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LEE IACOCCA The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. —ALICE WALKER
DEMI LOVATO Praying is like a rocking chair - it'll give you something to do, but it won't get you anywh...
GYPSY ROSE LEE Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER I am a wire-walker. I can walk any time, anywhere - I'm indestructible.
PHILIPPE PETIT After many years of self-flagellation, I've realised that beating myself up doesn't get me a...
CHRIS PINE If parents don't instruct their kids on the narrow boundaries of respectful behavior toward the ...
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL Many high school students are under so much competitive pressure. They are sometimes taught that if ...
ELIZABETH THORNTON If you want to act, you have to devote yourself to it. Send out letters and photos every day, work a...
CHRISTOPHER PARKER In golf, advice is not a big thing. If you don't have the ability, you won't get anywhere no...
ANGEL CABRERA But as I often say, terrorists won't check our party registration before they blow us up.
JANE HARMAN My parents said that sitting at home playing video games all day won't bring you anywhere in lif...
PEWDIEPIE I often set two alarm clocks because I'm afraid the first one won't actually make me get up.
KURT ANDERSEN I didn't want wrestling anymore; I wanted to not want it. But I couldn't get a job anywhere,...
T. J. PERKINS People that haven't seen us yet are shocked because they think that Alice Cooper must be a femal...
ALICE COOPER You can't get anywhere in life without taking risks.
ESME BIANCO I like girls who want to get up and dance and don't mind singing in front of my family - you kno...
OLLY MURS Right-to-life groups won't fund us because we're Democrats.
BART STUPAK Democrats can't get elected unless things get worse - and things won't get worse unless they...
JEANE KIRKPATRICK Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON You won't get sued for anticompetitive behavior.
LINUS TORVALDS Blues ain't never going anywhere. It can get slow, but it ain't going nowhere.
DAVID EDWARDS Most scripts that get written in Hollywood don't go anywhere.
EVAN DAUGHERTY I learned that the only way you are going to get anywhere in life is to work hard at it. Whether you...
CAITLYN JENNER If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
NAMIE AMURO Never get a mime talking. He won't stop.
MARCEL MARCEAU Larry wanted us to reposition the tower. We wouldn't, and won't. He's been holding back ...
DANIEL LIBESKIND You can't get anywhere without the people who have come into your life.
IAN SOMERHALDER We made certain that there were decent transitional arrangements to get us to where we wanted to go....
JOHN ANDERSON One of the biggies is rent,
FRAN KATZANEK I will read anything by Laura Hillenbrand, Walter Isaacson, Barbara Kingsolver, John le Carre, John ...
HILLARY CLINTON I wish I could shut up, but I can't, and I won't.
DESMOND TUTU It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON Men don't have to tiptoe around me - you can say anything and I won't get offended.
MICHAEL MICHELE If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
NATE SILVER When we can't bottle our tears up anymore, God catches every one in His bottle. God's catchi...
ANN VOSKAMP Everything it's has it's own benefits if you buy frozen pizza you go fat. If you buy well made pizza...
DEYTH BANGER You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the gam...
HANK STRAM I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.
LATA MANGESHKAR Don't bother starting the 10,000th restaurant in Manhattan. Find something to do that if you don...
PETER THIEL Sucking up to a director means you are unsure of your talents. I'm not.
KANGANA RANAUT When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won't come up with a handful of ...
LEO BURNETT Florence is charming, cozy, beautiful, inspiring - it has so many great places to go to and so many ...
EDGARDO OSORIO There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay...
DANNY DEVITO Somehow, you can achieve a directness in the novel that you can't get anywhere else.
CHAD HARBACH A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won'...
YOSHIHIKO NODA You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown.
TOBE HOOPER I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is abou...
HERSCHEL WALKER If we reach the debt ceiling, we don't have to default. Getting to that point just won't all...
RON DESANTIS It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON I don't do filler songs. I don't get them. They don't make any sense to me. Why would I ...
BETTY WHO There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
DAN GILBERT I'll quit coffee. It won't be easy drinking my Bailey's straight, but I'll get used ...
MEGAN MULLALLY We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories bu...
JOHANN LAMONT I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
UTA HAGEN A good day is when no one shows up, and you don't have to go anywhere.
BURT SHAVITZ I didn't have a particular persona. I'm not Alice Cooper, you know?
ANDREA CORR The good thing about being pregnant is that I don't have to worry about sucking it in or dieting...
BUSY PHILIPPS There's always a boyfriend. Whatever else I have to give up on, I won't give up on love.
CARMEN DELL'OREFICE I think on some level, that's a fear that exists in everybody, that if we're tested, we won&...
BRUCE GREENWOOD When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.
TED TURNER You can have the best vaccines for a woman or her child, but if you can't get her to come and ge...
MELINDA GATES I cannot love, I want to be alone
I will not love, I want to be alone
LAURA MARLING I get really angry when I get hungry. If you don't feed me, I won't talk to you. That's ...
DANIELA BOBADILLA Life is something like a trumpet. If you don't put anything in, you won't get anything out.
WILLIAM CHRISTOPHER HANDY Until we get equality in education, we won't have an equal society.
SONIA SOTOMAYOR You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I ...
ESPERANZA SPALDING Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn...
ZHANG ZIYI 'But I don't want to go among mad people,' said Alice. 'Oh, you can't help that,...
LEWIS CARROLL I'm really not big on nationalism, to be honest with you. I really don't think it gets peopl...
DYLAN MORAN Love won't be tampered with, love won't go away. Push it to one side and it creeps to the ot...
LOUISE ERDRICH I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.
ASHTON EATON The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
WOODY ALLEN I can't see why we can't toss in a Junior Walker or Wilson Pickett number in every once in a...
JOSE CARRERAS The Hollywood tradition I like best is called "sucking up to the stars."
JOHNNY CARSON Any politician or campaigner trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the public won't get very ...
NICOLA STURGEON Your connections might get you in the door, but it won't keep you there. And if you haven't ...
VIC MIGNOGNA I woke up this morning, and I still don't believe I won the Daytona 500.
DALE EARNHARDT Kids are smart. Knowledge is power. Let them figure things out. Don't turn into that grown-up wh...
LAUREN MYRACLE Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is th...
YEHUDA BERG Women won't let me stay single and I won't let me stay married.
ERROL FLYNN I don't see why I should give my new music to iTunes or anyone else. They won't pay me an ad...
PRINCE At one stage, I didn't have any money, so I slept on the streets for a few nights. It wasn't...
KERRY STOKES The question is: Where would it get you if something that's a little bit ambiguous in the movie ...
JOEL COEN You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of...
YOUNG BUCK I won't stop fighting to give Nevadans access to affordable health care just because my husband ...
SHELLEY BERKLEY I am a hopeless romantic. And I won't stop till I get it right.
HALLE BERRY I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I&...
HALIMA ADEN It's great if the in-laws themselves put up boundaries. But if they won't; it's up to th...
PHIL MCGRAW We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our c...
PEARL S. BUCK The older I've gotten, the more I've learned that I have to open myself up to all opportunit...
SELENA GOMEZ I think it's the nervousness and the worry that it won't last forever that keeps us working ...
BONNIE HAMMER Unless the local community signs up, wildlife won't survive. And without wildlife, no one will v...
JOCHEN ZEITZ I might do 'X Factor' next year. It's looking good that I won't get the sack at Chri...
GARY BARLOW You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
MALORIE BLACKMAN I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there f...
WALLY SCHIRRA Unlike a celebrity, there's nothing I won't try and nothing I won't talk about when it c...
EMILY WEISS There's four biggies. There was Elizabeth I, George III, Victoria, and the current queen, who re...
GEOFFREY RUSH Most people outside of America won't get it. It's the Easter bunny. It's another lie and...
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ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th...
ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde...
ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER