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"We shouldn't confuse the pleasure of being articulate about wine, of being able to describe the distinctive features of a wine, with the non-verbal ability of remembering what they are like, or of appreciating them without being able to say why"
"Voiceover work definitely requires it's own specific muscle. And because you're not seeing what you're recording, and all these things are going on, you really have to use your imagination and stay focused and kind of be able to tap your head and rub your belly at the same time."
"Not being able to live without someone is not love. It's need."
"You're able to make a real difference. If a woman's able to step away financially, she's able to begin to do all the other work."
"Most of the longer-term relationships I've known have been gay relationships. They seem to be able to hang out longer."
"You shouldn't be able to do a swim at the North Pole, it should be frozen over."
"I'm looking forward to being able to retire from being a public figure and being able to afford to be myself!"
"Sometimes when you meet a musician you are a fan of, and he or she isn't the friendliest person, you walk away from the experience wondering if you will ever be able to listen to their music again."
"We only hear questions that we are able to answer."
"The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself."
"Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion."
"In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search."
"One must be a great man indeed to be able to hold out even against common sense." "Or else a fool."
"I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker."
"A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it."
"As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day."
"I like to be able to get up and go and buy a pint of milk without bumping into 20 people I know."
"I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work."
"She was only a year old, but elves grew up fast. Not like witches, who Jenks swore were not able to be on their own until they were thirty. Ahem."
"Maybe I could be friends with a ghost. I wouldn’t be able to kill him."
