Cant Quotes

• Cant is the twin sister of hypocrisy.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Hypocrisy, Twins, Twin Sister

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• You cant second-guess yourself as a filmmaker.

  Ralph Bakshi

  Filmmaker

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• Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Creativity

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• You may depend upon it, religion is, in its essence, the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It will alone gentilize, if unmixed with cant; and I know nothing else that will, alone. Certainly not the army, which is thought to be the grand embellisher of manners.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Army, Essence, Gentleman

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1835). “Specimens of the table talk”, p.91

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• ... where the Greeks had modesty, we have cant; where they had poetry, we have cant; where they had patriotism, we have cant; where they had anything that exalts, delights, or adorns humanity, we have nothing but cant, cant, cant.

  Thomas Love Peacock

  Greek, Humanity, Insulting

  'Crotchet Castle' (1831) ch. 7

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• The English are the people of consummate cant.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  People, Insulting, England

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Twilight of the Idols”, p.62, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• I live my life with a sense of urgency that most people cant comprehend.

  Marc Bolan

  People, Living My Life, I Live My Life

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• Im interested in what would normally be considered the worst aspects of commercial art. I think its the tension between what seems to be so rigid and cliched and the fact that art really cant be this way.

  Roy Lichtenstein

  Art, Thinking, Way

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• Historically speaking, we went from being Indians to pagans to savages to hostiles to militants to activists to Native Americans. Its five hundred years later and they still cant see us. We are still invisible.

  John Trudell

  Native American, Years, Savages

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• Its a force of life, sex; you cant deny the thrill of riding high, wide and handsome with someone you love.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Sex, Riding, Thrill

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• I cant remember what my line on drugs is. Whats my line on drugs?

  Boris Johnson

  Drug, Lines, Remember

  "The Genelection Game". Sunday Mirror, April 24, 2005.

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• So many people limit themselves by holding onto that baggage. They cut themselves off at the knees. And for me, meeting my father, and seeing how he was, and seeing that other side of where I came from, allowed me to kind of ascend spiritually. Now not to get all hippy or anything, but, you cant realise your potential unless you LET yourself realise your own potential.

  Corey Taylor

  Father, Cutting, People

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• Military intelligence, two words combined that cant make sense

  Dave Mustaine

  Military, Two, Make Sense

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• Im sorry I cant speak very coherently.

  Syd Barrett

  Im Sorry, Sorry, Speak

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• You cant just be against the president.

  Jeb Bush

  President

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• You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Art, People

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• Truth is the nursing mother of genius. No man can be absolutely true to himself, eschewing cant, compromise, servile imitation, and complaisance without becoming original.

  Margaret Fuller

  Mother, Truth, Nursing

  Margaret Fuller, Bell Gale Chevigny (1976). “The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings”, p.187, UPNE

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• If you skateboard, you cant be afraid to have people laugh at you.

  Mark Gonzales

  People, Laughing, Skateboarding

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• I play with feeling so I need to hear what is coming out of the amplifier to inspire me; I dont just play mechanically. I need to hear what I am doing in order to create the next note. If I dont hear it then I cant feed myself.

  Michael Schenker

  Order, Play, Feelings

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• We cant live any more in a world which is based on stuff and not ideas. If you want to live with the world of stuff, were all doomed.

  Dean Kamen

  Fate, Ideas, World

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• You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.

  Jorge Posada

  Excess, Care, Take Care Of Yourself

  "Jorge Posada Talks Fenway Franks, Booze - and Cameron Diaz". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.grubstreet.com. June 7, 2011.

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• You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

  Howard Schultz

  Skills, Organization, People

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• Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we cant rest on our laurels.

  Roy Barnes

  Today, Georgia, Laurels

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• In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

  Chuck Todd

  Simple, Politician, Ted Kennedy

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• As a wheelchair user, you cant move about freely. Thats the only thing that bothers me a little. When Im in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Moving, Arrogance, Want

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