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  • I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
  • However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.
  • Maybe I should quit the business. There's no one left for me to love. Mama's dead. Mr. Burns couldn't care less about me. What's left?
  • In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
  • I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I'd been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the city but I couldn't remember what it was like - it was a massive blur.
  • My father instilled in me an attitude that you couldn't really enjoy yourself unless you had done something to deserve it. So, my childhood was spent working on farms or local shops or, when I got older, in banks.
  • The fact is that we like each other very much, and we of course see each other on stage all the time, but this means more time to spend together, and that's great. We couldn't be happier.
  • Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.
  • I'm working harder now than ever before. I couldn't turn down the BBC job because I've never been offered the opportunity of killing three or four people on screen before!.
  • If a song's about something I've experienced or that could've happened to me it's good. But if it's alien to me, I couldn't lend anything to it. Because that's what soul is all about.
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  • Jane Goodsell It is a known fact that men are practical, hardheaded realists, in contrast to women, who are romantic dreamers and actually believe that estrogenic skin cream must do something or they couldn't charge sixteen dollars for that little tiny jar.
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  • Bailey Chase 'Longmire' is more of a show about the characters, and you couldn't pay a bigger compliment than to want to know more about my character, or the characters on the show.
    Bailey Chase
    American actor (1972 - )
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  • Bobby Flay 'The Food Network' was just starting in New York, and I was getting lots of attention from Mesa Grill. They had no money, so if you couldn't get there by subway, you couldn't be on. It wasn't like TV was something I really wanted to do - but I knew it would be great publicity for my restaurants.
    Bobby Flay
    American celebrity chef and restaurateur (1964 - )
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  • Andrew H. Malcolm A Chicago alderman once confessed he needed physical exercise but didn't like jogging, because in that sport you couldn't hit anyone.
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  • Brenda Holloway A lot of times I can across as too masculine to men, and they couldn't handle me, they stayed away.
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  • Henry Louis Mencken A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Bess Myerson All the praise I received couldn't substitute for the praise I had never received from my mother at home. I longed for some wonderful man to come and save me from my life - but there didn't seem to be any, at least not for me.
    Bess Myerson
    American politician and model (1924 - 2014)
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  • Bonnie Tyler Alzheimer's is a horrible thing. Some people are naive about it. They think, 'Oh it's just your memory,' but my mother was in terrible pain. Your body closes down. She didn't know if she'd eaten or if she wanted to eat. She couldn't remember how to walk. Towards the end, she didn't know us. It came gradually, then it got worse.
    Bonnie Tyler
    Welsh singer (1951 - )
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  • Brandi Chastain And I remember how proud I was to put on my training jersey and go out on the field. Making it back to that environment was for me my greatest moment, because somebody had told me I couldn't do it and I never gave up on myself, the game and my teammates.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Carlton Fisk And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.
    Carlton Fisk
    American baseball player (1947 - )
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  • Barry Unsworth As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
    Barry Unsworth
    English writer (1930 - 2012)
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  • Bo Sanchez As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.
    Bo Sanchez
    Filippine author, lay pastor and entrepreneur (1966 - )
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  • Beryl Bainbridge Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.
    Injury Time ch. 4, pp. 41-42.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • Barbara Smith Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
    Barbara Smith
    American lesbian feminist and socialist (1946 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Barry Mann Cynthia's lyrics always expressed the feelings people felt but they couldn't express themselves.
    Barry Mann
    American songwriter and musician (1939 - )
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  • Ann Coulter Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Bob Newhart Dick Martin, if you put a gun to his forehead, he couldn't tell you a joke.
    Bob Newhart
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1929 - )
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  • Kin Hubbard Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while.
    Kin Hubbard
    American cartoonist, humorist, and journalist (1868 - 1930)
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  • Bobby Davro Even when I had a run of successful prime-time shows, I couldn't sit down and enjoy my success. I would beat myself up and scrutinise everything. I'm a natural-born worrier.
    Bobby Davro
    English actor and comedian (1958 - )
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