Told from here, from this hard bench that is both bed and chair, table and couch, inside walls and bars painted a dark gray like a grim parody of jail, the story has a different ring than it would if I could tell it from the desk in my office.
If there's one thing in life I would do again if I could, it would be this.
God, I would love it if I could sing or play something -- but I can't.
"It would be nice if I could say I would stay one more year, " he said.
After reading a post on Slashdot about turning your iPod into a Universal remote control I thought it would be cool if I could control my TiVo from the web.
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"I knew the business would take off if I could survive long enough, " she says.
Students also asked which policy or government organization I would get rid of if I could wave a magic wand and thereby make it so.
It would be nice if I could just pick and choose what problems to face, when to face them.
"It would be great if I could extend my contract with the club and finish my career here, " he revealed.
Would I need cable for TV if I could recieve TV over the internet?
"But I would have a much easier life if I could hit a few more fairways!"
For the record, I would happily write a new check if I could figure out who to pay.
Dearly. (Laughter.) Deeply. (Laughter.) I have a good relationship with French fries and I would eat them every single day if I could.
"I would take advantage of it tomorrow, if I could, " said Danette Lopez, whose father died after his flight was hijacked as he returned to his Norwalk home from a construction job in Boston.
"I knew exactly what I wanted, because I did my research online and I would have bought it there, too, if I could have, " he said.
"It would be a big bonus if I could win this tournament and be the first one out of Sweden to win it, " said Stenson.
Mr. RIVERS: Well, we were in there for about the first 24 hours reporting on the situation anonymously as you say, and we took the decision that my reports would have much more impact if I could appear on camera and look down the barrel of the lens and tell people how bad the situation was.
"It would be nice if you could do that but I'm not sure it would work - it depends whether it is a simple mechanical component or something more complex, " Prof Pillinger, who now works at the Planetary and Space Sciences department at the Open University, told BBC News.
If I could go back in time, I would.
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"If I could put the clock back, I would certainly not have disbanded the Celtic Warriors, " added Lewis, who admitted that a fifth region would mean a "financial risk" for the Union, who remain heavily in debt.
As I said that same evening in an interview on CNN, if I could write that tweet again, I would have added a few question marks at the end, as with my earlier tweet, to make it clear I was raising a question.
Before we'd even ordered, I asked him if I could get his opinion on something personal, but told him I would only feel comfortable sharing if he would then tell me something about himself.
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At first I thought the bot would pay for itself if it could just replace one international trip, but now I realize that the real value is letting me preserve spontaneous interactions at the office even when I'm thousands of miles away.
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It would be much more environmentally friendly if I could sit in the garden and do a day's work.
If I could do it all over again, I would have figured out a way to start Tatango without the need to raise capital.
Always I had the sense that words concealed something, that if only I could abolish them I would discover what was actually there.
"If I could, I would wish my son into normalcy by sheer force of will, " Long said.
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