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I can remember playing under the big wooden desk in his office. My mother didn't like us to chew gum, so we'd go into his office, and he'd feed us gum under the desk.

Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs.

The greatest sorrow and burden you can lay on the Father, the greatest unkindness you can do to him is not to believe that he loves you.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

I'm lucky because I have so many clashing cultural, racial things going on: black, Jewish, Irish, Portuguese, Cherokee. I can float and be part of any community I want.

I think if you ask any of us here, we all dreamed of ending up on Saturday Night Live. I remember thinking, 'I'll just keep doing this as long as I can get away with it.'

I've got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.

I can say, hands down, 'Annapolis' is the most challenging film I've ever taken on.

All you do in a [stunt] video game, you can do in real life. If you have a passion, don't be too lazy to do it. I hope kids are inspired to go out and do what they really want to do.

If I choose to come in this ring and walk over here and stand infront of the bald wonder twins and beat the living crap out of you, I can.

It never occurs to me that there are things I can't do.

I still don't have all the answers. I'm more interested in what I can do next than what I did last.

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

My dream is to have a house on the beach, even just a little shack somewhere so I can wake up, have coffee, look at dolphins, be quiet and breathe the air.

Be magnificent. Life’s short. Get out there. You can do it. Everyone can do it. Everyone.

But I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.

The greatest pollution problem we face today is negativity. Eliminate the negative attitude and believe you can do anything. Replace 'if I can, I hope, maybe' with 'I can, I will, I must.

You gotta believe you can accomplish anything, and those who believe that they can accomplish anything, most likely will.

I'm not a jack of all trades; I'm a master of many. I don't feel there is anything I can't do if I want to.

The best thing you can do is to be a woman and stand before the world and speak your heart.

Follow your own particular dreams. We are handed a life by peers, parents and society, you can do that or follow your own dreams. Life is short, be a dreamer but be a practical person.

The second fiddle. I can get plenty of first violinists, but to find someone who can play the second fiddle with enthusiasm

Anything that we scientists can do to weaken the hold of religion, should be done and may, in fact, in the end, be our greatest contribution to civilization.

I often say now I don't have any choice whether or not I have Parkinson's, but surrounding that non-choice is a million other choices that I can make.

Without dance, a man can do nothing.

James Franco, acting, teaching, directing, writing, producing, photography, soundtracks, editing - is there anything you can do?

One good thing about the past is that you can't change it. So there's no reason to go back. It's there. It is what it is. The only thing you can change is right now and what's happening next.

The only mofos in my circle are people that I can learn from.

Nowadays we can do computer experiments using Mathematica, and even solve a system of 42 equations. This offers another route to knowledge, rather than mere ideas.

A man can do his best only by confidently seeking (and perpetually missing) an unattainable perfection.

I don't want to live in a nanny state where people are telling me where I can go and what I can do.

I just don't deal with the negativity. I can't get involved in that side of it. I don't understand it, and you can't let it take away from your life and what you are trying to do.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that. What is grievance? The baggage of old thought and emotion.

No one can tell you who you are and what you are made of, only you yourself know what you are made of, and only you yourself can do the work to become who you want to be.

Computers can do better than ever what needn't be done at all. Making sense is still a human monopoly.

Anything can happen if you are willing to put in the work and remain open to the possibility. Dreams are realized by effort, determination, passion and staying connected to that sense of who you are.

You cannot do yoga. Yoga is your natural state. What you can do are yoga exercises, which may reveal to you where you are resisting your natural state.

I've got a Caribbean soul I can barely control, and some Texas hidden here in my heart!

I have one thing in common with the emerging black nations of Africa: We both have voices, and we are discovering what we can do with them.

I try to be as honest about what I see and to speak rather than be silent, especially if it means I can save lives, or serve humanity.

The most powerful speaking you can do is the speaking that comes from your heart and your love.

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

You can't change where you started, but you can change the direction you are going. It's not what you are going to do, but it's what you are doing now that counts.

Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream

You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

Struggle and survival, losing and winning, doesn't matter. It's entering the race that counts. You enter, you can win, you can lose .... but it's all about entering the race.

When you are out of your comfort zone God can do what only He can do.

The great secret possessed by the great men of all ages was their ability to contact and release the powers of their subconscious mind. You can do the same.

I can take any empty space and call it a bare stage.

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.