Often Can Quotes

• Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  "The Graduation Speech I'd Give, if Anyone Asked" by Karina Bland, www.azcentral.com. June 03, 2015.

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• Plenty of women say, "I'm just going to make myself into a sex object." But they often can't stay afloat doing that. They can't maintain their sanity. Some women can, but many cannot. They think they can, but self-objectification is really dangerous.

  Anna Biller

  Sex, Thinking, Self

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Some [people] may be "servants of the power structure," but that has to be shown. I think it often can be shown, but the burden of proof is on the critic who puts forth that thesis in particular cases.

  Noam Chomsky

  Thinking, Burden Of Proof, People

  Source: www.publicanthropology.org

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• Symbols mean something and symbols often can spark hope and action in people particularly young people.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mean, People, Sparks

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• But the problem remains two fold: the need for recognition that low thyroid function very often can provoke menstrual problems, and the need for recognition, too, that hypothyroidism may be present despite laboratory tests suggesting it is not.

  Broda Otto Barnes

  Pms, Two, Needs

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• Coming before God in quietness & waiting upon Him in silence often can accomplish more than days of feverish activity.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Silence, Waiting, Accomplish

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• The nature of the hybrid research/design model means that we often can see design efforts as attempts not to concretize the outcomes of research but instead to justify, promote, or initiate them

  Paul Dourish

  Mean, Design, Effort

  Paul Dourish, Genevieve Bell (2011). “Divining a Digital Future: Mess and Mythology in Ubiquitous Computing”, p.40, MIT Press

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• When the idea comes, I often can't remember where it came from. I remember very little about writing the first series of Hitchhiker's. It's almost as if someone else wrote it.

  Douglas Adams

  Writing, Ideas, Littles

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• What we assert, very often can become our reality. To some degree, everybody can try to shape and control their fate. Everybody picks an identity.

  David O. Russell

  Fate, Reality, Trying

  Source: collider.com

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• I often can't remember which scenes are and aren't in the final product, because I saw so many different versions of the Lemony Snicket that I forget which ended up on the cutting-room floor.

  Daniel Handler

  Cutting, Different, Finals

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• Because of the war on drugs, pain patients are treated with skepticism and pain doctors live in fear of being prosecuted for overprescribing. The end result is that addicts still get their opioids without much trouble, while genuine patients often can't find treatment. Those who do must typically be tracked in a database and must schedule frequent, expensive doctor visits for surveillance like urine testing.

  Maia Szalavitz

  Pain, War, Doctors

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• There was a genocide unfolding against Bosnian Muslims and we, in the United Kingdom, were incredibly angered - a teenager at the time, 15 years old, so my young teenage mind processed that in a way typical to the very passionate and angry and black-and-white way that teenagers often can do.

  Maajid Nawaz

  Teenage, Black And White, Years

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• It's one of the ironies of investing. The rich can afford to take risks, but they don't need to. The poor need to take risks, but they often can't afford to.

  Jonathan Clements

  Risk, Needs, Investing

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• Advertising has always been the Peck's Bad Boy of American business urging us to buy things we probably don't need and often can't afford.

  Andrew Hacker

  Boys, Needs, Bad Boy

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• It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you can't be aware of what you're doing that's tough and brave at the time that you're doing it because if you knew that it was brave, then you'd be scared.

  Lena Dunham

  Strong, Fun, Interesting

  Interview with Claire Danes, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 11, 2012.

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• By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.

  Christian Dior

  Creativity, Revolution, Sincerity

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• Appearances are not reality; but they often can be a convincing alternative to it. You can control appearances most of the time, but facts are what they are. When the facts are too sharp, you can craft a cheerful version of the situation and cover the facts the way that you can covered a battered old four-slice toaster with a knitted cozy featuring images of kittens.

  Dean Koontz

  Reality, Cheerful, Toasters

  Dean Koontz (2007). “The Good Guy”, p.103, Bantam

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  We often can't see what God is doing in our lives, but God sees the whole picture and His plan for us clearly.

  Tony Dungy

  Religious, Religion, Plans

  FaceBook post by Tony Dungy from Nov 07, 2011

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• You should smile more often.' 'Can't.' He grunted as he opened her shirt to expose her chest. 'My face might freeze like that.

  Larissa Ione

  Might, Faces, Shirts

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• She asked me what made me do such a thing. That is an awkward question because I often can't tell what makes me do things. Sometimes I do them just to find out what I feel like doing them. And sometimes I do them because I want to have some exciting things to tell my grandchildren.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Grandchildren, Awkward, Want

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• A word of appreciation often can accomplish what nothing else could accomplish.

  B. C. Forbes

  Appreciation, Accomplish

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• Someone responding to intuition, to chance and fortune, often can't explain himself well.

  Alec Wilkinson

  Intuition, Chance, Fortune

  Alec Wilkinson (2012). “The Ice Balloon”, p.20, HarperCollins UK

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• Everyone tries to create a world he can live in, and what he can't use he often can't see. But the real world is already created, and if your fabrication doesn't correspond, then even if you feel noble and insist on there being something better than what people call reality, that better something needn't try to exceed what, in its actuality, since we know it so little, may be very surprising. If a happy state of things, surprising; if miserable or tragic, no worse than what we invent.

  Saul Bellow

  Real, People, Trying

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• I wish I were strong enough to ignore what others say, but experience tells me I often can't. Allowing myself to feel upset, even really upset, and then move on - that's something I can do.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Strong, Moving, Boss

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.59, Knopf

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• People often can't separate, or can't understand, that to be funny is to be serious; it's a way of pulling people in and not scaring them off. I think a lot of the funny stuff, underneath it, there's a deep anxiety going on.

  Nick Cave

  Thinking, People, Anxiety

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