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In an ideal world for me, school lunch would be free for everybody. -- Tom Colicchio
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland. -- Vanessa Mae
In an ideal world, I'd bounce between big projects and no-budget TV dramas with fantastic scripts. -- David Yates
Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world, everyone would read all of them. -- Robert Gottlieb
In an ideal world, it would not take a film star to get the media focused on mental illness. -- Alastair Campbell
In an ideal world, I'd like to carry on acting, but I don't want it to interfere with my studies. -- Ellie Kendrick
In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost.' -- Henry Ian Cusick
I have been to Guantanamo. It's a model prison. Is it ideal? No. But we live in a very un-ideal world. -- Peter T. King
In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people. -- Clay Aiken
In an ideal world, an individual's institutional power would be correlated perfectly with his or her value-add. In practice, this is seldom the case. -- Gary Hamel
I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the market, etc. -- Claire Messud
The writer crafts their ideal world. In my world, everyone has really long conversations or just picks apart pop culture to death and everyone talks in monologue. -- Kevin Smith
In my ideal world there would be 99% unemployment for actors, and I would be the 1% that's employed. I hear about somebody getting a job at Starbucks and I get jealous. -- Hamish Linklater
In an ideal world, the perfect biographical subject would have been the star of his penmanship class at grade school - and would thereafter write an English that positively sings. -- Stacy Schiff
It is this research into pure painting that is the problem at the present moment. I do not know any painters in Paris who are really searching for this ideal world. -- Robert Delaunay
If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians. -- H. P. Lovecraft
In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of people who suffer from it. -- Peter Singer
In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence. -- Ben Goldacre
In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others. -- Barry Schwartz
What I hope in my ideal world is that with each project, I'll either get to work with a really great script that would force me to grow, or work with a really great actor who will make me better. -- Laura Linney
In an ideal world, I'd be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I've got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen - she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick. -- Anne Robinson
I'm not one of those writers who insist they don't read reviews and don't care much about them. I do read them, and I do care about them, and they're not always what you want them to be in an ideal world. -- Tom Stoppard
If you believe in what you do and you really want to be in music, just stick at it. It's always a learning process. Enjoy it because I think making music is a privilege, really. In an ideal world, it should also always be fun. As much as possible, make it fun. -- Kate Bush
At the time of Woodstock, I was just 13, but I used to see these exotic hippy creatures and I did look on with envy. How could you not? In an ideal world, I would have loved to have been a hippy - but I might have been a bit strait-laced. It was my fantasy. -- Imelda Staunton
I think that people have expectations of themselves and other people that are based on these fictions that are presented to them as the way human life and relationships could be, in some sort of weird, ideal world, but they never are. So you're constantly being shown this garbage and you can't get there. -- Charlie Kaufman
In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world. -- Salman Rushdie
In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top. -- Frank Gehry
Because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should be radical, too. -- Charles Van Doren
My ideal world is, we're there, we're in the EU, trying to make it better. -- Boris Johnson
In an ideal world, where there are only good states, power would be largely irrelevant. -- John Mearsheimer
Do not try to produce an ideal child, it would find no fitness in this world. -- Herbert Spencer
The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend. -- Marion Zimmer Bradley
The world should not be exclusive of the ideal body. It has to include all ideals, all bodies. -- Emily Ratajkowski
If you have an ideal world, your actions should follow suit. And that will sort of hopefully spread. -- Tyler Blackburn
I think in an ideal world celebrities do have a responsibility in many different areas to be role models. -- John Amaechi
I believe that ideal character in its perfection is potentially in every man who is born into the world. -- George Edward Woodberry
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves. -- Lauren Groff
In an ideal world people would know the words just for the show and then forget them right after. -- Thomas Mars
Hope is the virgin of the ideal world, who opens beaten to as in the midst of every tempest. -- Arsene Houssaye
In an ideal world, I'd love to work on something that is on par with 'Lost' or better than 'Lost. -- Henry Ian Cusick
In an ideal world no one would talk before 10am. People would just hug, because waking up is really hard. -- Zooey Deschanel
In this world everything that is won to the ideal, is an eternal (or imperishable, - "impÃ©rissable", Fr.) good. -- African Spir
Let's not forget we created that ideal middle class by destroying all of our industrial competitors during World War II. -- Jeff Greene
The world is bad but not without hope. It is only hopeless when you look at it from an ideal viewpoint. -- Friedrich Durrenmatt
It is wrong to have an ideal view of the world. That's where the mischief starts. That's where everything starts unravelling... -- V. S. Naipaul
I was clinging to all that had been and, in an ideal world, all that we had hoped for. He, he wanted out. -- Freya North
The world is not ideal, and the only weapon we can give our children is information. Information which is not pretty, but honest. -- Cristina Saralegui
All over the world, people want to know what kind of people Texans are, and I explain that Texans are America's ideal Americans. -- Phil Gramm
In our post-Freudian world, it is no longer a goal to become people of character who live out a God-ordained ideal of selfhood. -- Tony Campolo
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. -- Mary Shelley
Being a journalist seemed the ideal way of both having a job and experiencing the world, especially for anyone with a sense of adventure. -- Jackie Kennedy
Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world. -- Mary Shelley
If I meet my ideal woman, I want to get married straight away. And start making a world of just the two of us. -- G-Dragon
God does not love some ideal person, but rather human beings just as we are, not some ideal world, but rather the real world. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The ideal of happiness has always taken material form in the house, whether cottage or castle; it stands for permanence and separation from the world. -- Simone de Beauvoir
The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living. -- Owen D. Young
In an ideal world for me, I would like to go back and forth [between film and theater]. I kind of want to do it all -- Aaron Tveit
The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world. -- Romain Rolland
In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world. -- Paul Ryan
In the actual world--the painful kingdom of time and place--dwell care, and canker, and fear. With thought, with the ideal, is immortal hilarity, the rose of joy. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Introverts living under the Extroversion Ideal are like women in a man's world, discounted because of a trait that goes to the core of who they are. -- Susan Cain
To play Bond, though, and then for the world to perceive you in a certain way, is very different from playing Superman. Bond is not this ideal figure. -- Henry Cavill
In an ideal world the script is written lean and tight and therefore there are no scenes left on the cuttring room floor and therefore no extended edition. -- Peter Jackson
The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea. -- Pierre de Coubertin
In an ideal world, entertainment would be regarded as what it is - entertainment - and wouldn't be valued more heavily than education, than science, than environmental awareness. -- Chris Kluwe
In an ideal world, we would have been orphans. We felt like orphans and we felt deserving of the pity that orphans get, but embarrassingly enough, we had parents. -- Miranda July
A world government with powers adequate to guarantee security is not a remote ideal for the distant future. It is an urgent necessity if our civilization is to survive. -- Albert Einstein
Creativity is a space for solitary longing, the desire to be elsewhere in space and time, to be in a new ideal world where life is as it should be. -- Chenjerai Hove
Unfortunately the necessity to promote a film sometimes works against it, in that you are forced to reveal information [about it] that in an ideal world you would hold back. -- Simon Pegg
There is no ideal world for you to wait around for. The world is always just what it is now, and it's up to you how you respond to it. -- Isaac Marion
When Philosophy with its abstractions paints grey in grey, the freshness and life of youth has gone, the reconciliation is not a reconciliation in the actual, but in the ideal world. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A film is its own thing and in an ideal world I think a film should be discovered knowing nothing and nothing should be added to it and nothing should be subtracted from it. -- David Lynch
We do not have an ideal world, such as we would like, where morality is easy because cognition is easy. Where one can do right with no effort because he can detect the obvious. -- Philip K. Dick
Princess Bibesco delighted in a semi-ideal world - a world which, though having a counterpart in her experience, was to a great extent brought into being by her own temperament and, one might say, flair. -- Elizabeth Bowen
[Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity. -- Gottfried Leibniz

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