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Ability Quotes
"Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete."
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"I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand."
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"Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention."
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"Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them."
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"Being an Olympian is the ultimate test of one's sporting ability."
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"I'd like to run for office someday, but I'm afraid my ability to spell might give me an unfair advantage."
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"That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you."
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"Pluripotent cells have the ability to grow into any cell in the body."
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"The greatest difficulty with the world is not its ability to produce, but the unwillingness to share."
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"By annihilating somebody else in whatever way, then that person feels that they also have the ability to, then, restore the person."
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"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."
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"The marketplace can handle this. The laws are there. The courts have shown a consistent ability to find a balance between copyright owners and copyright users."
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"The ability to communicate with everybody, regardless of who are you are, is a great thing."
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"I used to think that one of the great signs of security was the ability to just walk away."
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"One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition."
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"Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that."
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"I actually thrive on all the challenges, and I don't feel like ADD has impaired my ability."
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"Sometimes I think if I had the same body and the same natural ability and someone else's brain, who knows how good a player I might have been."
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"The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability."
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"Uncertainty is a sign of humility, and humility is just the ability or the willingness to learn."
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"In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice."
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"Everybody has the ability to be manipulative, to be hateful and deceitful."
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"The level of ignorance is declining, and the ability to accumulate data and manipulate it for various ends is increasing."
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"The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man."
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"The big gap between the ability of actors is confidence."
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"If I could have anything right now, it would be the ability to continue as secretary of state."
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"Well, I'll say I have an incredible ability to fantasize - I really do. I don't have to have things tangible to be able to see them, and therefore I enjoy so many things, because they're in my mind."
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"Literature does not exist in a vacuum. Writers as such have a definite social function exactly proportional to their ability as writers. This is their main use."
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"Sophistication might be described as the ability to cope gracefully with a situation involving the presence of a formidable menace to one's poise and prestige (such as the butler, or the man under the bed - but never the husband)."
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"I played the game one way. I gave it everything I had. It doesn't take any ability to hustle."
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"Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding."
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"Some are blessed with musical ability, others with good looks. Myself, I was blessed with modesty."
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"Campaign staffers develop the ability to sleep through anything."
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"Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery."
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"The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances."
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"Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone."
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"Nonchalance is the ability to remain down to earth when everything else is up in the air."
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"There is a curious relationship between a candidate and the reporters who cover him. It can be affected by small things like a competent press staff, enough seats, sandwiches and briefings and the ability to understand deadlines."
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"You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up."
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