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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.
- How
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are worried about their bodies. They're worried about disease. They're worried about how they are able to get out and participate in the world.
- Deploy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Iraqi military are able to deploy these weapons within 45 minutes of a decision to do so.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
So for me having that element of being able to be competitive wasn't a problem. I'm very competitive. I thought if I could skate first, acting would come second. I could say my lines and then go do what I was saying. You don't have to fake it, you're not really acting.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have friends who have children with various disabilities, and I was able to talk to them about just sort of the struggle and the extra effort that has to be put into very commonplace things.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.
- Interesting
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're living pretty interesting lives, we are traveling the world, we are going everywhere... it has been pretty cool! I'm so lucky to have been able to do all of that.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Performing with a hologram in a three-dimensional world feels somewhat strange. But you know, the experience of playing live in a room full of people is most exciting, it's something that the social media has not been able to recreate. There's some kind of intensity about it, something that the social media doesn't capture.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever we can't develop internally - and nobody develops everything internally - you have to be able to trade and sign free agents.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors. We recommend that such investors should be able to sign a piece of paper, which allows them to go ahead and buy unregulated products at their own risk.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Republicans can be a funny bunch. They're against affirmative action, but they always seem to be able to find people of color to fill a slot just when they're most needed.
- Equality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every president to hold office has espoused some version of Americanism - the truths that we hold self-evident, even when those truths are not always in evidence. But for all their grand rhetoric and mostly good deeds, none was able to seal the deal on the trifecta of equality, plurality and socioeconomic ascendancy. Obama has.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll sing as long as people want to hear me, and I'll be able to sing as long as I'm alive.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.
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- Nov 07, 2020