Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily affected by public policies should have a say in how they are formulated and carried out.

NASA works for the White House. There are many at NASA that wish they were building a modern replacement for the Shuttle. However, they had marching orders to instead work on other things, some of which should have no place in a research organization.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

I see it every day: People trying to create a home that somebody else tells them they should have. I don't care if it's a magazine or a bossy friend - when somebody says, 'This is what's elegant, this is what's trendy,' if it doesn't represent you, you're not going to be happy.

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.

I think every religious person should have a deep sense of respect for other people's religious documents and religious symbols just as we were deeply opposed to the Taliban destroying the two historic buddhas which they blew up. So I think we ought to all oppose burning the Koran.

I should have a therapist. I have plenty to therapise about.

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

When the 'godfather of punk' thing started floatin' around, it was, I was really, really embarrassed. I thought I should have a great, big rig and a cape and everything, and it was very embarrassing. And then after a while, you learn that if people call you anything, this is a great gift.

No family should have to endure the loss of a loved one at the hands of a previously convicted violent criminal.

Each year, every city in the world that can should have a multiday festival. More people meeting each other, digging new types of music, new foods, new ideas. You want to stop having so many wars? This could be a step in the right direction.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

Houses are one of my passions. I probably should have been an interior decorator.

The important thing is that men should have a purpose in life. It should be something useful, something good.