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“If I chose to have a nanny, I'd be able to pay to have a nanny - a lot of women don't have that opportunity. I don't feel like I'm a working single mom, because I have that option that a lot of people don't have.”

People Ifs Feels Able Opportunity Pay Mom Single Mom Nannies

Author:Gillian Anderson

“How heroic to be able to suppress one's vanity to the extent of confessing that the game is too hard.”

Hard Able Games Vanity Heroic Confessing

Author:Alice James

“In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.”

Way Able My Own Television Ego Theatre Mess Shut Up

Author:Matthew Perry

“There are a lot of dark sides to success, but the light side of it is the ability to be opportunistic, and to be able to do things.”

Light Able Success Sides Dark Ability Dark Side

Author:Anita Roddick

“It makes me feel like a very special person, that I'm able to make my living with my imagination. I developed a big respect for my calling while I was in school, and it remains with me to this day.”

Feels Persons Bigs Able School Imagination Special Calling Remains This Day My Imagination Very Special Person

Author:Tommy Lee Jones

“We are now able to very slightly and subtly reshape the solar system in order to enhance human survival.”

Humans Able Order Survival Solar System

Author:Rusty Schweickart

“Let the business of the world take care of itself... My business is to get the world saved; if this involves the standing still of the looms and the shutting up of the factories, and the staying of the sailing of the ships, let them all stand still. When we have got everybody converted they can go on again, and we shall be able to keep things going then by working half time and have the rest to spend in loving one another and worshipping God.”

Ifs World Stills Care Able Half Goes On Standing Take Care Saved Ships Staying Factories Sailing Worship God Standing Still Half Time

Author:William Booth

“I can imagine nothing more wonderful than always wanting to keep a man. It's this NOT wanting to keep them, and yet not quite being able to disentangle one's self, never quite having the ruthlessness to stike at the hands on the gunwale with an oar until they let go - that's the horrible thing.”

Men I Can Self Hands Able Imagine Wonderful Letting Go Horrible Never Quit Horrible Things Oar Ruthlessness

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.”

Able Energy Wish Can Do Available Enormous

Author:Fred Rogers

“I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And from that time on, I could rarely discuss the death of a child without tears welling up into my eyes.”

Children Helping Might Eye Able Felt Parent Dying Tears Involved

Author:C. Everett Koop

“The prerequisite to loving others is to love yourself. If you don't have a healthy respect for who you are, and if you don't learn to accept yourself faults and all, you will never be able to properly love other people.”

People Ifs Love Able Accepting Love You Healthy Who You Are Faults Love Yourself Prerequisites Accepting Yourself Loving Others

Book:Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day

Source: Daily Readings from Become a Better You: 90 Devotions for Improving Your Life Every Day

“I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is history. I think, for example, the reason that I was perhaps able to see sooner than some others that the Soviet Empire in Eastern Europe was decaying--if not disintegrating--was that I came to it through history and through Germany, rather than through Sovietology and through Moscow. And therefore the starting point was that no empire in history has lasted forever, and this one won't either.”

“Life was not fair. If you wanted something you had to take it. Before someone else took it from you. Neatly dissected down to its essence, life was one long series of lily pad hoppings. The quick and the resourceful were able to adapt and survive; all others were simply crushed as a more nimble creature landed on the lily pad they had occupied for too long.”

Ifs Life Long Able Wanted Creatures Fairs Essence Series Long Life Crushed Lilies Not Fair Pads Resourceful Nimble Hopping Lily Pads

Book:The Winner

Source: The Winner

“The revolution must end and the republic must begin. In our constitution, right must take the place of duty, welfare that of virtue, and self-defense that of punishment. Everyone must be able to prevail and to live according to one's own nature.”

Ends Self Able Virtue Duty Revolution Constitution Defense Punishment Welfare Republic Self Defense

Author:Georg Buchner

“It is time to train British workers for the British jobs that will be available over the coming few years and to make sure that people who are inactive and unemployed are able to get the new jobs on offer in our country.”

People Years Country Able Jobs Offers Train Workers Available British Our Country Unemployed New Job

Author:Gordon Brown

“Being part of The L Word made me realize how much more television can be that what I had experienced in my lifetime in terms of being able to be of service to people. I had so many fans come up to me who were really deeply appreciative of the show and what it had meant for them and their own sense of identity and their own sense of inclusion in our society and in our culture.”

People Made Shows Able Culture Term Realizing Fans Identity Television Lifetime Come Up Our Society Inclusion Appreciative Really Deep

Author:Jennifer Beals

“I believe in the time when we shall be able to create works of art in the Theatre without the use of the written play, without the use of actors.”

Believe Art Play Use Able Actors I Believe Written Creating I Believe In Theatre Works Of Art Playwriting

Book:On the Art of the Theatre

Source: On the Art of the Theatre

“A successful politician must not only be able to read the mood of the public, he must have the skill to get the public on his side. The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against.”

Reason Use Able Sides Successful Politician Skills Logic Moved Instinct Mood

Author:Jean Chretien

“Ah, well, during the Middle Ages, religion was often able to redeem art. Today, however, art is about the only thing that can redeem religion, and the clerics will never forgive us for that.”

Wells Art Age Today Able Middle Art Is Forgiving Middle Ages Never Forgive

Author:Samuel R. Delany

“Adolf Hitler may have been wrong all down the line, but one thing is beyond dispute: the man was able to work his way up from lance corporal in the German Army to Führer of a people of almost 80 million. His success alone proved that I should subordinate myself to this man.”

People Men Way Should May Has Beens Able Lines Millions One Thing He Man Army Disputes Subordinates

Author:Adolf Eichmann

“Collage is a supersensitive and scrupulously accurate instrument, similar to a seismograph, which is able to record the exact amount of the possibility of human happiness at any period.”

Humans Able Records Possibility Amount Periods Instruments Accurate Human Happiness Collages

Author:Max Ernst

“As a young child, being different is isolating, and as a teenager it's humiliating. I wish I had been able to stand out with more confidence when I was a child, and especially when I was a teenager. I was different, but it wasn't always a conscious choice, and it often made me miserable. But I'm all grown up now, and so are you. Today, difference is your strength, your power, and your trademark. It's your signature. It can still be difficult to be different--sometimes even harder than it used to be. Even so, it's time to embrace being yourself. It's time to be authentic.”

“The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying back at 109 in 1931 was a satisfactory operation. Some may think that an intelligent investor should have been able to sell out much closer to the high of 381 and to buy back nearer the low of 41. If that is your own view you are probably a speculator at heart and will have trouble keeping to true investment precepts while the market rushes up and down.”

“The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be worth', and, second, that the investor is able to increase or decrease his investment at the market's daily figure - 'if he chooses'. Thus the existence of a quoted market gives the investor certain options which he does not have if his security is unquoted. But it does not impose the current quotation on an investor who prefers to take his idea of value from some other source.”

Ifs Giving May Doe Ideas Able Certain Values Existence Security Figures Source Benefits Increase Investment Currents Investors Quotations Decrease Appraisal

Author:Benjamin Graham

“I'm not an actor who consciously accesses bits of my life, in order to play parts. Obviously, you don't need to have been a father to play one, otherwise everyone who's been a father would be able to act.”

Needs Has Beens Play Would Be Able Order Actors Father Bits Access

Author:Bill Nighy

“I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.”

People Trying Hard Dream Kids Able Poor Streets Achieve Hard Work Pursue Your Dreams Pursue Your Dreams

Author:Dave Bautista

“What really matters in a workplace, what helps an employer if you've got a unionised workforce is if your shop stewards know the rules of the game, if your safety reps are taught to be able to examine situations to make sure the workplace is more safety. Better informed delegates, better workplace safety saves companies money. Unions are very good at safety. We are good at teaching delegates how to resolve disputes.”

“In theater, there's a lot of discipline involved in doing eight shows a week for a year and a half. It's nice to be able to bring some of that bag of tools with you over to the film world, where you don't have the rehearsal, you don't have an audience. You don't have a month of rehearsal to examine these words, and you meet the guy who's going to play your brother the morning that you shoot the scene. So you need a bag of tools.”

World Needs Years Play Shows Able Film Guy Half Morning Audience Nice Week Brother Months Discipline Involved Scene Tools Theater Eight Bags Rehearsal Your Brother

Author:William Sadler

“I was obsessed with the idea of sitting next to someone and playing a game that we were both competing in, and we were also competing with the computer. That was mind-blowing to me at that time. It was just so cool to think about the computer being able to play with us, and then also [for] us to compete.”

Thinking Mind Ideas Play Able Next Games Computer Sitting Obsessed Competing Mind Blowing

Author:Robin Hunicke

“I do think that's one of the reasons that acting appealed to me so much: the idea of letting go of control in a controlled environment. Being able to go through the range of intense emotions and jump off the cliff, metaphorically, but in a creative way, and in a way where the structure was really solid.”

Thinking Way Ideas Reason Able Acting Emotion Creative Environment Letting Go Structure Intense Range Controlled Cliffs Intense Emotions

Author:Carla Gugino

“I think any sport needs to be accessible, affordable and practiced within the confines of a safe environment. Parents who have young children want to be able to leave their child somewhere which has good facilities and where they're going to be looked after.”

Thinking Want Needs Children Able Young Sports Parent Environment Safe Facility Affordable Young Children Safe Environment

Author:Hope Powell

“I was doing all the coaching schools so that I'd be able to stay in the game, and I gave myself a chance by doing that. I was only an average player, could score a goal or two, that sort of thing, but I wasn't a Bobby Charlton or a Messi, or Ronaldo. There are very, very few really great players who have become great coaches.”

Two Able School Games Goal Chance Player Average Coaches Coaching Score Really Great Messi Great Coach

Author:Alex Ferguson

“I love acting. I love stage work, more than anything. It's just live. It's right there in front of you. If you make a mistake, they know it and you know it. I won't do anything where I feel like I'm just making a fool out of myself. By doing that, I'm able to rise to my highest potential.”

Ifs Knows Feels Able Acting Mistake Stage Fronts Fool Highest Just Live

Author:Mike Tyson

“The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate. When you communicate comfortably, regardless of what you're saying, it can always be processed.”

Important Able Directors Important Things Communicate

Author:Kevin Hart

“It's been my dream to be in a Western, and to be able to wear the clothes, have a big gun, wear a big hat, have a big horse, and be a take-no-prisoners lady in the Civil War era.”

War Dream Bigs Able Clothes Gun Horse Western Eras Civil War Hats Prisoner

Author:Lauren Ambrose

“There is simply too much unnecessary suffering in our world. And we should see that as a national security risk, by the way. Given enough time, desperate people will tend to do desperate things. At a certain point you won't be able to build enough prisons or enough bombs to eradicate the effects of all that violence inside so many hearts.”

“When I grew up, there were no teletypewriters or video calls, so I primarily interpreted phone calls. At that time, where I lived, it wasn't embarrassing to have Deaf parents; it was cool to be able to speak a different language than everyone else.”

Different Able Speak Language Parent Grew Grew Up Phones Video Embarrassing Deaf Phone Calls Different Languages

Author:Jack Jason

“Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges.”

Looks Able Faces President Challenges Quality One Thing Admire Persistence Underrated

Author:Barack Obama

“The weakness in a model in which one assumes that the electorate gets what it needs from Bill Clinton is that our system doesn't institutionalize the oppositional voice, and one needs to be able to hear the exchange of the debate in order to create an informed electorate.”

Needs Able Order Voice Models Weakness Bills Assuming Clinton Debate Electorate

Author:Kathleen Hall Jamieson

“In general I saw my job as the first president whose full term would be served after the Cold War in a global information society where we were interdependent but not integrated. And therefore, we were vulnerable to the worst, and able to seize the best, of what's going on in the world.”

World Firsts War Would Be Able Jobs President Term Saws Worst Information Cold Vulnerable Cold War Integrated Information Society

Author:William J. Clinton

“I want to build a bridge to the 21st century in which we create a strong and growing economy to preserve the legacy of opportunity for the next generation by balancing our budget in a way that protects our values and ensuring that every family will be able to own and protect the value of their most important asset, their home.”

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995

“Definition of victory which is really an important thing for the American people to understand is that we have an ally in the war on terror, that democracy is able to sustain itself and defend itself, and the Iraqi people feel that the security forces that we've trained up are capable of defending themselves against the violent.”

People Feels Important War Able Force Democracy Security Victory Capable Important Things Definitions Terror Violent Allies War On Terror Security Forces

Author:George W. Bush

“If you bring [tax] rates down, it makes it easier for small business to keep more of their capital and hire people. And for me, this is about jobs. I want to get America's economy going again. Fifty-four percent of America's workers work in businesses that are taxed as individuals. So when you bring those rates down, those small businesses are able to keep more money and hire more people.”

People Ifs Want Able Jobs America Individual Economy Four Easier Taxes Percent Workers Rate Fifty More Money Small Business

Author:Mitt Romney

“I have always been able to move on musically. I've always been able to make all generations dance and love.”

Able Moving Generations And Love

Author:Donnie Simpson

“I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour.”

Writing Years Mean Book Able Hours Five Four Fortunate

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“Writing for me always requires trickery. Tricking myself into sitting down, letting words tumble out until you find the good ones. It's sort of a trance. And when a piece is done, I have little memory of how I wrote it, and zero confidence I'd ever be able to do it again.”

Writing Littles Done Able Memories Pieces Sitting Zero Sitting Down Trance Trickery

Author:John Hodgman

“I believe law-abiding citizens ought to be able to own a gun. I believe in background checks at gun shows or anywhere to make sure that guns don't get in the hands of people that shouldn't have them.”

People Believe Shows Hands Able Law I Believe Ought Citizens Gun I Believe In Backgrounds Checks Abiding Law Abiding Citizen Background Checks

Author:George W. Bush

“I believe the best way to help our small businesses is not only through small-business loans, which we have increased since I've been the president of the United States, but to unbundle government contracts so people have a chance to be able to bid and receive a contract to help get their business going.”

People Way Believe States Helping Government Able I Believe President Chance United United States Best Way Contracts Small Business Loan

Author:George W. Bush

“The question of crime is one of concern to everybody. But the position is that the security forces in our country for the last four decades did not concentrate on suppressing crime. Their main objective was to suppress, to crush political activity. And in the process, crime grew to unacceptable proportions. And criminals were able to form powerful syndicates, and they virtually took over the control of the life of the community in certain areas.”

“Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.”

Able Happenings Confusion Make Sense Day To Day

Author:Paul Muldoon

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