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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
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Games are often won or lost on the free-throw line. This isn't about slick moves or great skills. It's about practice, muscle memory, and being able to keep a cool head under pressure.
- Feeling
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- Nov 07, 2020
Generally, I liked feeling able to connect with millions of women on a very deep level. It felt special that women especially would cut out my strip and place it on a refrigerator.
- Burn
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.
- Penny
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eastern Washington families and businesses should be able to deduct every penny of state and local sales tax they pay throughout the year from their federal tax bill, especially when people in most states are deducting their state income taxes.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Far too many government spending programs have gone years, even decades, without being reauthorized, leaving the American people less able to effectively review, rethink, and possibly eliminate government programs.
- Better Way
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- Nov 07, 2020
Restoring the people's voice in Congress is not just one part of our Better Way agenda, it's the most important part. Unless people are back in the driver's seat, we won't be able to rebuild our military, roll back the red tape, or help our most vulnerable.
- Play
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been able to play a kid up to this point and pretend that I'm not a grown-up - well, at least for two hours a night!
- Nov 07, 2020
Miss Universe is someone who communicates her thoughts effectively and is able to connect to people.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The great thing about having spent all this time on film sets is that I've been able to watch directors and how they work. I now know that this is what I want to do as well: to tell stories visually. But it's definitely my vision that I want to put across, nobody else's.
- Ideas
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want to seduce my viewers and be able to hold them with the work. Much of that is done in terms of formalist ideas that I bring to the work.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel very lucky to be able to have my dad and to have him as a guide as I've had my whole life. It's just been a really cool ride.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
For me, it's just as important to eat healthy as it is to go out and eat fish and chips with my friends because socialising, and being able to socialise, is a huge part of your general wellbeing.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020