Able Quotes - Page 16

• In order to play jazz, you have to be able to play the blues.

  Robert Cray

  Order, Play, Jazz

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• When I left the University of Iowa and made the decision to come to Rutgers, I said to my athletic director, as both of us stood there crying, 'I wish I could just take Iowa to the East Coast. That would be the best of all worlds.' Of course, I couldn't. I have the best of all worlds now by being at Rutgers, being in this part of the country and being able to embrace and receive the great prestige that is part of the Big Ten.

  C. Vivian Stringer

  Country, Iowa, Decision

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• Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it.

  Ella Maillart

  Literature

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• I'm able to shift gears from mom to performer to mom pretty quickly.

  Faith Hill

  Mom, Gears, Performers

  "We Love Faith Hill". Interview with Laurie Sandell, www.glamour.com. October 1, 2006.

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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.

  Cecily Brown

  Cat, Boredom, Want

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• Our hopes of avoiding the fate which threatens must...[be to make]adjustments that will be needed if we are to recover and surpass our former standards...and only if every one of us is ready to individually obey the necessities of readjustment shall we be able to get through a difficult period as free men who can choose their own way of life. Let a uniform minimum be secured to everybody by all means; but let us admit at the same time that with this assurance of a basic minimum all claims for a privileged security for particular classes must lapse.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Mean, Fate, Men

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• I didn't think it was special to be able to sing.

  Amy Winehouse

  Thinking, Special

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• I'm confident that people will be able to relate to my music.

  Alex Gonzaga

  People, Relate

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• Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

  Karlie Kloss

  Idols, Balance, Charity

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• If the CEO doesn’t see the playing field, nobody else can. The team may need to see it too, but the CEO really needs to be able to see the entire competitive space.

  Steve Ballmer

  Team, Space, May

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• The Saudis and Emiratis blame all of this on Iran. I think they’d have to grant, that as has been said, that the Houthis are an internally generated movement in Yemen and the Saudis were supposed to be dealing with the Houthis, who started out in essence along their border. So one of the things that we’re seeing is a complete failure of Saudi policy toward Yemen over the past 10 years, but the Saudis totally believe that the reason the Houthis are able to succeed militarily is the amount of money, advice, and guns they are receiving from Iran.

  Elliott Abrams

  Believe, Thinking, Gun

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• Being on TV brings a sort of attention in high school that can be negative sometimes. People, immediately they're going to have that in their back pocket. If they don't like you, they're going to be able to pull that out and throw it in your face.

  Charlotte Arnold

  School, People, Pockets

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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.

  Lydia Ko

  Couple, Years, Littles

  ISPS Handa Women's Australian Open Final Round Notes and Interviews, www.lpga.com. February 17, 2012.

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• I always had an existential crisis, trying to figure out ‘what does it all mean?’ I came to the conclusion that if we can advance the knowledge of the world, if we can expand the scope and scale of consciousness, then, we’re better able to ask the right questions and become more enlightened. That’s the only way to move forward.

  Elon Musk

  Moving, Mean, Trying

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• There is so much power in being able to look comfortable in a conference room, and I’m not sure dudes in suits are used to seeing women do that.

  Ilana Glazer

  Looks, Rooms, Suits

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• It was a lot to get used to, especially in warm-ups with the wind all over the place. As the meet went on it steadied out, so I was able to get some good looks to go back and train from.

  Jenn Suhr

  Wind, Looks, Looking Good

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• The idea that positive illusions are in the service of sef-esteem virtually requires that they stay in check. If one develops substantially unrealistic expectations regarding the future that greatly exceed what one is actually able to accomplish, then one is set up for failure and disappointment, leading to lower self-esteem.

  Shelley E. Taylor

  Disappointment, Self Esteem, Ideas

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• I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that core of my being. It’s a kind of self-analysis that requires a balance between the rational and the intuited.

  Thornton Willis

  Self, Balance, Analysis

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• I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.

  A. Scott Berg

  Blessed, Son, Parent

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• I know where I'm going and I have told the French. I am sure if hope is there, we will be able to put France back on its feet to live better in five years than we do today.

  Francois Hollande

  Years, Feet, Today

  "François Hollande annouces €10bn cut in public spending" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2012.

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• Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

  Michel Gondry

  Years, Appreciate, Quality

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• I know firsthand how alone you can feel when you’re being broken down in a relationship and forced to defend it or stay silent. Just being able to send a text message is anonymous and safe. Mary Kay and I believe that everyone deserves a safe, healthy relationship that makes you stronger and better and I want to make sure people know how to get the help they need.

  Debby Ryan

  Believe, People, Broken

  "Jessie Star Debby Ryan Named Voice of Dating Abuse Prevention Campaign" by Danica Lo, www.glamour.com. February 17, 2015.

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• The idea of some kind of objectively constant, universal literary value is seductive. It feels real. It feels like a stone cold fact that In Search of Lost Time, by Marcel Proust, is better than A Shore Thing, by Snooki. And it may be; Snooki definitely has more one-star reviews on Amazon. But if literary value is real, no one seems to be able to locate it or define it very well. We're increasingly adrift in a grey void of aesthetic relativism.

  Lev Grossman

  Stars, Real, Ideas

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• Never will we be able to understand our times if we naively 'think' of this system of self Government as the work of a few gangsters or the creation of a pack of criminals we call a political party. The appeal of Socialism, Fascism and communism was principally negative; they were protests against a live and let live anything goes liberalism, a spineless indifference to causes, a failure to recognize that nothing was evil enough to hate, and nothing was good enough to die for.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Hate, Party, Thinking

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• I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.

  Walter Becker

  Player, Self, Musician

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