All Quotes

You can't be a progressive and be opposed to pension reform.
‐‐ Gina Raimondo

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.
‐‐ Johnny Vegas

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
‐‐ Frank Zappa

You can't be a real man if you don't look out for your kids. They need you.
‐‐ Bill O'Reilly

You can't be a Red if you're married to a civil servant.
‐‐ Doris Lessing

You can't be a reporter using Google. It can be a tool. But you have to get out of the house.
‐‐ Pete Hamill

You can't be a resource for others unless you nourish yourself.
‐‐ Alexandra Stoddard

You can't be a sexy person unless you have something sexy to offer. With me, it's my voice: the way that I sing, the way I express myself when I sing.
‐‐ Tom Jones

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.
‐‐ Joss Whedon

You can't be a strong or cool woman and be represented except in a harsh way, looking mean and cold and hard. It's like reverse sexism.
‐‐ Kim Gordon

You can't be a superhero or super mom.
‐‐ Thalia

You can't be a victim and heal.
‐‐ A. J. Langer

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.
‐‐ Sally Hawkins

You can't be admitted to the ranks of writers of importance unless you have sales.
‐‐ James Salter

You can't be afraid of failure and you can't be afraid of success, because either one gets in the way of your work.
‐‐ Dave Van Ronk

You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation.
‐‐ Bruce Springsteen

You can't be afraid of the problem. Don't be afraid of failure; don't be afraid to make mistakes. Make sure you learn from each step; iterate, and stay as efficient as possible without being paralyzed by a difficult situation.
‐‐ Jon Oringer

You can't be afraid to fail. It's the only way you succeed - you're not gonna succeed all the time, and I know that.
‐‐ LeBron James

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.
‐‐ Lou Brock

You can't be afraid to not have everything figured out. There's too much pressure on young people today to have it all figured out when they're in college.
‐‐ Charlie Trotter

You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.
‐‐ Duane Chapman

You can't be against bullying without actually doing something about it.
‐‐ Randi Weingarten

You can't be all of the people you're influenced by, so you make your own filter and create your own beautiful, unique thing in the world. Soak up the world, man, and make something of your own.
‐‐ CeeLo Green

You can't be an American without being related to other Americans.
‐‐ Amiri Baraka

You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.
‐‐ Irving Azoff

You can't be an entrepreneur for other people. You can't start a company for other people. You have to love it more than you ever thought of loving something that wasn't a human being. The demands will kick you down and rob your life - but yet, it is so rewarding.
‐‐ Blake Lively

You can't be an openly gay movie star. You can't be an openly gay pop star, really - minus Ricky Martin.
‐‐ Rashida Jones

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.
‐‐ Jim Broadbent

You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
‐‐ Nate Berkus

You can't be as old as I am without waking up with a surprised look on your face every morning: 'Holy Christ, whaddya know - I'm still around!' It's absolutely amazing that I survived all the booze and smoking and the cars and the career.
‐‐ Paul Newman

You can't be at your full creative power if you are sedated.
‐‐ Charlie Haden

You can't be aware of everything. You'd fall down the stairs if you were aware of every intricate thing involved in going down stairs.
‐‐ Alan Alda

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.
‐‐ Mary Tyler Moore

You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you.
‐‐ Brian Mulroney

You can't be controlling in improv.
‐‐ Matt Walsh

You can't be crazy and wild when you're on work time. But, I like it, in that sense I think it makes you a better person for having matured at a younger age.
‐‐ Kay Panabaker

You can't be different for different's sake, and this doesn't always work, but you have to separate yourself from the normal read. Of course, it has to be truthful. If it's not truthful, don't waste your time.
‐‐ Brad Pitt

You can't be Eazy-E and not move a certain way, basically. So, I studied the culture of it, and also, one of my uncles is from L.A., and he's great. He was like my performance coach. He helped me get the lingo down pat. He helped me get a lot of things down pat because I would talk in that accent for 10 hours a day.
‐‐ Jason Mitchell

You can't be elected president without passing though Iowa and bowing down before corn-based ethanol, before agricultural subsidies. I mean, even McCain was a critic of ethanol, but when he got to Iowa, he was singing a different tune.
‐‐ Michael Pollan

You can't be emotional if you're trying to be a businesswoman.
‐‐ Sarah Drew

You can't be entirely unguarded in politics. Even appearing to be unguarded is as much a facade as a reality.
‐‐ Chris Gabrieli

You can't be evangelical and associate yourself with Jesus and what he says about the poor and just have no other domestic concerns than tax cuts for wealthy people.
‐‐ Jim Wallis

You can't be ever embarrassed about hustling.
‐‐ Jason Calacanis

You can't be fat and fast, too; so lift, run, diet and work.
‐‐ Hank Stram

You can't be friends with a squirrel! A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit.
‐‐ Sarah Jessica Parker

You can't be funny for funny's sake. You try to get as outrageous situation as you can but it always has to be believable and based in real character motivations and what people would really do.
‐‐ Hank Azaria

You can't be funny if you don't have good material.
‐‐ Matt LeBlanc

You can't be funny unless you're tragic, and you can't be tragic unless you're funny.
‐‐ Elaine Stritch

You can't be glued in the '60s. Walking around, going up the pub or popping to Tesco in a hunting jacket.
‐‐ Dave Davies