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Zora Neale Hurston

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EDWARD CONLON It ends or it doesn't.
That’s what you say. That’s
how you get through it.
The tu...
CAITLYN SIEHL You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ...
DEYTH BANGER It's hard to run from checkmate, checkmate is like the dead... but it's possible to block it. Unfort...
DEYTH BANGER My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS When you say, "I can't do it!" - You never will.
But, if you say, "I'll give it a try," eventua...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Those that don't got it, can't show it. Those that got it, can't hide it.
ZORA NEALE HURSTON If peace can only come through killing someone, then I don't want it.
HIRO MASHIMA Let's don't do it again and again, posting the same, saying the same and the same. It's pointless!
DEYTH BANGER You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.
SAMANTHA FOX Don’t stop breathing just because night has fallen! Don't stop breathing just because you are slee...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH It's not leftovers that are wasteful, but those who either don't know what to do with them o...
JULIAN BAGGINI Let's use some codes every word which isn't there or sound some kind non-sense, let's put it a code ...
DEYTH BANGER What we don't know can't hurt us.
JOHN SCALZI You know, it's amazing. I don't even have a car, would you believe it? I had a motorbike and...
MICHAEL FASSBENDER I don't think that you can fake warmth. You can fake lust, jealousy, anger; those are all quite ...
KEIRA KNIGHTLEY - I tak nieźle sobie pożyłem.
- Co to za życie? – powiedział ojciec.- Nic tylko kłamstw...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI But you don't have to be a bad guy to depress somebody-you can be a good guy and do it.
J.D. SALINGER If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Life - Don't waste it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS 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 A building is no good if someone's got to explain to you why it's good. You can't say yo...
DAVID CHIPPERFIELD It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts th...
MARK TWAIN You cannot do anything unless you allow your passion to motivate you. People may tell you, "you can ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR You can't explain much in 60 seconds, but when you show Michael Jordan, you don't have to. I...
PHIL KNIGHT I love improvisation. You can't blame it on the writers. You can't blame it on direction. Yo...
JONATHAN WINTERS Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it...
FETTY WAP I've learned that you don't need a lot in life. If it can't fit into a suitcase, you don...
JOYCE DIDONATO Speed Up...

- Has never been the right decision.

SLow Up

- ANd spee...
DEYTH BANGER Off, end this lies it's not awesome. Please take this crap, second very clever and smart, but I want...
DEYTH BANGER FaraWell or Goodbye it really doesn't matter it shows one magic. If you find it, you are a magician!
DEYTH BANGER I look at him and realize, maybe I overreacted. Maybe more than once.
LISA SCHROEDER If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON I can't explain chemistry. I really can't. I haven't got a clue what it's all about....
ELAINE STRITCH If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
JACK L. CHALKER It could be that people just want to be connected to something that's bigger than they are that ...
DWIGHT SCHULTZ I don't fear aging. It's natural, and I can't stop it!
MADHURI DIXIT Some people are really proud of me, and some don't like it. I don't really know what to tell...
BRYSON TILLER Those who say, 'It can't be done,' are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JOEL A. BARKER I'm not into street clothes. Don't understand it. I don't understand those over-exaggera...
OZWALD BOATENG It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damagi...
STERLING K. BROWN If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
ALBERT EINSTEIN A mother's got to be there to raise the children. That's all there is to it. I feel badly fo...
ERIC BRAEDEN You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's imm...
ROMAN POLANSKI A mood disorder is dangerous. You've got to get those dramatic waves of highs and lows stabilize...
JANE PAULEY Movies these days have made killers into funny people. What's that all about? I've got kids ...
BILLY BOB THORNTON It's important not to indicate. People don't try to show their feelings, they try to hide th...
ROBERT DE NIRO Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don'...
BEN KATCHOR If I don't love my character, I can't do it.
TAHAR RAHIM As far commercial success, I don't think that's a focus but it's not that we don't e...
DAVEY HAVOK There are two kinds of worries - those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't...
DUKE ELLINGTON He knew he was sounding a little Holden Caulfield-esque calling everyone a phony, but he really did ...
SARAH MLYNOWSKI I don't know what leadership is. You can't touch it. You can't feel it. It's not tan...
BOB EHRLICH I chose not to put a wig on. The reason why I chose to come out with the cancer thing is because the...
SHARON JONES It's not that I don't like TV. It's alien to me. I haven't watched a television show...
ETHAN COEN I don't take roles I can't respect. If I can't find a reason to be respectful of the cha...
ESTHER ROLLE I can't hear music. I don't understand it. It's so above and beyond me.
CAM GIGANDET I know a lot of stuff, but to get some stuff near you need to get access, but the access isn't easy....
DEYTH BANGER I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that...
DYLAN MORAN I don't hate technology, I don't hate hackers, because that's just what comes with it, w...
FRED DURST I am one of those faces that it's sometimes, 'Oh my God, you look so familiar, but I can'...
LINDSEY MCKEON I got love for Damon Dash as I did before. I don't know if we can be around each other in that w...
JAY-Z For every person who closed the door in my face, thank you. For every person who told me I wasn't go...
YVONNE PIERRE If you don't love it, you can't suffer thru all the despair that comes with it. Keep doing i...
ROBERT STACK We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL People say, 'In Washington, things can't get done.' We at the state level have to get it...
TERRY MCAULIFFE You can't delete racism. It's like a cigarette. You can't stop smoking if you don't ...
MARIO BALOTELLI If you can't pronounce a word correctly, just don't use it.
AMANDA SEYFRIED You can't debate satire. Either you get it or you don't.
MICHAEL MOORE It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
BARRY BONDS I've got lots of stamina; don't worry about that. I cycle every day - it's OK.
JEREMY CORBYN Well look, I mean, I think that prayer and holy water, and things like that are all fine. They don&#...
CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I...
RUPERT EVERETT I was one of those kids who had never seen an indie film before I got to college. If it wasn't a...
JOHN KRASINSKI I'm certainly not 10 pounds away from being an ingenue! Of course I would love to lose 10 pounds...
MARISSA JARET WINOKUR If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.
MAYA ANGELOU Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I do...
UTA HAGEN Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
LAO TZU ... You asked how am I?? Really?? So you care about me?? or you just decided to ask to return it bac...
DEYTH BANGER You can't predict a show, that is the damndest thing, you can't predict if a show is going t...
AARON SPELLING Those who say it can't be done are usually interrupted by others doing it.
JAMES A. BALDWIN The key to wealth is that it doesn't matter. Once you've had it, you don't think anythin...
NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast...
STEVEN SPIELBERG If you can say it... it's obvious.
DEYTH BANGER I don't know what my appeal is. I can see I've got blue eyes and don't look like the Hun...
RUTGER HAUER I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin...
BROWNIE MCGHEE Normal people... believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ...
SCOTT ADAMS We don't hide our space program. We don't keep secrets and cover things up. We do it all up ...
RONALD REAGAN I don't like people lying to me. I don't like people who don't return my calls. I don...
DAN AYKROYD Remember - you can't beam through a force field. So, don't try it.
WILLIAM SHATNER If you can't do something willingly and joyfully, then don't do it.
PETER O'TOOLE Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics'...
RICHARD STALLMAN I've found a woman I can relate to. That's something - and I don't even feel sappy sayin...
MARILYN MANSON I'm a meathead. I can't help it, man. You've got smart people and you've got dumb pe...
KEANU REEVES I always felt, even before I got pregnant, that it's better to accentuate your curves. A lot of ...
MARISA MILLER I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, i...
EVAN RACHEL WOOD I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depre...
TAO LIN A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like ...
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