The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.
Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself. I don't put it on a platform. I don't campaign about it. It's just something that works for me. It enabled me to really connect with another human being - my wife, Sheryl - which I was never able to do before.
For me, doing a show is great, but I want women to be able to wear the clothes easily as well.
In many places where coffee is grown, deforestation is a major issue. With Starbucks' position in the marketplace and the respect and relationships we have, we can - and have, in some cases - been able to educate and influence people.
I have always been comfortable that no one has been able to assess what I really have.
All of my jokes were about not being able to meet anybody. I didn't have any insight into anything - even my own insecurities.
I think people are able to relate to my appearance. They think of me as the girl next door.
Astronomers ought to be able to ask fundamental questions without accelerators.
You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous.
I constantly push my body to meet what my mind wants me to be able to do.
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.
To be able to work for 20 years as an actor in an industry that is not so predictable, I'm grateful every day. I'll do it till I drop, I guess - or drop out.
My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
Our ancestors didn't need any genetic enhancements to be able to sit for twelve hours a day and eat fatty, sugary foods, but we need enhancements that handle that altered environment.
There's so many mysteries related to how flies are able to make their way through the world. I'd certainly like to know a lot more about how their brain works. I'd certainly like to know a lot more about just how they're put together. I mean, these animals are basically, topologically, spheres. They don't have bones as we do, of course.
Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner.
One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well.
If you're able to pay your bills, you pay your bills. It's as simple as that.
The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.
Governments should not be able to bulldoze a person's home or business to benefit other individuals.
I'd like to be able to tap with my action this low without buzzing.
Nonetheless, the developing countries must be able to reap the benefits of international trade.
I used to be very rigid because I just wanted to get through it. Now, if I think a scene should go a certain way and it goes another, I'm able to go that new way with ease.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
That was always my frustration with so many of these shows, because design is not an ambush... it's a relationship. You have to know how people move and live and work to be able to design for them.
If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.
Science and literature give me answers. And they ask me questions I will never be able to answer.
I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad, and just say, 'This is the part I agree with that you're saying, and these are the parts I don't agree with.'
We will never see a day when women of means are not able to get a safe abortion in this country.
They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.
The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.
I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
I've been really lucky in that I've been able to work so much, and pretty much everything I've done has been really great fun.
I believe that nothing happens apart from divine determination and decree. We shall never be able to escape from the doctrine of divine predestination - the doctrine that God has foreordained certain people unto eternal life.
