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“You can put me in the basement or the penthouse, it doesn’t matter to me.”
“You can put off your dreams, your desires, your careers, your farms. You can avoid your responsibilities, obligations, promises, and sovereign rights. But any person who wants to make music, and doesn't, is a goddamned fool.”
“You can put on as many airs as you want, but in the end, that dress is the same as you: an old, cheap design dressed up to look like its worth more than it is.”
Source: Gameboard of the Gods: Age of X
“You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.”
“You can put people's feet to the fire a bit just by reminding them that we're constantly creating our own history.”
“You can put the camera in places where you may not necessarily be able to put it there if I don't do the stunt. If it's character and it's storytelling, then we do it. We design the things around me. I don't do it just to do a stunt. It's storytelling for me and how I can best bring the audience into the action, bring the audience into the story. And that's how we always look at at.”
“You can put the girl in a relationship...," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of the girl," Cassie finished.”
Source: A Fractured Light
“You can put the greatest seafood restaurant next to an average steak house in an urban area, and that steak house will do more business than the seafood place. If you go to the water, you can put an average seafood place next to the greatest steak house, and people are going to eat seafood.”
“You can put the human mind and body into strange states through the use of alien environments.”
“You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.”
“You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come.”
“You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens.”
Source: A Year with C. S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
“You can put together an album with a bunch of producers, but your vision has to be clear. If you just grab a track from this person and this person and put them on a CD it doesn't mean that they go, just because you are rapping over them.”
“You can put up with everything in this world except not with a long stretch of beautiful days.”
“You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.”
“You can put wings on a pig, but that doesn't make it an eagle.”
“You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995
“You can put your TV in the garage, avoid movies altogether, and use earplugs to spare your hearing from the sounds of hip-hop or heavy metal, but these forms of entertainment will still change your life through their influence on everyone else in society. Though you may struggle to protect your own kids from music that encourages violence or drugs or irresponsible sex, you can't possibly protect them from all the other kids in your community who have received full exposure.”
“You can question somebody's views and their judgment without questioning their motives or patriotism.”
“You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.”
“You can quit anything on a Thursday.”
“You can quit smoking, and never have to have a cigarette again to survive. But with food, it is a daily challenge.”
“You can quit your job, but you can't quit your calling.”
Source: The Anatomy of a Calling: A Doctor's Journey from the Head to the Heart and a Prescription for Finding Your Life's Purpose
“You can quiz me on Petrarch, Medea, Shakespeare or Dante, I know them all, and I’m sorry, but they’ve all gone wrong. Dumb glorified men, writing words about love and life as if they knew. As far as I’m concerned, they didn’t make it out alive either, so I’m sure as hell not going to go to them for advice.”
Source: Empty Roads & Broken Bottles: in search for The Great Perhaps
“You can raise good children in single parent households, and many of you perhaps here today come from that type of environment. It is possible and many do it in heroic situations, but it's much more difficult and the numbers move against us in a broad society.”
“You can raise her up a lady but there's one thing you just can't avoid.”
“You can raise the bar or you can wait for others to raise it, but it's getting raised regardless.”
“You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.”
“You can raise your potential, when you help someone to reach their potential.”
Source: Enlightenment Step by Step
“You can rake the muck this way, rake the muck that way-- it will always be muck. Have I sinned or have I not sinned? In the time I am brooding over it, I could be stringing pearls for the delight of Heaven”
Source: Tales of the Hasidim
“You can rarely prove something to someone who does not want to see it proven, and even more to the point, you can almost never prove something to someone who has financial or ideological reasons to not see it proven.”
“You can rationalize anything, but that is not total honesty, only your version of it based on your upbringing and experiences outside of everyone else's reality.”
“You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .”
“You can ravish your woman so deeply that her surrender breaks your heart into light.”
Source: The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition
“You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass and ignorant can be considered to be real and of the people. And when you begin to have the mass of populus striving for something that's not worth striving for, then tremendous amounts of energy go into...the maintenance of that which is worthless.”
“You can reach higher heights by faith.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You can reach maximum performance by engaging in physical activities.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball.”
“You can reach timelessness if you look for the essence of things and not the appearance. The appearance is transitory — the appearance is fashion, the appearance is trendiness — but the essence is timeless.”
“You can read a book more than once, you know. You might even find a book inside the book.”
Source: If You Wish
“You can read a dozen different textbooks or how-to manuals that will tell you the basic rules of what makes a story - a beginning, a middle, and an end.”
“You can read a lot about a country by looking at its beaches: across cultures, the beach is that rare public space in which all absurdities and quirky national behaviors can be found.”
“You can read a Shakespeare play, but does that mean you wouldn't want to see it on the stage?”
“You can read about yourself but what's important is how you feel about yourself.”
“You can read all the books you want, watch all the movies and get all of the advice, but until you're actually in directing, in the hot seat, that's when you find out what you're made of. Also, you just learn so much from doing.”
“You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.”
“You can read Books about War, you can watch Movies and News about War, yet being in War is something very different – same with Psychosia, the War within yourself.”
“You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.”
Source: One Minute Wisdom
“You can read everybody. It's not even interesting to tell the truth because to some extent it's false.”
Source: Muthologos: the collected lectures & interviews
“You can read her mind only if she lets you. She will let you only if she loves you.”
Source: Faceless The Only Way Out