All Quotes

You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
‐‐ Christoph Waltz

You can't always expect to work with a director who guarantees success.
‐‐ Dhanush

You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.
‐‐ Dennis C. Blair

You can't always go by the book, even in comedy.
‐‐ Alan Bates

You can't always have the best team. It's always a compromise.
‐‐ Alain Prost

You can't always let people do their own thing.
‐‐ Peter Shaffer

You can't always look at life as a miserable thing.
‐‐ Peter Jackson

You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

You can't always say what you'd like to say.
‐‐ Sebastian Vettel

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.
‐‐ John Mulaney

You can't always tell if someone's gay over Twitter, but when he's talking to you about 'Real Housewives,' it's probably OK to assume.
‐‐ Casey Wilson

You can't always understand if someone's into you or not, so you should never really pursue something too far without gauging that first.
‐‐ Carly Rae Jepsen

You can't always wait for the guys at the top. Every manager at every level in the organization has an opportunity, big or small, to do something. Every manager's got some sphere of autonomy. Don't pass the buck up the line.
‐‐ Bob Anderson

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
‐‐ Frank Zappa

You can't applaud a referee.
‐‐ Alex Ferguson

You can't argue with stupidity.
‐‐ Jermaine Jackson

You can't arrest me, I'm a rockstar.
‐‐ Sid Vicious

You can't, as an actor, conduct yourself by making constant references to other people.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.
‐‐ Tiffeny Milbrett

You can't ask me to explain the lyrics because I won't do it.
‐‐ Lou Reed

You can't ask the press to service you with everything that they have and not expect some of the other stuff in return if you're going to live your life like I have.
‐‐ Kiefer Sutherland

You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
‐‐ Kary Mullis

You can't assume any place you go is private because the means of surveillance are becoming so affordable and so invisible.
‐‐ Howard Rheingold

You can't assume anything in politics. That's why every Saturday I walk around my district. I talk to the longshoremen in Charlestown. I listen to the people in East Boston and their concern on the airport noise. I walk down to the Star Market in Porter Square, and people tell me about meat prices.
‐‐ Thomas P. O'Neill

You can't bank on the outcome.
‐‐ Daniel Berrigan

You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.
‐‐ John Key

You can't base your life on other people's expectations.
‐‐ Stevie Wonder

You can't be 16 forever.
‐‐ Molly Ringwald

You can't be a casual observer of something humorous - you have to engage, you have to find it funny for the relationship between actor and audience to work.
‐‐ Brendan Coyle

You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.
‐‐ Bill Drayton

You can't be a conqueror in your own home.
‐‐ Naftali Bennett

You can't be a crazy rebel in the face of death, it's not a fitting attitude.
‐‐ Michel Houellebecq

You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.
‐‐ Ken Robinson

You can't be a doctor if you don't know the entire parts of the body.
‐‐ Bernie Mac

You can't be a full participant in our democracy if you don't know our history.
‐‐ David McCullough

You can't be a good actor if you get too affected by fame. Because then you're not real, and you're not really wanting more. You look at a lot of actors who, before they were famous, did a lot of amazing work, and once they got too big, it just got off.
‐‐ Ansel Elgort

You can't be a great mum and work the whole time necessarily; those two things aren't ideal. We have an awful lot to work on and to debate about in relation to our working lives, because it isn't working for a lot of people, particularly for a lot of women.
‐‐ Emma Thompson

You can't be a grown-up woman and not like chocolate.
‐‐ Julie Dawn Cole

You can't be a human and a guy and not connect with Pippin... I often feel like Pippin. I come offstage sometimes like 'Oh my God, I've got to do this next time! I've gotta go there. I'm going to make this choice.'
‐‐ Matthew James Thomas

You can't be a major company today without paying attention to celebrities. They are the leaders in beauty and fashion.
‐‐ Aerin Lauder

You can't be a minority in this society without having someone express disapproval about affirmative action.
‐‐ Sonia Sotomayor

You can't be a mod and a rocker. You have to choose sides.
‐‐ Noel Gallagher

You can't be a model at age 60, but you certainly can be an actress.
‐‐ Eva Herzigova

You can't be a parent and say, 'I need you to be more active and I need you to eat right,' when you're still choosing to have poor eating habits.
‐‐ Bob Harper

You can't be a part-time Richard Dawkins.
‐‐ David Mitchell

You can't be a perfect environmentalist unless you're Ed Begley, Jr., whom I once saw on TV using a bicycle to power his toaster. He's amazing.
‐‐ Sara Gilbert

You can't be a playwright without believing there's an audience for adventurous work.
‐‐ David Henry Hwang

You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.
‐‐ Charles Soule

You can't be a professor without having been a student. You can't be a consultant without having been a research associate. So, if you outsource the least sophisticated jobs, at some stage, the next step of the ladder has to follow.
‐‐ Nirmalya Kumar