Every year, many, many stupid people graduate from college. And if they can do it, so can you.
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MANY There are so many stories and so many important people buried here. Our hope is that we can do this ...
WENDY BARKER If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON They can hit you from so many directions and every on the floor can shoot and that makes it hard to ...
KRAIG CLIFTON If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN In a theater you have that many more seats, so that many more people, and they are feeding you, tell...
BEA ARTHUR If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI They play so well offensively. They can hit you from many different directions.
ANGIE MURPHY It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more ...
FRANK HERBERT When you're doing a film that has so many effects, you do a lot of it on green screen, and you c...
EDDIE REDMAYNE Not many people have the opportunity to get the experience of working in a live newscast before they...
JOANNA LIEN To my understanding, it takes many years to have success. From what I have been told, many people re...
BRIAN ITEN Many students graduate from college and professional schools, including those of social work, nursin...
JON PORTER We wanted to make the tour as intimate as possible. This package is too big for a lot of theaters, b...
TREY MANY They do a lot of things. They have so many routes, so many formations. You can be overwhelmed with a...
DANNY HOPE It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, t...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY John would do anything for anybody. I've seen him help so many people.
DEBRA CLEMONS Have a robust mindset; dare to move any mountain!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
SYLVIA PLATH It is shocking to find how many people do not believe they can learn, and how many more believe lear...
FRANK HERBERT I can’t decide if you’re crazy or stupid.”
“I have so many good qualities,” Sturmhond...
LEIGH BARDUGO Every time you think of a city, you have to think green, green, green. Every time you see concrete j...
EDUARDO PAES It's disheartening to write goals from year to year, looking back only to see you are in the sam...
MONICA JOHNSON It's a question of a good story and with a small documentary, you can reach many people. I think it ...
LUC JACQUET If you do not believe you can do it then you have no chance at all.
ARSENE WENGER You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We hope that you will tell as many people as you can about the archives so people can come and use i...
JOAN ANDERSON The Secret Service has announced it is doubling its protection for John Kerry You can understand why...
JAY LENO Be all that you can be.
You can be great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I was very privileged and really blessed with so many material and spiritual gifts that I should giv...
CORAZON AQUINO Many people think if you need a new liver, it is because you abused your body, so they don't feel so...
LORRAINE RICHARDSON There are many things evil people can take from you. However, they can never steal your ability to l...
SHANNON L. ALDER I've only done some work on (the screenplay), and I find it very difficult, actually. Because you ca...
HELEN FIELDING You can have anything you want in life, you must be willing to conquer the challenge.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA They just have so many challenges, from babies to elderly, that the least we can do is help,
ANDREA COOK And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future-you go to high...
JOHN GREEN If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to k...
WILL.I.AM Success is a Journey: so, don’t forget to pack your COURAGE: to face the obstacles heading your wa...
PHILIP T. M. There's so many amazing artists to choose from, you want to keep the mix new every year.
HEIDI VASILOFF If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunit...
JOY PAGE Life is a one time opportunity to be the very best that you can be so why do so many people waste it...
JOHN DI LEMME There are so many awesome things you can do with the board, that I'm still learning all it can do.
CAROL GRIFFIN There are so many different ways you can do that.
DEVIN BROWN Learn, relearn and outlearn.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Anyone who says you can't do anything with short hair is wrong! Every day, my style turns into s...
EVAN RACHEL WOOD If you value your time, You'll get some reasons to smile in return.
MD. NAZRUL ISLAM A weird thing happens when you get a glimpse of that side of you. A child-like zeal possesses you. I...
K.J. KILTON Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o...
JOEY TALLADINO You know, so many people say TV makes you stupid. But it had the complete opposite effect on me. It ...
DJ QUALLS I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have an...
KATHARINE HEPBURN I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have...
KATHARINE HEPBURN I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret
if you have ...
KATHARINE HEPBURN I don't think anything is unrealistic if you believe you can do it.
RICHARD L. EVANS Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far...
MARY KAY ASH So many people have pumpkins, you can go to every grocery store in the county, some gas stations, fa...
AARON LEWIS One of the things I do in my cookbooks is I will do a conversion from outdoor to indoor grilling so ...
SANDRA LEE Racist people are few, in the minority. But you can do nothing to change them. You can talk, you can...
MARIO BALOTELLI The logistics of driving to Orlando is prohibitive to many students. If they can complete their degr...
DAVID HARRISON Green Inferno was the truth, everything can be saw, how we were in the privous centuries, how did we...
DEYTH BANGER There are so many jobs out there that do not require a four-year degree. Students need to understand...
ANDY MELIN You realize the limits of your body. The thing you don't want to do is freak out and swim hard. At s...
CAN OSTEN Kurtuluş Savaşı yılları... Türkiye Cumhuriyeti'nin kuruluşunda emeği geçen ama gölgede kal...
CAN DüNDAR Divers have found there is no air left in the holds of the ship. That means sea water has filled the...
CAN KARACA They must be all dead, if there is anybody else in those holds.
CAN KARACA There is little hope to find them alive.
CAN KARACA Bi sen eksiktin ayışığı
Gümüş bir tüy dikmek için manzaraya!
CAN YüCEL Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Well, Chicago's a great town; what can I say? It has a lot of diversity. You can find so many differ...
BEN AGOSTO Not at all. There are so many ways to pay for college, and we want people to do it the smartest poss...
JEFFREY MCCORMACK Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as...
MARY KAY ASH We have so many kids who can score and so many kids that can defend. We just did a nice job ..It?s a...
BERYL PIPER I can see the improvement. I can do so many things now offensively. Last year, I was still trying to...
JOEL ANTHONY It varies, and we probably spend more than most do. They're there to draw from. There's only so many...
MIKE SUGGS One of the fascinating things about this job is that you can work in so many different settings and ...
DR. LEMMIETTA MCNEILLY If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a politic...
ZAHA HADID He's a strong runner. With Ricky, he can do so many different things. He's fast. He can run around y...
JASON GLENN When you do this every year, and every year you are setting the same stupid goal, that should tell y...
GARY COXE The thing with TV and filming is the timing is all faked anyway. You do it so many times, from so ma...
SIMON BIRD You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in L...
VILAYANUR S. RAMACHANDRAN In order to bring me down.You have to be able to reach me first.
PRAVINEE HURBUNGS If you do that, you'll mess up. I try to get the ball to as many people as I can.
RYAN LEHMEIER There are so many things that pop up. If you are paying attention, you can learn every second of the...
JEFF BRIDGES I think back to classes and see if I can remember anything from them. Some classes I don't remember ...
JENNA BERK You can't stand for too many things. You can't use the bully pulpit for too many things. So,...
MEG WHITMAN If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things.
NICK PARK Many fund managers, if they're not in for a two-day rally, they risk falling behind for the whole ye...
KARI PINKERNELL There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can conne...
MAREN MORRIS So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't...
ADAM LEVINE So many people move here and they're desperate for things they heard back home. Now we can give it t...
JOANN UROFSKY Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk up...
ELIAS CANETTI Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk up...
ELIAS CANETTI Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk up...
ELIAS CANETTI Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an educati...
ABBIE HOFFMAN You get that many people from the international community coming into one city with an opportunity t...
GLYN MEEK I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you ...
KATHARINE HEPBURN They can only do so much per year. But if you can manage [the power] better you can get longer run t...
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"The laundry basket?"
"No, next to it."
"I don't see anything next to i...
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'Yes.'
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JOHN GREEN You can't just make me different and then leave
JOHN GREEN She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale.
"DO NOT OBJECTIFY W...
JOHN GREEN But why Alaska?' I asked her.
'Well, later, I found out what it means. It's from an Aleut...
JOHN GREEN Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better th...
JOHN GREEN I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.
JOHN GREEN You're funny, and you're smart, and you may show up late, but you always show up eventually.
JOHN GREEN I have a great affection for people who are intellectually engaged with the world, and who don’t t...
JOHN GREEN I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or wha...
JOHN GREEN There's a stark difference between the words 'prodigy' and 'genius.' Prodigies can very quickly lear...
JOHN GREEN Why is being a nerd bad? Saying I notice you’re a nerd is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you�...
JOHN GREEN I wanted us to have an adventure. Because I love that crap. Because I'm not whatever-her-name-is. I ...
JOHN GREEN If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit,...
JOHN GREEN If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.
JOHN GREEN I do not say goodbye. I believe that's one of the bullshitiest words ever invented. It's not like yo...
JOHN GREEN Do you know what your problem is? You can't live with the idea that someone might leave.
JOHN GREEN Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will
JOHN GREEN