Because I Can Quotes - Page 7

• Every time, my syncopation is different, because I can never play the same fill twice. I just can't, never have been able to. Even as a Beatle, they'd say, 'Oh, double-track that.' I don't know how you do that, because when I'm in a fill I'm sort of this blackout, just this pure me coming out and I can't pure me the same, twice. So, that's that.

  Ringo Starr

  Play, Track, Different

  Source: alltheseletters.com

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• Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.

  Martin Buber

  Mother, Distance, Book

  Martin Buber (1963). “Pointing the way: collected essays. Edited and translated with an introd. by Maurice S. Friedman”

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• I write almost all my songs on an acoustic guitar, even if they turn into rock songs, hard rock songs, metal songs, heavy metal songs, really heavy songs I love writing on an acoustic because I can hear what every string is doing; the vibrations haven't been combined in a collision of distortion or effects yet.

  Corey Taylor

  Song, Writing, Rocks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.

  Roger Federer

  Years, Tennis, Wimbledon

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• I loathe hair salons. People have always told me I am in the wrong business because I can't stand getting my hair cut or having it messed around with. Hairdressers feel as if they've got to be your shrinks. I just want them to do my hair so I can get out of there.

  Erin Wasson

  Cutting, Hair, People

  "The close-up". Interview with Simon Chilvers, www.theguardian.com. March 22, 2009.

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• I love comedy because I can laugh at myself. I dont take myself too seriously.

  David Alan Basche

  Laughing, Comedy, I Can

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• Okay, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.

  Kanye West

  Oxford, Giving, Quiet

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• I like my hair long, and I love my bangs. I love them because I can pin them back or keep the fringe with attitude.

  Cassie Steele

  Attitude, Hair, Long

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• I don't save money. Save is a four letter word! I like to borrow money because I can get richer faster on borrowed money. I have what is called retained earnings, so I don't have to save money. If I need money, I will go out and borrow it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Four, Letters, Earning

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• I love story-writing because I can (more or less, on occasion) actually DO it. That's really the truth. I like the idea that a story is sort of a site for making cool language effects - a site for celebrating language, and, therefore, the world. And the brevity is part of the challenge. I like stories because I get them - I know how to make beauty, or something like beauty, in that mode.

  George Saunders

  Writing, Ideas, Challenges

  Source: und.edu

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• I'll go to a city, a school, and give a lecture because I can feel someone there. I inwardly see first their is someone there who is waiting. Where they'll show up or not, I don't know. That depneds upon many factors.

  Frederick Lenz

  School, Buddhism, Cities

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• I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Thinking, People, Empathy

  Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor Roosevelt (1984). “A World of Love: Eleanor Roosevelt and Her Friends, 1943-1962”, Doubleday Books

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• I prefer more of the modern stuff - just because I can associate with the imagery more.

  Henry Cavill

  Stuff, Modern, Imagery

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 31, 2013.

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• I don't use any fance quill pens or pads, because I can't read my own handwriting. I just use whatever computer is laying around, and start writing.

  Mitch Albom

  Writing, Use, Pads

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• I love when I am around a veteran in [show] business. Because I can dig and ask questions, and find out the "who" and "what" of it all.

  Jill Scott

  Veteran, Shows, Show Business

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can't find it.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Moving, Book, Paris

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• Maybe because I can't even put together an IKEA desk, I've never been tempted to think of my own poems as built objects - but I do sometimes imagine them as mathematical constructs.

  James Arthur

  Thinking, Ikea, Together

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• I slept in Uday Hussein's bed - that was just so strange. Went to Saddam's palace, was in a mortar attack - crazy stuff. And like three days later you're back in traffic on Sunset Boulevard. It's all kind of behind you, which is kind of perfect for a guy like me because I can take that and turn it into quite the tale.

  Henry Rollins

  Crazy, Sunset, Perfect

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• I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.

  Grimes

  People, Perception, Cameras

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

  Philip Roth

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Nothing is staged exactly as it was, because I can't remember - and I consider that an advantage.

  Harold Prince

  Remember, Advantage, I Can

  Source: deadline.com

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• Mike Hammer drinks beer because I can't spell Cognac.

  Mickey Spillane

  Beer, Hammers, Cognac

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• It would be wrong of me to suppose that just because I can form private mental images, that everyone can. As Francis Galton and William James long ago showed, a small proportion of adults-and some of these extremely intelligent-are unable to form such visual images. Berkeley's point is that it would be equally arrogant for these non-thinkers or non-image formers to claim that everyone is like them in the relevant respect. The temptation to pontificate in that way reveals a narrowness and unwillingness to see the world from another perspective.

  David Berman

  Intelligent, Long Ago, Perspective

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• If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

  Francis Bacon

  People, Looks, Portraiture

  Francis Bacon (2005). “Francis Bacon: portraits and heads”, Natl Galleries of Scotland

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• I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

  Francis Bacon

  Illustration, Drawing, Would Be

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