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I came to New York and in only hours, New York did what it does to people: awakened the possibilities. Hope breaks out.
Source: Exit Ghost (2007) -
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
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I can only point out a curious fact. Year after year the Nobel Awards bring a moment of happiness not only to the recipients, not only to colleagues and friends of the recipients, but even to strangers.
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I can play hardball as well as anybody. That's what I did, cut people's hearts out.
Source: New York Times, 2 February 2005 -
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.
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I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
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I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. ''Out there,'' I called it.
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I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
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I could be accused of being a wannabe tribesman, of wanting to be a tribal dude, but that is not how I see it. I see it as me doing what they wanted me to do, showing them respect and hanging out with them.
Source: As quoted in Do you really want to be in our tribe? in The Telegraph (1 March 2005) -
I could name a few songs and say exactly what summer they came out and what boy I thought I was in love with when I was fourteen years old, but I think that music used to be really more a part of the culture when people went out dancing in a different way than they do now.
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I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.
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I definitely got to a point where I realize how unusual it is to be able to play large, sold-out shows 30 years into a rock and roll career. I don't take it for granted.
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I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs that I liked better when I played alone, so I ended up going out solo and very soon made my first album.
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I didn't fight to get women out from behind vacuum cleaners to get them onto the board of Hoover.
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I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted.
― Frederick Douglass
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I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed.
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I do not look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.
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I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
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I don't ever want to come out with something safe and get away with, 'It sounds good!' It's got to be more than sounding good. The music I like are events.
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I don't feel I have to wipe everybody out, Tom. Just my enemies.
Source: The Godfather
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