A Quotes
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“Anybody can get chewed out. It's the rare person who says, oh my god, you were right. As opposed to, no wait, the reason is... We've all heard that”
“Anybody can get from point A to point B, but how you get there, that's the fun part. That's the story. That's when you can really let go and let your uniqueness shine!”
“Anybody can get hit over the head.”
“Anybody can get lost in themselves.”
“Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.”
Source: Pigs in Heaven
“Anybody can go onstage and be dirty. You have to be funny, that's the key. You can say anything as long as it's funny. You can't take it too seriously up there. And people coming to see you can't take it too seriously.”
“Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. -Credited to Ms. Rose Written by Dan Clark”
Source: Chicken Soup for the Soul: Living Your Dreams: Inspirational Stories, Powerful Principles and Practical Techniques to Help You Make Your Dreams Come True
“Anybody Can Hate. Hate is Easy...Living Side by Side with Compassion, Tolerance and Respect Takes Real Courage.”
“Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.”
“Anybody can have a great album in themselves but it's not until you bring it out and put it into tangible form and creating it and working on it in the studio that all of that comes to life you know what I mean?”
“Anybody can have a life. Careers are hard to come by.”
“Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination.”
Source: Epigrams of Oscar Wilde
“Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”
Source: Mark Twain's Letters, Volume 2: 1867-1868
“Anybody can hear - it takes brains to listen.”
Source: Rites of Passage
“Anybody can jump a motorcycle. The trouble begins when you try to land it”
“Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.”
“Anybody can leap off a building.”
“Anybody can learn to think, or believe, or know, but not a single human being can be taught to feel... the moment you feel, you're nobody ― but-yourself ― in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else ― means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.”
“Anybody can leverage celebrity for profit.”
“Anybody can live in flesh and blood, but to live on long after the flesh has dissipated into nature – that’s the life I always wanted. Afterlife is about living in people's heart, not in some fictitious paradise. Do something so impossibly human that the humans aren't able to forget you ever.”
Source: Sin Dios Sí Hay Divinidad: The Pastor Who Never Was
“Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them.”
“Anybody can make 'good' music. I make terrible music, which is what makes it so different, and therefore better.”
“Anybody can make a baby without any checking, without thinking. This type of parenting can be tragic because one of the greatest actions a human being can do is to create another life.”
“Anybody can make a difference and be a voice for the voiceless.”
“Anybody can make a movie, if you have the will. The digital revolution has made it very inexpensive to make a film. Anybody who wants to can do it.”
“Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.”
“Anybody can make hood music or club records, that's not hard. But can you make music that touch people's souls. That's what I was out to do.”
“Anybody can make something up and have it sound believable. The hard part is remembering all the lies you've told, and all the people you've told them to, and then living the lies that have become your life.”
“Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.”
“Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.”
Source: The Alice Walker Collection: Non-Fiction
“Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm.”
“Anybody can play. The note is only 20 percent. The attitude of the motherfucker who plays it is 80 percent.”
“Anybody can populate a planet, by consent or by force, but to master the forces of a planet, it takes valour, curiosity and a ton of insanity - insanity for justice, insanity for equality, insanity for upliftment - without this insanity in a handful of lionhearts, no amount of sanity can lift up the torch of progress. Be vigorous, be insane and use your force of life for the good of your people, your society, your humankind, nay, our humankind.”
Source: Citizens of Peace: Beyond the Savagery of Sovereignty
“Anybody can put sexual content to music, but I feel like I took it to a next level where it's a mood or feel.”
“Anybody can put things together that belong together. to put things together that don't go together, and make it work, that takes genius like Mozart's. Yet he is presented in the play Amadeus as a kind of silly boy whom the gods loved.”
“Anybody can quit. Only a real champion and a person of character and strength can keep going and refuse to give up.”
“Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!”
Source: Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated
“Anybody can say anything they want. Hillary Clinton can control her own campaign.”
“Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am.”
“Anybody can see that the little money you get is half-wasted, because you cannot spend it to advantage. The worst food comes to the poor, which their poverty makes them buy and their necessity makes them eat. Their stomachs are the waste-basket of the State. It is their lot to swallow all the adulterations on the market.”
“Anybody can stay the night, takes backbone to stay the life.”
Source: Kral Fakir: When Calls The Kainat
“Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.”
“Anybody can turn their life around for the better, but people who make other people’s lives better because of them are the healers. They are the flowers.”
“Anybody can use science and technology without fundamentally altering his own frame of mind which governs how they are used.”
Source: Thought as a System
“Anybody can win - unless there happens to be a second entry.”
“Anybody can win the matches you can dominate, but it's the tough matches that are going to make the difference.”
“Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth”
Source: Napoleon Hill Collection
“Anybody can work when everything goes smoothly, when there is nothing to trouble him; but a man must be made of the right kind of stuff who can rise above the things which harass and handicap the weak, and do his work in spite of them. Indeed, this is the test of greatness.”
Source: Getting on
“Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.”
“Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.”