I Can Quotes - Page 37

• Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995

  Richard Krajicek

  Winning, Play, Looks

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• I can never acknowledge the right of slavery. I will bow down to no deity however worshipped by professing Christians - however dignified by the name of the Goddess of Liberty, whose footstool is the crushed necks of the groaning millions, and who rejoices in the resoundings of the tyrant's lash, and the cries of his tortured victims.

  Thaddeus Stevens

  Christian, Names, Tyrants

  "Shapers of the Great Debate on the Civil War: A Biographical Dictionary". Book by Dan Monroe and Bruce Tap, p. 255, 2005.

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• Nobody has a right to whip me but my own master, and nobody shall do so if I can prevent it

  Elizabeth Keckley

  Masters, My Own, Whips

  Elizabeth Keckley (1868). “Behind the scenes; or, Thirty years a slave, and four years in the White house”, p.33

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• I can pray better when I'm comfortable.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Praying, Comfortable

  Katherine Anne Porter, Joan Givner (1987). “Katherine Anne Porter: Conversations”, p.84, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top.

  Royal Robbins

  Climbing, Feet, Long

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• Our armed forces are not the thirtieth strongest in the world, but rather the second or third. We have the capability to take the world down with us. And I can assure you that this will happen before Israel goes under.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Israel, World, Force

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• The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself. They are in a lose/lose situation. If you are strong and fighting the weak, then if you kill your opponent then you are a scoundrel... if you let him kill you, then you are an idiot. So here is a dilemma which others have suffered before us, and for which as far as I can see there is simply no escape.

  Martin Van Creveld

  Strong, Fighting, Opponents

  "Sharon’s Last Option" by Martin Van Creveld, www.counterpunch.org. November 16, 2002.

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• I ain’t no hipster, but girl I can make your hips stir.

  Mac Miller

  Girl, Hipster, Rapper

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• I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Thankfulness, I Am Thankful, Admire

  Alfred Russel Wallace, Andrew Berry (2003). “Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology”, p.225, Verso

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• I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

  Jennifer Capriati

  Play, Trying, Levels

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

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• Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn underwear every day of my life and the fact that I'm painted as this exhibitionist is a little annoying. It's become a meme, I guess. Being someone who people want to photograph, you have to open yourself up to the positive and negative. It is what it is. If I get mad at it I'll look like a douchebag. But it's silly.

  Jon Hamm

  Believe, Silly, Talking

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