You can be a sex symbol through music or film. Hey, there are some politicians that are sex symbols. Is that something you should fight? No. Sex is very natural.
‐‐ Ricky Martin
You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal.
‐‐ Gavin DeGraw
You can be a smarty-pants director, but that won't matter if the movie doesn't work emotionally as well as intellectually.
‐‐ Todd Haynes
You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, 'This is my kingdom.'
‐‐ Salma Hayek
You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.
‐‐ Roger Milla
You can be a two-pitch guy and be successful, but your room for error is very small.
‐‐ Drew Pomeranz
You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.
‐‐ Dave Pelzer
You can be a virtuous person without faith in God.
‐‐ Bill Bennett
You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
‐‐ Halsey
You can be an absolute woman and also be smart and tough and not lose your femininity.
‐‐ Priyanka Chopra
You can be an idiot and survive because you just go to McDonalds for your food, and you go to work and do some sort of inane job, which is nobody taking any responsibility - it's always up the line - and then you watch the Super Bowl, and that's it. But in the old days, you really had to know how your world works. You don't need that anymore.
‐‐ Harry Kroto
You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
‐‐ Daley Thompson
You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.
‐‐ Cameron Russell
You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.
‐‐ Lenny Kravitz
You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
‐‐ Harry Belafonte
You can be as devoted and loving a spouse or a caregiver or child, but you also have to remember that you have to program time for yourself in there, because it will renew you.
‐‐ Jeanne Phillips
You can be as good an actor as you want but, if your accent is too strong, it's going to limit you.
‐‐ Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
‐‐ Ira Sachs
You can be aware that something is idiosyncratic, and give it to a character, but keep doing it.
‐‐ Noah Baumbach
You can be barefoot and have worries.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot
You can be beautiful with big breasts; you can be beautiful in your 40s. If you don't have perfect ankles, still you can move your legs in a certain way and look very sexy.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld
You can be born into privilege, or you can not be born into privilege. You can be born into the opposite extreme and into poverty. I think from there on, though, you really do have to make your luck.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump
You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.
‐‐ Iris Apfel
You can be bound by physical things, as I am by certain sicknesses, but nevertheless you can still be free to recognize that all initiatives really come from yourself if you don't depend upon structures of government or structures of any kind.
‐‐ George Woodcock
You can be chased home or hit or called names or spit on, and it's over. You have the memory of it, but it's very different from the emotional and psychological experience of feeling invisible, of not learning the confidence to stand up in class and speak.
‐‐ Chirlane McCray
You can be childlike without being childish. A child always wants to have fun. Ask yourself, 'Am I having fun?'
‐‐ Christopher Meloni
You can be cocky and confident, but when you start developing feelings for someone, suddenly your self-esteem drops a bit.
‐‐ Russell Tovey
You can be committed to Church but not committed to Christ, but you cannot be committed to Christ and not committed to church.
‐‐ Joel Osteen
You can be committed to somebody because of ego: 'I said I was going to be with this joker for the rest of my life, so I'm just going to do it.' Or you can be committed because you have a deeply rooted connection.
‐‐ Jada Pinkett Smith
You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who will hopefully become the mother of your kids. America needs to get back to family values.
‐‐ Martin Lawrence
You can be covered and be very sexy. It's not what you show; it's what you have in mind, the way you cross your legs, the way you talk to people.
‐‐ Carine Roitfeld
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
‐‐ Anne Roiphe
You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.
‐‐ Ken Robinson
You can be diagnosed and treated early. And there is hope for the future.
‐‐ Teri Garr
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that's where you'll find success - on the far side of failure.
‐‐ Thomas J. Watson
You can be drinking the wine today, but picking the grapes tomorrow.
‐‐ Jonathan Tucker
You can be enticed by food, wooed by food, sex, money, or instruments.
‐‐ Bernie Worrell
You can be extremely bright and still have dyslexia. You just have to understand how you learn and how you process information. When you know that, you can overcome a lot of the obstacles that come with dyslexia.
‐‐ Tim Tebow
You can be famous for a lot of things. You can be a Nobel-prize winner. You can be the fattest guy in the world.
‐‐ Evel Knievel
You can be far more challenging, articulate and intelligent writing for television than you can writing for the cinema.
‐‐ Peter Morgan
You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.
‐‐ Susan Powter
You can be for someone without being against someone else.
‐‐ Joe Andrew
You can be forgotten very quickly. So I am aware that I need to stay current, keep connecting, and keep bringing things to the table... Otherwise, you can just disappear.
‐‐ Rita Ora
You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
‐‐ Hari Kondabolu
You can be good at technology and like fashion and art. You can be good at technology and be a jock. You can be good at technology and be a mom. You can do it your way, on your terms.
‐‐ Marissa Mayer
You can be great only if it is your destiny.
‐‐ Andrea Bocelli
You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument, you're in trouble.
‐‐ Steve Harvey
You can be happy where you are.
‐‐ Joel Osteen
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
‐‐ Nicholas Lea