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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.
- Poor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes. Otherwise I could have done a lot of Hollywood movies. After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles - poor girls sold to America to be a wife or whatever. I know I have the ability to go deeper, to take on more original roles than that.
- Efficiency
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- Nov 07, 2020
Developing countries have much to gain from capital mobility: the ability to tap external sources of finance, greater financial efficiency from deeper stock and bond markets, and technology transfer and know-how from foreign direct investment.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
- Messed Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Intelligence is the ability to solve problems, whereas consciousness is the ability to feel things such as pain, joy, love, and anger. Throughout history, intelligence always went hand in hand with consciousness.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
- Chance
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many can argue that it is our power of intelligence that is the key to the human domination of our planet. I suggest that it is the ability to put our thoughts into words that can be communicated to others.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020
Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
- Exert
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- Nov 07, 2020
White communities - and I exempt poor white communities from this - have power over their representation. White people have the ability to define themselves, to exert their agency in a way that they get to be believed. No one believes black people. No one. Until a white person vouches for them.
- Fascinate
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- Nov 07, 2020
Green vegetables are something that fascinate chefs; the ability to keep vegetables green. How do we keep them green? What makes them green? Why are they green? And then that sort of army green. Why do they go from bright vibrant electric green to army green, and how can we avoid that?
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
On the one hand I follow a vocation because I have an ability that I should exercise, but I want to use it for a reason, because I don't see that the freedoms that I enjoy are God-given realities. So I have a very healthy, activist general tension in me which feels that no, this is not gratuitous, it is important to keep this in focus.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Nobody despises to lose more than I do. That's got me into trouble over the years, but it also made a man of mediocre ability into a pretty good coach.
- Fission
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found by deeper breathing, going into the cold, thinking about it, dealing with it; getting the conviction that my ability to breathe deeper is making connections with my body.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel more comfortable with the ball in my hands, playing the point guard. But I like playing the 2, too. I think I bring tough defense and the ability to score and also get my teammates the ball to score.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.
- Choose
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Then, again, the ability to organize and conduct industrial, commercial, or financial enterprises is rare; the great captains of industry are as rare as great generals.
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
You honor me greatly and beyond my ability as an individual but in so doing you honor my colleagues also who made possible the results you have cited.
- Brute Force
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is fair to say that insofar as sport is taken seriously by those who play it, then to that extent their conduct in play - their ability to deal with loss or victory, their ability to meld strategic thinking and brute force - can be taken as a small-scale model of how they, or others like them, might behave in life.
- Jump
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability of players to jump teams when their contracts are up has hurt fan loyalty.
- Invention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mark of a wise person isn't never making mistakes - everyone makes plenty of them. Rather, it's the ability to quickly admit - and fix - them!
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oddly, in a sense, I still have more confidence as a director than my ability as a writer. Somehow, directing is just really easy. It's just about being really honest about how you feel about what you're seeing.
- Law
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- Nov 07, 2020
Although the theory of relativity makes the greatest of demands on the ability for abstract thought, still it fulfills the traditional requirements of science insofar as it permits a division of the world into subject and object (observer and observed) and, hence, a clear formulation of the law of causality.
- Leadership
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are looking for a set of personal characteristics that predict success, the first and foremost of which is perseverance in the face of challenges. We also look for the ability to influence and motivate others who share your values, strong problem-solving ability, and leadership.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
We look for people who demonstrate perseverance in the face of challenges, the ability to influence and motivate others - people who want to work relentlessly to ensure that kids who are facing the challenges of poverty have an excellent education.
- Dissemination
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- Nov 07, 2020
For Americans, with the advent of the U.S. invention of the Internet, free speech is not just open dissemination of ideas and information. It includes limitless instant access to those ideas and the ability to choose and search from among virtually unlimited sources. It is also the backbone of free enterprise and a vibrant global economy.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Internet, as the most open free-speech institution in history, has become a major factor in gun owners' ability to achieve success in preserving and protecting the Second Amendment.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle.
- Speak
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I joined WKRC, they were very concerned over my ability to ad lib or speak extemporaneously, which was an unknown factor up until that point.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
People's ability to forget what they do not want to know, to overlook what is before their eyes, was seldom put to the test better than in Germany at that time.
- Innovation
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- Nov 07, 2020
A key ingredient in innovation is the ability to challenge authority and break rules.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
Despite what some investors say, older age is an advantage in the startup world. You know more about industries and markets, and have ideas for products that the world actually needs and a better ability to motivate and manage than a kid out of school does.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
The strength of the playing ability is much more important. Only if the strength of the opponent's playing ability is comparable, does the game develop.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
Economy consists in a due and proper application of the means afforded according to the ability of the employer and the situation chosen; care being taken that the expenditure is prudently conducted.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had it inside - this ability to read people, how to get into someone else's head and help them with their problems. And I love when people trust me with their feelings and I can get into any kind of dialogue with them about their inner stuff. I think it's the thing I enjoy most besides modeling.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
Test matches to me are the caviar compared to the fast food stuff. Having the ability and the constitution to triumph over five days is what it’s all about.
- Globalization
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- Nov 07, 2020
I would think the correlation between an era of increased globalization and an increased desire to participate in an entrepreneurial endeavor is not a coincidence. When interconnectedness is at a peak due to technological advances, the ability to spawn something new is slightly easier.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt like a failure, like somehow my self-worth was tied to my ability to procreate. I didn't feel like I could talk about it. I did not want other people's pity, so I mostly kept my story and my feelings to myself.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well-being of the community - these are the most vital things education must try to produce.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a big fan of Adam Sandler and Ben Stiller, who have carved a niche for themselves. I think doing different kind of films gives you longevity and the ability to set yourself apart.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
My focus had always been the on-side. My coach wanted me to work on the offside strokes since he was convinced of my ability and timing on the leg side. I worked hard and firmed up my defensive technique. I am happy getting runs all around the wicket now, and getting a lot of boundaries. No one calls me a 'leggie batsman' anymore.
- Persistence
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my view, it's irreverence, foolish confidence and naivety combined with persistence, open mindedness and a continual ability to learn that created Facebook, Google, Yahoo, eBay, Microsoft, Apple, Juniper, AOL, Sun Microsystems and others.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Entrepreneurs have the flexibility and the ability to do things that large companies simply cannot. Could a large company pull off a trick like Amyris, going from anti-malaria medicine to next-generation fuel?
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Will biofuel usage require land? Absolutely, but we think the ability to use winter cover crops, degraded land, as well as using sources such as organic waste, sewage, and forest waste means that actual land usage will be limited. Just these sources can replace most of our imported oil by 2030 without touching new land.
- Critical Mass
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- Nov 07, 2020
So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
No matter what you do, any country in the world is going to have the ability to set its own rules internally. Any country in the world can pull the plug. It's not a question of technical issues, it's not a question of right or wrong, it's not a question of whether global Internet governance is right or wrong. It's just with us.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a worry that an excessive use or an almost exclusive use of text and emails means that as a society we're losing some of the ability to build interpersonal communication that's necessary for living together and building a community.
- Nov 07, 2020
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need a new British business bank with a clean balance sheet and an ability to expand lending rapidly to the manufacturers, exporters and high-growth companies that power our economy. Today I can announce we will have one.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you use your faith, it gives you energy. It gives you the ability to be able to see beyond where you are right now and see into the future.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
It started off with flu-like symptoms and pain; then, I started feeling really funny. In two weeks, I was paralyzed from the waist down, and it spiraled down from there. Every ability I had was slowly slipping away.
- Feelings
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
- Believed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always believed in the ability that I have got.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always known that I've got the ability to play in a big club like Chelsea.
- Confidence
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is good for a manager to believe in the ability that you've got and give you the confidence to go out and enjoy your football.
- Intelligence
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- Nov 07, 2020
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you're young, you don't have much sense. You don't have any reasoning power. You don't have any ability to take a blow, an insult, a hurt in the right way. There is no way a child can do that. All a child can do is feel the pang of it, the heartache of it.
- Ocean
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- Nov 07, 2020
Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
- Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
The difference between a top-flight creative man and the hack is his ability to express powerful meanings indirectly.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I moderated a panel focusing just on women and the specific challenges that women entrepreneurs face. And we found that around the world, the challenges are the same, whether it is gaining access to capital, risk-taking, or the ability to expand beyond a small business and grow.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are a country that believes in free speech and the open debate of ideas. We're a country that also believes in the Second Amendment and our ability to have guns. But we've got to figure out a way to keep America safe.
- Impact
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- Nov 07, 2020
Medicine has an immediate impact, the ability to do good. Writing is such a solitary activity.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ability to scale up is hard. So the best model for us is concentrated India, diversified financial services, and through this, we can get significant scale on an Indian platform.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you are in any position of influence, then it’s almost your duty to try to help. If people don’t have the ability or opportunity to help themselves, then sometimes it’s got to come from someone who can.
- Nov 07, 2020
What's horrible is when someone believes they are a star, and they have no vocal ability whatsoever.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very commonsense guy - I just look at the viability of the idea, if I feel the team has the ability to execute the idea. I also look at the investment syndicate, the size of the market, and then a lot of gut married on top of it.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think when I started to write 'The Mysterious Benedict Society' that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020