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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
- Believe
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has to make their own decisions. I still believe in that. You just have to be able to accept the consequences without complaining.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can.
- Nov 07, 2020
Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.
- June
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The longevity of a band is really contingent on loving the people that you're making music with and being able to get along in the long run. It's just like being married, except you're married to more than one person!
- Drafts
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- Nov 07, 2020
The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible.
- Damn Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
But certainly the laser proved to be what I realized it was going to be. At that moment in my life I was too ignorant in business law to be able to do it right, and if I did it over again probably the same damn thing would happen.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never believed - or knew for sure - if I would be able to make a professional life in music. But it turned out that way.
- Lost
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have lost sight of nature's role in the whole process of maturation and growing up. Parents and nature are a team. And nature can't go on without the parental role of being able to foster individuality and viability unless the attachment needs are fully met.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parents are the designated caregivers and are best suited for being able to raise children.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was able to get out of Germany because her father was Russian and those with a Russian passport could leave. My father was not so fortunate. He had to be smuggled out of Germany by being tied to the bow of a vegetable freighter that was leaving in the North Sea. He almost lost a leg because it was so cold, but he ended up in France.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole object of the players' association is to try and make sure that any individual is able to capitalise on his ability, particularly in football, which is a very short career.
- Emotion
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- Nov 07, 2020
When an actor sings a song, he will be able to bring forth the emotion in it much better than a playback singer.
- Memory
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just want to be able to get on an airplane and enjoy myself in Disneyland, not sit there worrying about all these assassins.
- Agriculture
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- Nov 07, 2020