Can Do Quotes - Page 39

• We cant compare stories. We can only know in our hearts that we are the same. That may be the best we can do.

  Betty Buckley

  Heart, Stories, May

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• If you have people that totally support you and have your back, I feel like you have all the confidence in the world, and you believe that you can do things that most people can't achieve. I feel that's really important.

  Nicolas Cage

  Believe, Support You, People

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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• I never take it as any real pressure. It's like my son. I only gave him one lesson. When I went to give him the second one he said, 'Oh, I can do that dad.' I said, 'Now you're on your own.'

  Ringo Starr

  Dad, Real, Son

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• The worst thing we can do as a nation is taking the easy way out. If you start opening up offshore drilling, then you are buying time and you are not addressing the fundamental problem with fossil fuels.

  Joe Biden

  Opening Up, Fossils, Fundamentals

  "Sen. Joe Biden (D-DE), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), political roundtable". Interview with Brian Williams, www.nbcnews.com. June 22, 2008.

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• Only in America, where someone like me could have the opportunity to seek the highest office the world has to offer. Not only can all of us achieve whatever dream we want to achieve because of the place where we live and the opportunities it gives us, but that we not only can do it together, but we have to do it together!

  Chris Christie

  Dream, Opportunity, America

  "Exclusive: Chris Christie explains why he is running for president on "Hannity". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. June 30, 2015.

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• Rock and roll by its nature is sexual. So girls playing rock and roll is saying to the world, "We own our sexuality." I think that pop music is sort of about "you can do what you want to me" kind of energy, while rock and roll is "I'm going to do what I want to you" kind of energy.

  Joan Jett

  Girl, Thinking, Rock And Roll

  "Interview: Joan Jett and Kenny Laguna". Interview with Mark Huddle, www.verbicidemagazine.com. June 11, 2007.

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• I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Who I Am, People

  "Exit Interview: Joan Jett". Interview with Richard Rys, www.phillymag.com. June 20, 2007.

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• Robert A. Heinlein has been an idol to me for more than 20 years. He can do no wrong, no matter how much he loves wars and hates pacifists.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Hate, War, Years

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• I do everything one at a time, one day at a time. It's the only way I can do all what I want. I stopped watching [most of] the news and entertainment shows. I think it's helped me to stay a little clearer. Do I need to know what Kevin Federline is doing? And I don't sleep a lot. I'm always connected to [my work].

  George Lopez

  Sleep, Thinking, One Day At A Time

  "Seriously Funny". Interview with Brett Wilbur, www.carmelmagazine.com. February 1, 2007.

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• In a sense my whole life as a writer is trying to find structural ways, or formal ways, to permit that outflowing so it doesn't just look like crazy output. In other words, if it turns out that you can do a given voice, that's just kind of inclination. But then if you can find a way to put that voice in a story so that the voice serves a purpose, then I would say that's being a writer.

  George Saunders

  Crazy, Voice, Trying

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• By shifting the balance away from the individual we open the door for the individual. Because we make it obvious that anyone can do it given the right circumstance.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Doors, Balance, Shifting

  "The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

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• There is something I call social intelligence. You can do a lot in life on your own and you can do all kinds of stuff, but if you're really bad with people, if you're really naive or aggressive and push people away, if you don't know the political environment you're in, it invalidates all the things you know. You're not going to get anywhere.

  Robert Greene

  People, Political, Stuff

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• I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Thinking, Fool, Kind

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• As the owner of the company, I'm always focusing on how my company can do more for less. And it's one of the principles of the world.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Principles, World, Owners

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• I slowly realized that perfectionism just not that important. What's more important is to try to love the people around you. Whatever that means at a particular time is the best you can do.

  Veronica Roth

  Mean, People, Important

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• Our culture has a tendency to pigeonhole people and to try to tear down anybody who's breaking out of our comfort zone. That's why we get into these cultural ruts that end up being destructive prejudices. But breaking out of that comfort zone is the most rewarding thing you can do, in your life. I do my best to push myself, when I can.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  People, Trying, Tears

  "Joseph Gordon-Levitt Talks HITRECORD ON TV, How the Idea Came about, His Collaborative Company, Inspiring People to Contribute, and Plans for Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 15, 2014.

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• I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.

  Sherman Alexie

  Writing, Bored, Effort

  Interview with Joelle Fraser, ir.uiowa.edu. 2000.

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• When people say that a certain sport is not a sport - have them play that sport and see if they can do it. Golf is one of the hardest sports you've ever played. Bowling is all about concentration, it's all about focus, it's all about aim.

  Dwyane Wade

  Sports, Golf, Play

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• I've decided I can't really control people's perceptions of me. All I can do is decide on what I work on and how hard I work on it.

  James Franco

  People, Perception, Decided

  "A Minute With: James Franco on villains and being James Franco". Interview with Piya Sinha-Roy, www.reuters.com. November 27, 2013.

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• When you are a young person, the world is yours. You can do the impossible.

  Philippe Petit

  World, Impossible, Young

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• It gives us more flexibility, so we can do more, but it also creates the expectation of the instant response. It can take away your sense of control over your time.

  Ellen Galinsky

  Giving, Expectations, Over You

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• Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can't do in the real world.

  Marcus du Sautoy

  Real, Math, World

  "I'm not very fast at my times tables". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. November 2, 2008.

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• To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

  Gene Stratton-Porter

  Thinking, Fiction, Pieces

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• Please do as I requested, only if you can do so with the joy of a little child feeding a hungry duck. Please do not do as I request if there is any taint of fear of punishment if you don't. Please do not do as I request to buy my love, that, is hoping that I will love you more if you do. Please do not do as I request if you will feel guilty if you don't. Please do not do as I request if you will feel shameful. And certainly do not do as I request out of any sense of duty or obligation.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Children, Love You, Punishment

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• We grasp because God does. We create, and fall short, because God does. We continue creating because we fell short, and fall short again, because God does. Because one act of creation, one attempt at capture, is only one breath and we must breathe again. And again. And again. Here we stand (and sit and sleep), the many images of the Imager, and we can do no other.

  N.D. Wilson

  Fall, Sleep, Creating

  N. D. Wilson (2013). “Death by Living: Life Is Meant to Be Spent”, p.62, Thomas Nelson Inc

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