- Feeling
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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
- Fluency
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also had this mistaken dream, fantasy really - perhaps because I'm good at languages - of being able in both Italy and France to become someone else through my fluency in the language.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm able to sometimes express things even more articulately on the piano than I am with singing.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.
- Navy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Navy Seals don't travel with 200 people, they wouldn't be able to execute the kind of tip-of-the-spear missions they do.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hoped to be able to write a novel which would enable me to live on it while I wrote the next.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never been able to understand what they mean by 'Pinteresque,'. I'm sure it's indefinable.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll tell you something, and this is true: I've never been able to write a film which I didn't respect. I just can't do it. I'm very happy about all the films I haven't done.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many artists have not been able to realise their fondest projects. My role is to help them.
- Memories
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fragrance is important to me because of its emotional dimension. I feel like fragrances are able to transport, stir emotion, and bring up memories. You can wear makeup, you can dress yourself up, but fragrance gives a powerful aspect to how you can present yourself that you can't necessarily get any other way.
- Ever-Changing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Art has to be able to match life, to respond to the ever-changing forms of the world, to electrify the audience.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's funny, I was talking to somebody who writes for a cop show, and he was saying how they aren't allowed to acknowledge Christmas, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, just because it has to be able to play forever.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm thrilled to partner with Gillette to help men understand what women want. If we're able to give them that information, and Gillette can give them the tools to get there, then we both win, and that's very exciting.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love five-string banjo. On an electric guitar, let’s say a two-hour show, it starts getting heavy right across the neck and shoulders. And I like to be able to flip it off and grab the fiddle, and that’s just the way I do it.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine life without any algorithms at all, you wouldn't be able to do anything. This is already completely encompassing. We have a habit of over-trusting what mathematics or computer scientists tell us to do, without questioning it, too much faith in the magical power of analysis.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020