Cant Quotes - Page 8

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

  Mark Gonzales

  People, Laughing, Skateboarding

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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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• You can choose what you do, you cant choose what you like to do.

  Gretchen Rubin

  FaceBook post by Gretchen Rubin from Jan 18, 2013

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• I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

  Frank O'Connor

  Hero, Writing, Ideas

  Frank O'Connor, Michael A. Steinman (1994). “A Frank O'Connor Reader”, p.13, Syracuse University Press

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• You cant make your music good. You cant try to be good. You can try to be present and you can try to remain open so what is going to speak to you can speak through you.

  Michael Hedges

  Trying, Speak, Be Good

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• What Americans cant face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction.

  Robert D. Kaplan

  War, Chinese, Faces

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• There are people I would like to work with. Its a bit harder, because I live out in the sticks anyway, and plus being in a wheelchair means that I cant really circulate. So I tend to stick to my own thing.

  Robert Wyatt

  Work, Mean, People

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• Academics and wrestling, you cant separate the two.

  Tom Brands

  Wrestling, Two

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• When youre a girl, passion can dominate the equation, but as you grow up relationships evolve. Mad passion can grab you at first, but it cant last forever.

  Jody Watley

  Girl, Growing Up, Passion

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• It was a complete dream to work with David LaChapelle. I collected his books as a teenager, and I fantasised that he would direct the video for 'Spectrum' from the moment the song was written. I still can't believe it actually happened, 
and I'm completely overjoyed that he felt such a connection with the song.

  Florence Welch

  Dream, Song, Teenager

  "Florence + the Machine debut 'Spectrum' music video - watch" by Ewis Corner, www.digitalspy.com. May 30, 2012.

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• You cant go on winning all the time.

  Jahangir Khan

  Winning, Goes On, Winner

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• I dont like Jews. Or colored folk. Or natives, now that you mention it...I bet you like Catholics. Cant stand them either. Nor women, Fabians, Socialists, homosexuals, Asians, or British.

  Herbert

  Catholic, British, Homosexual

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• I loved going surfing down on Venice Beach. Id go out with a board under my arm and think, I cant do that in Cranhill.

  Billy Boyd

  Beach, Thinking, Venice

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• What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves.

  John Naughton

  Worry, Behaviour, Incompetent

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• Your mind simply cant focus forward and downward all at the same time.

  Daryn Kagan

  Focus, Mind

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• Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.

  Lance Berkman

  Houston, World, Firsts

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• You have to begin to put the infrastructure in place to put in high-speed trains...It should be a national priority. If the French can do it, why cant we?

  Gordon Bethune

  Priorities, Speed, Should

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• Theres something incredible about putting a helmet on just before a game; its a feeling only a football player knows. Your vision narrows, and the whole world shrinks. You cant hear much of what goes on outside you, but you can hear yourself breathe and you can feel yourself sweat.

  Carl Deuker

  Football, Player, Sweat

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• You cant just trust to luck; you have to really listen to what that character is telling you.

  Estelle Parsons

  Trust, Character, Luck

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• The payment for sins can be delayed. But they cant be avoided.

  Shawn Ryan

  Sin, Payment, Avoided

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• The most difficult dilemma for a person is perhaps when his heart testifies to an inevitable reality yet his tongue will not proclaim it, when his mind screams in acceptance of truth but he cant bring himself to state it.

  Umera Ahmed

  Heart, Acceptance, Reality

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• I cant swing a dead cat without hitting a reporter.

  Russel Honore

  Cat, Swings, Hitting

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• There are many things the government cant do, many good purposes it must renounce. It must leave them to the enterprise of others. It cannot feed the people. It cannot enrich the people. It cannot teach the people. It cannot convert the people.

  Lord Acton

  Government, People, Purpose

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• My biggest problem is what to do about all the things I cant do anything about.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Brilliant, Problem

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• Use their tactics if you feel strongly enough. Make a nuisance of yourself. Make an official complaint. Take it to a tribunal. As an atheist youre part of a minority whose beliefs are constantly ignored and marginalised while religious prejudice is pandered to and encouraged, and you have every right to be offended by that... Remember, one person on their own cant do much, but a million people each doing a little every day can change things very quickly.

  Pat Condell

  Religious, Atheist, People

  "Laughing religion off the planet with Pat Condell". Interview with Dave McKeegan, freethinker.co.uk. February 27, 2008.

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