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WILLIAM SHATNER I don't think you can force a moral opinion or you can force something through a Bollywood film.
RANBIR KAPOOR In life, you have to take the pace that love goes. You don't force it. You just don't force ...
JUAN PABLO GALAVIS You can't learn if you don't try.
DAVID GREEN My name is not 'William Shatner.'
CHRIS PINE What you don't do can be a destructive force.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I don't remember threatening anybody, ever. I don't like threats. I don't respond well t...
ROGER AILES I don't try to lose weight. I don't try to do nothing. I just try to put in my work, feel be...
PABLO SANDOVAL What we don't know can't hurt us.
JOHN SCALZI I compare it to being in a car accident. There's so much adrenaline rushing through you that you...
BROOKE LANGTON You must accept that you might fail; then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you...
ROSALYNN CARTER Don't write anything you can phone. Don't phone anything you can talk. Don't talk anythi...
EARL LONG I don't be remembering women that I've met before. I don't remember people as a whole. I...
WALE Leave complains behind; Stop worrying and murmuring about the difficulty of something that you have ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You can't force chemistry. It's either there or it's not. You can't create it.
HANNAH SIMONE I don't think that talking to anybody can help you - a writer or a nonwriter. So what do I do in...
JANE HAMILTON Don't write so that you can be understood, write so that you can't be misunderstood.
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT Life is a soccer field, don't you think?
SHAKIRA I've known Lisa Lampanelli for quite some time. We did the Shatner roast together. Lisa didn'...
GEORGE TAKEI I never say "If I were her, this is how I would have acted, this is what I would have done, etc. etc...
C. JOYBELL C. If you don't change, you're dead, so I try to keep changing.
WAVY GRAVY I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. I...
ZEDD The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can...
ANTHEA TURNER You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ...
MARIO BALOTELLI Girls don't poop, so don't claim you do. You can fart - because farting is funny - but we do...
RYAN HANSEN He says to us: They don't really do anything. Then he adds: But of course there is not a lot for the...
LYDIA DAVIS God will never give you anything you can't handle, so don't stress.
KELLY CLARKSON Do you remember when you found out you wouldn't live forever? People don't talk about this, ...
DAVID CRONENBERG I don't love football the way I once loved the game. I don't look at it as fun anymore, and ...
ERIC DICKERSON Chemistry is a hard thing. I don't think you can force it, and it doesn't necessarily mean t...
TRICIA HELFER It's cheesy, but having a pimple or a bad hair day isn't going to matter in five years. I do...
ABIGAIL BRESLIN You don't know what you can get away with until you try.
COLIN POWELL Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can'...
JOHN SEARLE I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don...
JOYCE DIDONATO In piano, if you try to force hitting this key and that key, it's very broken. It's not pret...
MIRANDA LEEK You don't want to work so hard that you can't enjoy your guests.
LETITIA BALDRIGE It don't make much difference what you study, so long as you don't like it.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.
AMANDA SEYFRIED The goal when you get into a relationship is not to be out of the relationship. It's to try to s...
KATE HUDSON Remember you don't do anything in isolation.
ABDULLAH II OF JORDAN Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it...
FETTY WAP Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bo...
JAMES ALTUCHER I don't think you should try to be anything you're not. If you're not smiling all the ti...
ELLE FANNING I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got th...
CHARLES KURALT You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
MICHAEL MOORE There's a stigma about being vegan. Some people say it doesn't taste great. Don't knock ...
TIA MOWRY I don't like to write rhetorically or get on a soapbox. I try to make the stuff multi-layered, s...
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN My number one thing? Don't overleverage yourself. Don't say you can do something when you re...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I don't even drink! I can't stand the taste of alcohol. Every New Year's Eve I try one d...
KIM KARDASHIAN If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
ALBERT EINSTEIN - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I don't remember having a crush on a boy when I was a girl. I don't even remember my first k...
MAUREEN O'HARA I've probably failed more often than anybody else in Silicon Valley. Those don't matter. I d...
VINOD KHOSLA If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try, try, try again.
MICHAEL CHANG Don't try to run your life through a single straw. Someone, some event, will cut it off.
MICHAEL MULLEN I don't have an agent - I have the William Morris Agency.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS You can't heal what you don't acknowledge.
JACK CANFIELD There's a couple of movie parts that I can't remember. There was always something kind of lu...
CRAIG ROBINSON You can't win if you don't play as a unit.
KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
CAM GIGANDET If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell...
ERNST FISCHER Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don...
CARLENE CARTER Well, of course a boxing match is hard because boxing isn't set for you to do good. You have to ...
EVANDER HOLYFIELD If you don't really have a dream, you can't really push yourself; you don't really know ...
MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
DALLAS WILLARD The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years ...
ANG LEE I can't relate to lazy people. We don't speak the same language. I don't understand you....
KOBE BRYANT I can't change overnight into a serious literary author. You can't compare apples to oranges...
JOHN GRISHAM I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
JACKIE MASON My personal philosophy would be don't whine, don't let opportunities pass you by, be willing...
JAMES MARSTERS I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically...
JANE GOODALL Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll.
YOKO ONO In NFL preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook. They don't game plan. They do n...
RUSH LIMBAUGH I'm a guy that can play three downs. You don't have to take me off the field. I value blocki...
EZEKIEL ELLIOTT Obstruction can be caused by so many factors - perfectionism, distraction, faltering confidence, ext...
CLAIRE MESSUD I don't like rap that you can't understand. The youth is so quick and alert.
ROY AYERS In 2004, the FDA urged drug companies to adopt a 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy with respect to thei...
IRVING KIRSCH When someone asks me to do something, something new, something I don't know about, and if I have...
OSRIC CHAU My first 'SNL' episode was with Michael Phelps and Lil Wayne. And if you go back and watch t...
BOBBY MOYNIHAN Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-con...
RAY BRADBURY I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it'...
NATE LOWMAN When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into th...
GREG RUSEDSKI A fellow who has a funny bone can learn to hone his skills, but I don't think you can develop a ...
CARL REINER What is a soul? It's like electricity - we don't really know what it is, but it's a forc...
RAY CHARLES You don't have to be a renowned artist like Q-Tip to try your hand at poetry. You don't need...
MICHELLE OBAMA You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
SAMANTHA FOX When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a ...
ATO ESSANDOH When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that...
BILL PARCELLS You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
RAND PAUL One of the great things about young entrepreneurs is that they don't know that something can'...
FRED WILSON I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others...
JERRY GARCIA When the vision is clear, the results will appear. Keep your mindset positive as you work your plan,...
GERMANY KENT I just try not to judge. Don't judge me, and I won't judge you.
REBA MCENTIRE I think it's important to remember that to exercise you don't have to run a sprint.
EMILY DESCHANEL You don't try to do more than you should.
KARL MALONE You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice...
LAURYN HILL William Shatner just reeks of cool.
MAGGIE LAWSON You know, I don't watch television! Sorry! I actually don't even have a television. I don...
BROOKE SMITH I like to keep Valentine's dinner light so you don't crash after and can keep the fun going ...
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.
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WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is no darkness but ignorance.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To do a great right do a little wrong.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Listen to many, speak to a few.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE This above all; to thine own self be true.
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WILLIAM CONGREVE I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Courtship is to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, ...
WILLIAM CONGREVE There is in true beauty, as in courage, something which narrow souls cannot dare to admire.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
WILLIAM CONGREVE He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own vi...
WILLIAM CONGREVE If this be not love, it is madness, and then it is pardonable.
WILLIAM CONGREVE Say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved.
WILLIAM CONGREVE A multitude of causes unknown to former times are now acting with a combined force to blunt the disc...
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH