I Can Quotes - Page 18

The thing that I have done throughout my life is to do the best job that I can and to be me.

Mae Jemison

Jobs, Best Job, Done

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To boast of a performance which I cannot beat is merely stupid vanity. And if I can beat it that means there is nothing special about it. What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

Emil Zatopek

Stupid, Mean, Vanity

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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

Edna O'Brien

Servant, Recollection

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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts.

Maya Angelou

New York, Children, Home

"Interview: How Libraries Changed Maya Angelou’s Life". Interview with Angela Montefinise, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 29, 2010.

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As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

James Weldon Johnson

Perfect, Aristocracy, Looks

James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.3, Courier Corporation

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I can no longer think what I want to think. My thoughts have been replaced by moving images.

Georges Duhamel

Moving, Thinking, Want

"Scenes de la vie future". Book by Georges Duhamel (p. 52), translated, 1930.

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I can see well enough on the 28-meter basketball court.

Yao Ming

Basketball, Enough, Meter

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Be a journalist. I can't get away from you guys, then I just mingle with you guys.

Yao Ming

Guy, Away From You, Get Away

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And for me there's still more material than 20 lifetimes that I can use up.

Jerry Garcia

Use, Lifetime, Materials

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The truth is I am inventing the maybe. I can only make the choices I make, so why torture myself with what I might have done, when all I can handle is what I have done? The Maybe Islands are hostile to human life.

Jeanette Winterson

Islands, Choices, Done

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Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.

Nathan Deal

Fall, Glitches, Atm

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Performance wasnt something that I intended to do. I was doing work that was about process, about the meaning of the making, trying to have a love-hate relationship with the object. I always feel safer if I can bring the viewer back to the making of it. I try to do that in a lot of different ways, by residue, by touch, by these processes that are basic to all of our lives...that people might relate to in terms of process, everyday activities- bathing, eating, etc.

Janine Antoni

Art, Hate, People

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Lord, protect me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies.

Robert Greene

Funny, Hater, Enemy

Twitter post from Apr 18, 2015

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And the only reason for making honey is so as I can eat it.

A. A. Milne

Bees And Honey, Reason, Honey Bee

A. A. Milne (2012). “Winnie-the-Pooh”, p.11, Egmont UK

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I bowl so slowly that if I don't like a ball I can run after it and bring it back

James M. Barrie

Running, Balls, Cricket

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It's not as if I can just pop on my show and be rude if I've had a hard day.

Neil Cavuto

Rude, Pops, Shows

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My own duty as a teacher...is not so much to interpret Beethoven, Wagner, or other masters of the past, but to give what encouragement I can to the young musicians of America. I...hope that just as this nation has already surpassed so many others in marvelous inventions and feats of engineering and commerce, and has made an honorable place for itself in literature in one short century, so it must assert itself on the...art of music...To bring about this result, we must trust the very youthful enthusiasm and patriotism of this country.

Antonin Dvorak

Country, Teacher, Encouragement

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I can stand out the war with any man.

Florence Nightingale

War, Men, Standing Out

Florence Nightingale, Lynn McDonald (2010). “Florence Nightingale: Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”, p.258, Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

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I can expect no sympathy or help from my family.

Florence Nightingale

Helping, My Family, No Sympathy

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If I can't dance then I'd rather be dead.

Anna Pavlova

Ifs

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Having limits to push against is how you find out what you can do. I have always been full of contradictions. I am shy but I love the freedom of the stage. I need reassurance but at the same time I don’t want it. I hate being afraid but I can’t help wanting to frighten myself. That is how you grow.

Sylvie Guillem

Hate, Needs, Shy

"Fear is the drug" by Judith Mackrell, www.theguardian.com. September 14, 2006.

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And I can't complain. After all, only women are able really to love.

Yasunari Kawabata

Complaining, Able

"Snow Country".

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Life means that I can live to see tomorrow.

Ieyasu Tokugawa

Mean, Tomorrow, Life Means

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When I am painting I have a general notion as to what I am about. I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Jackson Pollock

Flow, Painting, Notion

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I can control the flow of paint: there is no accident.

Jackson Pollock

Flow, Paint, Accidents

"Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner". Book by Ines Janet, 2007.

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