Cant Quotes - Page 11

• The moment is now and we cant get it back from the grave.

  Macklemore

  Moments, Graves

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• Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.

  William Hazlitt

  Real, Hypocrisy, Feelings

  William Hazlitt (1839). “Sketches and Essays”, p.44

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• Even as a kid in drawing class, I had real ambition. I wanted to be the best in the class, but there was always some other feller who was better; so I thought, It cant be about being the best, it has to be about the drawing itself, what you do with it. Thats kind of stuck with me.

  Damien Hirst

  Real, Ambition, Kids

  "Damien Hirst: 'I still believe art is more powerful than money'" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2012.

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• You gotta take care of yourself; you cant do anything in excess.

  Jorge Posada

  Excess, Care, Take Care Of Yourself

  "Jorge Posada Talks Fenway Franks, Booze - and Cameron Diaz". Interview with Alyssa Shelasky, www.grubstreet.com. June 7, 2011.

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• You cant build any kind of organization if youre not going to surround yourself with people who have experience and skill base beyond your own.

  Howard Schultz

  Skills, Organization, People

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• I cant live without Eucerin cream, lip gloss, gum, nail polish, and sparkly things.

  Kelis

  Nails, Gum, Lips

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• A president cant go to every memorial service.

  Nancy Gibbs

  Memorial, President, Memorial Service

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• If we cant face our losses, we cant be present either fully to everything that is. When people have cut off or not made peace with some part of themselves, they miss out on other aspects of life.

  Krista Tippett

  Cutting, Loss, People

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• I cant predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.

  Salar Kamangar

  Thinking, Web Content, Video

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• Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we cant rest on our laurels.

  Roy Barnes

  Today, Georgia, Laurels

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• In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You cant be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

  Chuck Todd

  Simple, Politician, Ted Kennedy

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• As a wheelchair user, you cant move about freely. Thats the only thing that bothers me a little. When Im in the Euro Group in Brussels, colleagues who want to talk to me have to come to me. But I hope they know that this has nothing to do with arrogance.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Moving, Arrogance, Want

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• You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.

  Dan Savage

  Writing, People, Want

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• A lot of people give up, but you cant stop me. If you close the door, Ill just jump out the window.

  Diane Warren

  Giving Up, Doors, People

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• It was the first time it had ever occurred to me, that this detestable cant of false humility might have originated out of the Heep family. I had seen the harvest, but had never thought of the seed.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Humility, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1872). “The Works of Charles Dickens”, p.239

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• You cant take good health for granted.

  Jack Osbourne

  Granted, Good Health

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• I cant solve the poverty problem, but there are things you can do to mitigate its effects on kids.

  Sal Albanese

  Kids, Poverty, Problem

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• People come to a company like Abbott sometimes and think, Its so big, I cant make a difference. I think just the opposite. I think everybody can make a difference.

  Miles D. White

  Thinking, Opposites, Differences

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• You cant be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

  Charles Soule

  Details, Time Management, Good Times

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• All models have faults - that doesnt mean you cant use them as tools for making decisions.

  Myron Scholes

  Mean, Decision, Tools

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• You cant just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Art, People

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• Go for the throat. If you cant, go for the nads.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Throat, Ifs

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• Really, running an underdog, insurgent political campaign against an opponent many folks think cant be beat, and going out and meeting folks and talking about your ideas for America and Washington, is a lot of fun and a real privilege.

  Michael Baumgartner

  Running, Fun, Real

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• If its tourist season, why cant we shoot them

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Tourists

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• There is nothing of permanent value (putting aside a few human affections) nothing that satisfies quiet reflection--except the sense of having worked according to one's capacity and light to make things clear and get rid of cant and shams of all sorts.

  Thomas Huxley

  Truth, Reflection, Light

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1920). “Readings from Huxley”

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