Can Do Quotes - Page 31

• In a democracy you cannot stop public access to that art that will most misinform the people. You cannot stop people from being misinformed. But what you can do is to educate the people to the point that they will throw the rascals out.

  Edward Albee

  Art, People, Democracy

  Edward Albee (2009). “Stretching My Mind: The Collected Essays of Edward Albee”, p.115, Da Capo Press

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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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• The role of government has never been to plan every detail or dictate every outcome. At its best, government has simply knocked away barriers to opportunity and laid the foundation for a better future. Our people -- with all their drive and ingenuity -- always end up building the rest. And if we can do that again -- if we can continue building that foundation and making those hard decisions on behalf of the next generation -- I have no doubt that we will leave our children the America that we all hope for.

  Barack Obama

  Children, Opportunity, Government

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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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• What man thinks of changing himself so as to suit his wife? And yet men expect that women shall put on altogether new characters when they are married, and girls think that they can do so.

  Anthony Trollope

  Girl, Character, Men

  'Phineas Redux' (1874) ch. 3

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• My voice likes rock music. My problem is, I can do a lot of things, but I have to find my own voice.

  Lucy Lawless

  Rocks, Voice, Likes

  "The soulful side of a warrior princess" by Jamie Sotonoff, Daily Herald, p. 18, October 5, 2007.

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• I think it's incumbent upon me to try to be smart and make good choices and work with good people and work my ass off when I'm working with good people and I have to let everyone have their opinion afterwards. But this is what happens. You make a movie or you're on a show and then you have this experience and everyone tells you what you did. They tell you what you did. That's allowed. That's the experience of being human and subjectivity. That's it. We can only do what we'll do, and I can only do the best I can do.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  Smart, Thinking, People

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• Sometimes the most helpful thing you can do is to stop trying to be helpful.

  Harriet Lerner

  Trying, Helpful, Sometimes

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• I think any supernatural hero today, whether he's a vampire, werewolf, a resuscitated mummy, whatever he is, is going to have to deal with the fact that scientists are going to want to catch him and study him. His big enemy is not going to be Dr. Van Helsing today, it's going to be the doctor who wants to put him in a lab and get his blood for what it can do to cure disease or grant immortality.

  Anne Rice

  Hero, Thinking, Blood

  "With The Wolf Gift, Anne Rice Returns to Supernatural Horror". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. April 18, 2012.

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• Nowadays children look at everyone in the magazines and they want to be a basketball star or on a television show, but there is only so many people who can do those things and not that you shouldn't aim or dream for these things, but there are so many other fantastic jobs. So it's good to talk about how to get there and how difficult it is to get there.

  Heidi Klum

  Basketball, Dream, Jobs

  "Heidi Klum Doesn't Plan to Bare Post-Baby Bod for Victoria's Secret". L.A. Confidential Magazine party, www.foxnews.com. September 30, 2009.

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• I guess the one thing I really learned from participating in sports was to just never say "no", never stop trying, and to always believe that you can do better than the next fellow. I tried to follow this throughout my life, but I always tried to be respectful about it.

  Bruce Bennett

  Sports, Believe, Trying

  Interview with Marc Blau, 2004.

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• [If] you don't have any soul and you don't have any talent, jazz is what you should do. ... any fool can do it; all you gotta do is practice.

  Stewart Copeland

  Practice, Soul, Fool

  JamBase Interview, www.jambase.com. February 13, 2007.

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• A teacher can do very little for a pupil and should only be thankful if he don't hinder him, and the greater the master, mostly the less he can say.

  Thomas Eakins

  Teacher, Being Thankful, Littles

  Henry Adams, Thomas Eakins (2005). “Eakins Revealed: The Secret Life of an American Artist”, p.150, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Letting Go, Color, Purple

  Source: collider.com

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• There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal.

  Terry Pratchett

  Writing, Long, Walks

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• At any appearance, I make sure that before the person takes a pic and runs away, that I make contact. All I can do is give that little bit of me, the kickback is miraculous.

  Betsey Johnson

  Running, Giving, Littles

  Source: www.dailymail.co.uk

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• I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

  Elie Wiesel

  Lonely, Thinking, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, "Maybe this is the best performance I can do."

  Michael Jackson

  Thinking, Skills, Zenith

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• If you believe you're right...stand up and fight for your place in the sun. If you believe you can do it, hang in for the whole 15 rounds because even if you don't win, you will have earned the respect of everyone in the fight, including yourself, and in that sense you will have prevailed.

  Erin Brockovich

  Believe, Fighting, Winning

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• Sometimes, I feel like I can do anything, and, sometimes, I'm so alive, sometimes, I feel like I could zoom across the sky and, sometimes, I wanna cry.

  Michael Franti

  Sky, Zoom, Alive

  "Song: "Sometimes" ("Stay Human")". 2001.

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• If all those people are getting wet to welcome me, surely the least I can do is get wet too!

  Yuri Gagarin

  People, Welcome, Wet

  "Mankind's first giant leap". www.economist.com. August 3, 2011.

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• Actually I think CGI has the potential to equal or even surpass what the human hand can do.

  Hayao Miyazaki

  Thinking, Hands, Equal

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Cause a costume can be comfortable It can make you feel more beautiful It can even make you look like someone else But it's still you, so there's nothing you can do Like a bad habit, the one you couldn't kick, there it always is And it's nothing that no doctor's gonna fix.

  Conor Oberst

  Beautiful, Doctors, Looks

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• We hackers are a playful bunch; we'll hack anything, including language, if it looks like fun (thus our tropism for puns). Deep down, we like confusing people who are stuffier and less mentally agile than we are, especially when they're bosses. There's a little bit of the mad scientist in all hackers, ready to discombobulate the world and flip authority the finger - especially if we can do it with snazzy special effects.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Fun, People, Mad

  "Guest Editorial: World Domination". www.linuxjournal.com. January 1, 2000.

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• Legal immigration is good for America, if it's controlled and structured via the legal process, of course. But the problem is the system we have in place right now is broken. For example, it is completely family based which means that it's based not on what you can do or what talent you have or what merit you bring or what job you could fill, but rather on whether you know someone who already lives here.

  Marco Rubio

  Jobs, Mean, America

  "EIB Interview: Why, Senator Rubio?". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. April 18, 2013.

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