Cant Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• You have to get up and plant the seed and see if it grows, but you cant just wait around, you have to water it and take care of it.

  Bootsy Collins

  Water, Waiting, Boots

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• Thats the thing about better. You cant own it. You can only pursue it. Stalk it. But once youve tasted it, better is never truly beyond your reach.

  Graeme McDowell

  Stalking, Pursue

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• What good is a friend if you cant make an enemy of him?

  William Gillette

  Enemy, Ifs

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• Women like to use products that other women say work. The Internet will be a big opportunity, but you cant smell a fragrance there yet.

  Andrea Jung

  Opportunity, Smell, Use

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• You cant think about things you want to change. Just be yourself.

  Ethan Embry

  Being Yourself, Thinking, Want

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

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• Coltrane, you cant play everything at once!

  Miles Davis

  Play, Jazz, Coltrane

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• "Lambe them, lads! lambe them!" a cant phrase of the time derived from the fate of Dr. Lambe, an astrologer and quack, who was knocked on the head by the rabble in Charles the First's time.

  Walter Scott

  Time, Fate, Drs

  Walter Scott (2016). “Peveril of the Peak, Complete: Scott's Works Vol.26”, p.453, VM eBooks

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• When something really bad is going on in a culture, the average guy doesn't see it. He can't. He's average and is surrounded by and immersed in the cant and discourse of the status quo.

  George Saunders

  Average, Guy, Culture

  "This Week in Fiction: George Saunders" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. October 4, 2012.

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• Please, all you MCs out there, all you fans out there, don't think Big gonna make a record dissing 2Pac or the West Coast because it's not going down like that. I cant even see me wasting my time or my talent to disrespect another black man.

  The Notorious B.I.G.

  Men, Thinking, Disrespect

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

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• Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of my league.” “Then I wish for an infinite number of wishes!” Those people on fairy tales never thought of that. “People in fairy tales wish for that all the time,” the genie said. “They arent stupid. It just isnt in the records because I cant grant that type of wish.

  Francesca Lia Block

  Sorry, Stupid, Numbers

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• Nothing ever happened in the past that can prevent you from being present now, and if the past cant prevent you from being present now, what power does it have?

  Eckhart Tolle

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.94, Penguin

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• Were kind of in our own cocoon making it. Every once in a while you stick your head up for a second, and you just cant believe how successful the show has become.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Believe, Successful, Cocoons

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• The suns going down and we cant afford to come back to it tomorrow.

  Desmond Harrington

  Down And, Sun, Tomorrow

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• You build something but you cant live in the house because you sit around guarding it.

  Rodney Mullen

  House, Guarding

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• There seems to be this impression that if I really am a psychotherapist, I cant be serious about it. They think there must be something fishy going on.

  Pamela Stephenson

  Thinking, Serious, Impression

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• In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the characters face really helps get the message across. On stage, you cant do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you cant get anywhere else because the audience is right there.

  Alice Eve

  Character, Giving, Feelings

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