Because I Can Quotes - Page 13

• I'm very happy to have moved to West Ham, because I can play for a better team than Sheffield Wednesday.

  Paolo Di Canio

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• I've always been interested in space in pictures. I think my going deaf increased my spatial sense, because I can't get the direction of sound. I feel that I see space very clearly, and that's because I can't hear it. So it's a compensatory thing.

  David Hockney

  Thinking, Space, Sound

  Interview with Michael Govan, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 5, 2013.

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• I never have been a musician; I'm not actually capable. Because I can't even pretend to acquire the gift, all of my first feelings about art are still attached to music. I look at it yearningly, I look at it wonderingly. I behold it from afar, as something unattainable, something outside of myself, from which I can take nourishment, but I can't domesticate and master.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Art, Feelings, Musician

  "Music, Influence, and 'Deeply Unnecessary' Art". Interview with Ben Arthur, logger.believermag.com. March 17, 2015.

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• I think anyone who's not as good a writer as me is absolutely a hack, and I think anybody who's a slightly better writer than me is brilliant. So of course that makes me a horrible critic when it comes to books, because I can't distance my own experience from what I'm doing.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Distance, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2006.

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• Just because I can't change everything, doesn't mean I shouldn't try to change anything at all.

  Tim McIlrath

  Mean, Trying, Can't Change

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

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• Well, the beginning is actually quite easy, because I can still be quite free about the way I handle things - colours, shapes. And so a picture emerges that may look quite good for a while, so airy and colourful and new. But that will only last for a day at most, at which point it starts to look cheap and fake. And then the real work begins - changing, eradicating, starting again, and so on, until it's done.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Real, Fake

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• I'm a great admirer of cartoons, because I can't do cartoons.

  Bruce McCall

  Cartoon, Admirer, I Can

  "Tuning In to the Absurd". Interview with The New Yorker, www.newyorker.com. May 20, 2002.

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• A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness.

  Kenneth Faried

  Gay, People, Happiness And Love

  "Kenneth Faried, Denver Nuggets Star, Supports Gay Marriage And His Two Moms", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• I hate belongings. I hate clutter. It really bothers me because I can't think properly. If you've got distractions in front of you, your mind goes nuts.

  Simon Cowell

  Hate, Thinking, Nuts

  "'I'm quite odd. I do get very dark moods': Simon Cowell's most revealing - and surprising - interview ever". Interview with Rebecca Hardy, www.dailymail.co.uk. May 23, 2009.

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• I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Tired, Simple, I Love Myself

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.434, Random House

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• Even when I try to stir myself up, I just get irritated because I can't make anything come out. And in the middle of the night I lie here thinking about all this. If I don't get back on track somehow, I'm dead, that's the sense I get. There isn't a single strong emotion inside me.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Depression, Strong, Lying

  Banana Yoshimoto, Michael Emmerich (2002). “Goodbye Tsugumi”, p.163, Grove Press

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• One of the most wonderful things about being a Christian is that I don't ever get up in the morning and wonder if what I do matters. I live every day to the fullest because I can live it through Christ and I know no matter what I do today, I'm going to do something to advance the Kingdom of God.

  Charles Colson

  Christian, Morning, Kingdoms

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• I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Wall, Imagination, Imagine

  Georgia O'Keeffe, Anita Pollitzer (1990). “Lovingly, Georgia: The Complete Correspondence of Georgia O'Keeffe and Anita Pollitzer”, Touchstone Books

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• I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Fun, Anime, Want

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• I mean my point as an artist is I'm on my own little weird journey across the sky here and whether or not anybody's listening, or listening to the degree I would like them to, at the end of the day has to be an inconsequential thing because I can't chase this culture.

  Billy Corgan

  Mean, Journey, Artist

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• I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.

  Maurice Sendak

  Crazy, Essence, Likes

  Interview with Emma Brockes, www.believermag.com. November/December 2012.

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• Oh, how strenuous is life! I know a little of it. Men "ought always to pray, and not to faint." How fierce the battle! I know something of the conflict, but I ought not to faint, because I can pray.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Prayer, Men, Battle

  G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Westminster Pulpit vol. III: The Preaching of G. Campbell Morgan”, p.59, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Does a leaf, when it falls from the tree in winter, feel defeated by the cold? The tree says to the leaf: "That’s the cycle of life. You may think you’re going to die, but you live on in me. It’s thanks to you that I’m alive, because I can breathe. It’s also thanks to you that I have felt loved, because I was able to give shade to the weary traveller. Your sap is in my sap; we are one thing.

  Paulo Coelho

  Fall, Winter, Thinking

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• Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.

  J. D. Salinger

  Hate, Dresses, Looks

  j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”

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• This is what reading is like to me. It's finding a spring in the midst of a barren land. Just when I think I might up and die of thirst, I stumble onto this fresh, cold water, and I'm suddenly given this new life because I can-and do-drink to my heart's content.

  Beverly Lewis

  Spring, Reading, Heart

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• I'm not crazy about arenas just because I can sell them out. It doesn't do anything for my ego at all. I want to play places where people don't have to sit in the nosebleed seats and wonder what the hell is going on.

  Whitney Houston

  Crazy, Play, People

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• I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

  Sadie Frost

  Shoes, Icy, Walks

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

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• An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Humble, Vocabulary

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• I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory. Someone will come up to me in the street and go, 'Eddie!', and I'll try and give myself time by going into overdrive, 'Hey, hi! Nice to see you!' and start a whole conversation because I can't distinguish between who I know and who I don't.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Memories, Nice, Names

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• I only wear clothes because I can't walk around with nothing on, but they started calling me a fashionista.

  G-Dragon

  Clothes, Calling, Walks

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