I Can Quotes - Page 33

• I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.

  Ntozake Shange

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  "Back at you". Interview with Rebecca Carroll, www.motherjones.com. January 1995.

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• The point is that something I thought was perfect has been broken, and I'm having to find the beauty in what is there instead of what I thought was there. Like this shell. I can either spend all my time wishing it were perfect, trying to imagine it the way it was or might have been, or I can see how beautiful it is just like this.

  James Howe

  Beautiful, Broken, Perfect

  James Howe (1997). “The Watcher”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills, skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you.

  Tom Glavine

  Movie, Taken, Skills

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• Part of what Im about is seeing how I can paint the same thing differently instead of different things the same way.

  Alex Katz

  Different, Way, Paint

  Gail Levin, Dewey F. Mosby, Alex Katz, Picker Gallery (1984). “Alex Katz, process and development: small paintings from the collection of Paul J. Schupf '58”

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• A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already

  Anish Kapoor

  Darkness, Kind, Residents

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• Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

  George Thorogood

  Moving, Albums, Records

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• I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me. Perhaps it was these desperate, bitter men in the West Stand at Arsenal who taught me how to get angry in this way; and perhaps it is why I earn some of my living as a critic – maybe it’s those voices I can hear when I write. ‘You’re a WANKER, X.’ ‘The Booker Prize? THE BOOKER PRIZE? They should give that to me for having to read you.

  Nick Hornby

  Football, Book, Writing

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• For as long as I can remember I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

  Mario Lemieux

  Hockey, Player, Long

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• I have two main reasons for retiring. The first is I can no longer play at a level I was accustomed to in the past. That has been very, very frustrating to me throughout this past year. The second one is realizing my health, along with my family, is the most important thing in the world.

  Mario Lemieux

  Past, Years, Play

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• Woo-hoo! I'm 40. I can say that now.

  Kelly Ripa

  "Kelly Ripa Loves Date Night and 'a Little Bump and Tickle'" by Tim Nudd, people.com. October 6, 2010.

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• I think I have a better sense of my weaknesses - being self-important, selfish and having a big ego probably triggers all the other stuff. I can see myself more clearly.

  K. D. Lang

  Selfish, Thinking, Ego

  "I'm mistaken for a man every day". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2008.

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• And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

  Oksana Baiul

  Sports, Hiking, Skating

  "Oksana Baiul: Online Interview". Interview, www.goldenskate.com. March 7, 2003.

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• I just try to play music from my heart and bring as much beauty as I can to as many people as I can. Just give them other alternatives, especially people who arent exposed to creative music.

  Charlie Haden

  Heart, Play, People

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• I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father, to me, and what can happen to my kids.

  Archie Shepp

  Father, Kids, Race

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• I really like Rafer Alston. We get along great. We have a lot of fun times together that I can’t share with you guys.

  Jalen Rose

  Funny, Guy, Together

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• God forbid if David Crosby gets sick again and I can't tour anymore, or something happens where I can't get around, what am I going to live on? I'm going to be living on mechanicals. So I don't want to hear it

  Stephen Stills

  Sick, Want, Crosby

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• Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional.

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon

  People, World, Helping

  Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2015). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.115, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• My heart beats as much as I can breathe.

  Marco Polo

  Heart, Breathe, Beats

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• The rate of childhood obesity is just ridiculous. Anytime I can get involved with teaching them how to get physical exercise, I want to help in any way possible

  Shannon Miller

  Teaching, Exercise, Childhood

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• The whole universe or the structure that perceives it is a worthy opponent, but try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.

  Julian Assange

  Summer, Men, Talking

  "Witnessing". Selected Correspondence, Julian Assange's old blog, IQ.org (via Archive.org), web.archive.org. January 3, 2007.

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• I feel most badly, though, [because] after 10 years, I was at the company, I wanted to go back to New York where I was from. Why I didn’t go to Steve Jobs and say, ‘Steve, let’s figure out how you can come back and lead your company.’ I didn’t do that, it was a terrible mistake on my part. I can’t figure out why I didn’t have the wisdom to do that. But I didn’t. And as life has it, shortly after that, I was fired.

  John Sculley

  Jobs, New York, Mistake

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• I can never be on time for anything. I'm always 10 or 15 minutes late.

  Ray Toro

  Minutes, Late

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• I didn't go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count - the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position.

  Bob Corker

  Tactics, Failing, Princeton

  Twitter post from Sep 19, 2013

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• I can't sing and I can't dance, but I can lick any S.O.B. in the house.

  Jack Dempsey

  House

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• I strive to live with passion and not to be desensitised to life. Things matter to me. You’ve got to live like that. Otherwise what’s the point? It’s not possible to please everyone and there is no point in trying to be what other people think you should be. For me, it’s important to be who I am, not just to be different but to be as authentic as I can be.

  Pep Guardiola

  Passion, Thinking, Who I Am

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