I Can Quotes - Page 19

• I really like my life. I've arranged my life so that I can do what I want.

  Warren Buffett

  Investing, Want, Buffets

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• I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into. If I'd been born into a tribe of hunters, this talent of mine would be pretty worthless. I can't run very fast. I'm not particularly strong. I'd probably end up as some wild animal's dinner.

  Warren Buffett

  Running, Strong, Animal

  "The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream". Book by Barack Obama. Chapter 5, 2006.

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• I have never been concerned about winning the Ballon d'Or or being the best player in the world. The best player is already here and that's Messi. And now I can see him from close up and help him.

  Neymar

  Winning, Player, Messi

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• I have both Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo as my idols. If I can take a little of each player's game and make it my own, I would be very happy.

  Neymar

  Cristiano Ronaldo, Player, Idols

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• God has created all things for good; all things for their greatest good; everything for its own good. What is the good of one is not the good of another; what makes one man happy would make another unhappy. God has determined, unless I interfere with His plan, that I should reach that which will be my greatest happiness. He looks on me individually, He calls me by my name, He knows what I can do, what I can best be, what is my greatest happiness, and He means to give it me.

  John Henry Newman

  Mean, Men, Names

  John Henry Newman (1900). “The Works of Cardinal Newman”

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• I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.

  John Henry Newman

  Sorrow, Doe, May

  John Henry Newman (1900). “The Works of Cardinal Newman”

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• I have no problem with nudity. I can look at myself. I like walking around nude. It doesn't bother me. I see all the people walking around nude; it doesn't bother me.

  Ursula Andress

  People, Looks, Problem

  "How Can Women Make Beauty Last, Inside and Out?". Larry King Live, transcripts.cnn.com. June 8, 2000.

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• I think…to give. In the best way I can, through song and through dance and through music. I mean, I am committed to my art. I believe that all art has as its ultimate goal the union between the material and the spiritual, the human and the divine. I believe that to be the reason for the very existence of art. And I feel I was chosen as an instrument to just give music and love and harmony to the world. To children of all ages, and adults and teenagers.... I love people of all races from my heart, with true affection.

  Michael Jackson

  Spiritual, Song, Art

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• I've never dated anybody. It's good to get experience under your belt but you should never get wild or go crazy. If I can't see myself with this person for life -- I can't be bothered. I can't waste my time. I have some really good men friends but I believe in no sex before marriage. No fornicating. Stuff like that. I really believe in that. I mean, I'm not perfect. It's hard to live by the Bible standards but I'm really comfortable with me.

  Serena Williams

  Sex, Crazy, Believe

  "Selling the sisters" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2005.

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• I’m good when I’m alone. I’m comfortable when I’m alone. I can sit and do lots of things all by myself. Sex included.

  Johnny Weir

  Sex, Comfortable

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• I can never know beforehand how God’s image should appear in others. That image always manifests a completely new and unique form that comes solely from God’s free and sovereign creation. To me the sight may seem strange, even ungodly. But God creates every man in the likeness of His Son, the Crucified. After all, even that image certainly looked strange and ungodly to me before I grasped it.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Son, Unique, Men

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• Our earth is round, and, among other things, that means that you and I can hold completely different points of view and both be right. The difference of our positions will show stars in your window I cannot even imagine. Your sky may burn with light, while mine, at the same moment, spreads beautiful to darkness. Still we must choose how we separately corner the circling universe of our experience. Once chosen, our cornering will determine the message of any star and darkness we encounter.

  June Jordan

  Beautiful, Stars, Mean

  June Jordan (2004). “Soulscript: a collection of African American poetry”, Broadway

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• I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.

  Edward Everett

  Life, Responsibility, Oneness

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• I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

  Mike Schmidt

  Greatness, Perfection, Quests

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• I have been whipped, as the saying is, but I am sure I can recover all the lost capital occasioned by that disaster; by only hanging a few moments by the neck; and I feel quite determined to make the utmost possible out of a defeat.

  John Brown

  Necks, Determined, Defeat

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• To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

  Emil Zatopek

  Stupid, Mean, Vanity

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• Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

  Edna O'Brien

  Servant, Recollection

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• I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

  Georges Duhamel

  Moving, Thinking, Want

  "Scenes de la vie future". Book by Georges Duhamel (p. 52), translated, 1930.

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• I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Enough, Meter

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• And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

  Jerry Garcia

  Use, Lifetime, Materials

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• The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Islands, Choices, Done

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• And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

  A. A. Milne

  Bees And Honey, Reason, Honey Bee

  A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.11, Egmont UK

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• I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

  James M. Barrie

  Running, Balls, Cricket

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• My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

  Antonin Dvorak

  Country, Teacher, Encouragement

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• I can stand out the war with any man.

  Florence Nightingale

  War, Men, Standing Out

  Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2010). “Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.258, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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