Can Do Quotes - Page 20

• You don't know what God can do with your broken pieces until you give God your broken pieces.

  Nick Vujicic

  Broken, Giving, Pieces

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• I'm really lucky because I found myself in a position where I can do whatever I want to do. I can make records, produce records, make movies, or I can do nothing. I'm not a slave to the dollar.

  Robbie Robertson

  Dollars, Lucky, Records

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• Coming from a big family, I learned a lot. Things don't have to be perfect. You can do okay with 'almost.'

  Hollis Stacy

  Perfect, Big Families, Bigs

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• Once you accept, truly accept, that stuff will happen to you and there is nothing you can do about it, stress miraculously leaves your life.

  Srikumar Rao

  Stress, Stuff, Accepting

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• It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

  Cesare Pavese

  Whole Life, Happens, Whole

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.66, Transaction Publishers

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• I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Lying, Believe, Hard Work

  Interview with Phong Bui, brooklynrail.org. March 4, 2014.

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• When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Uncles, Struggle

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  People, Dumb, Dumb People

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.93

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• The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

  Richard Linklater

  Dream, Waking, Infinite

  "Fictional character: Guy Forsyth". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Work, Men, Great Work

  Elbert Hubbard (1912). “Little journeys to the homes of eminent artists”

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• The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Evil, Laughing

  Question period following Lecture 11 of Leonard Peikoff's series "The Philosophy of Objectivism", 1976.

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• It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, People, Important

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• And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Struggle, Two

  Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens, July 01, 2005.

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• [Demystifying lesbian sex for an interviewer] In a way, the sex isn't really that different... From what I can tell, no, not really. All the things that men and women do together, think of everything that men and women do together, women and women can do together. And that makes you realize that sex is just simply about connecting with another person, or about intimacy.

  Jennifer Beals

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  Asahi Radio Interview, publications.asahi.com. 2008.

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• Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Essence, Justice, Care

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.91, Stanford University Press

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• However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

  Brian Aldiss

  Roles, Roles In Life

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• One has very little influence upon one's children. Their characters are what they are and one can do nothing to change them.

  Andre Maurois

  Children, Character, Littles

  "The Art of Living". Book by Andre Maurois, 1939.

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• The worst that a man can do to himself is to do injustice to others.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Men, Injustice, Worst

  Henrik Ibsen (1905). “The Correspondence of Henrik Ibsen”

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• I have a terrible time during elections. I am way too politically involved. I absolutely never argue politics with anyone, as it makes me crazy and full of judgment and hostility. I have two very conservative friends, whom I cherish and would entrust my life to; we avoid politics like the plague. So in a certain way, it limits how completely we let ourselves know each other, but this is just the way it is and it is the best we can do. And I am secretly convinced that God is a progressive Democrat.

  Anne Lamott

  Crazy, Two, Way

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• Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.

  Frank Zappa

  Two, Abnormal, Steps

  Interview on Channel 4, June 1, 1983.

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• And then there is that one-man movement, Marcel Duchamp for me a truly modern movement because it implies that each artist can do what he thinks he ought to a movement for each person and open for everybody.

  Willem de Kooning

  Artist, Men, Thinking

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• God can do anything. He has all power in the palm of His Hand. My Body, like all other bodies, is a temporary habitation; but, My Power is eternal, all-pervasive, ever-dominant.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Hands, Body, Palms

  "Sathyam Sivam Sundaram, Volume 3 (Christmas Day Discourse, Bombay 1970)". Book by N. Kasthuri, October 21, 2014.

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• What is it in man that for a long while lies unknown and unseen only one day to emerge and push him into a new land of the eye, a new region of the mind, a place he has never dreamed of? Maybe it's like the force in spores lying quietly under asphalt until the day they push a soft, bulbous mushroom head right through the pavement. There's nothing you can do to stop it.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Lying, Eye, Men

  "Blue Highways". Book by William Least Heat-Moon, 1982.

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• All we ever got in those [early] days was "Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool.

  Paul McCartney

  Done, London, Liverpool

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• I know no place at which an Englishman may drop down suddenly among a pleasanter circle of acquaintance, or find himself with a more clever set of men, than he can do at Boston.

  Anthony Trollope

  Clever, Men, Boston

  Anthony Trollope (1862). “North America”, p.16

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