Can Do Quotes - Page 40

• A little bit of attention and kindness can totally change a whole life, and a lack of that can do the same.

  Adrien Brody

  Kindness, Attention, Littles

  "Adrien Brody: The quiet American". Interview with Alex Clark, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2012.

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• My mother told me to raise my kids with calculated neglect. They get their self-worth from doing what they can do and not having everything done for them.

  Lea Thompson

  Mother, Kids, Self Worth

  "Lea Thompson Talks Parenting, DWTS And Taking Charge After 50". Interview with Caroline Presno, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 29, 2014.

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• I can do more than anyone suspects. I pride myself on my versatility. It took 32 years of difficult parts, second leads, villains and juveniles. The Oscar changed the quality of the roles I was being offered.

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

  Pride, Years, Quality

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.

  Louis Gossett, Jr.

  Thinking, Roles, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe one of the best things about managing people is that we can influence lives in a positive way. That's basically what a manager is about. When I can do that, I am very happy.

  Arsene Wenger

  Believe, People, Way

  "Wenger hints on assembling winning team". Q&A session, www.herald.co.zw. July 31, 2013.

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• The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If youre not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, youre kind of stuck.

  Lyle Lovett

  Being Yourself, Important, Likes

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• I tell my kids and I tell proteges, always have humility when you create and grace when you succeed, because its not about you. You are a terminal for a higher power. As soon as you accept that, you can do it forever.

  Quincy Jones

  Kids, Humility, Forever

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• I believe that bad taste is vulgar. It's like cursing. I think the world can be saved through design, because what is the most distasteful thing someone can do? Kill someone. So, good taste is the opposite of that.

  Kanye West

  Believe, Thinking, Opposites

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• My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater. That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.

  Kanye West

  Art, Past, Thinking

  "Kanye West Lectures at Oxford, Discusses Grammys, Nicki Minaj, The Matrix" by Jeremy Gordon, pitchfork.com. March 2, 2015.

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• I can do lovers. I can do Sir Galahad types. I'm not going to limit myself in voice-overs to irascible old men.

  Ed Asner

  Men, Voice, Limits

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• More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.

  Les Claypool

  Artist, Thinking, Appreciate

  "Primus' Les Claypool". Interview with John Semley, music.avclub.com. October 13, 2011.

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• Auditioning is a horrible experience because you know you are being absolutely scrutinized and judged. There are days where you can do it and days where it's just not happening, and I feel like that's how it is with all artists; you have some days it kind of works.

  Kelly Reilly

  Artist, Kind, Horrible

  "Futures: ‘Flight’ Breakout Kelly Reilly on Auditioning Opposite Denzel Washington and Why She’ll Never Fly With Robert Zemeckis". Interview with Nigel M. Smith, www.indiewire.com. December 06, 2012.

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• A man can do anything he wants to do in this world, at least if he wants to do it badly enough.

  E. W. Scripps

  Determination, Men, World

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• The entertainment business is hard on relationships, but it's just as hard on your own spiritual well-being. It's easy to lose focus, to forget your priorities and wander from the path. There is not any one thing you can do to survive this desert. It's a matter of maintenance, of the small things you do every day and every week to keep the engine running smoothly.

  Ralph K. Winter, Jr.

  Running, Spiritual, Stress

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• The King can do no wrong; he cannot constitutionally be supposed capable of injustice.

  John Nichol

  Kings, Injustice, Monarchy

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• The whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder. Most Russian music, indeed, consists in ringing changes on this device, skilfully disguised though the fact may be.

  Constant Lambert

  Song, Play, May

  'Music Ho!' (1934) ch. 3

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• One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.

  Ted Malloch

  Running, Wells

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• Going up the mast is one of the most dangerous things you can do as a solo sailor.

  Abby Sunderland

  Sailor, Solo, Dangerous

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.145, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A mutual fund can do for you what you would do for yourself if you had sufficient time, training, and money to diversify, plus the temperament to stand back from your money and make rational decisions.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Money, Decision, Training

  Venita VanCaspel (1978). “The new money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.

  Venita VanCaspel

  Money, Three Things, Dollars

  Venita VanCaspel (1983). “The power of money dynamics”, Simon & Schuster

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• Christian holiness consists not of trying as hard as we can to be good but of learning to live in the new world created by Easter, the new world we publicly entered in our baptism. There are many parts of the world we can't do anything about except pray. But there is one part of the world, one part of physical reality, that we can do something about, and that is the creature each of us call "myself.

  N. T. Wright

  Christian, Easter, Reality

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• You can do one of two things. You can bury you head in the sand and believe what everyone tells you - that you will always be that young, that thin and that fabulous. Or you can use all the things you have - talent, contacts, knowledge - and do something different.

  Cat Deeley

  Believe, Two, Different

  "Nerdy but nice" by Tim Jonze, www.theguardian.com. April 29, 2011.

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• Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!

  Ice Cube

  Steps, Next, Mortals

  "Ice Cube and Kevin Hart pair up for a ride". Interview with Sonia Saraiya, www.avclub.com. January 17, 2014.

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• You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what hed done the night before. I thought, I can do that! I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.

  Regis Philbin

  Jobs, Night, Done

  "Jerry Seinfeld Interviews Regis Philbin on His Television Career". Interview with Jerry Seinfeld, www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2011.

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• Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Book, Humble, Writing

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