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It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare.
Jane Goodall
Behavior
Unlike
Both
Hostile
Primitive
Learn
Territorial
Were
Human
Forms
Warfare
Capable
Certain
Appalling
Fascinating
People do not always understand the motives of sublime conduct, and when they are astonished they are very apt to think they ought to be alarmed. The truth is none are fit judges of greatness but those who are capable of it.
Jane Porter
Truth
Truth Is
People
Think
Ought
Astonished
Those
Apt
Judges
Understand
None
Always
Motives
Fit
Sublime
Conduct
Greatness
Very
Capable
Who
Scientists have shown that pigs are capable of playing simple video games, learning from each other, and even learning names.
Jane Velez-Mitchell
Video Games
Learning
Simple
Other
Names
Pigs
Scientists
Capable
Video
Games
Shown
Even
Each
Playing
Age is a convenient barometer of what a person is capable of, but it is only one.
Jared Kushner
Age
Only
Person
Convenient
Capable
Barometer
I'm not going to normally get hired to play those emotional things, and I'm capable of it. I was raised by a single mother in Iowa - I'm just trapped in a big, dumb body.
Jason Momoa
Mother
Single
Big
Trapped
Those
Emotional
Iowa
Single Mother
Hired
Dumb
Normally
Get
Going
Just
Capable
Body
Play
Things
Raised
I love Tony Jaa. He's one of the best and most capable martial arts stuntmen in the world.
Jason Statham
Love
Best
World
Martial
Martial Arts
He
Most
Arts
Capable
Tony
There's so much more danger in someone where you really don't know what they're going to do, and you don't know what they're really capable of, rather than someone who's trying to be physically tough.
Jason Statham
You
Tough
Danger
Someone
Rather
More
Physically
Know
Than
Trying
Going
Where
Capable
Much
Really
America is the only country capable of producing national movies: its culture has become a global culture.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Culture
Country
Become
National
Only
Only Country
Global
America
Movies
Capable
Producing
We're all capable of anything as human beings. Any emotion, any action. We really are.
Jeff Daniels
Action
Emotion
Any
Human
Human Beings
Anything
Capable
Really
Beings
I know what I am capable of. I read a character, and if I can say to myself, 'I know this woman,' then I take the role.
Jennifer Coolidge
Myself
Character
Woman
Say
Take
Know
Read
Am
Role
Capable
Then
The market is incredibly inefficient and capable on rare occasions of being utterly dysfunctional. And people have a really hard time getting their brain around that fact. They want to believe that it's approximately efficient almost all the time, and it simply isn't true.
Jeremy Grantham
Time
People
Rare
Believe
Incredibly
Market
Approximately
Rare Occasions
Fact
Simply
True
Almost
Almost All
Occasions
Inefficient
Around
Brain
Efficient
Getting
Being
Want
Dysfunctional
Capable
Really
Hard
Hard Time
Utterly
I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.
Jeremy Grantham
Financial
Extremes
Say
Markets
Financial Markets
Would
Inefficient
Very
Being
Dysfunctional
Capable
Delphine Lucielle's paintings are profound, unique, and moving. It is rare to find contemporary art that combines both beauty, innovation, and creates a new style of painting by fusing technology and nature. Delphine Lucielle is pushing the boundaries of what art is capable of.
Jerry Yang
Art
Nature
Technology
Innovation
Rare
Beauty
Style
Painting
Find
Both
Pushing
Boundaries
New
Contemporary
Contemporary Art
Moving
Capable
Creates
Unique
Paintings
Profound
We don't aim high enough with our goals. We all have more in us, and we are all capable of aiming higher.
Jesse Itzler
Goals
Enough
Aim
Aim High
Aiming
Our
High
More
Higher
Capable
Us
When you're surrounded by brilliant actors, and teachers who challenge you to go beyond what you thought you were capable of, that's got to be good for you.
Jessie Buckley
Good
You
Challenge
Brilliant
Thought
Beyond
Got
Go
Were
Surrounded
Capable
Teachers
Who
Actor
People will accomplish anything if they believe the goal is worth it - they are worth it and that they are capable of achieving it - and that's exactly what my 'Maximize Your Life' show will do.
Jillian Michaels
Life
People
Worth
Will
Believe
Worth It
Exactly
Exactly What
Accomplish
Goal
Maximize
Achieving
Anything
Capable
Your
Show
When you feel strong and you accomplish something physical that you didn't think you were capable of, your heart and mind open up to many possibilities that previously felt out of reach in other areas of your life.
Jillian Michaels
Life
You
Heart
Strong
Mind
Think
Other
Possibilities
Out
Physical
Something
Area
Open
Feel
Reach
Felt
Were
Accomplish
Up
Capable
Your
Many
I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.
Jim Broadbent
Selfish
Sometimes
Think
Top
Gene
Rises
Magnanimity
Also
Which
Capable
Then
Sudden
There's something about the energy and the expectations that an audience projects at you. I get up on stage and work and work, and there's chaos all around me, then I'll shut my eyes, and boom! I slot into the zone. It's like the eye of the hurricane. Everything is easy, and I'm capable of doing things I didn't know I was.
Jimmy Barnes
Work
Me
You
Eyes
Stage
Energy
Chaos
Everything
Projects
Boom
Eye
Hurricane
Slot
Easy
All-Around
About
Something
Like
Know
Around
Audience
Doing
Up
Expectations
Get
Capable
Then
Things
Shut
Zone
For so many in the UK, the social contract is broken - the idea that if you work hard and play by the rules, you'll reap the rewards. Advances in robotics, artificial intelligence and other technologies are just as capable of fixing the social contract as they are to weaken it further.
Jo Swinson
Work
Broken
You
Artificial Intelligence
Intelligence
Work Hard
Reap
Other
Further
UK
Rules
Weaken
Advances
Idea
Robotics
Contract
Fixing
Artificial
Just
Rewards
Social
Capable
Social Contract
Hard
Many
Play
Technologies
Whatever I'm capable of, I need to be the best I can.
Joe Hart
Best
Whatever
Capable
Need
I don't mind losing because it really shows me what the other eaters are capable of.
Joey Chestnut
Me
Losing
Mind
Other
Because
Capable
Really
Shows
Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.
John Abizaid
Good
Morale
Troops
Leaders
Confident
Capable
Well they have an input into policy but in the end governments are elected to put together policy but the good thing about the Wentworth Group is that you know you've got 11 pretty capable people with a lot of good ideas.
John Anderson
Good
You
Together
People
Group
Good Ideas
Input
Pretty
About
Good Thing
Put
Ideas
Know
Well
Policy
Got
Lot
Governments
End
In The End
Capable
Elected
Thing
I'm learning to cope and not deny my own success, but I still think it's not happening a lot. I get nervous, and I am capable of doing something to blow it on purpose. A lot of actors have that problem.
John Belushi
Success
Learning
Problem
Nervous
Own
Think
Something
My Own
Purpose
Am
Still
Doing
Lot
Deny
Get
Blow
Happening
Capable
Actor
Cope
As an actor, I've given up judgement of evil, as long as it's human evil - we have to see ourselves for what we really are, and we're capable of horrific things.
John Carroll Lynch
Evil
Long
Ourselves
See
Horrific
Given
Judgement
Up
Human
Capable
Really
Actor
Things
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