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The basic ability to not wipe oneself out, to endure, to use your technological interaction with the world in such a way that has the possibility of the likelihood of lasting and not being temporary - that seems like a pretty good definition of intelligence.
David Grinspoon
Good
Intelligence
World
Lasting
Way
Definition
Possibility
Out
Ability
Pretty
Temporary
Pretty Good
Oneself
Seems
Wipe
Like
Likelihood
Being
Interaction
Endure
Use
Your
Such A Way
Basic
Technological
I never had a boss in my whole life. I've totally destroyed anybody's ability to tell me what to do.
David H. Murdock
Life
Me
Destroyed
Tell
Ability
Totally
Boss
Never
Had
Anybody
Whole
The CIA in real life, we know, is looking for new kinds of cover. It's looking for new platforms, as they like to say, and it's trying to use the revolution in communications technology, the ability to use all sorts of corporate entities in ways that are hard to detect to get our spies in the places where they need to be.
David Ignatius
Life
Technology
CIA
Looking
Real Life
Revolution
Our
Corporate
Say
Ways
Spies
Detect
Ability
Kinds
Entities
New
Like
Know
Sort
Real
Cover
Get
Trying
Where
Places
Communications
Use
Hard
Platforms
Need
I don't think I would ever have taken on professional acting roles if I hadn't had the ability to fly. I had quite low self-esteem, and it gave me the self-confidence to believe I could do anything that I put my mind to.
David Jason
Me
Mind
Fly
Believe
Think
Gave
Would
Ability
Could
Had
Taken
Put
Self-Confidence
Self-Esteem
Roles
Quite
Anything
Low
Low Self-Esteem
Acting
Professional
Ever
I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them when I understand the constraints of the movie, the locations of where we're shooting, the abilities of the actors, and where we want to go with the characters.
David Leitch
Action
Locations
Characters
Ability
Constraints
Scenes
Look
Knowing
Understand
Arrive
Go
Expand
Shooting
Going
Where
Want
Movie
Script
Them
Actor
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
David Mamet
Government
People
Law
Black
Black And White
Example
White
Monstrous
Must
Ability
Somehow
Determined
Given
Only
Both
Absurd
For Example
Knows
Than
Fewer
Anyone
Acquainted
Preferences
Certain
Assessment
In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
David Mamet
Family
Speak
Language
Miserable
Our
Solely
Television
Ourselves
Ability
Days
Liked
Prior
Making
While
Evenings
Based
Away
The young Obama's lack of playing time on the high school basketball team was due more to his ability than the coach's preference for white players.
David Maraniss
Time
School
Young
White
Basketball Team
High
Obama
Ability
High School
More
Due
His
Than
Lack
Preference
Coach
Team
Players
Playing
Basketball
I've always been a huge fan of the Batman universe and Batman, since I was born really. I think the reasoning for that is because he doesn't have a superpower - he has no special ability. He's just a regular person, a regular human.
David Mazouz
Think
Universe
Batman
Ability
Born
Superpower
He
Since
Because
Always
Been
Huge
Huge Fan
Person
Human
Just
Fan
Really
Regular
Regular Person
Special
Reasoning
I love being a producer, and I think I essentially still operate as a producer even though I now have control of marketing and the ability to green-light shows - something every producer wants but that they don't get!
David Nevins
Love
Control
Every
Think
Marketing
Though
Ability
Something
Operate
Still
Get
Essentially
Being
Wants
Producer
Even
Shows
Now
I had always known that I couldn't play Dr. King purely out of my own ability as an actor. When you look at him give those speeches, you can tell that he is taken up by something other than himself. He is flowing with an anointing that is directly from God.
David Oyelowo
God
You
King
Own
Other
Those
Out
Tell
Ability
Purely
Give
Something
My Own
Directly
Had
He
Taken
Look
Him
Himself
Known
Always
Up
Than
Actor
Play
Dr
Dr. King
Flowing
Speeches
Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand.
David Perlmutter
Food
Own
Our
Ability
Entirely
Generate
Demand
Sources
Cells
Dependent
Being
Far
Innate
Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others.
David Rockefeller
Life
Money
Add
Others
Pleasant
Beneficial
Hopefully
Ability
Oneself
Only
Constructive
Lead
Very
Much
There are already a lot of devices in our lives that have rich text or the ability to handle graphics. Our devices are designed to be understood in less than a quarter of a second.
David Rose
Rich
Our
Our Lives
Ability
Devices
Understood
Quarter
Lot
Text
Handle
Than
Less
Graphics
Lives
Designed
Second
My father's encouragement is what has brought me this far, because when I grew up I wanted to be like him, and I knew I had that ability to become an athlete. Being an Olympian is one of the greatest things, and being an Olympic gold medallist is one of the most prestigious titles in the world.
David Rudisha
Me
World
Father
Become
Encouragement
Prestigious
Athlete
Ability
Brought
Had
Knew
Like
Most
Him
Because
Greatest
Greatest Things
Up
Gold
Being
Wanted
Grew
Titles
Far
Things
Olympian
Olympic
Olympic Gold
Food trends have been around as long as people have had the ability to choose between different things to eat, but the modern, interconnected media has made food trends a viral phenomenon. Once upon a time, it was just a few newspapers and a few select gourmet magazines that were writing about food. Today, it's every single publication.
David Sax
Today
Time
Food
People
Writing
Made
Long
Single
Few
Every
Viral
Once
Trends
Ability
Eat
Magazines
About
Select
Had
Between
Around
Gourmet
Were
Been
Modern
Just
Different
Interconnected
Newspapers
Choose
Different Things
Media
Publication
Things
Phenomenon
Nothing really changes: the individual's ability to project his message or throw his weight around remains minuscule.
David Shields
Nothing
Changes
Project
Ability
Remains
Individual
Throw
Weight
Message
Around
His
Really
Scientists and supercomputers have amplified our ability to look ahead. For decades, experts have warned us that human numbers, technology, hyper-consumption and a global economy are altering the chemical, geological, and biological properties of the biosphere.
David Suzuki
Technology
Our
Ability
Properties
Economy
Global
Global Economy
Look
Altering
Chemical
Geological
Scientists
Decades
Human
Experts
Us
Warned
Amplified
Biological
Numbers
You become judged entirely on your ability to bring in the dollars, and the fact that none of the films I did was a huge hit became significant.
David Thewlis
You
Become
Films
Significant
Ability
Entirely
Fact
Judged
Became
None
Dollars
Huge
Hit
Did
Your
Bring
The frail, vulnerable sounds of which we are capable seem to be essential to a later ability to roar like a lion without scaring everyone to death.
David Whyte
Lion
Death
Frail
Everyone
Later
Ability
Scaring
Seem
Roar
Like
Vulnerable
Without
Sounds
Essential
Which
Capable
You've got to trust in your own ability, back yourself, and the main thing is work really, really hard and fight to improve.
David de Gea
Work
You
Trust
Fight
Yourself
Own
Back
Ability
Main
Main Thing
Got
Improve
Really
Your
Hard
Thing
It certainly helps that I'm quite a relaxed guy and I take things in my stride, and if you hear the odd murmur of criticism, you just stay focused on your job and doing what you're working hard to do. I've always been confident in my own ability, and that's just as important.
David de Gea
You
Job
Criticism
Important
Own
Stride
Relaxed
Focused
Stay
Stay Focused
Ability
Guy
My Own
Take
Always
Doing
Odd
Hear
Been
Quite
Confident
Just
Working
Your
Working Hard
Hard
Certainly
Helps
Things
Murmur
I believe my love of beauty and my ability to see what works is a gift I was given by God.
Debbie Ford
Love
God
Gift
Beauty
Believe
Ability
See
Given
Works
I'm always composed, calm, and always believe in my own ability, and if I start well, then I end up having a good game, usually.
Declan Rice
Good
Game
Calm
Own
Believe
Ability
Composed
My Own
Having
Well
Always
End
Up
Then
Start
Our freedoms are shared freedoms: they are bound up in each other. The ability to confront oppression in the guise of religion is linked to our ability to worship as we choose: both are acts of expression.
Deeyah Khan
Religion
Oppression
Other
Our
Worship
Guise
Ability
Both
Shared
Bound
Freedoms
Up
Linked
Confront
Choose
Each
Expression
Acts
I have such a strong belief in women's ability to sustain each other.
Deidre Hall
Women
Strong
Other
Ability
Sustain
Each
Belief
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