Can Do Quotes - Page 5

• Every kid I meet who's a reader has got something like that, their fantasy world. And science fiction is the best, especially for girls because it's the one place where you can do the forbidden.

  Dorothy Allison

  Girl, Kids, World

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• The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

  Gary Ackerman

  Party, America, People

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• All I can do is make good music and make it for the fans, not for anybody else.

  Taio Cruz

  Fans, I Can

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

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• That's what Hubble can do for us. It can tell us whether the universe is expanding forever or if one day it's going to come back together.

  Duane G. Carey

  Forever, One Day, Together

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• There are very few dance companies in the world and you have to be phenomenal. You have to not be injured. You have to have a really strong mind to deal with the dance world. People who can do it are amazing to me. You cannot have a life outside of dance.

  Neve Campbell

  Strong, People, Mind

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• A government can do only what is feasible given the political and economic context.

  P. Chidambaram

  Government, Political, Economic

  "Q&A With Finance Minister Chidambaram". Interview with Amol Sharma, Paul Beckett, blogs.wsj.com. October 8, 2012.

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• One of the worst things you can do is have a limited budget and try to do some big looking film. That's when you end up with very bad work.

  Roger Corman

  Trying, Film, Ends

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• We can never fully repay the debt of our proud nation to those who have laid down their lives for our country. The best we can do is honor their memory, ensure that their sacrifice is not in vain, and help provide for their families.

  Susan Collins

  Country, Memories, Sacrifice

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• It's all good fun - television and movies and so on - but the good thing in theatre is there's nothing and no one between you and the audience so you can do what you want really.

  Tom Conti

  Fun, Theatre, Television

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

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• So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

  Upamanyu Chatterjee

  Writing, Airports, Paper

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• Probably the most useful thing I can do as secretary of state is to assist the president in adapting and renewing the transnational institutions that were created after World War II.

  Warren Christopher

  War, President, World

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• All you can do as an artist is just strive to make the best record you can and ride the rollercoaster as it goes up and down.

  Howie Dorough

  Artist, Records, Strive

  "Backstreet Boys back with new album" by Gary Graff , Monica Herrera, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 28, 2009.

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• Remember...we don't see objects, we see light. [...] Light can do anything water can do--flow, wash, trickle. It can do anything an artist can do--paint, burnish, carve. Candlelight falls, licks a face. There is always light in a room.

  Janet Fitch

  Fall, Artist, Light

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• It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.

  Robert Griffin III

  Fun, Team, Play

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• You can’t focus on what everyone else is doing — it has to be about what’s really broken and what you can do to fix it.

  Drew Houston

  Broken, Focus

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• Sometimes all that saves me is being willing to make mistakes. There are projects that strike me as so beautiful, important, complicated, or just plain big, that they convince me of my own inadequacy. This awful state of reverence leads to paralyzing brain freeze. At times like that the only way out is for me to decide, 'To hell with it. I can't do it right, so I'll do it wrong. I can't do it well, but I can do it badly.' Sometimes, with luck, while I'm sweating to do it wrong, I stumble on a right way.

  Katherine Dunn

  Beautiful, Mistake, Luck

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• There is something in this world that every individual can do. God has created all of us with something unique to contribute.

  Leymah Gbowee

  Unique, World, Individual

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• To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing for 10 shillings what any fool can do for a pound

  Duke of Wellington

  Art, Engineering, Fool

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• You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.

  Alex Zanardi

  Confidence, Climbing, Knowing

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• The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.

  Aaron Taylor-Johnson

  Hard Work, Play Hard, Knowing

  "Toy boys r us" by Alun Palmer, www.mirror.co.uk. March 26, 2010.

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• Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you.

  Kelli Garner

  Ugly Things, Hollywood, Ugly

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• I'm not going to take a show unless I'm not sure I can do it. You have to have that sort of adrenaline.

  Joe Johnston

  Adrenaline, Not Sure, Shows

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• If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.

  Yul Vazquez

  Two, Trying, Acting

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• One thing I was thinking about the other day was you can't even conceive of the kinds of things you can do in movies today. The idea that you could draw, in a computer, dinosaurs and have them running around was totally impossible.

  John Badham

  Running, Thinking, Ideas

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• I get on the floor, and I can do things a woman a fifth my age can't do.

  Kitty Carlisle

  Age, Fifth, I Can

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