You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.
‐‐ Terence
You can take a handful of dollars, a good story, and people with passion and make a movie that will stand up against any $70 million movie.
‐‐ Jason Patric
You can take a Jew out of a shtetl, but you cannot take a shtetl out of a Jew.
‐‐ Sholom Aleichem
You can take a man out of Ireland, but you can't take the Irishness out of the man.
‐‐ Tyson Fury
You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out.
‐‐ Roy Romer
You can take a sidewards step in the Premier League, go to a team in the Championship or come to a team in League One.
‐‐ Alan Smith
You can take a substance that works in your system, but then you take this over here that's not banned, and this over here that's not banned, but if you mix them together, you've got a banned substance in your system.
‐‐ Lawrence Taylor
You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
‐‐ Fred Allen
You can take any one of our stories that we use right now, put western clothes on us, stick us out in the west and they'll work just as well - any single one of them - because they're stories about people, they're stories about things.
‐‐ Majel Barrett
You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.
‐‐ Kaitlin Olson
You can take as much as you can from the generation that has preceded you, but then it's up to you to make something new.
‐‐ Jackson Browne
You can take care of yourself, and God helps those who help themselves.
‐‐ James Brown
You can take charge, kick ass, do whatever you have to do and it's okay. You can blow people up. These are things that are okay for cartoon characters to do.
‐‐ Joan Severance
You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.
‐‐ Linda Evans
You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.
‐‐ Neil Gaiman
You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.
‐‐ Steve Harvey
You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing.
‐‐ Marie Stopes
You can take that 'I'm an artiste' stuff to the wrong extreme, too.
‐‐ Joaquin Phoenix
You can take the babushka off the Jewish mother and dress her up in a pair of Seven jeans and Marc Jacobs sling-backs, but she's still going to expect a passel of grandkids.
‐‐ Ayelet Waldman
You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
‐‐ Salman Rushdie
You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.
‐‐ John Mahoney
You can take the boy out of Philly but not the Philly out of the boy. It shapes my world view. It was a great place to grow up.
‐‐ Steve Capus
You can take the boy out of the Midwest, but you can't take the Midwest out of the boy.
‐‐ Joe Lando
You can take the girl out of Beverly Hills, but you can't take the Beverly Hills out of the girl.
‐‐ Kim Richards
You can take the girl out of Texas but not the Texas out of the girl and ultimately not the girl out of Texas.
‐‐ Janine Turner
You can take the girl out of Vegas, but you can't take the Vegas out of the girl.
‐‐ Charisma Carpenter
You can take the guy out of the neighorhood but you can't take the neighborhood out of the guy.
‐‐ Frankie Valli
You can take things that Jimi Hendrix took, from Curtis Mayfield or from Buddy Guy for example, because we are all children of everything, even Picasso. But if you want to stand out, you have to learn to crystallize your existence and create your own fingerprints.
‐‐ Carlos Santana
You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I've always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.
‐‐ Leighton Meester
You can take wonderfully talented actors, wonderfully talented writers and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!... but if it doesn't hit with the public in two minutes, it's bye-bye.
‐‐ Charlotte Rae
You can talk about and think about Muslims as you want, but you can't stop Muslims from building a mosque. You can hate Muslims from the comfort of your house or publicly, but when that becomes stopping Muslims from building a mosque or worshipping, then we are crossing the line into something else.
‐‐ Aasif Mandvi
You can talk about anything if you go about it the right way, which is never malicious.
‐‐ Rodney Carrington
You can talk about capitalism and communism and all that sort of thing, but the important thing is the struggle everybody is engaged in to get better living conditions, and they are not interested too much in government.
‐‐ Bernard Baruch
You can talk about Holocaust denial, but it's really marginal for the most part. What is compelling about the Armenian genocide, is how it has been forgotten.
‐‐ Atom Egoyan
You can talk about Michael Jackson all you want, but John Hughes was the soundtrack to my 1980s life.
‐‐ Shawn Amos
You can talk about movies all you want, but I have this porcelain fetish. I've had it since I was a kid, because there were so many kids in my family, the only place I had any solace was in the bathroom.
‐‐ Linda Fiorentino
You can talk about reality TV if you want to, but guess what - it was a big commercial for Kym Whitley.
‐‐ Kym Whitley
You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.
‐‐ Bob Feller
You can talk about what you see from the outside; it's hard to tell me who I am when you're just looking at me with a football uniform on. That's a totally different person. That's my job, that's it.
‐‐ Ray Lewis
You can talk good ideas out of existence.
‐‐ Vikram Seth
You can talk to a fade but a hook won't listen.
‐‐ Lee Trevino
You can talk to someone relatively famous, and they say, 'What do you do? What do you do for a job?' and I say, 'I make documentaries for the BBC,' and you see their eyes just glaze over.
‐‐ Louis Theroux
You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical cord for my child. I can guarantee you that your emotional state will change.
‐‐ Montel Williams
You can tax the rich all you want. The problem is there aren't enough of the rich.
‐‐ Bob Packwood
You can teach all sorts of things that improve the practice of management with people who are managers. What you cannot do is teach management to somebody who is not a manager, the way you cannot teach surgery to somebody whose not a surgeon.
‐‐ Henry Mintzberg
You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.
‐‐ Freddy Adu
You can teach an old dog new tricks, and this old dog wants to learn.
‐‐ Thomas P. O'Neill
You can teach somebody how to be a brain surgeon, but you cannot teach them how to walk on a stage and make people laugh.
‐‐ Ron White
You can teach students how to work; you can teach them technique - how to use reason; you can even give them a sense of proportions - of order. You can teach them general principles.
‐‐ Ludwig Mies van der Rohe