Can Do Quotes - Page 32

• You can do anything when it's not real.

  Markus Zusak

  Real

  Markus Zusak (2013). “Getting The Girl”, p.78, Scholastic Inc.

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• What we philosophers can do is just correct the questions.

  Slavoj Žižek

  Philosophy, Philosopher

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• Being a celebrity is like being raped, and there's absolutely nothing a player can do about it.

  Patrick McEnroe

  Player, Absolutely Nothing

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• I love going back and forth from drama to comedy. I love switching it around and showing people that I can do both.

  Kaitlyn

  Drama, People, Comedy

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• We also need to encourage Americans to become more fiscally responsible themselves. We can do this by redesigning our tax system into an expenditure tax with a single flat rate. ... We have to substantially reduce the size and scope of the federal government, fundamentally increase the role of the states in choosing their own practices, and bring decision-making closer to the people, not to unelected administrators. These steps are crucial to getting our nation on a path of fiscal, political and constitutional responsibility.

  Edwin Feulner

  Responsibility, Government, Practice

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• As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.

  Betty Edwards

  Children, Reality, Years

  "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Book by Betty Edwards, 1979.

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• It was an epiphany when I realized you don't have to call yourself a linguist, a translator, a poet. You can call yourself an artist and you can do all these things.

  Jan Peacock

  Artist, Poet, Epiphany

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• Creativity is a celebration of life... I am here! I love life! I love me! I can be anything! I can do anything!

  Joseph C Zinker

  Love Life, Creativity, Celebration

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• It sucks the way the world works. You can do a hundred things for people, but you do one bad mistake and everyone crucifies you and that's all they want to remember.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Mistake, People, World

  "Arenas opens up after lengthy hiatus from league, media". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. February 20, 2012.

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• When you're in that zone there's nothing really the defense can do ... It doesn't matter who's sticking you because everything looks good.

  Gilbert Arenas

  Defense, Looks, Matter

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• It wasn't a case of me sitting down and thinking, right then, what shall I do with my life? Airline pilot? Plumber? Guitar manufacturer? Writer .... yeah, writer. I've always loved writing, from a very early age--I guess I was writing my first stories when I was still in single digits. It progressed, and the love of writing grew in my mind and is still growing. Doing it full-time, there are different stresses and tensions, and the business side of it comes to the fore sometimes. But I still love it, and I'm always thankful that I can do what I do and make a living from it.

  Tim Lebbon

  Stress, Writing, Thinking

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• I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.

  Bentley Little

  Real, Fighting, Thinking

  "Bentley Little: The Elusive Dark Scribe Speaks". Interview with Vince A. Liaguno, www.darkscribemagazine.com. September 13, 2007.

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• Rather than reacting to every risk we hear and see, we should make an effort to discern which ones we can do something about.

  Benjamin Carson

  Effort, Risk, Should

  "Take the Risk: Learning to Identify, Choose, and Live with Acceptable Risk". Book by Ben Carson and Gregg Lewis, 2008.

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• The sense that a man is serving a Higher than himself, with a service which will become ever more and more perfect freedom, evokes more profound, more humbling, more exalted emotions than any thing else in the world can do. The spirit of man is an instrument which cannot give out its deepest, finest tones, except under the immediate hand of the Divine Harmonist.

  John Campbell Shairp

  Men, Hands, Giving

  John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.91

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• Individuals bearing witness do not change history; only movements that understand their social world can do that. Movements encourage solidarity; the moral individual is likely, all unwittingly, to do the opposite, for bearing witness is lonely: it breeds feelings of superiority and moralistic anger against those who are not doing the same.

  Ellen Willis

  Lonely, Opposites, Feelings

  "Three Elegies for Susan Sontag". "New Politics", Vol. X, No. 3, Summer 2005.

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• At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.

  Maurice Maeterlinck

  Persistence, Past, Men

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• You might say that a creative person is a person who simply has a desire to have something, to add something to the world that's not there yet, and goes about arranging fort that to happen. When you desire a work of art and make it, you've added to the stock of art in the world. Artists are one of the people who can do that: add to the stock of things.

  Carl Andre

  Art, People, Creative

  "Artists Talks 1969 - 1977". Book edited by Peggy Gale, 2004.

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• The real truth is, there's no such thing as a red state or a blue state, they're all purple. Some are more purple than others and our job is to get them all deep purple and then blue. And we can do that.

  Howard Dean

  Jobs, Real, Blue

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• Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.

  Stan Lee

  Writing, Boys, Thinking

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• If you have ever done any security work - and it did not involve the concept of "network of trust" - it wasn't security work, it was - masturbation. I don't know what you were doing. But trust me, it's the only way you can do security, it's the only way you can do development.

  Linus Torvalds

  Done, Development, Way

  "Tech Talk: Linus Torvalds on git". Youtube video, www.youtube.com. May 14, 2007.

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• I accept responsibility for U-boat warfare from 1933 onward, and of the entire navy from 1943 on, but to make me responsible for what happened to Jews in Germany, or Russian soldiers on the east front it is so ridiculous all I can do is laugh.

  Karl Donitz

  Responsibility, Laughing, Soldier

  Said to Leon Goldensohn, July 14, 1946. "The Nuremberg Interviews". Book by Leon Goldensohn, 2004.

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• This is a dozer you can do anything with.

  Roy Oswalt

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• We [climbers] demonstrate in the most stunning way of all - at the risk of our lives - that there is no limit to the effort man can demand of himself. This quality is the basis of all human achievementit can never be proved enough. I consider that we climbers - that I - serve all humanity. We prove that there is no limit to what man can do.

  Walter Bonatti

  Men, Effort, Humanity

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• The AIDS disease is caused by a virus, but the AIDS epidemic is not. The AIDS epidemic is fueled by stigma, by hate, by misinformation, by ignorance, by indifference. Science has accomplished miracles over the past 20 years, and science can now end this disease - but it cannot end the epidemic. We need more than medicine. We can do something about these things. We need to speak out about the changes we need to make in our society.

  Elton John

  Hate, Ignorance, Past

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• Even when we think we cannot rise up, there is still hope. And sometimes we just need someone to look us in the eyes, take our hand, and say, "You can do it now!"

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Eye, Thinking, Hands

  "You Can Do It Now!". Dieter F. Uchtdorf's priesthood session address at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. October 2013.

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