Capable Quotes - Page 20

• A lot of people ask me if I'm OK. I'm capable of crazy - a lot of people are - but I'm OK.

  Angel Olsen

  Crazy, People, Ask Me

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the Iraqis' country, 28 million of them. They are perfectly capable of running that country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Running, Country, Responsibility

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• There are certain phrases in books of mine, and I don't know where they came from, or how I was capable of thinking up these formulations. It's only in the heat of composition that these things occur to you.

  Paul Auster

  Book, Thinking, Phrases

  "A Connoisseur of Clouds, a Meteorologist of Whims: The Rumpus Interview with Paul Auster". Interview with Juliet Linderman, therumpus.net. November 16, 2009.

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• Pedagogy is not about training, it is about critically educating people to be self reflective, capable of critically address their relationship with others and with the larger world. Pedagogy in this sense provides not only important critical and intellectual competencies; it also enables people to intervene critically in the world.

  Henry Giroux

  Self, People, Intellectual

  "Higher Education Under Attack: An Interview With Henry A. Giroux". Interview with C. Cryn Johannsen, www.truth-out.org. April 22, 2011.

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• Vaginal penetration only doesn't work for most of us. And we're not all meant to be monogamous either, especially since women are capable of having far more sex than men. Try to get that fact across in America!

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Men, America

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• As president, I will take that common ground and sign the Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. I will stop allowing taxpayer money to fund Planned Parenthood. And I will support those pregnancy centers and women's health clinics around the country that are actually serving their communities.

  Carly Fiorina

  Country, Children, Pain

  "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

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• I am only capable of what I allow myself to believe I can do.

  Erin Willett

  Believe, Can Do, I Can

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I think that game is a testament to what happens when you put no ceiling to what you're capable of doing.

  Kobe Bryant

  Thinking, Games, Ceilings

  "Kobe's Masterpiece". Interview with Arash Markazi, www.espn.com. January 21, 2016.

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• I'm really only capable to two emotions at this point: lust and hunger. I lost revenge a few years back, and even then, it was reserved only for ex-girlfriends and particular football games that caused me to lose a lot of money.

  Jason Mulgrew

  Football, Girlfriend, Revenge

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore. But the most important truth is that we are capable of stopping climate change before the worst of its consequences are locked in. The solutions exist - all we need is the will to do something about it.

  Al Gore

  Important, Climate, Needs

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.

  Tohoru Masamune

  Moving, Impossible, Honest

  "Tohoru Masamune: Pursuing Dreams and Embracing Chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb.

  Barack Obama

  Iran, Bombs, Plutonium

  "President Obama Gives Statement About U.S.-Iran Deals This Weekend". "Weekend Edition Sunday", www.npr.org. January 17, 2016.

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• Everything was so designed by Hannibal to break down Will in the first season, until Will's sanity became questionable. It's so much easier to believe that somebody losing their mind is capable of terrible things than it is to consider Frasier Crane, a charming, fun doctor who invites you to dinner. If you put those two in a police lineup, you're going to pick the guy who's melting down.

  Bryan Fuller

  Fun, Believe, Two

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Strong states and blocs of strong states are the only source of power and legitimacy capable of driving an international agenda in today's world.

  Ian Bremmer

  Strong, World, Today

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Learn your audience and know how to reach them and don't sign anything without a good lawyer and a capable agent.

  Vantile Whitfield

  Agents, Lawyer, Audience

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• I don't think that we are capable of anything like this many possible colour responses. Instead I argue that the perception of colour differences between two surfaces viewed side-by-side is a gestalt phenomenon.

  David Papineau

  Thinking, Two, Differences

  "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

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• Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

  Hermann Hesse

  Love Is, Men

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• Modernity has created more problems than it is capable of solving. Millions of people are now condemned to wait endlessly for their redemption through modernity.

  Pankaj Mishra

  People, Waiting, Redemption

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• I don't deny that scientific investigation is capable of delivering important truths about nature, but that doesn't stop questions about whether, as it is practiced, science today lives up to its potential for benefiting humanity.

  Philip Kitcher

  Today Life, Humanity, Important

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Biological sex should not determine what we are capable of, what we aspire to, what we do in our life.

  Anne-Marie Slaughter

  Sex, Should, Determine

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table. We come to it freshly, in the dewy youth of the day, and when our spiritual and sensual elements are in better accord than at a later period; so that the material delights of the morning meal are capable of being fully enjoyed, without any very grievous reproaches, whether gastric or conscientious, for yielding even a trifle overmuch to the animal department of our nature.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Spiritual, Morning, Animal

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.412, e-artnow

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• Over time, the games we play can change how we think and what we're capable of. And it's easy to maximize the benefits so the changes are positive.

  Jane McGonigal

  Thinking, Games, Play

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• Computers are only capable of a certain kind of randomness because computers are finite devices.

  Tristan Perich

  Kind, Computer, Certain

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I wanted to see myself as something different, and I wanted to convince people that I was capable of something other than what they would expect from me.

  Lizzy Caplan

  People, Different, Wanted

  "How Lizzy Caplan 'Master'ed Her Career". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 27, 2013.

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• System theorists know that it's easy to couple simple-to-understand systems into a "super system" that's capable of displaying behavioral modes that cannot be seen in any of its constituent parts. This is the process called "emergence."

  John L. Casti

  Couple, Simple, Easy

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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