- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Able Quotes
On capability, readiness and what makes action possible.
These quotes touch on being able to act: governments expected to give straight answers, leaders imagined thinking more imaginatively, and allies working to restore the unity needed to act together. For more, see our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my greatest fears is not being able to change, to be caught in a never-ending cycle of sameness. Growth is so important.
- Commitment
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Running for office is important, and you don't really need more than to be right on the issues, and to be able to articulate what it is you believe. You don't need a certain background. You don't need to be a lawyer. You don't need to have some professional degree.
- Learning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lots of children have had dark experiences, and if they're not having direct dark experiences, they are thinking about things and learning that life is fragile. You have to acknowledge that side of life to be able to then offer comfort and hope and goodwill.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
We need, ultimately, to be able to view mental health with the same clear-headedness we show when talking about physical health.
- Leave
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- Nov 07, 2020
The fact is, as we leave the EU, Britain will be able to choose its own immigration system rather than having free movement with one part of the world and a managed system with elsewhere.
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
I felt a responsibility to Simon and to our kids to be able to live with integrity and not have some strange split psychology of 'This is who my dad is at home, and this is who he is to the public.'
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to pitch in the postseason is great, and to be able to go out there and throw the ball well and help your team win is a great feeling.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to be able to go deep in games and save those guys in the pen for down the stretch.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the preseason, you usually only get a small window of opportunity, but when you get out there for four quarters and you're able to put it together, then you're able to go out there game after game and continue to get better, it was great, especially when I was able to prove a lot of my critics and naysayers wrong.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it enriches you as a scientist to be able to see things in an artistic perspective and as an artist to see things in a scientific perspective.
- Ghetto
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think my thing is I grew up in the ghetto, and I was able to get a second chance. That's what I'm trying to tell kids.
- Child
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first and most common reason for not being a fluent reader is that the child does not yet know how to decode very well yet. They lack automatic decoding skills, and this prevents them from being able to read accurately, much less smoothly and quickly. Decoding accuracy is the first prerequisite to fluency.
- Fitness
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- Nov 07, 2020