Can Do Quotes - Page 26

• The size of budgets does not alter my decision if I should do it. If there's a movie with a budget of only $1 million that I find interesting, then I'll sign up, but it has to be in the hands of a director who can do something with it. Ultimately, it's a director's medium.

  Andy Garcia

  Hands, Interesting, Decision

  "Smokin' Aces - Andy Garcia interview". Interview with Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Well, maybe there are one or two things about the double jeopardy concept that are overlooked. I could be charged with violating my probation. I could be charged for illegal possession of a firearm or violating his civil rights if I did kill him. But when you're making a movie, there's only so much that you can do. I know that some people, while thoroughly enjoying it, have said, It's a little bit implausible. But it's such great fun.

  Ashley Judd

  Fun, Rights, Two

  "A list at last" by Bob Strauss, www.theguardian.com. January 28, 2000.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• EA called my agency and made us an offer and I was really enthusiastic about this, really excited to do it. I had Need for Speed: Underground already, the first one. And I'm a bit of a gamer, and definitely car enthusiast, so I've done a lot of things to my cars that people can do in this game. Everything from after-market kits to styling them, exteriorly with wheels, rims, and kits. You name it I have some fun doin' that.

  Brooke Burke

  Fun, Agency, Games

  4 Copy quote

• They know they got the TV ad, they know they got the name recognition, they know that they can do a tie in with McDonald's or some fast food outlet and the money is just gonna flow in.

  Gene Siskel

  Mcdonalds, Names, Ties

  8 Copy quote

• I liked Nicole Kidman because she is so fashionable she can do less is more. It was very, very simple, but it was so chic. Some people thought she looked washed out, I didn't at all.

  Steven Cojocaru

  Simple, People, Less Is More

  "Interview with Steven Cojocaru, 'People'". "CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. March 25, 2002.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• If the Federal Reserve pursues a policy which Congress or the President believes not to be in the public interest, there is nothing Congress can do to reverse the policy. Nor is there anything the people can do. Such bastions of unaccountable power are undemocratic. The Federal Reserve System must be reformed, so that it is answerable to the elected representatives of the people.

  Wright Patman

  Believe, People, President

  10 Copy quote

• What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wisdom, Men, Politics

  Theodore Roosevelt (2006). “History as Literature and Other Essays”, p.197, Cosimo, Inc.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Nothing can do men of good will more harm than apparent compromises with parties that subscribe to antimoral and antidemocratic and anti-God forces. We must have the courage to detach our support from men who are doing evil. We must bear them no hatred, but we must break with them.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Wisdom, Party, Men

  13 Copy quote

• Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world, unconcerned that its infertility has been demonstrated and proved many times in history. What is more, it is not simply crude power that triumphs abroad, but its exultant justification. The world is being inundated by the brazen conviction that power can do anything, justice nothing.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Wisdom, Justice, Triumph

  Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. 1970.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Caron, Even though you just got here a few months ago, We've grown so close over these last few weeks And, I can remember, When you first got here, You wrote a piece of paper in my locker... I don't know why I'm crying so much man... You wrote a piece of paper in my locker that said, "KD MVP." And that's after we had lost two or three straight. And I don't really say much in those moments, But I remember that. I go home and I think about that stuff man. When you got people behind you, You can do whatever. And I thank you man, I appreciate you.

  Kevin Durant

  Home, Men, Thinking

  62 Copy quote

• Last but not least my family. My brother Tony, I love you. Thank you for beating me up when I was a kid. I always wanted to follow in your footsteps. I pray for you every night. You’ve taught me to feel confident in myself, believe in myself that I can do it when I didn’t think I could do it.
  
  Dad, it’s been an up-and-down road for all of us, but you’ve always been there supporting from afar, texting me Bible verses every single day, telling me you love me every single day. That builds me up and I thank you so much. I love you. I’m just glad you’re part of this journey with us.

  Kevin Durant

  Brother, Believe, Love You

  Kevin Durant's MVP Acceptance Speech, newsok.com. May 13, 2014.

  53 Copy quote

  Show source

• We set up a beta site, a test site, with movie, music and book reviews. If you're reading them and you want to buy a book or a ticket for a movie that's reviewed on the site, you can do that without leaving our site.

  Jay Chiat

  Book, Reading, Leaving

  8 Copy quote

• They can't do without electricity. They can do with less electricity.

  Kenneth Lay

  Economy, Electricity

  10 Copy quote

• It is not bad living in a monastery. I've done it many times in many lives. But I think you can do a better job outside the monastery, if you have the necessary component parts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Buddhism, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Character, Buddhism, Style

  4 Copy quote

• There's no way we can possibly understand anything. But we can see things, we can perceive things, and we can wonder. We can just be in a world of awe and wonder. That's the best we can do.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Science, Awe And Wonder

  7 Copy quote

• To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

  Henry James

  Literature, Injury, Humans

  'My Friend Bingham' (short story, 1867)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Best I can do for them is to give them every piece of information I can find and let them make the judgments. That's just my basic view of my function as a journalist.

  Jim Lehrer

  Views, Giving, Pieces

  "Jim Lehrer on Billy Bob, Reports of Rain and Stenography As Journalism". Interview with Liz Cox Barrett, www.cjr.org. June 2, 2006.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I have shown that those who deplore Artificial Intelligence are also those who deplore the evolutionary accounts of human mentality: if human minds are non-miraculous products of evolution, then they are, in the requisite sense, artifacts, and all their powers must have an ultimately mechanical explanation. We are descended from macros and made of macros, and nothing we can do is beyond the power of huge assemblies of macros.

  Daniel Dennett

  Mind, Evolution, Assembly

  8 Copy quote

• If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed.

  George Carlin

  Atheism, Best God, Diseased

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Public education is a good foundation on which to build a better life for each of us. And if we want to prove to these children who never made the mess in the first place that education is worth the trouble, our schools have to inspire them so they can do what they ought to do.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, School, Inspire

  7 Copy quote

• All forms of dogmatic religion should go. The world did without them in the past and can do so again.

  Theodore Dreiser

  Past, Atheism, World

  6 Copy quote

• It's not a good thing to be friends with people you're covering. There's just no point in doing it. It's tempting, but they're not going to consider you their friend anyway. They just know that you're somebody that can do something for them.

  Kurt Loder

  People, Covering, Literature

  5 Copy quote

• They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.

  Michael Crichton

  Thinking, Literature, Should

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Years, Atheism, Done

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.12, Rowman Altamira

  41 Copy quote

  Show source