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Able Quotes - Page 142

I needed to be able to hear the mix before you do - that's when I came up with the "peek-a-boo" system.

"Grandmaster Flash breaks down Netflix’s new series 'The Get Down'". Interview with Alan Light, www.motherjones.com. July 2016.

Most women's magazines simply try to mold women into bigger and better consumers.

Interview with Digby Diehl, www.maryellenmark.com. March 1972.

I am honestly not sure how capable I am of love. And I'm not sure why.

Gil Scott-Heron (2012). “The Last Holiday: A Memoir”, p.144, Canongate Books

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

Gustave Flaubert, George Sand (1999). “Flaubert-Sand: The Correspondence of Gustave Flaubert & George Sand”, Harvill Press

You have to find something that you love enough to be able to take risks.

"Cinematic Phenomenon". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

George Eliot (2006). “Silas Marner: Literary Touchstone Edition”, p.155, Prestwick House Inc

Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy

Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.151, Cambridge University Press

Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.175, Penguin

How shall I be able to rule over others, that have not full power and command of myself?

Francois Rabelais (2014). “Gargantua and Pantagruel”, p.177, Lulu Press, Inc

The German-French friendship is indispensable for Europe. And I will never let myself be carried away to making statements that would change it.

"French Presidential Candidate Hollande 'They'll Have to Listen to Me'". Interview with Mathieu von Rohr and Romain Leick, www.spiegel.de. March 12, 2012.