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“You don’t get better on the days when you feel like going. You get better on the days when you don’t want to go, but you go anyway. If you can overcome the negative energy coming from your tired body or unmotivated mind, you will grow and become better. It won’t be the best workout you have, you won’t accomplish as much as what you usually do when you actually feel good, but that doesn’t matter. Growth is a long term game, and the crappy days are more important.”
“You don’t get black power by chanting it. You get it by doing what the other groups have done. The Irish kept quiet. They didn’t shout “Irish Power”, “Jew Power”, [or] “Italian Power”. They kept their mouths shut and took over the police department of New York City, and the mayorship of Boston.”
“You don’t get off easy, you just get to finish faster!”
“You don’t get rich off your day job, you get rich off your homework.”
Source: Display of Power: How FUBU Changed a World of Fashion, Branding and Lifestyle
“You don’t get to mis-define a thing, and then on the basis of that mis-definition, say that that thing is bad … it’s incumbent upon you, if you’re going to make a criticism of something, that you actually have at your command a working definition of the thing you're criticizing”
“You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.”
“You don’t give someone notes on their performance at a soup kitchen.”
“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
“You don’t have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt with. You have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones you’re holding and my dear one, you and I have been granted a mighty generous one.”
“You don’t have a snail problem, you have a duck deficiency.”
“You don’t have a soul, so you can’t be baptized. All animals are like that. I think it’s unfair and sometimes I don’t believe it. After all, what would heaven be without birds or dogs or horses? And what about trees and flowers? They don’t have souls either. Does that mean heaven looks like a cement parking lot? I suppose this is what the nuns call a theological problem.”
Source: The House of the Scorpion
“You don’t have anything like this. For crying out loud, you only own one skirt!”
Source: Eclipse
“You don’t have journalists over there anymore, what they have is public relations people. That’s what they have over in America now. Two-hundred and fifty thousand people in public relations. And a dwindling number of actual reporters and journalists.”
“You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.”
Source: Hunting Ground
“You don’t have the same type of focus when you are undefeated.”
“You don’t have the slightest idea of what it means to write a scene and a character in the English language, with images and words chock full of received meaning.”
“You don’t have to be at every volleyball game. We can’t guilt ourselves.”
“You don’t have to be good to be Jesus’s friend. You just have to be honest.”
“You don’t have to be half-naked to be successful. Just be talented.”
“You don’t have to be part of a club to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be part of a scene to know Jesus. And you don’t have to be perfect to know Jesus. You don’t even have to be semi-perfect to know Jesus. You just have to be willing, and open, and honest.”
“You don’t have to be perfect to be pretty.”
“You don’t have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.”
“You don’t have to be special, you just have to be kind.”
“You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.”
“You don’t have to beg God; you just have to act upon His Word.”
“You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.”
“You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.”
“You don’t have to have a boyfriend to be happy, to be pretty, or belong.”
“You don’t have to have vision to be a visionary”
“You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. But you do have to know the few great things that matter, perhaps just one, and then be willing to live for them and die for them. The people that make a durable difference in the world are not the people who have mastered many things, but who have been mastered by one great thing.”
“You don’t have to live your life the way other people expect you to.”
Source: The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World
“You don’t have to look far to taste some of the best food the world has to offer. I’d pit my grandmother against a 3-star Michelin chef any day.”
“You don’t have to look like an old fuddy-duddy, but I believe it was Chanel who said, ‘Nothing makes a woman look so old as trying desperately hard to look young’. I think you can be attractive at any age. I think trying to look like a spring chicken when you’re not makes you look ridiculous.”
“You don’t have to run faster than the bear to get away. You just have to run faster than the guy next to you.”
“You don’t have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.”
“You don’t have to sleep with prostitutes or take drugs in order to have a relationship with organized crime. They affect our bank accounts. They affect our communications, our pension funds. They even affect the food that we eat and our governments.”
“You don’t have to spend a jillion dollars on advertising to get your word out. What matters is that customers have a good experience with your product at every single point of contact.”
“You don’t have to want to be in a relationship for a little bow-chicka-bow-wow.” Brittany looked at him slowly. “Did you really just say that?” “I did. And I owned it . Gonna make me a shirt that says that.”
“You don’t just give up. You don’t just let things happen. You make a stand! You say no! You have the guts to do what’s right, even when everyone else just runs away.”
“You don’t just go to somebody and say, ‘I’m a better person because you’re in my head.”
Source: Unwind
“You don’t knock on the devil’s door, boy, unless you want him to answer. (Ravyn)”
Source: Dark Side Of The Moon
“You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.”
“You don’t know about Travis Fimmel? Oh, sister, you are deprived. He the finest man alive. (Simi) You lust for men? (Xirena) Well, I certainly don’t lust for women. (Simi) No, I mean you lust for humans? (Xirena) Well, don’t you? (Simi) Ew! What have you don’t to her? You have corrupted a good demon! (Xirena)”
“You don’t know how lucky you are, my dear. Don’t waste it with regrets of the places and people you have lost. You have a lifetime to fill, so many good times and good years and great people ahead of you. You must rush to meet it.”
Source: The Long Road Home
“You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.”
Source: A Wrinkle in Time Trilogy
“You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me.”
Source: The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Love of the Last Tycoon, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works
“You don’t know what goes on in anyone’s life but your own. And when you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re not messing with just that part. Unfortunately, you can’t be that precise and selective. When you mess with one part of a person’s life, you’re messing with their entire life. Everything. . . affects everything.”
Source: Thirteen Reasons Why
“You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.”
Source: Grimspace
“You don’t know what order with freedom means! You only know what revolt against oppression is! You don’t know that the rod, discipline, violence, the state and government can only be sustained because of you and because of your lack of socially creative powers that develop order within liberty!”
“You don’t know what you’re talking about.” – Coyote “Arrogance. The number one cause of death among both peasant and king. Beware its sharp blade. More times than not, it injures the one who wields it most of all.” – Choo Co La Tah”