Able Quotes
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I would have been able to free a thousand more slaves if I could only have convinced them that they were slaves.
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I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction.
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I have been able to hope for the best, expect the worst, and take what comes along. If there has been one fundamental reason for my success, this is it.
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You really need to be able to eat the burger like you're loving it. I don't want somebody that's going to go out there and say, "Well, I don't eat burgers."
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I would have issues with directions songs were taking, but I never heard one of Carlos' Dangler basslines and said, "I don't like that, do something else." The same goes for the beat and the guitars. I think that's why we were able to make four albums together.
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I have never had to travel more than thirty seconds from home to office, and it's because of that that I've been able to maintain, really a family life that has nurtured and sustained me during this time [of presidency].
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I think that we should make the best of where we live and we all should be able to come back home to a place that is welcoming and represents who we are.
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I didn't want readers to have to make allowances for what they couldn't see, but to be able to say to themselves that the fabric of the magic detailed was perfectly believable.
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If they will play fair I will play fair, but if they won't then I reserve all my rights to do anything I find myself able to do.
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I had discovered that there was something more painful than falling in love with someone who hasn't fallen for you; hurting that person-hurting him and not being able to do anything about it.
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I was raised with this idea of hard work and keeping doors open. To be able to choose what you want to do in the future. That was what we tried to tell our children, too.
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You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.
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You want to be able to say anything when you do your first draft, because some of that goofy stuff that you think has nothing to do with it is probably where the mother lode is.
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I would rather do things that I really love with people that I love working with, and to be able to extend that and go and play, it's great. I feel very fortunate.
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Two Rules for Happy Living: 1. Be able to experience anything. 2. Cause only those things which others are able to experience easily.
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In being strict, you were able to control.
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No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
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But I just wonder what it would be like to be able to go places without people recognizing me.
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But it pleased God to visit us then with death daily, and with so general a disease that the living were scarce able to bury the dead.
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Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
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I have never been able to understand anyone on this planet who lacks a need for knowledge. Is it not God's greatest gift to us all, this capacity to think, to wonder, to imagine?
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Viewing our planet was so compelling. Words like beautiful and awesome just don't do it justice. I felt that I was looking at a paradise. I was looking at heaven. I can't imagine any place being more beautiful than our planet and how lucky we are to be able to live here.
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I've never done an album in the same place really - I like to be able to remember where I did every single one of them .
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I've never left for New York. I've stood my ground here my whole career and hopefully will be able to until the day that I die.
