I Can Quotes - Page 31

• If Jesus is the Son of God, his teachings are more than just good ideas from a wise teacher; they are divine insights on which I can confidently build my life.

  Lee Strobel

  Wise, Teacher, Jesus

  Lee Strobel (1998). “The Case for Christ: A Journalist's Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus”, p.266, Zondervan

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• I cannot worship the hippie, diaper, halo Christ because I cannot worship a guy I can beat up.

  Mark Driscoll

  Hippie, Guy, Halos

  Relevant Interview, www.relevantmagazine.com. August 28, 2007.

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• I don't record (any type of genre of music) that I didn't hear in my family's living room by the time I was 10. It just is my rule that I don't break because ... I can't do it authentically ... I really think that you're just hard-wiring (synapses) in your brain up until the age of maybe 12 or 10, and there are certain things you can't learn in an authentic way after that.

  Linda Ronstadt

  Thinking, Brain, Age

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• I can slay a devil when I see one, Steady practice mastery of self so not to be one

  Jay Electronica

  Self, Practice, Devil

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• I can't help the way you was born if you was gay.

  Kendrick Lamar

  Gay, Way, Helping

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

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• When we say that leadership is a choice, it basically means you can choose the level of initiative you want to exercise in response to the question, ‘What is the best I can do under the given circumstances?’

  Stephen Covey

  Motivational, Mean, Exercise

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• Id love to have another film to go on to. Im in the mood to work. But I have to be patient, you know, to find that particular kind of project. Occasionally Ill write one myself if I can summon up the energy.

  Peter Weir

  Writing, Energy, Goes On

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• I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

  Jimmy Jewel

  Funny, Climbing, Long

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• I never went into business just to make money - but I found that if I have fun, the money will come. I often ask myself, is my work fun and does it make me happy? I believe that the answer to that is more important than fame or fortune. If it stops being fun, I ask why? If I can't fix it, I stop doing it.

  Richard Branson

  Success, Fun, Believe

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• I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Language, Forgotten

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• I can't just sit on my daughter's bed and just say 'n---' all night and then put her to sleep. I just ain't gonna do that... I told the girls that these boys are racists, and they're not nice boys. But I think we can still enjoy the stories about the fishin' and the tradin'.

  Louis C. K.

  Girl, Daughter, Nice

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• ... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that

  Albert Lee

  Music, Pages, Firsts

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• I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside.

  Wes Montgomery

  Music, Christian, Thinking

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• I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

  Julian Bream

  Music, Guitar, Practice

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• I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.

  John Lee Hooker

  Music, Real, Men

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• I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

  Princess Diana

  Mind, Peace Of Mind, Finding Peace

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• I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had seven wives.... I am innocent of all these charges.... What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Years, Wife

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• I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

  James Frey

  Running, Want, Destroying

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.117, Anchor

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• I don't know what else I can say. I have never taken steroids. For people who think I took steroids intentionally, I'm never going to convince them. But I hope the voters judge my career fairly and don't look at one mistake.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Mistake, Taken, Thinking

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• I can't even say the word, it's too early in the day to get upset.

  Bon Scott

  Upset

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• I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

  Jackie Collins

  Baby, Book, Writing

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• I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  People, Technique, Plot

  Lois McMaster Bujold (2008). “The Vorkosigan Companion”, p.12, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I'm going to go out and be the best quarterback I can be and get the most out of my potential.

  Eli Manning

  Being The Best, Quarterback

  "Q&A with Eli Manning: QB talks best Super Bowl catch and roughhousing with Peyton". Interview with Jason Cole, www.yahoo.com. August 10, 2012.

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• Something I learned early in college (is) to not worry about what I can't controlBut what I can control is my attitude, my effort, my focus every single day and that's what I'm trying to worry about.

  Tim Tebow

  Attitude, College, Worry

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• If you find yourself saying 'I can't do something', but you know it in your heart of hearts that if you do it, you're going to grow, you're going to be a better person, it's going to contribute to your family or to your kids or to something that matters, and you keep saying 'I can't do it,' there is no question—you must do it. You don't discuss it anymore. You just take immediate action... You do what's necessary.

  Tony Robbins

  Kids, Heart, Finding Yourself

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