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“You can't erase a dream, you can only wake me up.”
“You can't erase what you know. You can't forget who you are.”
Source: The House on Mango Street (Bloom's Guides)
“You can't escape from a prison until you recognize you are in one. People who have chosen to live within the limits of their old beliefs continue to have the same experiences. It takes effort and commitment to break old patterns”
“You can't escape from what you are.”
“You can't escape history, or the needs and neuroses you've picked up like layers and layers of tartar on your teeth.... Your every past action and thought have made you what you are.”
“You can't escape moral judgment through a legal loop hole.”
“You can't escape the influence of architectural history.”
“You can't escape the past in Paris, and yet what's so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn't seem to burden.”
“You can't escape the puking sphinx.”
“You can't escape the taste of the food you had as a child. In times of stress, what do you dream about? Your mother's clam chowder. It's security, comfort. It brings you home.”
“you can't escape tomorrow's responsibilities by evading it today”
“You can't escape what you are, but you also should know what you could be. Why you're fighting.”
Source: I Am Number Four: The Lost Files: The Legacies
“You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.”
“You can't even begin to understand biology, you can't understand life, unless you understand what it's all there for, how it arose - and that means evolution.”
“You can't even go to Heaven if you get killed by Spinach, you can't even go. You don't even know what to tell Jesus. You Just 'You know what Jesus, I did have a salad, I really Did I- I Didn't know what I was thinking about.”
“You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.”
“You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find”
“You can't even sing or play an instrument, so you just scream instead. You're living for an image, so you got five hundred women in your bed.”
“You can't even smoke a cigarette on network television anymore. Not that everyone should be smoking cigarettes, but that's how crazy it's gotten. You can't even do things like that that are real-life things.”
“You can't even stand without risking to fall.”
Source: Life Without Limits: Inspiration for a Ridiculously Good Life
“You can't even trade a single fart with the next guy. Each and every one of us has to live out his own life. Don't waste time thinking about who's most talented.”
“You can't ever approach a book as a complete virgin, certainly not if you're a critic. There is a lot of bad faith out there. That's why I finally trained myself not to look at this stuff anymore, because it doesn't do me any good to see myself either praised or attacked.”
“You can't ever be really free if you admire somebody too much.”
Source: Tales from Moominvalley
“You can't ever guess at life, at pain. All pain is real, and all pain is personal. It's the most personal thing we have. It eats each of us differently.”
Source: You Shall Know Our Velocity
“You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about.”
“You can't ever stop thinking something quick enough. Something that hurts always gets the knife in too fast for you to slam a lid on it and shove it away.”
“You can't ever tell what's going to hurt people.”
Source: A Handful of Dust: Decline and Fall
“You can't ever totally know what's inside of someone else, or see the kind of will someone like Magic has. You have to rely on your instincts to find people who hate losing and know how to win.”
“You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.”
“You can't ever work too much because there's no such thing as being in too good condition. You can't ever lift too many weights because you can't ever get too strong. You can't ever wrestle too much because you can always do better.”
“You can't exactly bake a man to your specifications. Most of all, one shouldn't alienate a candidate. A hybrid of Einstein, Tarzan and Inge Meysel doesn't exist. Besides, the images of politicians in the media aren't always accurate. I've had my share of experiences in that regard.”
“You can't exceed the system with language. You can only exceed the system with events; recommended procedures that are better. You can't exceed the system by telling people to be good, be kind, be considerate... You have to take away the conditions that makes it necessary for you to be kind. And to be kind, you design highways that aren't slippery; where no accidents, or less accidents, occur. In the future, everybody becomes an innovator - a creator.”
“You can't exercise your way out of a bad diet.”
“You can't exist in this world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
“You can't exist in this world without leaving a piece of yourself behind.”
Source: The Jodi Picoult Reader's Companion: A Collection of Excerpts
“You can't expect a man in a dung heap to smell sweet.”
Source: The White Tiger
“You can't expect a man like me to be loyal to just one woman.”
“You can't expect anything to be handed to you. And I learned that.”
“You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.”
“You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you.”
“You can't expect everyone to laugh or applaud you for doing edgy things. Sometimes you'll miss. But I think comedians are artists and there's a value in failure. It kind of works both ways between comedians and audiences. The audience has to understand that comedians are going to sometimes tell a joke that doesn't work out with dark subjects, and the comedian has to understand that sometimes they 'll fail and it's not the audience's fault for not getting it or loving it.”
“You can't expect everyone to love you. I'm not someone who just wants to throw out hate, just because.”
“You can't expect everything to happen all at once when it's been such a male-dominated world for so long.”
“You can't expect insights, even the big ones, to make you suddenly understand everything. But I figure: Hey it's a step in the right direction if they leave you confused in a deeper way.”
“You can't expect law enforcement to provide the solution to the drug problem.”
“You can't expect people to do the right thing or else they will go to hell. We are already in hell!”
“You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.”
Source: The Girls at the Kingfisher Club: A Novel
“You can't expect people who didn't exist as a community at all until about twenty years ago to have formed a political movement. This attack on the LGBT community was very shocking to the people who consider themselves to be activists. They're basically playing in the sandbox, and there's a tank coming! And what are they supposed to do - use the plastic shovel to push the tank back? But since the homosexual propaganda legislation, people have really stepped up, educated themselves politically, and grown by leaps and bounds.”
“You can't expect someone born into a family with no music...to understand when I'm conducting the Schönberg Variations.”
“You can't expect someone who has been in prison his whole entire life to turn around and become a sweet guy who writes books and walks his dog and has a normal life.”