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• I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Lying, Winning, Night

  "Obama's nuclear strutting and fretting" by Charles Krauthammer, www.washingtonpost.com. April 16, 2010.

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• Acting is all about truth and honesty, and the sensitivity that's capable of transporting you.

  Thomas Kretschmann

  Honesty, Acting, Sensitivity

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• I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

  Neil LaBute

  Lying, Ideas, Deceit

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• Running for office was definitely something I've thought about. When I was younger, I wanted to major in political science. And I've been engaged in current events since I was a kid. If I can make a difference and feel passionately and capable, then I would. Why not?

  Queen Latifah

  Running, Kids, Differences

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• Children, in a way, are constant learners. Certainly sponge-like. Absorbing everything without careful analysis, even though, at the same time, they are certainly capable of incredible insights.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Children, Analysis, Way

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• As a speaker, business leader or marketer of any type, the onus is now on each of us to become equally capable of communicating very personally with a seemingly endless number of people connected by social technologies.

  Simon Mainwaring

  Technology, Numbers, People

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• It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing.

  Jose Marti

  Sins Not, Sin

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• I don't think that I would consider myself a feminist. I think that, I certainly believe in equal rights. I believe that women are just as capable, if not more so, in a lot of different dimensions. But I don't, I think, have sort of the militant drive and the sort of the chip on the shoulder that sometimes comes with that.

  Marissa Mayer

  Believe, Thinking, Rights

  "Makers: Women Who Make America". PBS/AOL documentary, www.businessinsider.com. February 26, 2013.

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• I generally get challenged; I haven't been typecast, which is really, really, nice. It's not something that every actor gets, really. It's luxury. Most actors are capable of it, but they aren't afforded the opportunity to express their variety.

  James McAvoy

  Nice, Opportunity, Luxury

  "Wanted: James McAvoy Interview". Interview with Patrick Kolan, www.ign.com. July 22, 2008.

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• We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

  Phil McGraw

  Truth, Believe, Feet

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Society, Original Thought, Literature

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.20, Knopf

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• When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently.

  Henry Miller

  Men, Literature, Limits

  Henry Miller (1970). “The Air-Conditioned Nightmare”, p.85, New Directions Publishing

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• Prison Break is so far-fetched, I had to make viewers believe that Michael is capable of making the impossible possible.

  Wentworth Miller

  Believe, Impossible, Prison

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• Before children, even the most cynical people throw down their usual masks and become capable of feeling the purity and love which all human beings seek.

  Sun Myung Moon

  Children, Unification Church, People

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• I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

  Steven Morrissey

  Sides, Bright Side

  "Papal attraction" by Douglas Coupland, www.theguardian.com. March 19, 2006.

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• I had a paper round and every night I would put the dinner on before Mum came home from work. I was capable because I had to be.

  Aimee Mullins

  Home, Night, Paper

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• Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Men, Perfection, Sin

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• I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

  Bill Nye

  Claims, Critical, Regard

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• I know who I am, I know what I can and can't do. I know what I will and won't do. I know what I'm capable of and I don't agree to do things that I don't think I can pull off.

  Dolly Parton

  Thinking, Who I Am, Agree

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• The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably 'Doctor Who.' What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

  Terry Pratchett

  Jobs, Thinking, Doctors

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• From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

  Dennis Prager

  Children, Teenage, Years

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• For an athlete, the biggest pressure comes from within. You know what you want to do and what you're capable of.

  Paula Radcliffe

  Athlete, Want, Pressure

  "Olympic Games 2012: loneliness of the long-distance Paula Radcliffe". Interview with Donald McRae, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2012.

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• Perfect valour consists in doing without witnesses that which we would be capable of doing before everyone.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Perfect, Would Be

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• Nature seems at each man's birth to have marked out the bounds of his virtues and vices, and to have determined how good or how wicked that man shall be capable of being.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Wicked, Vices

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• Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

  Kid Rock

  Heart, People, Soul

  “Kid Rock: What I've Learned” by Tom Junod, www.esquire.com. April 20, 2011.

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