- Loved
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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
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Given that you'll never be able to prevent copying, the question is, what can you do to minimize it? What can you do to make consumers happy enough with legitimate use of the system that they'll be willing to pay for it?
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
What Shakespeare and the Greeks were able to do was radically question what it meant to be a human being.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never tried to run away from my race. I was born a black man. You know that in your bones as soon as you are able to understand this country... My approach to life about race is, I don't see the difference between black people and white people.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was 25 years old and had no money - and didn't know how to make movies and had no experience - I was able to get $25,000 together, and that film was 'The Brothers McMullen.'
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
I should like these few words to be read over the grave when my body is placed in the earth; for though it is possible I may be present and conscious of what is going on, I shall not be able to communicate.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look around, I see a world of unrealized opportunities for improvements, an abundance of talented people able to take the risks necessary to make improvements, but a shortage of people and investors willing to take those risks.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I have worked professionally as a musician, photographer, and writer. I've been able to earn my living in other ways, but I always knew I'd come back to acting.
- Copy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mass prosperity came with the mass innovation that sprung up in 1815 in Britain, soon after in America, and later in Germany and France: It brought sustained growth to these nations - also to nations with entrepreneurs willing and able to copy the innovations.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?
- Alone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be honest, I don't feel like I am able to say that I had a childhood, not in a way normal kids my age had. I had something that was specific to Bosnia in '90s, something I call a period of survival.
- Educated
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- Nov 07, 2020
To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020