Able Quotes
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This is very rare for anyone in life to pursue something and that thing being the thing you actually most want to do. It's all about the inner, rather than the outer. Whether people like or don't like my work, read it or don't read it, it's just been a gift from the gods that I've been able to sit at my desk for the last almost 50 years and do the things I've wanted to do.
Paul Auster
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The very gradual reductions in my weight which I am able to show, may be interesting to many, and I have great pleasure in stating them, believing that they serve to demonstrate further the merit of the system pursued.
William Banting
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I am not Marcel Hirscher, with my team, I am able to have my equipment on point.
Marcel Hirscher
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Well that would be nice but I am not complaining about things being hectic, it is great what I have been able to do, it's just that things get a bit much sometimes.
Alex Parks
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Being somebody is better than not being somebody vis à vis what you want out of life. If you want to talk to interesting people and have them talk to you, and if you want enough money to live someplace pleasant and to go on trips and be able to help people you love, you simply have to be somebody.
Helen Gurley Brown
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With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.
William Christopher Handy
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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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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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As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy.
Plato
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Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was able to feel every contraction. You forget what it feels like. God's got a great way of making women forget what it's like because we would never go through it again.
Monica Potter
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Know how blessed you are to be able to work this hard!
Chalene Johnson
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Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his own can respond dramatically to what is proffered him. In contacts between such deities there is no need for middlemen; each of these gods is able to serve as his own priest.
Erving Goffman
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I was always an Alabama fan growing up, but when the Alabama recruiter told me I would probably not be able to play until the end of my sophomore year, or the beginning of my junior year.
Bo Jackson
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The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.
Tony Orlando
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I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?
Ray Bradbury
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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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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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I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show.
Bill Burr
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I don't think people have been able to deal with the fact that African American filmmakers can make movies about life and relationships.
Tim Robbins
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The future is not Google-able.
William Gibson
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I want to span different genres. I want to be able to transform. I want to be able to be sexy, and funny, and quirky, and all the other things that I am. And I feel that the best way that I can achieve that is by producing.
Viola Davis
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I feel like you've gotta be able to get up every night in front of a live audience. Whether it's 10 people or 50 people or a hundred people, whether you're in a rock band or doing the comedy circuit.
Sandra Bernhard
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The course is going to make you look silly sometimes. You have to be able to accept that and move on.
Mike Weir
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I had a ludicrous childhood, but I feel that I was able to profit from a lot of the idiotic and unfortunate things that happened to me by turning them into fiction.
Heather O'Neill