Y Quotes
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“You can't put down anybody. You can just try and understand. The emphasis shouldn't be on revolution, it should be on communication. Because it's just going to get more uptight. The more the revolution goes on, and there will be a civil war sooner or later.”
Source: David Bowie: The Last Interview
“You can't put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken!”
“You can't put off being young until you retire.”
Source: Collected Poems
“You can't put out projects that you don't use yourself.”
“You can't put passion and obsession into someone's employment contract - either you are or you aren't.”
“You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders. You can't do that, and they should not be held there. They need rehabilitative therapy.”
“You can't put someone else in charge of your morals. Ethics is a personal discipline.”
“You can't put something together again unless you've torn it apart first.”
“You can't put this possum in a cage”
“You can't put those guys like Marciano or anyone else in with today's class of fighters.”
“You can't put toilet paper in the toilet [in the space ship], so there's a separate vacuum can in front of you on the wall and when you're done, you put the toilet paper in there and seal that up.”
“You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky.”
Source: Moon Palace: A Novel (Penguin Ink)
“You can't put your finger on who I am. I can't put my finger on who I am.”
“You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can end up focusing on misleading factors. Stuff that really has more to do with personality-the fact that some people are simply more expressive or emotional or needy in a relationship. But beyond such smokescreens, the answer is there. Love is seldom-almost never-an even proposition.”
Source: Baby Proof
“You can't quantify love, and if you try, you can wind up focusing on misleading factors.”
Source: Baby Proof: A Novel
“You can't quit or give up before you get it!”
“You can't quite believe what you are hearing - and it's not necessarily something that you can listen to all the time because it's too intense - but it changes the way you go about making music.”
“You can't raise a child to believe the opposite of what you do.”
Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls
“You can't raise a happy, more resilient kid if you're not a happy, more resilient adult.”
“You can't raise the standard of women's morals by raising their pay envelope. It lies deeper than that.”
Source: Billy Sunday, the Man and His Message: With His Own Words which Have Won Thousands for Christ
“You can't reach America's youth with off the mark radio ads or insulting television commercials”
“You can't reach your potential without haters.”
“You can't read about push ups. You gotta do them.”
“You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being”
“You can't realize your dreams unless you have one to begin with.”
“You can't really accurately diagnose someone, I think. Or I've been told that.”
“You can't really achieve anything in three years.”
“You can't really appreciate a work of art until you can understand how difficult it was to create. And that's probably true of any work of art - a rock, a tree, a bird, a fish, a sunrise made of light and air.”
“You can't really appreciate anonymity until you've lost it. People say that's sour grapes, but it really isn't To be able to walk down the street without people paying attention to you is a real blessing and you lose it when you become an actor.”
“You can't really be old in L.A., it's kind of like a crime.”
“You can't really be scientifically literate if you don't understand evolution. And you can't be an educated member of society if you don't understand science.”
“You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.”
Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
“You can't really be too calculated about everything in life.”
“You can't really call yourself an environmentalist if you're still consuming animals. You just can't.”
“You can't really call yourselves giant-killers any more, as you kill giants so often.”
“You can't really change somebody completely, deep inside your nature. But I think what I did was admit to myself what kind of a person I was, and sort of get into the idea that that's who I was. And I think preserving that part of myself really helps me make movies.”
“You can't really come into a concept record objectively, because you immediately associate it with Yes, stuff from the 1970s that punk rock kicked against, the pretentiousness.”
“You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.”
“You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.”
“You can't really conduct your life by one or two phrases.”
“You can't really control how people are going to feel about you; all you can really do is be yourself. Because if you seduce somebody, and you seduce them by pretending to be a certain way, once they are seduced they are going to find that you are not that way. And then you have to maintain an image that's not real, so you really screw yourself. The best is to be yourself and hope they like you.”
“You can't really control how people hear stuff. It's hard to remember that. I have to let go of it.”
“You can't really control what people think. You can't really worry about what they think, and attitude is really the one to have.”
“You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.”
“You can't really dance properly to James Brown. If you dance to James Brown, you look like an idiot. There's a lot of jerking.”
“You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.”
“You can't really discover the most interesting conflicts and problems in a subject until you've tried to write about them. At that point, one discovers discontinuities in the data, perhaps, or in one's own thinking; then the act of writing forces you to work harder to resolve these contradictions.”
“You can't really divorce women's struggles in the world from women's in the cinema. As long as there's hierarchy it means that women are somehow secondary or second class or less than. That's going to be reflected in movies because films are the most powerful medium to reflect back society's view of itself”
“You can't really divorce yourself and your life from the world you live in.”
“You can't really do a lot of research for being a mass manipulating, murdering super-villain.”