#could

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? ↗

— Alan Paton

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You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed. ↗

— Slavoj Zizek

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I knew I could control one thing, and that is my time and my hours and my effort and my efficiency. ↗

— Ryan Seacrest

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Some films could only have been cast in one way: Screen tests were given and the losers got the parts. ↗

— Gene Shalit

#cast #could #films #given #got

I liked pretending to be other people: I could reinvent myself, reinvent my own reality. ↗

— Helena Bonham Carter

#i #liked #my own #myself #other

At the same time it offered the hope, as it still does, that improved understanding could better the lot of mankind. For me, growing up in the 1930s, the two motivations powerfully reinforced each other. ↗

— James Tobin

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I could feel it in my bones, how I missed the heat of my country and the love of my family. ↗

— Tony Perez

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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place. ↗

— Xun Zi

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You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it... well thank you. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#cecelia-ahernt #if-you-could-see-me-now #love #philosphy-of-people #positive-thinking

I got a mortgage at 17! I didn't even know you could get a mortgage at 17. ↗

— Jennifer Ellison

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