Because I Can Quotes

• I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. It doesn't change God - it changes me.

  C. S. Lewis

  Helping, Praying, Change God

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Marriage

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• People invite me to dinner not because I can cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from windex. Yes, I do windows.

  Carol Burnett

  Women, People, Dinner

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• A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul

  Tupac Shakur

  Mirrors, Self, Who I Am

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• You only need a heart full of grace

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Greatness, Helping Others

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  College, Helping Others, Greatness

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• Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Helping Others, Greatness

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• Being famous is having the power to really implement positive change in the world, and it gives you the power to do what you want. I'm really grateful for it because I can play music and people will listen.

  Sean Lennon

  Grateful, Play, People

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

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• I often close my eyes because I can't tolerate violence.

  Christine Baranski

  Eye, Violence, Tolerate

  Interview with Justina Hart, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 1999.

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• I find that when I play reality-based characters, it is only as fun for me if I have a lot of time to do research. If I don't it just isn't exciting but if I do, it can be fun because I can learn about that person and the world that they live in and I can become somebody else

  Daryl Hannah

  Fun, Character, Reality

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• I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.

  Cary Grant

  Self, Giving, Experience

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• People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

  Rowan Atkinson

  Thinking, People, Laughing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I'm quite shy, so if there's a guy I like, I actually ignore him because I can't speak to him. I get all red and sweaty, and it's embarrassing.

  Silvia Colloca

  Guy, Shy, Red

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• I listen to XM radio because I can get so many overseas news stations.

  William Hurt

  News, Radio, Stations

  Interview with Daniel Robert Epstein, suicidegirls.com. September 18, 2005.

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• Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all. My biggest single concern used to be getting enough to eat. Now I have to worry about eating too much. I never used to bother with exercises. Now I spend at least 10 minutes each morning working out with small weights. I have evolved my own exercises, for the muscles I wish to keep firm, and I know they are right for me because I can feel them putting the proper muscles into play as I exercise.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Morning, Exercise, Play

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• I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Fun, Awards, Ordinary

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I speak because I can to anyone I trust enough to listen.

  Laura Marling

  Speak, Enough, I Can

  Song: I Speak Because I Can, Album: I Speak Because I Can, 2010

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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 write poetry because I can’t disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I’ve been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can’t be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Song, Block, Spring

  Gabriela Mistral (2009). “Madwomen: The "Locas mujeres" Poems of Gabriela Mistral, a Bilingual Edition”, p.17, University of Chicago Press

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• I'm not interested in 'abstracting' or taking things out or reducing painting to design, form, line, and color. I paint this way because I can keep putting more things in it - drama, anger, pain, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas about space. Through your eyes it again becomes an emotion or idea.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Drama

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• I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.

  Willem de Kooning

  Horse, Pain, Integrity

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• I think that collaboration makes me a better director and observer and writer because I can look at things in a different way.

  Saschka Unseld

  Thinking, Different, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.

  Jenny Holzer

  I Can

  "Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side". Interview With Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 4, 2012.

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• When I say: "I'm looking at you, I can see you", that means: "I can see you because I can't see what is behind you: I see you through the frame I am drawing. I can't see inside you". If I could see you from beneath or from behind, I would be God. I can see you because my back and my sides are blind. One can't even imagine what it would be like to see inside people.

  Paul Virilio

  Mean, Drawing, People

  Source: ctheory.net

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• I really enjoyed judges critiques because I can always grow and improve from that. I don't think any of the judges are intimidating.

  Shirley Chung

  Thinking, Judging, Intimidating

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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