Y Quotes
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“You can be a great president and be ridden with flaws. Of course we know that.”
“You can be a great reporter and not be such a great talk show host.”
“You can be a hero to someone just by being their friend.”
“You can be a hunchback and a dwarf and what-all. If you write beautifully, you can write beautifully.”
“You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.”
“You can be a leader without being intimidating. The horse can be your partner without being your slave. I’m trying to keep the best part of the horse in there. I’m not trying to take anything away from him.”
“You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage.”
“You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.”
“You can be a little ungrammatical if you come from the right part of the country.”
“You can be a loser all the time; but if you feel yourself like a winner, you will be a winner”
“You can be a lot more subtle on TV, which is funny because I feel like TV is known for being the opposite of that. The thing we experience in life is that things are not overly dramatic, and things often happen in really small ways.”
“You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.”
Source: For One More Day
“You can be a mason and build 50 buildings, but it doesn't mean you can design one.”
“You can be a member of all of the romance writers associations, take part in all of the networking available, or win the latest romance award... but guess what? None of that makes a difference if you don't WRITE something people want to READ. The greatest editor in the world won't make your book a best seller if it isn't something people care about. So forget all of the fluff that clouds your purpose... writing!!”
“You can be a model to the masses, but to go to the higher levels of influence, you have to work with individuals.”
Source: Maxwell 2-in-1 Becoming a Person of Influence & Talent Is Never Enough
“You can be a mother and still be completely sexy.”
“You can be a natural athlete with terrible work habits, and that ends up wasting your gifts.”
Source: Playing Ball: Life Lessons from My Journey to the Super Bowl and Beyond
“You can be a nice guy that wants to kill himself.”
“You can be a nuisance to your family. You mustn't be a nuisance to your friends.”
“You can be a patriotic American and be a critic, but then you're not expressing that kind of love that we're used to from a president.”
“You can be a permanent fixture in my lyrical mixture.”
“You can be a person with a strong passion or holy anger and be furious in a way that will make the society safer, godly, with social justice and equity.”
Source: The Mountain of Ignorance
“You can be a pharaoh. Like, a pharaoh means, that which you will become.”
“You can be a Polish American, or an Arab American, or a Greek American but you can't be English American. Why not?”
“You can be a promotor or a prohibitor of your own happiness. Whatever you choose, choose what is best.”
Source: Dear Daughter: Short and Sweet Messages for a Queen
“You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.”
“You can be a scientist and believe in god: the two can go hand in hand.”
“You can be a sincere person devoting yourself to your husband child or boss, but your sincerity cannot and will not, fill the gap in your knowledge about your life purpose”
“You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.”
“You can be a star here in Europe and not be known at all in the United States.”
“You can be a They and be a billionaire. Not all billionaires are happy and fulfilled. My whole thing is, add value to whoever you meet. Sometimes, the value is just being happy and loving, giving an extra couple of moments to look someone in the eye. Nothing replaces authentic feeling and emotion.”
“You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.”
“You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'”
“You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.”
“You can be a very charitable capitalist. Like [Nicola] Sarkozy was saying, we have to 'moralise capitalism', which for me is a contradiction in terms.”
“You can be a victim of a crime and not exercise great judgment. And when women have been sexually assaulted, they feel like they have to have been perfect in order to have anybody believe them. They think nobody will believe them unless a stranger jumped out from behind a bush with a knife - not that they got too drunk and that a guy they thought they knew, you know, took advantage of them in a physical, assaultive way.”
“You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.”
“You can be a victim or you can be rich, but you can't be both. Listen up! Every time, and I mean every time, you blame, justify, or complain, you are slitting your financial throat.”
“You can be a victim, or you can lock and load.”
“You can be a warrior and be full of grace and class.”
Source: Wildflower
“You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.”
“You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”
“You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.”
Source: Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success
“You can be active with the activists or sleep in with the sleepers while you're waiting for the Great Leap Forwards.”
“You can be addicted to misery the same way as you can be addicted to drugs.”
“You can be addicted to White Supremacy and all of the benefits, you can be addicted to male privilege and all of the benefits that comes from it. It's like someone pointing at you and you have a stain on your shirt and you don't even know it.”
“You can be affected by a person because of something particular they said or did but sometimes how a person was, a manner of being, that gets most deeply absorbed, and prompts you to revisit certain parts of your life with an enhanced perspective, flowing forward right up to now.”
Source: On Such a Full Sea: A Novel
“You can be afraid and still strong, still fearless and indomitable. You can be afraid, and you can trust, and then when you're ready, you can let go of the fear. Fear muffles you. Let it go, and then you can live out loud again like you're meant to.”
Source: Code of Conduct
“You can be afraid in a press conference, nervous, sweaty, but you can't be afraid when you do your work because it doesn't work that way.”
“You can be afraid to voice your opinions but you just fight through it. It's like NIKE okay you just do it.”