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“You can have a hangover from other things than alcohol. I had one from women.”
Source: The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words
“You can have a healthy fossil-fuel balance sheet, or a relatively healthy planet”
Source: Oil and Honey: The Education of an Unlikely Activist
“You can have a kid and just be off at work all the time, and it's all mom. But, I spent a lot of time with him, so now, every time I see him, he's like, "Dada!"”
“You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.”
“You can have a laugh in Los Angeles, or you can weep in Los Angeles, depending on your attitude towards it.”
“You can have a lot of fun with rhinos”
Source: Inspector Hobbes and the Curse
“You can have a lot of New York and still see what's going on in the rest of the world, I think - like in China.”
“You can have a lot of unhappiness by not having money, but the reverse is no guarantee of happiness.”
“You can have a Masters degree in making money, but you will still wind up broke if you have a PhD in spending it.”
“You can have a million dollar, 20 million dollar budget or 60 million dollar budget, and if you don't have a good script, it doesn't mean a thing.”
“You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane.”
“You can have a perfectly horrible day where you doubt your talent... Or that you're boring and they're going to find out that you don't know what you're doing.”
“You can have a pet zebra and put that zebra into a small cage every day and tell the zebra that you love it, but no matter how you and the zebra love each other, the fact remains, that the zebra should be let out of that cage and should belong to someone who can treat it better, the way it should be treated, someone who can make it happy.”
“You can have a phenomenal booth artist and he can get in there and be a technician in the booth and it won't translate on the stage. I think that's what makes emcees emcees. Some rapper dudes are great rappers but it don't translate on stage.”
“You can have a poem like "B-Movie" and sum up thirty conversations that people have had on the subject, but I wrote it down, and other people didn't.”
“You can have a respectable profession and a good income and still lack common sense.”
Source: In Limbo
“You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.”
“You can have a role in a movie that was originally something minor in terms of screen time, and all of a sudden we see something and go, wow, that's cool.”
“You can have a silence full of words. A lute retains, in its bowl, the notes it has played. The viol, in its strings, holds a concord. A shriveled petal can hold its scent, a prayer can rattle with curses; an empty house, when the owners have gone out, can still be loud with ghosts.”
“You can have a similar experience in your own life. You can change, even if you consider yourself a "night person"...Almost any habit-good or bad-can be set in about twenty-one days. With firm resolve, we can make the needed changes in our lives.”
“You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.”
“You can have a startup and one other thing, you can have a family, but you probably can't have many other things.”
“You can have a striker who scores 50 goals in one season but if you win nothing it means nothing.”
“You can have a strong economy or you can help the environment, but you can't do both at the same time. That's ridiculous. In fact, as a sustainable vision for a healthy economy has to involve changing our energy policy and changing with respect to the natural world. Because we're hitting nature's thresholds, we're hitting nature's limits with respect to water and crop yields and energy use and fossil fuels heating the atmosphere at the same time we're past global peak and running out of that.”
“You can have a strong government and a weak people, or strong people and weak government, but you cannot have both.”
Source: The Entrepreneur: The Way Back for the U.S. Economy
“You can have a table full of gourmet food, but the minute you put a box of Entenmann's doughnuts out, that's all people are gonna talk about.”
“You can have a team of unconventional thinkers, as well as conventional thinkers. If you don't have the support of others you cannot achieve anything altogether on your own. It's like a cry in the wilderness. In each instance there were others who could see the same thing, and there were others who could not. It's an obvious difference we see in those who you might say have a bird's eye view, and those who have a worm's eye view. I've come to realize that we all have a different mind set, we all see things differently, and that's what the human condition is really all about.”
“You can have a very intense relationship with fictional characters because they are in your own head.”
“You can have a wages policy imposed by mass unemployment.”
“You can have a whole warehouse full of weapons, but if someone attacks you need to get that weapon fast. If you have to run to the warehouse and look around, you're going to get killed. You're better off with a little backpack of weapons instead of that warehouse.”
“You can have a worldwide shop from your bedroom. You can do things that weren't even dreamed of when I started off in business. It's why technology is the most wonderful thing for small businesses.”
“You can have a wrestling idea, but you need to have these momentum-shifting moves. We had the Hulkamania movement, then it shifted to the beer-drinking, Stone Cold era, we reinvented the business with growing the black beard and becoming the bad guy, what's that next level.”
“You can have all of me, I silently told him, but I'm taking all of you in return.”
“You can have all of your doctrines right—yet still not have the presence of God.”
“You can have all sorts of relationships, but there's something with musicians working together where you can have relationship that can just continue to grow in a beautiful way.”
“You can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets.”
Source: Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties
“You can have all the agents and publicists in the world but no one's ever going to give you 110 per cent like someone who loves you.”
“You can have all the capabilities; if you don't have the quality people, you don't have much.”
“You can have all the certifications in the world, but if your skills and experience do not contribute to a business's success, you might be undervalued.”
“You can have all the external experiences but you have to be the love first.”
“You can have all the gun control laws in the country, but if you don't enforce them, people are going to find a way to protect themselves. We need to recognize that bad people are doing bad things with these weapons. It's not the law-abiding citizens, it's not the person who uses it as a hobby.”
“You can have all the intelligence in the world and don't have enough stamina. I have seen some very bright, bright women who do not have the stamina for husbands.”
“You can have all the knowledge and skills in the world, but if your money “blueprint” isn't set for success, you're financially doomed.”
“You can have all the money, cars and clothes but at the end of the day what about your legacy.”
“You can have all the money in the world, one of the biggest mansions ever built, be one of the most famous people in the world, and still be as unhappy as Mariah Carey was. Money and fame don't make people happy. Only God does. Amen.”
Source: Life Stories
“You can have all the money in the world. You can be a multi-billionaire, but if you do not have your health it means nothing. Your health is the No. 1 important thing in your life.”
“You can have all the muskets you want! You can even have assault muskets!...Their (the NRA's) paranoid fear of a possible dystopic future prevents us from addressing our actual dystopic present. We can't even begin to address 30,000 gun deaths that are actually, in reality, happening in this country every year because a few of us must remain vigilant against the rise of an imaginary Hitler.”
“You can have all the potential in world, but unless you have confidence, you have nothing.”
“You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you dont have your health, you have nothing.”
“You can have all the right reasons in the world. They don’t mean shit, my friend, if what you do causes harm.”
Source: Kinked