- Talent
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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
- Horse
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- Nov 07, 2020
While researching 'Horse Soldiers,' I conducted over 100 interviews in the U.S. and in Afghanistan, and in Afghanistan, I walked and studied key sites that appear in the book. I was able to capture not only the Americans' point of view but the Afghans' as well.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1973, I broke off from the therapy and decided I could go through one of those episodes on my own, in my house. I found there is no real need to be locked up. I found that I was able to use that kind of awake dreaming that you go into during insanity and look at it and live with it and relate to it and become friends with it.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not going to matter, but there's a part of me, a human part of me, that wants to be 60 years old, watching a Seahawks game, and they're talking about the days back when I was playing. I want to be able to feel that. I want to know what that feels like.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to know what coverage it is every single time. I want to line up and be able to read what the defense is trying to do to me so I can get open.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm on the record as saying Andrew Luck can be the greatest quarterback who ever played the game of football. I've seen him do some unbelievable things that I still can't believe a quarterback was able to do. I have tremendous respect for that guy.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm forever learning and that's why I'm always able to create new styles and new dimensions of hip-hop.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still very blunt: If you want to be a writer, get a day job. The fact that I have actually been able to make a living at it is astonishing.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have never really had absolute privacy with our records or our electronic communications - government agencies have always been able to gain access with appropriate court orders.
- Hurt
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been able to just kind of run around, do stuff whether I was hurt or not.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a lot more recognizable now. I used to be able to go to the mall or the movies. Now I can't really do that because people come up to me all the time. But it's a good problem to have.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to use my athleticism and my strength to be able to guard bigger guys, and being able to guard bigger guys is going to get me more minutes on the floor.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020
Win or lose, I've been fortunate to be able to pitch deep enough into games to get decisions.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sadly, I haven't been able to find my earliest stories, but the impact of being told by someone important to me that I could do something special is immeasurable.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I rented a place that I could have dogs - not in my house. I rented a big place. And I was able to have the SPCA every end of the week bring many, many dogs to me. They all were in nice places, clean, everything was fine. I took good care of them. And so many people called.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously, over the history of certainly the last 300 years, it was that men went out and worked, and women stayed home. Yes okay, that’s the way it was. But certainly it isn’t that women weren’t able to do it.
- Fantasize
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- Nov 07, 2020