I Can Quotes - Page 21

• I don't think I've ever quite grown out of it, actually. There was a point where I could recite some of those Elvish verses - which I've mercifully forgotten. But I can still, if really pushed, recite the text of the inside of the ruling ring in the language of Mordor.

  Salman Rushdie

  Thinking, Language, Forgotten

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• I can't just sit on my daughter's bed and just say 'n---' all night and then put her to sleep. I just ain't gonna do that... I told the girls that these boys are racists, and they're not nice boys. But I think we can still enjoy the stories about the fishin' and the tradin'.

  Louis C. K.

  Girl, Daughter, Nice

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• I got a standard box. I don't never want nothing special. Then if I drop my box, I can borrow somebody else's.

  Wes Montgomery

  Music, Special, Want

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• My audience has developed so that they come to listen and are quiet, Thus I can work in a limited volume range and explore all the subtleties that can happen, which is my favorite part of the music.

  Kenny Burrell

  Music, Quiet, My Favorite

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• Playing live is about going for it .. it's about bringing it ... you should see a bunch of people trying out stuff, actually performing, instead of learning the record and recreating it note for note. I can't play the show the same way every night .. I really need to be in a creative environment, every night or I'll go nuts ... my manager accuses me of singing just long enough to get me to my next guitar solo - which is true.

  Brad Paisley

  Music, Night, Guitar

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• ... Jimmy Page bought a Les Paul because he liked mine, but it was stolen, so he bought a Standard everybody raved about .. that's what he's famous for, but his first Les Paul was a Custom like mine ... I can remember he played a Gretsch before that

  Albert Lee

  Music, Pages, Firsts

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• I don't know whether it was his (Charlie Christian's) melodic lines, his sound or his approach, but I hadn't heard anything like that before. He sounded so good and it sounded so easy, so I bought me a guitar and an amplifier and said now I can't do nothing but play! Really, welding was my talent, I think, but I sort of swished it aside.

  Wes Montgomery

  Music, Christian, Thinking

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• ... you watch Jimi Hendrix literally reinvent the instrument. He was playing from somewhere else. He was really a kind of hybrid, and I can't even begin to imagine where he came from

  Steve Vai

  Music, Somewhere Else, Watches

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• I practice more than ever ... mostly scales and arpeggios ... and anything I can't do.

  Julian Bream

  Music, Guitar, Practice

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• I been doing the same things as in my younger days, when I was coming up, and now here I am, an old man, up there in the charts. And I say, well, what happened? Have they just thought up the real John Lee Hooker, is that it? And I think, well, I won't tell nobody else! I can't help but wonder what happened.

  John Lee Hooker

  Music, Real, Men

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• There was nothing that I ever did, no conscious effort to do one kind of behavior or another, I can't explain what it was, but I can explain that the thinking of the time was that we didn't want to emulate our heroes. That wasn't kosher. 'Don't try to play the old cliches, play like yourself' - that's what people were saying

  Larry Coryell

  Music, Hero, Thinking

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• Astley comes to my side. 'Are you well?' 'No,' I tell him, voice hoarse. 'I am not well. I am broken inside. I am broken almost all-the-way deep, and I don't know...I don't know if I can ever be unbroken, let alone well again'

  Carrie Jones

  Broken Inside, Voice, Unbroken

  Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.83, A&C Black

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• I've got to have a place where I can find peace of mind.

  Princess Diana

  Mind, Peace Of Mind, Finding Peace

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• I had not been married scarcely five minutes, and made one proclamation of the Gospel, before it was reported that I had seven wives.... I am innocent of all these charges.... What a thing it is for a man to be accused of committing adultery, and having seven wives, when I can only find one. I am the same man, and as innocent as I was fourteen years ago; and I can prove them all perjurers.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Years, Wife

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• You know I could go for a sandwich, but uh, I'm not gonna open TWO jars! I can't be opening and closing all kinds of jars... cltaning, who KNOWS how many knives!?

  Brian Regan

  Knives, Two, Sandwiches

  "Brian Regan Live". Album by Brian Regan, 1997.

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• For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

  Tory Burch

  Beautiful, Design, Ifs

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• I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

  James Frey

  Running, Want, Destroying

  James Frey (2004). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.117, Anchor

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• I want a drink. I want fifty drinks. I want a bottle of the purest, strongest, most destructive, most poisonous alcohol on Earth. I want fifty bottles of it. I want crack, dirty and yellow and filled with formaldehyde. I want a pile of powder meth, five hundred hits of acid, a garbage bag full of mushrooms, a tube of glue bigger than a truck, a pool of gas large enough to drown in. I want something anything whatever however as much as I can.

  James Frey

  Dirty, Mushrooms, Want Something

  James Frey (2003). “A Million Little Pieces”, p.153, Rutgers University Press

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• I am maintaining my schedule of commuting to Washington, D.C. each week from Oregon so that I can spend my weekends and days when we are not in session traveling to communities throughout my district.

  Greg Walden

  Weekend, Oregon, Community

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• I can be whatever. I can wear shoes or don't wear shoes. I can tie my hair up or wear it down. It doesn't matter.

  Joss Stone

  Hair, Shoes, Ties

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• I feel I can really relate to a lot of young people.

  Big Sean

  People, Young, Feels

  "Kanye West Almost Walked Away From Latest Protege Big Sean" by Shaheem Reid, www.mtv.com. June 17, 2009.

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• We’ve been fighting about gay marriage for what, 15-20 years now. Is there any evidence that fighting gay marriage is contributing to a greater appreciation among the broad society of the marital institution? Is there any evidence that the re-institutionalization of marriage is happening as a result of opposing gay marriage? And the best answer I can give to that is 'no.'

  David Blankenhorn

  Appreciation, Fighting, Gay

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• But I can't find anybody. That's the problem. I don't know
  where they are. I mean, I've got an idea that there must be someone to play with. If I was going
  to play properly, I should need some really good people.

  Syd Barrett

  Mean, Play, Ideas

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• I can be very reserved about things. My business side isn't shy. I can be like a general. But I've got a shy side. I'm also a lot deeper than people think, and a lot more sensitive. But I don't let people in too much.'

  Michael Bay

  Thinking, People, Shy

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• I still feel like I can play defense at first base at a very high level

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Sports, Play, Defense

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