Able Quotes
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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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Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.
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You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa.
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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The headgear thing's great. It's like a headband, so it's not heavy or anything like that at all. I was able to do everything fine.
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I've got a couple of years until I turn pro so I guess within that period hopefully I'll be able to get a little bit better.
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I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.
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I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help.
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Once, he hadn't been able to touch her without causing himself pain. Now, it only hurt when he didn't touch her.
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But, the thing is, since I always had my own little shop and direct access to the public, I've been able to build up a technique without marketing people ever telling me what the public wants.
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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 play with microbes. There are, of course, many rules to this play...but when you have acquired knowledge and experience it is very pleasant to break the rules and to be able to find something nobody has thought of.
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Technology is an inherent democratizer. Because of the evolution of hardware and software, you’re able to scale up almost anything. It means that in our lifetime everyone may have tools of equal power.
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None of the bands I'm in demand constant touring, so I'm able to do a bunch of things.
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Being able to do everything in the business doesn't necessarily mean you should do everything.
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It's through my health that I'm able to maintain that every single day and keep light in people until I'm actually of service to others.
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Among the tortures and devestations of life is this then - our friends are not able to finish their stories.
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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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We discover that all human beings are just like us, so we are able to relate to them more easily. That generates a spirit of friendship in which there is less need to hide what we feel or what we are doing.
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The decimation of Lebanon was showing up in Chicago as a series of restaurants and little shops, just as the destruction of Vietnam had been visible here a decade earlier. If you never read the news but ate out a lot you should be able to tell who was getting beaten up around the world.
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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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If there's anything I'm not pompous about, it's myself or my work. But I seem to be able to play it.
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I'm always excited about my upcoming shows. I love what I do; I feel very lucky to be able to do what I do, and I never get tired of it. Every time I'm backstage before a show and I feel the murmur of the crowd, it's just incredibly exciting. And I consider myself very fortunate to be able to do this for a job. It's a great life.
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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."
