Cant Quotes - Page 14

• I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

  Andrew Forrest

  Culture, Looks, World

  "Andrew Forrest makes biggest single philanthropic donation in Australian history". "AM" with Caitlyn Gribbin, www.abc.net.au. October 15, 2013.

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• When you grow up with a mother who has to wash dishes and clean hotel rooms, you know the importance of having a job, and you cant be without a job for any length of time, or you will be without anything.

  Edward P. Jones

  Mother, Jobs, Growing Up

  "The two dollars a day literary sensation" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. July 14, 2004.

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• The affectation of some late authors to introduce and multiply cant words is the most ruinous corruption in any language.

  Jonathan Swift

  Language, Corruption, Introducing

  Jonathan Swift, John Hawkesworth (1754). “The Works of Jonathan Swift: Accurately Revised in Twelve Volumes, Adorned with Copper-plates. With Some Account of the Author's Life and Notes, Historical and Explanatory”, p.325

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• Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

  William Hazlitt

  Real, Hypocrisy, Feelings

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.44

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• Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Devil, Body

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.48

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• Cant is the parrot talk of a profession.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Parrots, Profession

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• Religion is the most gentlemanly thing in the world. It alone will gentilize, if unmixed with cant.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Gentleman, World, Ifs

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• He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  College, Air, Smell

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• You cant not be changed by the experience of seeing extreme poverty. You start to want to think about ways in which you can make the world better.

  Mark Takano

  Thinking, World, Want

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• Give me a well-cooked, well-served meal, a bouquet, and a sunset, and I can do more for a man's soul than all the cant ever preached. I can even do it without a sunset!

  Anne Ellis

  Sunset, Men, Giving

  Anne Ellis (1999). “The Life of an Ordinary Woman”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We cant do without government, but we do need it to be more effective.

  Jennifer Pahlka

  Government, Needs

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• As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I cant help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so Im very excited when I notice that.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Reading, Play, Technique

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• 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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• Theres no way that I could be the president. You cant have a pacifist in the White House... Im an actor. This is what I do for a living.

  Martin Sheen

  White, House, President

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• One thing that you cant fake is chemistry.

  Blake Shelton

  Fake, Chemistry, One Thing

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• When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he cant cover himself with words, he cant create a wall.

  Marina Abramovic

  Wall, Stranger, Conversation

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• After filming, I cant wait to shake off all that 50s primness. Ill go out to a gig and dance ridiculously. I love to lose myself in music. Just letting go - its dead important.

  Jessica Raine

  Letting Go, Waiting, Important

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• I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and dont let anyone tell you you cant. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.

  Magic Johnson

  Dream, Mind, Enough

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• Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.

  Damien Hirst

  Real, Ambition, Kids

  "Damien Hirst: 'I still believe art is more powerful than money'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• The administrative control of the government remains everywhere. You cant have a government within the country and not have control over everything thats happening in the country... Even in the Election Commission there is some extent of administrative control.

  Salman Khurshid

  Country, Government, Election

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• You cant win if youre chasing the wrong problem.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Winning, Problem, Chasing

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• Every season has its lipstick trend, and just because your perfect color is a pinky beige, that doesn't mean you can't wear deep burgundy.

  Bobbi Brown

  Mean, Color, Perfect

  "Insiders' Guide: How To Find The Best Lip Color" by Susan Cernek, www.glamour.com. October 20, 2008.

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• A man must have something to grumble about; and if he cant complain that his wife harries him to death with her perversity and ill-humour, he must complain that she wears him out with her kindness and gentleness.

  Anne Bronte

  Kindness, Men, Wife

  Anne Bronte (2006). “The Tenant of Wildfell Hall”, p.43, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I cant control everything, and I dont need to

  India.Arie

  Needs

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• I cant lie - I love talking to the people at my shows. Im so grateful to all my fans. I couldnt do it for this long without them. So if they want to come past to say hi and whatnot, then its part of my job to talk to them - and you know, it might be the best part of my job, too.

  Chuck Brown

  Jobs, Lying, Grateful

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