Capable Quotes - Page 21

• 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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• You who have suffered so much do not want to be with the kind of person who makes "black widow" jokes to deal with an uncomfortable, painful moment. You should be with a person capable of great compassion and understanding.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Compassion, Understanding, Black

  "Just a Little Crush". Live chat, www.slate.com. March 7, 2016.

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• Beautiful women, wealth, sensations, celebrity, substances capable of distorting my perception, and even forcing my body into positions ready for the covers of important yoga magazines - I pursued them all, some wholeheartedly, but none would satisfy my real longing.

  Rod Stryker

  Beautiful, Real, Yoga

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• My primary reason for bringing my son on was to have a voice on the show [Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll] that would bring a 25 or 26 year old point of view to it, and my son is very capable of writing that stuff.

  Denis Leary

  Sex, Writing, Son

  "Denis Leary on ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 and Playing Johnny Rock". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 30, 2016.

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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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• The best path to power combines two things: 1) a path that not many are taking and 2) something that you are capable and comfortable with doing.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Two, Path, Comfortable

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The young, in their innocence, are often wise and capable of teaching the old.

  Christopher Vogler

  Wise, Teaching, Innocence

  Christopher Vogler (1998). “The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers”, Michael Wiese Productions

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• The aeroplane. . . is not capable of unlimited magnification. It is not likely that it will ever carry more than five or seven passengers. High speed monoplanes will carry even less. . . . Over cities, the aerial sentry or policeman will be found. A thousand aeroplanes flying to the opera must be kept in line and each allowed to alight upon the roof of the auditorium, in its proper turn.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Cities, Flying, Lines

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• We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems.

  Elisabet Sahtouris

  Change, Corporations, Reverence For Life

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• I became as much of a believer as I was capable of becoming.

  Patty Hearst

  Becoming, Believer

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• I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny Beautiful Things for us. They're infinitely capable of tackling the format.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Beautiful, Book, Writing

  "Reese Witherspoon on How She's Shaking Up Hollywood, and Why She Feels Like Gloria Steinem Told Her to Do Legally Blonde". Interview With Jennifer Siebel Newsom, www.glamour.com. October 29, 2015.

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• The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Skills, Long, People

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• I think that human beings are capable of the worst things possible.

  Elie Wiesel

  Thinking, Worst, Humans

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• Still I believe that Hanna Arendt, she was wrong when she tried to say that we are all actually capable of this, it's not true. I think it's not true. There are certain things human beings are not capable of. I mean people, even normal human beings. You have to do certain things in order to become what the enemy was and I didn't accept her philosophical outlook on that.

  Elie Wiesel

  Believe, Philosophical, Mean

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• In fact, numerous scientific laboratory tests and field observations have led to the conclusion that animals are conscious, intelligent, emotional beings. They are not machines and truly feel physical pain when it is inflicted upon them. They are capable of experiencing a wide range of emotions, including loneliness, embarrassment, sadness, longing, depression, anxiety, panic, and fear, as well as joy, relief, surprise, happiness, contentment, and peace.

  Sharon Gannon

  Pain, Loneliness, Sadness

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• An object of art creates a public capable of finding pleasure in its beauty. Production, therefore, not only produces an object for the subject, but also a subject for the object.

  Karl Marx

  Art, Pleasure, Produce

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• I like to make my fights exciting and different. Everybody in UFC can fight. We're capable of kickboxing, wrestling, but I like to stand out. That's what I really pride myself on. What can I do to stand out from the other people in my sport.

  Anthony Pettis

  Sports, Wrestling, Fighting

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• I would feel like my life was a success if my children grow into well-adjusted, happy, functioning members of society. Capable and happy and normal.

  Natalie Maines

  Children, Normal, Members

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I know that everyone has been hurt in some way and that everyone is capable of learning and relearning how to trust again. Starting with themselves.

  Ruthie Foster

  Hurt, Way, Starting

  "Ruthie Foster: Love More and Openly". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Love is probably the most powerful force in the cosmos, capable of creating miracles.

  Mike Love

  Powerful, Love Is, Creating

  "Mike Love of the Beach Boys". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I believe we are capable of great things.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Believe, I Believe, Great Things

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• I believe myself capable of great things. Some days it feels as if I can't do it alone. It is nice to know I don't have to.

  Judith Hanson Lasater

  Nice, Believe, Great Things

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• I think Hillary Clinton is an outstandingly capable and decent person.

  Tony Blair

  Thinking, Clinton, Decent

  "Full transcript: Tony Blair". Interview with Glenn Thrush, www.politico.com. August 24, 2016.

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• I deal daily with chronic pain and, at times, my pain feels like a lemon that God "squeezes," revealing my sour attitude, peevish spirit, and tendency to complain or grumble. Did not God use my pain to expose my sin, I might - like many of us - not be aware of the sin of which I'm capable.

  Joni Eareckson Tada

  Pain, Attitude, Complaining

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• When you've got a mother who's given birth to eight children, you know, often without any kind of medical intervention - just she gave birth to one of my brothers sort of on the bedroom floor in front of all of us -you know, you see that women are fairly capable.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mother, Brother, Children

  "Not A Feminist? Caitlin Moran Asks, Why Not?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 29, 2016.

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