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“You can assert a fifth amendment privilege and not testify. But if you go in and swear to tell the truth, then you better do it. Otherwise, if a prosecutor finds that you have testified in a way that is factually incorrect and you had reason to know that it was factually incorrect, then you're guilty of perjury.”
“You can assess a culture to a degree by the way they receive movies and how they receive a given celebrity.”
“You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.”
“You can assume all you want about me. It doesn't mean that it's true.”
“You can assume that if a writer's work has survived for centuries, there are reasons why this is so, explanations that have nothing to do with a conspiracy of academics plotting to resuscitate a zombie army of dead white males.”
Source: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
“You can at any time decide to alter the course of your life; no one can take that away.”
“You can at least let sick people have marijuana because it's helpful. But the compassionate conservatives say, well we can't do this, we're going to put people who are sick and dying with cancer and are being helped with marijuana if they have multiple sclerosis - the federal government is going in there and overriding state laws and putting people like that in prison.”
“You can attain your highest potential.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You can attract him, retain him, motivate and inspire him daily with your sensuality so much that he has no desire for any other woman besides you and has the strongest will to succeed.”
Source: Sensual Lifestyle
“You can attract more bees with a spoonful of sugar than a cupful of vinegar.”
“You can attract only that which you mentally become and feel yourself to be in reality.”
Source: Creative Mind and Success
“You can attract others' attention with your style; you can teach with your style; you can give hope to others with your style; you can start a revolution with your style; style is a great power!”
“You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.”
“You can avoid the issues from abuse for only so long. Sooner or later, the problems in your life cause you to either face it or go deeper into denial. Most of you will eventually be forced into admitting that it is indeed the sexual abuse that is the root of your problems. Even then, the tendency will be to ‘forgive and forget’ in the belief that by doing so the pain will be assuaged.”
Source: The Right to Innocence: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Therapeutic 7-Step Self-Help Program for Men and Women, Including How to Choose a Therapist and Find a Support Group
“You can avoid the press if you really want to and I don't walk around with five security guards either because I think that just draws attention.”
“You can avoid toilet water splash, and have a quieter pooping experience if you drop a piece of toilet paper in first.”
Source: sciVive
“You can awaken each day to obligations you never chose — or you can decide now to choose them.”
“You can bail water 24/7, and no matter how good you are at not sinking, you still have a hole in your boat.”
Source: Crossing Paths
“You can balance the unbalance.
Once you believe the unbelievable.
Then you will always be the best version of yourself.”
“You can barely sleep through the night,' he said carefully.
I retorted, 'Neither can you.'
But he just plowed ahead, 'You can barely handle being around other people-'
'You promised.' My voice cracked. And I didn't care that I was begging. 'I need to get out of this house.'
'Have Bron take you and Ianthe on a ride-'
'I don't want to go for a ride!' I splayed my arms. 'I don't want to go for a ride, or a picnic, or pick wildflowers. I want to do something. So take me with you.”
Source: A Court of Mist and Fury
“You can basically change everything in a startup but the market.”
“You can be 24 and continue to live like you're at college, or even continue to live like you're in high school. Or you can put on a shirt and tie and pretend to be an adult.”
“You can be a bad experiencer and still be an overly mature person.”
Source: The Influencer: Speed Must Have a Limit
“You can be a believer and still be human,
You can be an atheist and still be human.
You can be whatever and still be human,
But there's no such thing as a fundamentalist human.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“You can be a bigot in the US, but you can't come out and openly declare your support for racial nationalism.”
“You can be a boy, a girl, whatever you want. I have a lot of man in me.”
“You can be a business thinker.”
“You can be a career professional as a judge, a prosecutor, sometimes as a defense attorney, and never insist on fairness and justice. That's tragic and that's what we have to change.”
“You can be a caring person without empathy, but you CANNOT be empathetic just because you think you care”
Source: The Jamange Line
“You can be a catalyst for change but change never really entirely happens just because of one guy.”
“You can be a complainer. Or you can be an achiever. But you can't be both”
“You can be a couple in London who happen to take pictures of their breakfasts every day - it's called @symmetrybreakfast - and you can gain hundreds of thousands of followers overnight because people are genuinely interested in your unique angle on the world.”
“You can be a dreamer as long as you dont forget there's a reality and you are currently living it.”
“You can be a dreamer or a dream achiever. It’s up to you to be either one, both, or none at all.”
“You can be a dreamer, but don't live in your bed.”
“You can be a famous poisoner or a successful poisoner, but not both, and the same seems to apply to Great Train Robbers.”
“You can be a fanatical millennialist religious mystic, and you are, in a certain way, not outside of ideology. Your position can be that of perfectly describing the data and nonetheless your point is ideological.”
“You can be a flower in somebody's garden or a pig or the sunshine or a crow or a nightingale! Be something nice in someone else's garden.”
“You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.”
“You can be a French Canadian or an English Canadian, but not a Canadian. We know how to live without an identity, and this is one of our marvellous resources.”
“You can be a friend to someone who is to you not a friend.”
Source: On Friendship: A Satirical Essay
“You can be a genius, but you won't get far in life without balance.”
Source: The Firstborn Advantage: Making Your Birth Order Work for You
“You can be a German, you can be a Greek or a Spanish or a Japanese etc, but your true nation is the whole humanity!”
“You can be a giant among artists without ever attaining any great skill. Facility is a dangerous thing. When there is too much technical ease the brain stops criticizing. Don't let the hand fall into a smart way of putting the mind to sleep.”
“You can be a good human being and just be shrewd.”
“You can be a good mom and still work out, get your rest, have a career - or not. My mother encouraged me to find that balance.”
“You can be a good neighbor only if you have good neighbors.”
“You can be a good person without any racial intent and still want to keep the flag. That's what I learned in my time in the south.”
“You can be a great DJ and still be not very good at DJ Hero. And vice-versa: You can have never spun in your life on real turntables and be fine on DJ Hero.”
“You can be a great man and still be a fool. Many of our country’s leaders can attest to that. Were they still living.”
Source: Apprentice