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“You can't hold on to a grievance and be happy. Time to make a choice!”
“You can't hold someone accountable for results if you supervise their methods.”
“You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.”
“You can't honour someone by copying them or trying to be exactly like them.”
“You can't hoot with the owls and then soar with the eagles”
“You can't hurt me without my permission.”
“You can't hurt me, I found peace within myself.”
“You can't hurt someone who doesn't care about you.”
“You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.”
“You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.”
“You can't ignore reality. You won't wake up one morning and find that the Arabs of Umm al-Faham have become part of Palestine and are no longer in Israel.”
“You can't ignore the reality that faith and family, those two things are integral parts of having limited government, lower taxes, and free societies.”
“You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.”
“You can't imagine a world, quite frankly, without a safe and secure aviation system. And so our job is to really focus on that, and what we need to do to keep it safe and secure.”
“You can't imagine anything like nature as we know it without predators.”
“You can't imagine hip-hop without the Black Panthers. Today, hopefully, the movement can be an inspiration to people. These were people who made mistakes but they were trying to change things.”
“You can't imagine how gratifying it is to have a reader come up to you and say, 'You changed my life.'”
“You can't imagine how hard I am on myself. Nothing pummels me like my own doubts, the feeling of how far I still have to go.”
“You can't imagine how much good luck is involved in winning, but all of a sudden, you get in a situation where every break goes your way, every call goes your way, every ball that rolls around drops in instead of out. It feels magical.”
“You can't imagine how much more work I had when I was a god.”
“You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.”
“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.”
“You can't imagine the joy I feel when I hear that something I've said or done or written has helped others to regain their sense of dignity, to motivate them to develop their unique
potential, to encourage them to reach out to others in love.”
“You can't imagine the number of people in professional sports who have come up to me and said, "God, you treat those assholes like I'd like to treat them." And my question is, "Then why don't you?".”
“You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!”
Source: The Complete Novels of Leo Tolstoy in One Premium Edition (World Classics Series): Anna Karenina, War and Peace, Resurrection, Childhood, Boyhood, Youth, The Cossacks, The Death of Ivan Ilyich... (Including Biographies of the Author)
“You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.”
“You can't imbibe someone's success by f*cking them.”
“You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.”
“You can't improve on saying nothing.”
Source: As good as Golda: the warmth and wisdom of Israel's Prime Minister
“You can't improve sound by having only silence. The problem is to use each at the proper time.”
Source: The Phantom Tollbooth 50th Anniversary Edition
“You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.”
“You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.”
“You can't influence people you refuse to associate with.”
“You can't influence somebody when you're judging them.”
“You can't inspire people if you are going to be uninspiring.”
“You can't inspire people with facts. They need a cause. They need a symbol.”
“You can't insure against the future, except by really believing in the best bit of you, and in the power beyond it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)
“You can't intellectually purge yourself of who you are. Whatever that is, it's going to come out in the wash, the film wash. What you are is going to be relevant, if not to yourself, to the movies you make.”
“You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.”
“You can't jam change down the American people's throat.”
“You can't join a team and give up on it because you lose a few games or things aren't going well.”
“You can't judge a book by its cover, can you?”
“You can't judge a book by its cover, though. People think I'm bad because I got tattoos or snort a little cocaine here and there. They think I'm a killer. But what if I wasn't a killer? Then what? Don't be tripping on me. I pay my damn taxes, OK? Chill.”
“You can't judge a character that you're playing, because then you're fighting against doing what the character's doing.”
“You can't judge a man by watching him live. . . . I personally watched Babe Ruth at bat three times, and he struck out every time. But at the very time that I was watching him strike out, the record said that he was the greatest home-run king who ever lived.”
“You can't judge an internal injury by the size of the hole.”
Source: The Satanic Verses
“You can't judge anyone for what they've done, because people change.”
“You can't judge Islam by those people any more than you can judge Christians by abortion clinic bombers or white separatists. Love turn to hate at the fringes of any belief system.”
“You can't judge my choices without understanding my reasons.”
“You can't judge people and touch their souls at the same time.”