“Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.”
Source: The Princess Bride
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“Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly--until you can learn to do it well.”
“I can DO ANYTHING I want, but I can't DO EVERYTHING I want.”
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
1910s, The Philosophy of Logical Atomism (1918)
“Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with Quality.”
NPR Interview http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4612364 with Pirsig (1974)
“I do not believe in shooting anything that cannot shoot back.”
Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman (1960)
“O you miserable fool, what I shit is better than anything you can do.”
Original: (de) Ach du erbärmlicher Schuft, was ich scheisse ist besser, als was du je gedacht.
Source: Written in the margin of Gottfried Weber's negative review of Wellington's Victory in Beethoven's copy of Cäcilia (August 1825) https://books.google.com/books?id=KBuLcEJpX4sC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77
“I just thought you'd like to know I can read. You got anything needs readin' I can do it.”
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird
Press conference (June 1972) as quoted in Elvis — Word for Word : What He Said, Exactly As He Said It (1999), by Jerry Osborne, p. 208
