"Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?"
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"A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes."
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"We are fortunate now to become aware of the contents of our mind. With that knowledge we will be able to change the aspects that lead to confusion and misery in our lives."
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"I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it."
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"Some people are able to not only entertain the public in any way that they can but also in some way to throw in some sort of inspirational message with the entertainment. I have always tried to do that with whatever I wrote. And I'm sure that a lot of other writers do, too."
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"Sooner or later, you will see a China-based company that really has a global impact, and I think Baidu has a chance to become one of those companies. We should be able to compete on a global basis."
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"You have to get comfortable [with your work], you really have to know what you're doing, and it has to be almost boring to you to be able to do it well."
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"...I'm not going to be able to make things that I can call Kanye West just by making T-shirts."
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"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing."
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"Being able to step outside of yourself in order to help someone else is why we're all here, it's what we should all be doing if we can."
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"It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head."
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"The most able seems clumsy."
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"If we had paused to tell the people that we were Marxist-Leninists while we were on Pico Turquino and not yet strong, it is possible that we would never have been able to descend to the plains."
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"And this, incidentally, is my thumbnail sketch of American marriage: A woman sees a man; she likes him. Now she jumps on this thing and rides it to some kind of standstill. Then she changes it and trains it, and to the exact degree that she's able to do this, she disrespects him."
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"I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond."
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"So far as he is able, a prince should stick to the path of good but, if the necessity arises, he should know how to follow evil."
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"I've been really fortunate to be able to do different kinds of films in different scales, different genres, different kinds of roles, and that is important to me."
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"Right now we think that rates will stay low, that you'll be able to get a mortgage below seven percent and that's kicked off a refinance boom that's going to put more money in the pockets of consumers."
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"Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before."
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"The fact is that if you have not developed language, you simply don't have access to most of human experience, and if you don't have access to experience, then you're not going to be able to think properly."
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