You don't have to be a bodybuilder to have strength in your muscles.
‐‐ Katarina Johnson-Thompson
You don't have to be a Brad Pitt look-alike hero just to be courageous and help out your friends and come through when it really matters. I think everyone can sort of relate to that in some way, particularly back to people's school days.
‐‐ Matthew Lewis
You don't have to be a brain surgeon to be a valuable person. You become valuable because of the knowledge that you have. And that doesn't mean you won't fail sometimes. The important thing is to keep trying.
‐‐ Ben Carson
You don't have to be a brilliant historian to know that in Europe, messing with countries' borders, messing with their self-determination, their ability to choose their own futures, this is extremely dangerous, and that's why I think it is important to stand up to Putin.
‐‐ David Cameron
You don't have to be a cheater to sing a cheatin' song, that's what I'm saying.
‐‐ George Strait
You don't have to be a chef or even a particularly good cook to experience proper kitchen alchemy: the moment when ingredients combine to form something more delectable than the sum of their parts. Fancy ingredients or recipes not required; simple, made-up things are usually even better.
‐‐ Erin Morgenstern
You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on biblical principles because they work.
‐‐ S. Truett Cathy
You don't have to be a creative maverick to have a troubled mind. You just have to be human. There is no 'us' and 'them.' No one is one hundred per cent healthy, physically or mentally.
‐‐ Matt Haig
You don't have to be a Fundamentalist Christian to be interested in the Bible. It's really a fascinating mythology.
‐‐ Robert Crumb
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.
‐‐ Michael Dell
You don't have to be a good musician if you've got certain computer skills.
‐‐ Daryl Hall
You don't have to be a good singer any more if you can rap well.
‐‐ Daryl Hall
You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.
‐‐ Malcolm X
You don't have to be a member of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute to figure out that when you title a memoir of your parents 'Them,' you're performing an act of distancing.
‐‐ Robert Gottlieb
You don't have to be a nerd or a programmer or a network engineer to make a difference.
‐‐ Rebecca MacKinnon
You don't have to be a 'person of influence' to be influential. In fact, the most influential people in my life are probably not even aware of the things they've taught me.
‐‐ Scott Adams
You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.
‐‐ Rich Galen
You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
‐‐ Macy Gray
You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out you can't see any stars living in the city. I studied some light-pollution maps, and knew I'd have to get out of San Antonio.
‐‐ Jimmy Walker
You don't have to be a scared person. I've had so many tragedies. I've managed to withstand things that you may think you cannot tolerate. But I have the strength.
‐‐ Ariel Sharon
You don't have to be a wreck. You don't have to be sick. One's aim in life should be to die in good health. Just like a candle that burns out.
‐‐ Jeanne Moreau
You don't have to be African American to really enjoy 'Frisky Business'. But as far as being black, a lot of people in New York have been stopped and frisked, so that hits home for them.
‐‐ Jessica Williams
You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman.
‐‐ Belinda Carlisle
You don't have to be alone with your thoughts anymore. You don't have to process anything. You can call up someone to do something to instantly make you sort of feel better.
‐‐ Dennis Quaid
You don't have to be an angel, just be someone who can give.
‐‐ Patti LaBelle
You don't have to be an at-home parent to be an attachment parent.
‐‐ Mayim Bialik
You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
‐‐ Paris Hilton
You don't have to be born beautiful to be wildly attractive.
‐‐ Diana Vreeland
You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.
‐‐ Peter Ackroyd
You don't have to be captain to have an opinion.
‐‐ John Terry
You don't have to be dead to write a classic, and you don't have to be literary to be smart.
‐‐ Lisa Scottoline
You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian.
‐‐ Tammy Faye Bakker
You don't have to be Einstein to see that horse racing is dangerous. Those two ambulances driving behind you aren't there for the scenery. I will never get over the fatalities of colleagues. It is the saddest and toughest part of this sport.
‐‐ Tony McCoy
You don't have to be fearless to do anything; you can be scared out of your mind. I fear that I won't get better and that I won't have time to practice. To be called a 'jazz musician' - it's a big responsibility.
‐‐ Esperanza Spalding
You don't have to be gay to be attracted to your friend.
‐‐ Vera Farmiga
You don't have to be great to be successful. Look at Phil Collins.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher
You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.
‐‐ Zig Ziglar
You don't have to be in Nam to be in Nam.
‐‐ Tim O'Brien
You don't have to be in the brightest, shiniest state of being an individual to feel like you're exceptional.
‐‐ Jenny Slate
You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.
‐‐ Tony Judt
You don't have to be like everybody else or do things like everybody else. God created you to be a unique individual, and He wants you to be free to be who He made you to be.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer
You don't have to be long off the tee, and we know the amazing effect an Open crowd can have if you're on your game and how they can lift you.
‐‐ Ernie Els
You don't have to be married to have a good friend as your partner for life.
‐‐ Greta Garbo
You don't have to be naked to be sexy.
‐‐ Nicole Kidman
You don't have to be noisy to be effective.
‐‐ Phil Crosby
You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.
‐‐ Peggy Noonan
You don't have to be one of those people that accepts things as they are. Every day, take responsibility for changing them right where you are.
‐‐ Cory Booker
You don't have to be peculiar to find God.
‐‐ Evelyn Underhill
You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.
‐‐ Chick Corea
You don't have to be Pope Julius to have great art in your house.
‐‐ Lynda Resnick
You don't have to be popular with the players to be a good manager or coach.
‐‐ Francis Lee
You don't have to be rich and famous. You just have to be an ordinary person, doing extraordinary things. I'd like more people to know that it's there. Women's achievements still aren't recognised enough in many areas.
‐‐ Joan Armatrading
You don't have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.
‐‐ Kanye West
You don't have to be serious all the time to do a good job.
‐‐ Simone Biles
You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the attraction limited to religious fanatics committing mass murder and suicide for the greater glory of God.
‐‐ Ellen Willis
You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.
‐‐ Jimi Hendrix
You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.
‐‐ Seal
You don't have to be someone who likes walking a tightrope across the Twin Towers to watch 'Man On Wire.'
‐‐ Asif Kapadia
You don't have to be straight to be in the military; you just have to be able to shoot straight.
‐‐ Barry Goldwater
You don't have to be the biggest, tallest, strongest guy to do whatever you want to do. You can do anything. There's tall doctors, short doctors. It doesn't matter. You don't have to be the tallest guy to play the sport of basketball, football or whatever you want to play.
‐‐ Nate Robinson
You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
‐‐ Ross Perot
You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.
‐‐ John Cleese
You don't have to be the sexiest girl or the most talented person to have the X factor. X factor is something you are born with that is your own. And the moment that you realize how to tap into that quality that you have within, and how to bring that individuality out of yourself, that is when you discover the X factor.
‐‐ Sonu Nigam
You don't have to be wealthy to run for mayor. I'm a Green Party candidate running for mayor and I'm being taken seriously.
‐‐ Matt Gonzalez
You don't have to be Wilt Chamberlain to get into the Basketball Hall of Fame. If you don't have a sweet turnaround jumper from 18 feet, the best route to the Hall is fatherhood. Daniel Biasone, aka the 'father of the 24-second clock,' made the cut.
‐‐ Brendan I. Koerner
You don't have to be worried about labeling me.
‐‐ Danny Aiello
You don't have to be young to learn about technology. You have to feel young.
‐‐ Vint Cerf
You don't have to become a vegan. You can become a plant-passionate, plant-inspired bean lover!
‐‐ Kris Carr
You don't have to become an investment banker as a way of demonstrating that education has worked for you. But librarians have to believe in the values of high culture. Not just high culture but middle culture, low culture, kinds of exciting eye-catching crap of all kinds. Everyone needs that.
‐‐ Francis Spufford
You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.
‐‐ Sharon Salzberg