Able Quotes
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When a performance isn't working, it's usually because the actor is trying to do something and they're not able to express their idea very well. It's a muddled expression.
Casey Affleck
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I however don't go to clubs to show off and to be seen, and certainly not to make statements. I just want to be able to quietly watch a band.
Ritchie Blackmore Blackmore's Night
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Faeries are unaffected by alcohol, but much to her surprise—and the faeries’ undoing—they get very, very drunk on carbonation. Using copious amounts of Coke, she was able to discover a single faerie’s true name.
Kiersten White
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Even if one's head were to be suddenly cut off, he should be able to do one more action with certainty.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Well I think it's great that Americans are able to choose one way or the other. We live in a land where you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage. And, you know what, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe that marriage should be between a man and a woman, no offense to anybody out there. But that’s how I was raised and I believe that it should be between a man and a woman.
Carrie Prejean
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In some tiny, tiny way I am part of history, but I am also able to help people.
Huma Abedin
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The shaman has access to a superhuman dimension and a superhuman condition, and by being able to do that he affirms the potential for transcendence in all people. He is an exemplar, if you will.
Terence McKenna
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I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting.
Ethan Embry
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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.
Patrick Henry
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I was able to endure and play a special part in music history. And I always managed to keep working, even if I wasnt a big solo artist.
Merry Clayton
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There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.
Ratan Tata
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I was able to bring my process of doing improv with actors into the animation world, which was fun.
Nicholas Stoller
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All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.
Henry Louis Gates
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I was able to make the jump to theaters without having a TV show. My passion for getting a TV show just plummeted. It was like I had already achieved what I wanted to achieve.
Jim Gaffigan
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A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Instead of being lionized and admired for her genius, instead of being able to earn a decent living as a writer, Andrea Dworkin was misrepresented and demonized.
Catharine MacKinnon
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Touch each object as if tomorrow you would never be able to feel anything again.
Helen Keller
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There just needs to be a gay rapper who's better than everybody. That's when that question will no longer be able to be asked.
Talib Kweli Black Star
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Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again.
Henry Rollins Black Flag
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Not being able to understand God is frustrating, but it is ridiculous for us to think we have the right to limit God to something we are capable to comprehending.
Francis Chan
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The future is not Google-able.
William Gibson
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We have a lot of spirited discussions. We need to be able to have these discussions, and after that we need to get along.
Tom Atkins
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All the exciting contests and travel and sponsorships are cool, but I like to be able to have influence on people and on youngsters.
Nicholas Charles Goepper
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I really want to be able to keep going and I realize that in some aspects I've got to treat myself like an athlete.
Jason Mraz