Able Quotes
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Once I got over my anger and rage from childhood, once I stopped feeling like a victim, I was able to open myself to great sources of learning.
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I’m very interested in sublimation. I love the way Francis Bacon talked about the grin without the cat, the sensation without the boredom of its conveyance… I’ve always wanted to be able to convey figurative imagery in a kind of shorthand, to get it across in as direct a way as possible. I want there to be a human presence without having to depict it in full.
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When the business interests... pushed through the first installment of civil service reform in 1883, they expected that they would be able to control both political parties equally.
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So the Negro race has continued, and today is the day of the Negro as far as the world is concerned. They have influenced the generations of time; they have mixed their blood with many peoples, until there are many peoples not able to hold the priesthood.
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Some of the joy in acting is switching it up: being able to do something that's different than what you've been doing.
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When I sit back in my rocking chair someday, I want to be able to say I've done it all.
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Every aspect of your personality, if you're wise, you're able to separate each one of them and put them to use at the best time for the best position.
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I don't just want a piece of you and a piece of your life. Even if you were able, which you are not, to give me the biggest piece, that is not what I want. I want all of you and all of every part of you and your day.
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As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling.
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There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be able to enjoy your success more. It won't own you or control you.
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There is a common emotion we all recognize and have not yet named -- the happy anticipation of being able to feel contempt.
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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?
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There are some things, once they are done, that we can never question, because if we did, we wouldn't be able to go on. And we have to go on, every single day.
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If you are joyful, do not worry about lukewarmness. Joy will shine in your eyes and in your look, in your conversation and in your countenance. You will not be able to hide it because joy overflows.
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I think the biggest misconception is that people think deaf people are not able to do things.
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I thought, if I went into business I'd be able to control my own destiny.
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In the past, it was only in science fiction novels that you could read about ordinary people being able to go to space... But you laid the foundation for space tourism.
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Cuba will be able to move towards freedom and democracy once again.
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Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them kids pretty fast.
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Because I found myself telling the story of his family to people without the visual aids that I was able to employ by filming them eventually. But I very much knew exactly what I was going to do.
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It is better to be able neither to read nor write than to be able to do nothing else.
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I worked in an office for eight years, so I know what it's like to slog through for money, but now to be able travel the world and sing to so many people, it's a complete dream come true.
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Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
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You have to be able to play: this is spontaneous interaction, and it flexes all the creative muscles you need as a writer. And empathy is one of those muscles.
