- Being Used
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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
I mean, you have to be able - you have to have made the commitment within yourself to do whatever it takes to get the job done and to try to inspire other people to do it, because obviously the first rule is you can't do it by yourself.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the end, we will never, ever be able to guarantee that there will not be an Edward Snowden or another Chelsea Manning because this is a large enterprise composed of human beings with all their idiosyncrasies.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
And an integrated life is one where you're able to fit the different pieces of your life together in seamless fashion.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's always nice to be able to capture your life's experiences in a song and hold the emotion in that way.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.
- Competition
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- Nov 07, 2020
Almost everyone agrees that corporate tax rates need to be cut because of global competition. Companies should not be able to stash earnings overseas tax-free.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have a sudden emergency, earthquake, hurricane, you name it, we want to be able to have a National Guard officer able to command federal forces.
- Comedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I sort of attract people who are interested in my comedy for being able to talk about whatever I want to talk about and not being ashamed of who I am and not hiding it.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think we're realizing that gay people are able to do the type of comedy that we just assumed was for straight people over the years. Whatever old boundaries there were, which were very real and still have an effect on us, in the way we socialize, I think that's slowly becoming less important.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eventually, all of our impressions will be dead. That's one of my favorite things about Paul F. Tompkins' 'Dead Authors' podcast is to be able to do impressions of people you've never otherwise think to do or get to do. I did Walt Whitman on there, and that was really fun.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to be around for a long time, so I like to be able to look at myself in the mirror and say I talked about stuff when I'm not supposed to and didn't have to. I could be in the closet, but I feel insulted at the idea that I should be.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm always trying to improve whether by being more consistent, accurate, fitter or able to bowl longer spells.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
Christ hath instituted Baptism as a bath, to wash away the anger, and hath put into us the Noble Stone, viz. the water of eternal life, for an earnest-penny, so that instantly in our childhood we might be able to escape the wrath.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020