Able Quotes
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An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not.
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A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.
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I would love to be able to do both (acting and making music). If I look at someone like Sinatra, who toured until he was 80 and made 60 movies, that would be a great life to have.
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If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.
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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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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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With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
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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 know with Laurel’s strong spirit and determination, she will be able to beat this.”
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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 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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You should be able to wear exactly what you want to wear.
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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 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 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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I had to start boxing because I missed working on something and learning and I guess there's a little more aggression in boxing. I couldn't really get that side of me out, but I used to be able to by hitting a volleyball. That's why I started boxing.
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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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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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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 wouldn't have been able to move to L.A. if I felt I was going to lose my identity as a New Jerseyian. My accent has gotten thicker since I've lived here.
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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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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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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.
