- 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
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
A military starved of resources, training, and equipment will not long be able to protect the country physically or economically.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was really unusual to go from being in university for four years to all of a sudden acting every day. I'd never been able to do it exclusively like that. It was always sort of like my secret thing that I did privately.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is vitally important for me, both personally and for my writing, to be able to return to China freely, so being barred entry has caused me deep concern and distress.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
After much soul searching I was able to renounce my past Islamist ideology, challenging everything I was once prepared to die for.
- Open
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll probably have to open a recording studio at some point because I won't be able to pay the bills.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's so crazy now with the Internet and being able to play shows to people who are actually interested in you. I still feel so lucky when that happens. Things just happen so fast.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one of the biggest sleepers that people are going to be able to dig into later is 'Fermi Paradox,' it's the song before 'Exist.' To me it's got the coolest, it's just so bizarre because it's got one of the most melodic vocal melodies, but we put it over a black metal blast beats.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do think my childhood is one of the fundamental reasons that I'm able to do my job. We were raised in this totally nonjudgmental family. We never knew who was going to walk in the front door. And as a journalist and a photographer, you walk into so many different scenes that you have to be open to everything.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Ruined' was a play which was somewhat of an anomaly in that I did not take a commission until it was finished because I really wanted to explore the subject matter unencumbered. Otherwise, I felt as though I'd have the voice of dramaturges and literary managers saying, 'This is great, but we'll never be able to produce it.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
So I - the thought that I would physically be different was - it's not a thrill, I have to tell you. It's kind of - it brings you up short. But I was able to look at it right away.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
It eats you up. It eats you up. And you have to - I had a lot of help. I had a lot of therapy. And I was able to - because it was hard, you know, to - you can't just lay it on friends and children.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew that I was an artist. I never expected to be able to make a living.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature - and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020