"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald."

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"I want to sing like Aretha Franklin. Before her I wanted the technical ability of Ella Fitzgerald."

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"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."

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"As I've gone along, I felt like I was discovering an aspect of my voice that I didn't know was there: an ability to interpret a song in a way that makes it more accessible."

"An athlete must have ability to reach the top, but many who have ability and who do not live clean lives never have and never will be champions for obvious reasons."

"I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability."

"I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage."

"Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets."

"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."

"Hospitals must provide emergency treatment to all who walk through the door, regardless of their citizenship status or ability to pay."

"Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself."

"I like fruit baskets because it gives you the ability to mail someone a piece of fruit without appearing insane. Like, if someone just mailed you an apple you'd be like, 'huh? What the hell is this?' But if it's in a fruit basket you're like, 'this is nice!'"

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