Able Quotes - Page 132

I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable.

If you are able to look beyond near term trouble, you have an advantage over many professional investors

We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

Writing, in its physical, graphic form, is an inseparable suturing of the visual and the verbal, the “imagetext” incarnate

Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge

I'm a very, very healthy eater. I eat lots of fish, lots of vegetables, lots of fruit. I don't eat junk food.

The dinner table is a lively debate, and everybody weighs in in a different way. I like that, though.

I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.

Global conditions are far too complex to be able to imagine that they could ever be really controlled by one power.

I find Mormons adorable.

That was the Alka-Seltzer moment, the moment when the tablet hits the water and begins to fizz.

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper.

Modeling, for me, was not fulfilling. I didn't see the point - although I was able to travel a great deal. I lived in Italy, Germany, and Spain, but I wasn't devoted to it.

To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.

No matter what you or anyone else does, there will be someone who says that there's something bad about it.

You have to laugh, you have to be able to take criticism.

'Gone With The Wind' is one of the all-time greats. Read Margaret Mitchell's book and watch the film again; it's a soap opera in all its glory. It is superb and memorable.

Law is often the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual.

I think, therefore matter is capable of thinking.

It is remarkable to what lengths people will go to avoid thought.

I lost my virginity to a pumpkin when I was 23. Back then I was convinced I was actually a Vegetable, hell, that's what the song is about.

I just saw over the years that the times that we did remarkable things, it was always because players didn't want to let each other down. Players wanted to lift each other up.

What's so exciting is to be able to just take something and polish it so much that hopefully in the future people will start borrowing things from it.

When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing.