Because I Can Quotes

• I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Helping, Praying, Change God

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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• People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

  Carol Burnett

  Women, People, Dinner

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• A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul

  Tupac Shakur

  Mirrors, Self, Who I Am

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• You only need a heart full of grace

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Greatness, Helping Others

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  College, Helping Others, Greatness

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• Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Helping Others, Greatness

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• I do music because I can just pick up my guitar and sing, and completely satisfy, instant gratification. I don't need a script, I don't people, I don't need anything, cameras, I just have myself and my guitar, or keyboard.

  Jeremy Renner

  Guitar, People, Cameras

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• Show business has been really, really good to me because I can work and take a lot of time off, and I'm extremely undisciplined person.

  Meryl Streep

  Undisciplined, Show Business, Shows

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• I love the idea that I'm the oldest one in the room because I can get away with anything!

  Shirley MacLaine

  Ideas, Rooms, Get Away

  "Shirley MacLaine grows old and mean - for "Bernie"". Interview with Zorianna Kit, in.reuters.com. April 24, 2012.

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• I run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must. Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

  Libba Bray

  Life, Running, Giving

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.249, Simon and Schuster

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• You don't see me in Los Angeles a lot. I go back home. Because I can't play the game. I can't - my tolerance - I know I'm getting old; I'll be 50 this year. And you know how I know I'm getting old? 'Cause my tolerance level is low.

  Bernie Mac

  Home, Years, Games

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• I keep falling off the edge of the stage because I can't see it. I can't see my wrinkles in the mirror either, though.

  John Lydon

  Fall, Wrinkles, Mirrors

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• I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so I like kitten heels occasionally because I can move around a bit easier, but pointy-toed pumps are very elongating.

  Marina and the Diamonds

  Moving, Looks, Pumps

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• ...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

  Susan Sontag

  Writing, Smarter, I Can

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• Strength is paradoxical. I am not strong because I can force others to do what I wish as a result of my play with them, but because I can allow them to do what they wish in the course of my play with them.

  James P. Carse

  Strong, Play, Wish

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• I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

  Robert Smith

  Explaining, Feels, Bothered

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• I don't have a great talent for explaining myself in acting because I can't explain it.

  Elaine Stritch

  Acting, Talent, Explaining

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• He is solid; immovable, iron-willed. He showed me one day his killing bottle. I'm imprisoned in it. Fluttering against the glass. Because I can see through it I still think I can escape. I have hope. But it's all an illusion. A thick round wall of glass.

  John Fowles

  Wall, Thinking, Glasses

  John Fowles (1980). “The collector”, Dell Pub Co

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• You must pray to God for forgiveness because I can give you none

  Alison Weir

  Giving, Praying, Praying To God

  Alison Weir (2006). “Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey”, Random House LLC

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• When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

  Dolly Parton

  Inspiration, Waiting, Next

  Twitter post from Apr 06, 2015

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• I lift my arm out of the water. It's a log. Put it back under and it blows up even bigger. People see the log and call it a twig. They yell at me because I can't see what they see. Nobody can explain to me why my eyes work different than theirs. Nobody can make it stop.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Eye, Blow, People

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.150, Penguin

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• The only person on this ship who gets paid for what they do is you, Alix. The rest of us live off our trust funds and we use those funds for our humanitarian missions. I do what I do because I can’t stand to see innocent people bullied by a corrupt government. I don’t want to see a baby starve and die because some fat politician wants to work its parents into the ground for a mineral most of them can’t even pronounce. (Devyn)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Government, People

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Born of Ice”, p.213, Macmillan

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• Because I can count on my fingers the number of sunsets I have left, and I don't want to miss any of them.

  Suzanne Collins

  Sunset, Numbers, Missing

  Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire”, p.192, Scholastic

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• Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.'' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things.

  Hilary Mantel

  Writing, Historical Novels, Years

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