Can Do Quotes - Page 19

• I think perhaps of all the things a police state can do to its citizens, distorting history is possibly the most pernicious.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Thinking, Police, Citizens

  "The Past Through Tomorrow" by Robert A. Heinlein, G. P. Putnam Inc., (p. 401), 1967.

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• When a man and woman are successfully in love, their whole activity is energized and victorious. They walk better, their digestion improves, they think more clearly, their secret worries drop away, the world is fresh and interesting, and they can do more than they dreamed that they could do. In love of this kind sexual intimacy is not the dead end of desire as it is in romantic or promiscuous love, but periodic affirmation of the inward delight of desire pervading an active life.

  Walter Lippmann

  Men, Thinking, Interesting

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• I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Desire, Would Be, Matter

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Part I, Book IV, Ch. 23, 1605.

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• It is stupid to grieve for the loss of a girl friend: you might never have met her, so you can do without her.

  Cesare Pavese

  Girl, Stupid, Loss

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.105, Transaction Publishers

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• It had to happen to you, to concentrate your whole life on one point, and then discover that you can do anything except live at that point.

  Cesare Pavese

  Whole Life, Happens, Whole

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.66, Transaction Publishers

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• I believe in talent. I know you're not supposed to believe in that anymore because you're supposed to believe if you just work hard you can do anything. That's how you succeed, maybe. But talent is something you're born with. You cannot acquire it by working hard, and you cannot lose it by lying around either.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Lying, Believe, Hard Work

  Interview with Phong Bui, brooklynrail.org. March 4, 2014.

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• This is a quantum universe ... neither random nor determined. It is potential at every second. All you can do is intervene.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Determined, Quantum, Every Second

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• When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Uncles, Struggle

  "The Ballot or The Bullet (Cleveland Version)". Malcolm X's speech at Cory Methodist Church in Cleveland, Ohio (April 3, 1964) as quoted in "Malcolm X Speaks: Selected Speeches and Statements" edited by George Breitman (pp. 23-44), 1965.

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• The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.

  Thomas Carlyle

  People, Dumb, Dumb People

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.93

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• You can do something with talent, but nothing with genius.

  Margot Asquith

  Genius, Talent, Can Do Something

  Margot Asquith (1933). “More Memories”

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• I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.

  Arjun Rampal

  Memories, Routine, Weight

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• The trick is to combine your waking rational abilities with the infinite possibilities of your dreams. Because, if you can do that, you can do anything.

  Richard Linklater

  Dream, Waking, Infinite

  "Fictional character: Guy Forsyth". "Waking Life", www.imdb.com. 2001.

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• No man ever did or can do a great work alone.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Work, Men, Great Work

  Elbert Hubbard (1912). “Little journeys to the homes of eminent artists”

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• I believe that the best way to prepare for a Future Life is to be kind, live one day at a time, and do the work you can do best, doing it as well as you can.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Work, Believe, One Day At A Time

  Elbert Hubbard (1901). “A Message to Garcia”

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• The worst evil that you can do, psychologically, is to laugh at yourself. That means spitting in your own face.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Evil, Laughing

  Question period following Lecture 11 of Leonard Peikoff's series "The Philosophy of Objectivism", 1976.

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• It's very important that people aspire to be successful. The only way you can do it is if you look at somebody who is.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, People, Important

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• America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

  Barack Obama

  Struggle, Commitment, Sacrifice

  Announces the Death of Osama Bin Laden, delivered 1 May 2011

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• Consider what God can do, and you will never despair of success.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Despair

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• I don't think my films are going to get rid of racism or prejudice. I think the best thing my films can do is provoke discussion.

  Spike Lee

  Thinking, Racism, Prejudice

  Spike Lee, Cynthia Fuchs (2002). “Spike Lee: Interviews”, p.26, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• And, because of the life that I shared with these two amazing women [her mother and maternal grandmother] and the hardships and struggles that I saw them overcome, I learned an invaluable lesson, and that is that women can do anything we set our minds to... and then some!

  Gloria Estefan

  Mother, Struggle, Two

  Address to the League of United Latin American Citizens, July 01, 2005.

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• [Demystifying lesbian sex for an interviewer] In a way, the sex isn't really that different... From what I can tell, no, not really. All the things that men and women do together, think of everything that men and women do together, women and women can do together. And that makes you realize that sex is just simply about connecting with another person, or about intimacy.

  Jennifer Beals

  Sex, Men, Thinking

  Asahi Radio Interview, publications.asahi.com. 2008.

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• You can have an Apple in the phone business, or a RIM, and they can do very well, but when 1.3 billion phones a year are all smart, the software that's gonna be most popular in those phones is gonna be software that's sold by somebody who doesn't make their own phones.

  Steve Ballmer

  Smart, Phones, Years

  "Exclusive Interview With Steve Ballmer: Products, Competition, The Road Ahead". Interview with Michael Arrington, techcrunch.com. September 24, 2009.

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• Being is transcended by a concern for being. Our perplexity will not be solved by relating human existence to a timeless, subpersonal abstraction which we call essence. We can do justice to human being only by relating it to the transcendent care for being.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Essence, Justice, Care

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.91, Stanford University Press

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• However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

  Brian Aldiss

  Roles, Roles In Life

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good.

  Eric Hoffer

  Growing Up, Evil, Trying

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer. Section 26, 1973.

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