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“You can sing a very aggressive word in such a way that it's very funny. You can change words, completely turn them around on their head so that they mean exactly the opposite of what they are written down. There are endless possibilities which I think Diamanda Galás is doing already. She turns everything upside down by the way she sings it. She makes you feel nauseous or horrified or ridiculous just by her voice. I think that's an incredible power.”
“You can sing all you want about how you love Jesus, you can have crocodile tears in your eyes, but the consecration that doesn't reach your purse has not reached your heart.”
“You can sing if you have a great voice, but to connect that instrument to the text and connect it to the subtext, what lies underneath and the emotion, is indeed a rare talent.”
“You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.”
Source: How to enjoy your life and your job
“You can sing the blues in church if you use the words right.”
“You can sink so fast that you think you are flying.”
Source: Aphorisms
“You can sit and focus out of the Vortex and your life won't change at all.
You can sit and focus in the Vortex and your life will change magnificently.”
“You can sit and write in your room all you want, but until other people see it, until you see it produced for television or film or something, you're not 100 percent sure if what you wrote is actually going to work.”
“You can sit behind your computer and listen to music via a program or from the Internet and also watch performances on the Internet. There's motivation to sit at home. You don't have to get dressed up, or be social and for those old enough you don't risk DUI charges by drinking at home at the computer.”
“You can sit down with Reason or Ableton and literally in a couple of hours make a very good-sounding record. But then a lot of people become contented with that, rather than pushing themselves to making something that sounds great.”
“You can sit down with your child and prompt him to show you something - perhaps how to play a game [on the computer]. By learning a game, you're getting close to the kid and gaining insight into ways of learning. The kid can see this happening and feels respected, so it fosters the relationship between you and the kid.”
“You can sit in a dark room and think of light all you want, but that won't change the reality of the darkness around, but step up to light a candle and suddenly the dark reality turns into one filled with light.”
Source: Ain't Enough to Look Human
“You can sit in front of a computer and have a blank slate and be completely overwhelmed by the possibilities and not get anywhere.”
“You can sit next to somebody on the underground, and you can look at them quite intensely, but you can never, ever know what they're wearing under their clothes.”
“You can sit on a brick, and milk a cow with a blanket.”
Source: A bit of rubbish about a Brick and a Blanket
“You can sit right on my middle finger for the night”
“You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you've been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!”
“You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.”
“You can sit up here, feeling above it all while knowing you’re not, coming to the lonely conclusion that the only thing you can ever really know about anyone is that you don’t know anything about them at all.”
Source: This Is Where I Leave You: A Novel
“You can sit with us.
You can live beside us.
You can play your music.
You can listen to mine.
We can dance together.
We can share our food.
We can keep an eye on each other's kids.
We can teach each other new languages.
We can respect traditions.
We can build new ones.
You can ask for a cup of sugar.
You can ask for directions.
You can tell me when things are hard.
You can tell me when beautiful things happen.
We can listen to stories.
We can disagree.
We can agree.
We can come to understandings.
You can wear what you want.
You can pray as you feel compelled to.
You can love who you want.
You can sit with us.”
“You can skim those stage directions and go right to the dialogue. You can almost read the movie in the same amount of time it will take you to see the movie.”
“You can sleep between lessons but not during them.”
“You can sleep in a coffin,but the past aint through with you!”
“you can sleep on me anytime you want”
Source: Reboot
“You can sleep with a blonde, you can sleep with a brunette, but you'll never get any sleep with a redhead!”
“You can slow time down by traveling. That month from Shringar to the Taj Mahal is like a year in my life currently. Really, time is a measure of change, in a vacuum time doesn't exist because nothing's changing. If you can pack your life full of interesting changes you stretch it out. So if you want to live longer, have a really interesting life.”
“You can smell Philippe before the door opens, that mix of sea and fruit that makes you think of the Caribbean, but you’ve never been to the Caribbean. You’ve never been outside of Argentina.”
Source: Life Between Seconds
“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you are a woman, and a courtier, and a Howard. That's three reasons for being the most deceitful creature on God's earth.”
Source: The Other Boleyn Girl (Movie Tie-In)
“You can smile when your heart is breaking because you're a woman.”
“You can smoke marijuana, you can eat it, you can wear it, it's a perfect plant!”
“You can smoke or drink on a golf course without interrupting the game, and you can take a leak - something you can't do on a squash court and shouldn't do in a swimming pool.”
Source: Thrown Under the Omnibus
“You can sneak a prohibited item through airport security easier than you think.”
Source: Double Exposure: A Spy Thriller
“You can sneak around having affairs, but when I can prove it I will leave you.”
“You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.”
“You can solve all the world's problems in a garden.”
“You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?”
“You can sometimes camouflage the hand, but you cannot camouflage the man behind it.”
Source: The Golden Tresses of the Dead
“You can sometimes find something good on the other side of doing something very, very painful.”
“You can sometimes get your own feelings across more strongly if you pretend that you're singing it from someone else's angle. But it's always from me. It's just a new way of framing it.”
“You can sometimes learn more working with less talented people, because you learn to survive.”
“You can sort of see elements of Donald trump policy in different walks of life. Brazil and France have a long history in intervening in business decisions to protect local jobs. What I don't think we see is much evidence that in the long run those types of tactics make much difference, when the economics of production are pushing in the other direction.”
“You can sort of trick people into being really good. Even if they didn't know anything.”
“You can sow the seeds of distrust everywhere, and lose yourself in an overgrown field.”
Source: Pandora
“You can speak fluently or passionately and still not be worth listening to.”
“You can speak to me like you haven’t spoken even to yourself.”
Source: Nightmarish Sacrifice
“You can speak well if your tongue can deliver the message of your heart.”
“You can speak with a turtle just by flippin' him around
You can build a boat, sail the sea
You can buy a moat, forge a key
Initiate the sequence, create catastrophe”
“You can speak with a twang and still not say a thang.”
“You can speak with spiritual eloquence, pray in public, and maintain a holy appearance... but it is your behavior that will reveal your true character.”
Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
“You can speak your mind But not on my time.”