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“you can't set down and stand up at the same time, each situation has its advantages, but you can't be in both places at once ... it can't be did.”
Source: My Opinions and Betsy Bobbet's: Designed as a Beacon Light, to Guide Women to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness, But which May be Read by Members of the Sterner Sect, Without Injury to Themselves Or the Book
“You can't settle a 50-year conflict in 52 weeks.”
“You can't shake hands with a closed fist.”
“You can't shame or humiliate modern celebrities. What used to be called shame and humiliation is now called publicity.”
Source: The Enemies List
“You can't shape me anymore. I am the uncontrolled element, the random act. I am forward movement in time. You think you can see me? Then tell me, who am I? You don't know.”
“You can't shelter it. You can't hide it. You have to let people know what you're going through, what you're feeling, what you think you have that's a problem.”
“You can't shoot an idea.”
“You can't show a four-hour movie in a theater, really.”
“You can't show love to someone at the expense of someone else who loves you.”
“You can't show me a sentence, word, or phoneme that is meaningless; by its nature, language is packed with meaning and emotion.”
“You can't show me an ad on TV with hard bodies and say I have to buy that car. You have to tell me why that car is better and safer than another car.”
“You can't show somebody what it's like to experience loss, but you can soundtrack it and help them experience their own loss. I am so lucky to have this venue to be able to say and talk about all the stuff I've been through.”
“You can't show up on set and expect it all to come together. You have to have a plan, much like how the director can't just show up and go, well, where should I put the camera? That is gonna determine how it is lit, you should have already been in the room looking at it earlier, pre-lit the room, you know there is a lot of prep that goes into it, so it is the same thing with acting. You can't just show up.”
“You can't shrink your way to greatness!”
Source: Survival Is Not Enough: Shift Happens
“You can't shut down, you can't say, 'What can I do to make this go away?'. You have to let it be painful and get through it. Every day gets better. Because when you're in love, you kind of give everything and make that person your life. So every day you get more and more of yourself back, and it feels better.”
“You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.”
“You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough”
“You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.”
“You can't simply redefine Jerusalem. The Palestinian claim is based on legality, on the international recognition that the situation created by the war in '67 is not valid.”
“You can't sing about love unless you know about it.”
“You can't sing when you're upset. You can't sing when you're crying. You get all congested and disgusting.”
“You can't sing with a closed heart. You just can't do it. And if you try, as soon as you start singing, your heart just naturally opens more and more.”
“You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it”
“You can't sit at the table of success for too long or you'll feel bored and dead.”
“You can't sit back. My husband and I have made the choice that our marriage is the most important thing to us. We respect what we have and understand how we need to feed it.”
“You can't sit on the sidelines and read your iPhone and be on social media and expect everything to be cool. You have to be part of this.”
“You can't sit on two chairs at once.”
“You can't sit there and feel bad for yourself and say, "But, it's just not coming to me." That's an instinctual thing to do because that's the way the business normally works. But, when you've got a good brain on your shoulders, I think you can make it happen.”
“You can't sit there and worry about everything.”
“You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).”
Source: Please Don't Eat the Daisies
“You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.”
“You can't sleep. Broke people sleep. You got to be willing to sacrifice sleep, if you sleep you may miss the opportunity to be successful.”
“You can't slice up morals.”
Source: America and Americans and Selected Nonfiction
“You can't slit the throat of everyone whose character it would improve.”
“You can't slow down intense people. They have to burn at their own rate.”
“You can't smear acrylics, you know, it dries too fast.”
“You can't smoke in a restaurant in Los Angeles, which is mildly ironic, when you consider the fact that you can't breathe outside a restaurant in Los Angeles.”
“You can't soar like an eagle and crap like a canary.”
“You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.”
“You can't solve a problem until you address the problem.”
“You can't solve a problem with the management of technology with more technology.”
“You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it.”
Source: Mao Tse-tung chu tso hsüan tu
“You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.”
“You can't solve climate change by everybody individually buying a more efficient car and throwing out less stuff. You have to make national changes through national policy.”
“You can't solve many of today's problems by straight linear thinking. It takes leaps of faith to sense the connections that are not necessarily obvious.”
“You can't solve problems for someone whose problem is that they don't want problems solved.”
“You can't solve problems with the same thinking that caused them.”
“You can't solve your problems by using the same thinking
that got you into those problems in the first place.”
“You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.”
“You can't sow an apple seed and expect to get an avocado tree. The consequences of your life are sown in what you do and how you behave.”