Able Quotes - Page 27

• When you're a child, the most important thing is to be able to live a life of comfort. You want to be sure that the moon goes up at night and the sun comes up in the morning and dad comes home from work.

  Keegan-Michael Key

  Morning, Children, Dad

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• There's the idea that people should be able to control how the information that they're giving to websites is used and monetized in a more clear and powerful way. That's something that probably will need government action.

  Eli Pariser

  Powerful, Government, Ideas

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• Democracy actually requires that the whole public be able to see common problems and address them and step outside of their own sort of narrow self-interest to do so.

  Eli Pariser

  Self, Democracy, Addresses

  "What the Internet is hiding from you". Interview with Doug Gross, www.cnn.com. May 19, 2011.

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• I'm considering getting married again. I've not lost faith in that institution. I'm older; I'm smarter. I'm no longer searching for something to complete me... and therefore I'm now able to find someone to be a partner with.

  Teri Polo

  Married, Lost, Institutions

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• To be able to keep the promise I made to God, I think that keeps me going. No matter how much the money had been, I would have always fulfilled my promise, as that's the way I am.

  Albert Gubay

  Thinking, Promise, Matter

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• We are tired of fighting, we are tired of being courageous, we are tired of winning, we are tired of defeating our enemies, we want that we will be able to live in an entirely different environment of relations with our enemies.

  Ehud Olmert

  Tired, Fighting, Winning

  "Ehud Olmert: a Profile in Leadership" by Arianna Huffington, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2006.

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• I am the first prime minister of this country of neither English nor French origin. So I determined to bring about a Canadian citizenship that knew no hyphenated consideration....I'm very happy to be able to say that in the House of Commons today in my party we have members of Italian, Dutch, German, Scandinavian, Chinese and Ukrainian origin and they are all Canadians.

  John Diefenbaker

  Country, Party, Italian

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• But I think the global economy will understand that the United States has the ability to meet its obligations. But it's not going to be able to do it over the long term if we can't control the growth of government.

  Charles Bass

  Thinking, Government, Long

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• Slowly blossomed, slowly ripened in Siddhartha the realisation, the knowledge, what wisdom actually was, what the goal of his long search was. It was nothing but a readiness of the soul, an ability, a secret art, to think every moment, while living his life, the thought of oneness, to be able to feel and inhale the oneness.

  Hermann Hesse

  Art, Thinking, Oneness

  Hermann Hesse (2016). “Siddhartha”, p.95, Jaico Publishing House

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• People have said some really good things about my performance, and that's what I'm happy about, what I'm excited about. I was able to go out there, and like I said, I put my best foot forward.

  Robert Griffin III

  Feet, People, Excited

  "Robert Griffin III talks video games, draft". Interview with Jon Robinson, www.espn.com. February 27, 2012.

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• It's like your whole life you 've been falling toward the earth, until the moment someone catches you. And you realise that somehow you 've caught her at the same time. And together, instead of falling, you might be able to fly.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Fall, Together, Earth

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• Prostitution is not just a service industry, mopping up the overflow of male demand, which always exceeds female supply. Prostitution testifies to the amoral power struggle of sex, which religion has never been able to stop. Prostitutes, pornographers, and their patrons are marauders in the forest of archaic night.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Struggle, Night

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• I think I was very shy and introverted when I was younger, and yet, when I got in front of the camera or went out on the town, I was able to go out half-naked and do anything.

  Marisa Berenson

  Thinking, Cameras, Naked

  Interview with Tom Ford, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 20, 2011.

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• When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.

  Marketa Irglova

  Strong, New York, Couple

  Interview with Erica Rivera, www.ericarivera.net. November 21, 2011.

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• But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.

  Gordon Gould

  Law, Ignorant, Lasers

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• Are you doing the kind of work you were built for, so that you can expect to be able to do very large amounts of that kind and thrive under it? Or are you doing a kind of which you can do comparatively little.

  B. C. Forbes

  Littles, Kind, Thrive

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.20, Lulu.com

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• I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

  Wolfgang Hildesheimer

  Animal, Men, Perfection

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• But with woodworking, it's really sort of gratifying to be able to have an actual piece to touch, and then step back and be able to share it.

  Luke Kirby

  Woodworking, Pieces, Steps

  "Luke Kirby’s Character Curveball". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 16, 2012.

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• It's just a lot of fun to be able to see your ideas come into fruition. And to see people translate the things that come out of my mind vocally. And to be able to produce vocals and give people my point of view musically. And to be able to sit in the crowd and see people sing the song that I wrote, it's an amazing feeling.

  Rico Love

  Song, Fun, Ideas

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• People say that one of the most important things about being an actor is to have thick skin, but I don't think that's it. Because you can't just walk around being tough, you have to be able to be vulnerable to do this. So really, it's about not being defensive.

  Jess Weixler

  Thinking, People, Important

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• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  Iris DeMent

  People, Havens, Knows

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• I will never be able to move on as much as people would like me to.

  Jayson Williams

  Moving, People, Like Me

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• I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.

  Narada Michael Walden

  Boys, Watches, Records

  "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.

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• The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

  Rollo May

  Strong, Symphony, Mature Person

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• The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility - this notion is nine-tenths nonsense.

  H. L. Mencken

  Adversity, Artist, Atmosphere

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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