Can Do Quotes - Page 18

• I mean, the notion that we must love everything in this country or get out and go someplace else is ridiculous. I mean, if you -- the best thing a patriotic American can do is to look and be critical and find out what's wrong and try to make it better. That's what a patriotic American does.

  Andy Rooney

  Country, Mean, Patriotic

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• I think I'll be a clown when I get grown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off.

  Harper Lee

  Thinking, Tkam, Laughing

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• Some are created for beauty, and some for use; and there are some which one can do without altogether.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Use

  Hans Christian Andersen (2015). “What the Moon Saw and Other Tales”, p.61, Library of Alexandria

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• Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can do what you want, but you can't do anything because they are just stupid people.

  Mario Balotelli

  Stupid, People, Minorities

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• Painful things do not come to us from outside, but arise from within our own mind. Circumstances or other people have no power to make us feel bad; the most they can do is trigger the potentials for painful feelings that already exist within our own mind.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Painful Feelings, People, Mind

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• God doesn't participate in the things we can do ourselves

  Mike Erre

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• In Southern California along the coast, if the only thing you can do with the land is agriculture, it would be substantially less (in value) than property that has almost any other allowable use.

  Bill Vaughan

  Land, California, Agriculture

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• What would dawn have been like, had you awakened? It would have sung through your bones. All I can do this morning is let it sing through mine.

  Diane Ackerman

  Morning, Dawn, Bones

  "The Inevitable: Contemporary Writers Confront Death". Book edited by David Shields & Bradford Morrow, 2011.

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• One of the best ways into the business is to get a job with a production, which you can do by cold-calling or by getting your résumé out there, and also through contacts. That's where nepotism really helps.

  Mitchell Hurwitz

  Jobs, Calling, Way

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.

  Will Arnett

  Thinking, People, Needs

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I remember talking to someone who is vegan. At the time, I would hear a lot of outrageous claims from vegans about the good that being a vegan can do for you, for your health and whatnot. I remember someone once told me vegans don't sweat, so I started my mind going.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Talking, Sweat, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The livelihood of the restaurant is dependent upon getting the word out. There's so much more competition. You can do an event every week and not cook at all.

  David Chang

  Competition, Events, Week

  "In Conversation: André Soltner and David Chang". Interview with Robin Raisfeld, Rob Patronite, nymag.com. September 28, 2008.

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• If global warming is because of weather changes - which a lot of people believe - there's not much we can do to change the weather pattern.

  Ron Paul

  Believe, Weather, People

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• There's not much you can do about the bias of the media other than try to counteract it by putting the truth out best you can, and the Internet has been a great weapon for holding the media accountable.

  Ron Paul

  Media, Trying, Weapons

  "The Candidates: Rep. Ron Paul". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2007.

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• We're baseball players. We don't need guys telling us, 'Hey, you need to hurry. Hey, you need to do this. Hey, you need to step up.' We are professionals, we can do that without anybody telling us. I'm OK with it, but we need to do it on our own.

  Bengie Molina

  Baseball, Player, Guy

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• I think there's a kind of built-in arrogance to anyone who considers themself an artist. They want to feel as though like they can run the whole spectrum. "I can do it all. I can do minimalism, and I can do classical art." Well, that's not true.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Running, Art, Thinking

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I do have fantasies of buying a helicopter and a lot of machine guns, but I don't know if I can do that. I'd like to have a lot of weapons, grenades and things. And I want to have a solar energy machine. And I want to have a sunken garden with a glass roof. I guess that's about it for now. I have a few other wants but I can't remember them.

  Debbie Harry

  Garden, Gun, Glasses

  "The Survivors: Debbie Harry". GQ Interview, www.gq.com. November 4, 2011.

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• I did a thing called 24 Hour Plays, a thing they do every year on Broadway. A bunch of playwrights and actors get together, you write a play and you act it out in 24 hours, literally. People pay and the money goes to charity. So I did one - I was horrible. I was bad. I was terrified. And I was like, "Oh, I gotta do this again." Because I know I can do it.

  Scott Raab

  Writing, Years, Play

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• All I can do is repeat what I think is the best information that anybody ever gave me.

  John Mellencamp

  Thinking, Information, Repeats

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• If you're nervous about doing something, plan to do it badly, giving yourself credit for just doing it. That takes a weight off your shoulders because anyone can do something badly.

  Anna Olson

  Giving, Anxiety, Credit

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• You need to change your mind from sell sell sell to help help help and if you can do that as a business you will win in social media

  Mark Schaefer

  Winning, Media, Mind

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• There's got to be something that you can do that will not just be a nice honor to the play, or the book, or the movie you're dealing with, but some aspect that maybe can explore something that the play couldn't do.

  William Bolcom

  Nice, Book, Play

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• Every child should try everything: sport, music, art, mathematics; they can do it all. Copying and competition are now seen as twin evils, but they are both useful tools.

  Tony Buzan

  Sports, Art, Children

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• I think the only reason I've had the career life that I've had is that someone told me some secrets early on about living. You can do the very best you can when you're very, very relaxed, no matter what it is or what your job is, the more relaxed you are the better you are. That's sort of why I got into acting. I realized the more fun I had, the better I did it. And I thought, that's a job I could be proud of. It's changed my life learning that, and it's made me better at what I do.

  Bill Murray

  Jobs, Fun, Thinking

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• We can do what we wish, but we can only wish what we must.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Wish

  Attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer by Einstein in "What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck" in The Saturday Evening Post (p. 114), October 26, 1929.

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