Top 100 Because You Can Quotes
#1. Work made me more streetwise because you can be so sheltered at home. I'd definitely encourage my kids Lillie and Karl, who are nine and seven, to get Saturday jobs in the future.
Rebecca Ferguson
#2. To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure.
Alan Alda
#3. Faith or Worry. Pick one, because you can't have both.
Amanda Penland
#4. Baby you're the only light I ever saw. I make the most of all the sadness, you be a bitch because you can. You try to hit me just to hurt me so you leave me feeling dirty 'cause you can't understand. We're going down and you could see it to ... we're slow dancing in a burning room!!!
John Mayer
#5. I really enjoy the iPad because you can multi-task: I can watch a movie, read, look at pictures that I shot - because I'm into photography. It serves a lot of purposes for me.
Tyson Chandler
#6. I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
Carine Roitfeld
#7. Do not complain about two things; your job and your position, because you can always change them.
M.F. Moonzajer
#8. I love cable, but not because you can show boobies and say the F-word. I love it because you have more time to think. That's the blessing of it.
Vince Gilligan
#9. In a certain respect, in a movie, you inevitably have a lot of people doing a lot of different jobs because that's the only practical way to get it done. When you make a record, you can still be an auteur, because you can make a whole record without anyone's help if you want.
D.A. Wallach
#10. I love roasting because you can give it love, get it in the oven and go and play with the kids or whatever you've got to do, and then hours later you've got a lovely dinner.
Jamie Oliver
#11. Your ability to name every single variation of Kryptonite and every first issue in which it appears is a great pop quiz skill, but is not a great writing skill, all right? So just because you can do that doesn't mean you know how to write.
Greg Rucka
#12. I've always figured the only way I could finish a book and get a plot was just to keep making it longer and longer until something happens - you know, until it finds its own plot - because you can't outline and then fit the thing into it. I suppose it's a slow way of working.
Nelson Algren
#13. What are you, Elle? Are you a ghost? Are you an angel or a demon? Because you can't be real.
Megan Hart
#14. I like working with writer-directors because you can solve problems right there.
Nick Nolte
#15. Cats are impossible to work with. They're just very difficult because you can't really train them. They're not really interested in whatever you want them to do. Dogs want to please you; cats only want to please themselves.
Oscar Isaac
#16. I don't think crack happened by accident. I'm part conspiracy theorist, because you can't develop something that dangerous and have it not be planned.
Questlove
#17. If you are keeping them because you can't forget a former boyfriend, it's better to discard or donate them. Hanging on to them makes it more likely that you will miss opportunities for new relationships.
Marie Kondo
#18. Hey, say you are looking at a chess board. Is there anything you can't see? No. But are you guaranteed to win? Not at all, because you can't see what the other guy is thinking.
Malcolm Gladwell
#19. There seems to be art and creativity everywhere, whether it was in the galleries of Jaffa or along the streets of Jerusalem ... the creativity blows my mind because you can see that people want to live their lives to the fullest.
Guillermo Diaz
#20. Caidi to Jacin: "Do you know why I love you?"
Jacin: "No."
Caidi: "Because you love so big, even when you don't want to. Because you can't help it. And because you need it back, but you don't know how to take it.
Carole Cummings
#21. Don't let anyone tell you you can't do something, because you can!
Greg Plitt
#22. Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.
M.J. Ryan
#23. You can get the best locksmith in the world to design the best lock he can design, is it pick proof? No, it's not: it can be very hard to pick, but it is pickable. Because you can get, say, the next 10 best locksmiths, and give them unlimited money and time, they will figure out a way to pick it.
Mikko Hypponen
#24. I hopes the candidate [Donald Trump] is given fake intelligence briefings ... because you can't trust him.
Harry Reid
#25. Grief:" You don't get over it you just get through it you don't get by it because you can't get around it it doesn't "get better" it just gets different every day . . . grief puts on a new face.
Brook Noel
#26. It's not something to complain about, but just the major difference between college and the pros is that in college you're guaranteed four to five years so long as you don't do anything criminally and in the pros you're guaranteed one day because you can be cut the next.
Robert Griffin III
#27. Having done film, TV and theatre, the nicest final bit of the jigsaw is to do live comedy, because you can talk to the audience. It feels really natural to be able to laugh with them, but at the same time still be within the framework of a play.
Jessie Cave
#29. My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#30. Don't pursue anything that doesn't fill your soul with joy because you can always go to Disneyland.
Shannon L. Alder
#31. The first act is the easiest to plot. The second act is always the hardest to plot. Generally a good, you know, sometimes the third act can be difficult because you can get into a rut in the third act - everybody runs to their Corvette, has a chase, and you catch the bad guy.
Stephen J. Cannell
#32. An erratum is a correction inserted into a book after publication. It's a nice thing to collect because you can't go after them, you just come upon them. In 25 years I've only found about 12.
Miranda July
#33. I think we overrate ourselves in terms of our abilities and capacities. I mean, just because you can build a really swell bridge doesn't, to my way of thinking, mean that you're an advanced civilization.
George Carlin
#34. I got my first Charvet knit tie when I was 15. I actually stole it from my father. I love them because you can wear them day to night. They're French and preppy and have been around since the 1800s.
Nate Berkus
#35. It's not really much good tearing out a page because you can see the place where it's been torn. [ ... ] You can pull a stamp out,' she said with terrible youthful clarity, 'and you don't know that it's ever been there.
Graham Greene
#36. Don't be sad because it's over. Be happy because you can start over.
Ria Tumimomor
#37. I'm a little self-conscious about my body. I love to wear hoodies because you can get cozy and eat some food and your belly doesn't show!
Jared Padalecki
#38. I enjoy been on holidays because you can do whatever you want and people can't say anything to you.
Cristiano Ronaldo
#39. Simply because you can perform feats of power does not mean you are, in the classical sense, fully enlightened. It means that you have mastered a few aspects of the mystical kundalini. That's all it means.
Frederick Lenz
#40. You try to be arrogant in songs because you can't be in real life.
Chrissie Hynde
#41. Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
Elizabeth Peyton
#42. Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you.
Paulo Coelho
#43. When we anticipate, we're the happiest. Unless you're on antidepressants. The reason you take antidepressants is because you can't anticipate. You think everything's going to be horrible, so it usually is.
Lewis Black
#44. Emotion~Writing a scene that you have to walk away from because you can't see the words through your own tears.~M. L. Stephens
M.L. Stephens
#45. I got quite used to changing that cheque, because you can get used to anything. You think: I'll never do that; and you find yourself doing it.
Jean Rhys
#46. Within the context of the clubs, and perhaps the sex business as a whole, the issue of race becomes very complicated because you can't force someone to pay for something - or someone - that they don't want, whether their desire - or lack thereof - is motivated by racism or not.
Craig Seymour
#47. I mean one of the basic rules when you're acting is that you mustn't stand in judgement on a character, you mustn't say Hitler was a bad man because you can't act in that way.
Janet Suzman
#48. You get a bad review with a novel, and it hurts. But I imagine if you get a bad review with a memoir, it hurts more because you can always say, 'Well, they didn't like my characters,' but when you're the character, it's like, 'Oh, yeah, they actually didn't like me.'
Darin Strauss
#49. Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do.
Jerry Bruckheimer
#50. I know sometimes tragic or humiliating events propel you into a better life, I've experienced that for sure, but it still hurts. It still burns. I think sometimes it hurts more because you can't wish it had never happened. It improved your life in the long run.
Autumn De Wilde
#52. I like roundtables because you can talk more directly to people. And you also can get kind of a vibe on what a journalist's take is on something, and have a conversation with them more.
Ben Affleck
#53. In a world where we can all be our own filmmakers, the old elites are disappearing and there is no desire to look at somebody else's dream anymore because you can go off and make your own.
Peter Greenaway
#54. Be Happy ...
Not Because Everything Is Good But Because You Can See The Good In Everything
Unknown
#55. I like songs and film because you can turn your life into a sort of myth or dream.
Sean Lennon
#56. Look, you didn't fail me. Because you can't fail at the impossible. -Zsadist to Phury
J.R. Ward
#57. I love getting amazing jackets, because you can wear your pajamas underneath and everyone's like, 'Oh, fabulous jacket,' and I'm like, 'You should see what's underneath!'
Mary-Kate Olsen
#59. Creativity is a renewable resource. Challenge yourself every day. Be as creative as you like, as often as you want, because you can never run out. Experience and curiosity drive us to make unexpected, offbeat connections. It is these nonlinear steps that often lead to the greatest work.
Biz Stone
#60. If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.
Dan Millman
#61. I'm not the most confident dancer, to be honest. Dancing on film was very difficult for me because you can see it after it's been done.
Sarah Hay
#62. Being sick is like walking around with a microscope strapped to your face at all times with your own body squished beneath the slide. You don't look away, at first because you can't - you're too sick - and then because you're afraid that if you do, you might miss a symptom or a sign and die.
Jessica Fechtor
#63. The reason it's important to believe in something, he said, is because you can.
Jodi Picoult
#64. I think that the mistakes that anyone can make going on dates is probably not being themselves because you can only trick people for so long.
Zooey Deschanel
#65. When you hear a true story, there is a part of you that responds to it regardless of art, regardless of evidence. Let it be the most obvious fabrication and you will still believe whatever truth is in it, because you can not deny truth no matter how shabbily it is dressed.
Orson Scott Card
#66. So it's a much more difficult issue to organize around, because you can't get media at all to make your case. And that's where cases tend to be made politically.
Robert McChesney
#67. Me? I'm dishonest, and a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest. Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for, because you can never predict when they're going to do something incredibly... stupid.
Jack Sparrow
#68. I knew exactly what you'd done. I know that feelings. You have to do something. You have to change something radically, because you can't stay like you are for another second, or you're going to explode.
Jennifer Echols
#69. Because you can be lazy if you don't know the truth.
Meg White
#70. If you're Noah, and your ark is about to sink, look for the elephants first, because you can throw over a bunch of cats, dogs, squirrels, and everything else that is just a small animal and your ark will keep sinking. But if you can find one elephant to get overboard, you're in much better shape.
Vilfredo Pareto
#71. Just because you can put something in your mouth, chew it, swallow it, and then poop it out doesn't mean it's food. It just means you can chew it, swallow it, and poop it out.
Cameron Diaz
#72. I know how much embarrassment hurts, and I love it as a theme because you can keep digging a hole. It's just an endless well, embarrassment.
Ricky Gervais
#73. The first rule of management is delegation. Don't try and do everything yourself because you can't.
Anthea Turner
#74. The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little.
Edmund Burke
#75. He respects owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't spell it right.
A.A. Milne
#76. You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind.
Augusten Burroughs
#77. When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.
Alice Waters
#78. Death is wonderful because you can't think about it. How are you gonna think about it?
Christopher Walken
#79. You don't love people at their best, sweetheart. You just love them because you can't help it.
Amy Lane
#80. It is a blessing to die for a cause, because you can so easily die for nothing.
Andrew Young
#81. I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.
Thomas Mullen
#82. It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me.
Paul Auster
#83. It so depends on each script, because you can say ... I always thought I wouldn't have wanted to do something that was kind of like as big and commercial as 'The Dark is Rising,' but I really liked the script. I thought it was really clever.
Amelia Warner
#84. Floyd Mayweather is bigger than the sport. That's the thing. Because you can go to somebody who don't even know what boxing is and say, "Floyd Mayweather." They'll go, "Oh, I know Floyd Mayweather. I've heard that name."
Floyd Mayweather Jr.
#85. I didn't make a deal with God, because you can't make a deal with God. He put me here to talk to kids and to talk to drunks and help addicts. He gave me this "job" which makes it a lot easier to get through to people.
Danny Trejo
#86. Your blood reveal your most intimate secrets. Are you dying of leukimia or AIDS? Did you smoke cigarette or drink a glass of wine in the last few hours? Are you prozac because you're depressed, or Viagra because you can't get it up?
Tess Gerritsen
#87. Special effects are characters. Special effects are essential elements. Just because you can't see them doesn't mean they aren't there.
Laurence Fishburne
#88. Because you can't change results - I would change my losses, and I would definitely like to see on-court coaching.
Brad Gilbert
#89. Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.
Lemony Snicket
#90. You can't break poor people mentality. Once you grow up poor, you don't take anything for granted. It can have the negative side also because you can never truly be relaxed.
Will Smith
#91. Sometimes, the medication that lifts depression also kills our drive and mutes our orgasms. So sex suffers either way: be happier on meds and feel dead "down there," or be miserable because you can't get out of bed much less want to get back in.
Laurie Watson
#92. Just because you can't take something back, doesn't mean you don't want to. Just because you want to, doesn't mean you try.
Robin Wasserman
#93. High protein diets make you sick in the long and short term. Expect kidney disease, heart disease and more strokes and cancer. Plus the weight loss is temporary because you can't stay sick for long. Look at the creators of these diets - many are fat themselves.
John A. McDougall
#94. Don't try to hurt anyone, you will not succeed because you can hurt only yourself.
Debasish Mridha
#96. 'Once Upon A Time In America' is one of the cleverest films of all time, because you can get out of it whatever you want to get out of it.
Ray Winstone
#97. If you record things, you're going to find, patterns of things, and patterns are important, because you can then see the patterns form before it happens.
Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki
#98. I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.
Ben Webster
#99. We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
Tanya Tucker
#100. I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.
Matt Corby
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