
“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”
Rolling Stone interview (1968)
Context: Everything I've learned in life I've learned either by doing it or watching the changes other people go through. And when you're famous, you don't get to meet people — because they want you to like them when they present themselves to you, present the best sides of themselves, and you don't see the real people. Which is why I don't really go anywhere. And when I do, I put on my silly face and do what they expect me to do. Actually, I never do what they expect me to do. It's the only way I could go on doing what I have to do. I do whatever I… you know, I didn't even comb my hair today. I didn't know we were taking pictures but when I found out, it didn't change my mind any.
“I've learned that you can't have everything and do everything at the same time.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.”
As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 261
General sources
Variant: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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Debby Ryan's Winter Fashion And Beauty Tips https://www.seventeen.com/celebrity/a19701/debby-ryan-fashion-interview/ (November 8, 2012)
“All my life I've learned to suffer in silence.”
Source: The Witch of Portobello (2007), p. 41.
Source: The Witch Of Portobello
“The pages I've turned are the lessons I've learned.”
Welcome to My Truth
Anastacia (2004)
“I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'.”