“He said you couldn't pretend the terrible things in life didn't happen. You can't clean it up. You keep all the refuse and the scars. It's how you learn. And try to make improvements.”
Source: Special Topics in Calamity Physics
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“If she couldn't keep you, she didn't deserve you.”
Original: Se non ha saputo tenerti con sé, non ti meritava.
Source: prevale.net
“If she couldn't keep you, she didn't deserve you.”
Original: (it) Se non ha saputo tenerti con sé, non ti meritava.
“When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.”
Margaret Chase Smith, quoted in More Than Petticoats : Remarkable Maine Women (2005) by Kate Kennedy
Misattributed
“When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.”
As quoted in "Nation: Madam Candidate" in TIME magazine (7 February 1964) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,870656-2,00.html
Misattributed
Context: I am running against no one. I'd like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It's a real challenge, and that's one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like to try it.
“Stop trying to save me. You couldn't then; you can't now.”
Source: By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
“Stuff happens when you are a kid, it scars you inside for life.”
Of being abused at the age of 14. http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20350147,00.html