Capable Quotes
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See also Core English Vocabulary (C) List-
I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.
Plato
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If you are not making the progress that you would like to make and are capable of making, it is simply because your goals are not clearly defined.
Paul J. Meyer
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To acquire balance means to achieve that happy medium between the minimum and the maximum that represents your optimum. The minimum is the least you can get by with. The maximum is the most you`re capable of. The optimum is the amount or degree of anythin...
Nido Qubein
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A doctrine capable of being stated only in obscure and involved terms is open to reasonable suspicion of being either crude or erroneous
Frederick Pollock
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Who are we? Where do we come from? Why are we this way and not some other? What does it mean to be human? Are we capable, if need be, of fundamental change, or do the dead hands of forgotten ancestors impel us in some direction, indiscriminately for good ...
Dr. Carl Sagan
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Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable
Thomas Jefferson
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Do not trust people. They are capable of greatness.
Stanislaw Lem
Subject: Business QuotesSource: brainyquote.com
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Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.
Hermann Hesse
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Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams
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We`re all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Dan Quayle
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A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation
Albert Einstein
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The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
Albert Einstein
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There is no such thing as all good people and all bad people. We`re all capable. It exists within us. In war-time, as we`re finding out now, things that have been on camera, our wonderful troops, who we felt were absolutely impeccable, were as guilty as e...
John Hurt
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Of course we`ve been fighting against stereotypes from Day One at East West. That`s the reason we formed: to combat that, and to show we are capable of more than just fulfilling the stereotypes -- waiter, laundryman, gardener, martial artist, villain.
Mako
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[On how his earlier, lesser film roles ultimately improved him as an actor]: I believe I`m quite capable and we, as people, can learn to do anything, and that`s proof of it! And my education is on film, on record! Now I can take on anything that comes my ...
Brad Pitt
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I think he is capable of being the next Rey Mysterio but it all depends on if he wants to be. I`m on the road Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. When I go home on Wednesday I feel like I`m stepping right back into the ring. (on his son, Dominik)
Rey Mysterio
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What gets me is how many women - young women - give up their power and sense of self. Thinking they`re going to get more out of life if they take off their clothes and objectify themselves, instead of functioning on the principle that they`re smart and ca...
Reese Witherspoon
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[On Andrei Tarkovsky]: When film is not a document, it is dream. That is why Tarkovsky is the greatest of them all. He moves with such naturalness in the room of dreams. He doesn`t explain. What should he explain anyhow? He is a spectator, capable of stag...
Ingmar Bergman
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People are curious about my ability to perform. They don`t know what I`m capable of doing. I have to work harder and it`s more of a challenge winning people over - commenting on her disco endeavor (April, 1977).
Marilyn Chambers
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I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I`m not capable, I`m too cowardly for that.
Shakira
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Hated acting "because, in the final analysis, an actor is only a pawn - brilliant sometimes, rare and talented, capable of bringing pleasure and even inspiration to others, but no less a pawn for that." Hayden`s agent: "This man was born in the wrong cent...
Sterling Hayden
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Republicans are as capable of coming up with great ideas and moving this country along as anyone - they just don`t do it.
Alan Alda
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I`d like to play a real cold, mean mass murderer. Some cruel, hard-bitten women, like the roles Glenn Close gets, just to show that I am capable of not being vulnerable and not being fragile on screen. (on being typecast as fragile or neurotic characters)
Dianne Wiest
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I probably have more female friends than any man I`ve ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they`re generally mentally tougher, and they`re better listeners, and they`re more capable of surviving things. And most of the women that I like ...
John Malkovich
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You`ll never know what you`re capable of if you don`t try.
Sarah Gellar
Source: imdb.com
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Until, I think, everyone in that school thought I was less than human. I felt ugly, weak, overwhelmed - I couldn`t imagine being capable of doing anything. I certainly never thought I could be in a band. This was a dream it didn`t even occur to me to drea...
Shirley Manson
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There`s a lot more that I am capable of doing than I have done. There`s a lot more that I have to offer people. Some people would be surprised. If you really look at my body of work, it`s not nearly as typecast as one might think. I have done a lot of rol...
Matt Dillon
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[On actress Kirsten Dunst playing her in a proposed biographical film]: She`s a really sweet person. I`ve met with her a couple of times and hung out with her socially. She`s just a sweetie. She`s probably capable of a lot of things she hasn`t been asked ...
Debbie Harry
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(Oct. 2007) Melodrama is a much maligned genre. And I hope we can bring it back into fashion. I always think of melodrama as the thing we are all capable of that`s swept under the rug.
Sidney Lumet
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The context of being a dangerous actor is in drama. You should feel that a person is capable of doing dangerous things to you or to the other characters. I really don`t have much much time for people who imagine that danger is confined to hitting camerame...
John Rhys-Davies
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