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It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon. Opal tapped this into her notepad. Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable? -- Eoin Colfer
I believe for the first time in history, entrepreneurship is now a viable career. -- Eric Ries
We cannot build a viable state with a country that is disintegrating into small pieces. -- Mahmoud Abbas
Punk rock has become another viable art form. It always was. But now it's like everyone's doing it. -- Tre Cool
No Republican presidential candidate is a viable option for pro-choice voters of any political philosophy - Democrat, Republican or otherwise. -- Christine Pelosi
If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands. -- Tom Freston
Online education that leaves almost everybody behind except for highly motivated students, to me, can't be a viable path to education. -- Sebastian Thrun
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. -- Karen Armstrong
No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable. -- May Sarton
We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here. -- Margaret Atwood
I feel that man-hating is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. -- Robin Morgan
I was born in Africa. I came to California because it's really where new technologies can be brought to fruition, and I don't see a viable competitor. -- Elon Musk
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight. -- Charles B. Rangel
I can't stomach the thought that we are passing down to the next generation a country that is less viable, less good, less competitive, less compassionate than the one we got. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
People get so attached to a position which they identify themselves with that they just spurt it out, but they can't really give you a viable reason why they feel that way. -- Serj Tankian
You can plant a church and grow a church. That's not that hard to do, but it's harder to be a viable source of transformation in a city or your time or space. -- Erwin McManus
I'm not sure why no one wants to admit there's a viable audience out there that believes in God and wants to see a movie with their family. The demand is there. The supply is not. -- Tyler Perry
I always think part of success is being able to replicate results, taking what is interesting or viable about yourself as a professional person and seeing if you bring it into different situations with similar results. -- Robert Downey, Jr.
It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and TV, but there's laser pistols and superheroes and alien monsters involved. It's viable and mainstream. -- Nathan Fillion
The vision that the founding fathers had of rule of law and equality before the law and no one above the law, that is a very viable vision, but instead of that, we have quasi mob rule. -- James Bovard
The alternate media are becoming important and viable alternatives to playing live. Records, videos, that kind of thing. They're going to start to count for something. Because there's only a limited amount of us-time available to us. -- Jerry Garcia
If someone comes to me, any community in the Northern Territory, with a viable economic future, and says, 'We want to be part of a bold new approach,' I'll put them down as a major project, and I'll do everything I can to help them out. -- Adam Giles
'Harry Potter' opened so many doors for young adult literature. It really did convince the publishing industry that writing for children was a viable enterprise. And it also convinced a lot of people that kids will read if we give them books that they care about and love. -- Rick Riordan
I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans. -- Karen Mills
Arguably, the relationship between Liza Minnelli and Judy Garland is one of the great mother-daughter sagas of all time. Certainly, for certain people, and a lot of them, Liza is the bigger star. Liza is the more kind of viable legend, shall we say. Then there's the other camp, where Judy is the one. -- Rufus Wainwright
The why is what makes journalism an adult game. The why is what makes policy coherent and useful. The why is what transforms bureaucrats and foot soldiers and political leaders into viable instruments of rational and affirmative change. The why is everything and without it, the very suggestion of human progress becomes a cosmic joke. -- David Simon
Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story. -- Blake Mycoskie
Old. A viable die-able age. -- Arundhati Roy
I'm always making a conscious effort to be viable and accessible. -- Richard Thompson
Civil disobedience is a viable political tactic, and a non-violent tactic. -- William Kunstler
A viable new feminism must directly confront the realm of practice. -- Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
That society is strong and viable which recognizes its own provisionality. -- Alan Watts
One of our brainchildren is a still viable Science and Society course. -- Philip Warren Anderson
Create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback. -- Neil Patel
You can never tell when a commercial space venture will suddenly become viable. -- Buzz Aldrin
Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular. -- Nora Roberts
Scandal has made wine and popcorn seem like a viable, even healthful, meal. -- Lena Dunham
It's not viable' for poverty stricken developing world to emulate prosperity of U.S. -- Jerry Brown
A system devolving power to the regions is the route to a viable Iraq. -- Mowaffak al-Rubaie
I felt a responsibility to present a viable alternative to the popular electric sound. -- Ron Carter
And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable. -- Steve Forbert
If you don't have a viable strategy, you will be defeated by someone who does. -- Alvin Toffler
It's great to be able to employ people who other people wouldn't consider viable employees. -- Queen Latifah
I didn't have an affinity for horror. But I knew that commercially it was viable. -- Jack Kirby
As long as they're not still living with their parents, [dating younger men] could be viable. -- Sutton Foster
In the view of everyone, I am a viable candidate and I should be on the ballot. -- John McCain
There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution. -- Edward Abbey
Unless physicians stand together to fight threats and injustices, our practices cannot remain viable in the future. -- Samuel Wilson
You don't have to be age 20 and size zero to be sexually viable or viable as a woman. -- Belinda Carlisle
Making love to robots will probably be great one day. It's just not a viable option right now. -- John Vanderslice
Time is valuable, and telework is a viable component to help improve quality of life in many ways. -- Rob Wittman
[] A society that drives its members to desperate solutions is a non-viable society, a society to be replaced. -- Kathy Acker
It's striking how commercially viable that impulse for instant intimacy is right now, especially in songs and writing. -- Suzanne Vega
The ignoramus crow of "love it or leave it" omits other viable options, such as staying and changing it. -- Bryant H. McGill
A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable. -- Matt Kibbe
I suspect that democracy is not viable in a technologically advanced society. Free people wield too much ability to destroy. -- Daniel Suarez
We have to be focused on growing the party and getting young people to see us as a viable option. -- Peter MacKay
The viable jewels of life remain untouched when man forgets his vocation of searching for the truth of his existence. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable. -- Charles Baxter
Lasting peace and security in Iraq and Afghanistan will be achieved when we establish the conditions for democratic, economically viable nations. -- John Warner
If people are willing to buy it and listen to it and they like it and enjoy it, then it's viable. -- Dan Fogelberg
Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism. -- Henry Giroux
I feel like social media is something that has yet to be considered a viable platform for marketing in the industry. -- Aurora Guerrero
Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife. -- Joanne Harris
We ourselves are imbued with urgency, yet the message of our society is' that there is no viable alternative to the present. -- Tom Hayden
Just selling through a movie theater is not ever going to be a viable way to make money back on a movie anymore. -- Lucy Fisher
Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom. -- Don Henley
A viable neighborhood is a community: and a viable community is made up of neighbors who cherish and protect what they have in common. -- Wendell Berry
We can also reassure our Palestinian partners that we understand the importance of territorial contiguity in the West Bank for a viable Palestinian state. -- Ariel Sharon
I studied audio engineering at university. The background I am from, music was never seen as a viable career; it was always a hobby. -- Chet Faker
I defy anyone - and I have said this to the Germans - to build a solid, articulated, and viable Europe without France's consent. -- Pierre Laval
If we descended from space aliens, that's just as viable as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, as far as I'm concerned. -- Jon Gries
It is not viable for one country to demand a right to increase and upgrade its nuclear weapons capabilities while asking others to eliminate theirs. -- John Bruton
Humans cannot produce viable offspring with our closest animal cousin: the chimpanzee. We cannot impregnate a chimp. So you know what that means? No condoms. -- Chris Hardwick
That's the reason support for the National Endowment of the Arts is so important. It enables those ventures that aren't viable commercially to be done. -- David Selby
I feel that 'man-hating' is an honourable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them. -- Robin Morgan
[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore. -- Andrew Sullivan
Meanwhile, our young men and women whose economic circumstances make military service a viable career choice are dying bravely in a war with no end in sight. -- Charles B. Rangel
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again. -- Paddy Ashdown
People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready. -- Imran Khan
My entire social life is spent in bars, so I don't see giving up drinking as a viable option. Could you see me saying, 'Tomato juice please?' -- Lemmy Kilmister
We do not want Ukraine to default. On the contrary, we need an economically viable partner. However, debts should be paid, and this includes state and commercial debts -- Dmitry Medvedev
So multiverse or not, we still have to come to terms with the origin of the laws of nature. And the only viable explanation here is the divine Mind. -- Antony Flew
My partner, Beth Alexander, and I want to produce smaller films, but commercially viable films that will enable me to make the kinds of movies I want to make. -- Stanley Tucci
The minimum viable product is that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort. -- Eric Ries
But I am committed to keeping this city a strong and viable center for commerce and industry, for continuing to make it a place of opportunity for its citizens. -- Jane Byrne
We know that in 2001 it was believed 78 stem cell lines existed. But now we know there are only 22 that are viable, and they have been contaminated with mouse stem cells. -- Russ Carnahan
I think it's more about trying to just focus exclusively on writing music and making that a viable, sustainable lifestyle. It's difficult because it forces you to really get creative. -- Alan Palomo
Democratic elections alone do not remedy the crisis of confidence in government. Moreover, there is no viable justification for a democratic system in which public participation is limited to voting. -- Beth Simone Noveck
Architecture enable you to accommodate complexity and change. If you don't have Enterprise Architecture, your enterprise is not going to be viable in a increasingly complex and changing external environment. -- John Zachman
Everyone thinks young people are alienated from the system. But when you present them with a viable alternative, they will be the first to take it. And then watch out. -- Michelle Shocked
As you consider building your own minimum viable product, let this simple rule suffice: remove any feature, process, or effort that does not contribute directly to the learning you seek. -- Eric Ries
We need to find a fair and viable solution on the basis of U.N. resolutions and the incompatible with the fact that Cyprus is an E.U. member state. -- Alexis Tsipras
If you're an actor, a hard thing is to stick around, to stay viable. I try to do that by taking the opportunity to do something different every once in awhile. -- Christopher Walken
Unless women have, from the moment of birth, socialization for, expectations of, and preparation for a viable significant alternative to motherhood . . . women will continue to want and reproduce too many children. -- Wilma Scott Heide
I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It's my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent. -- Todd Park
I don't think Kant's approach to religion is any longer viable in its original form. But that does not mean it is simply wrong or that we cannot learn from it. -- Allen W. Wood
Christianity offers the only viable, reasonable, definitive answer to the questions of Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I going? Does life have any meaningful purpose? -- Tom DeLay
Creatively, I thought we were still viable and could do more records. But our working relationship just wasn't happening at all, and our chemistry as people broke down because of that. -- Matt Cameron
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The federalism term is a good term, but it's just below the surface; it's just about to come up into wider public understanding that these practices are happening and are politically viable. -- Gar Alperovitz
Undermining life-affirming social solidarities and any viable notion of the public good, right-wing politicians trade in forms of idiocy and superstition that mesmerize the illiterate and render the thoughtful cynical and disengaged. -- Henry Giroux
My job, and that's my job, is to dress the naked truth. To make it interesting, to make it viable, to make it seem like something you understand and feel and love. -- Bryce Courtenay
Someone tells me: this kind of love is not viable. But how can you evaluate viability? Why is the viable a Good Thing? Why is it better to last than to burn? -- Roland Barthes
I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy. -- Kurt Vonnegut
I guess I considered myself just sort of a sketch comedian, you know? Actual screenwriting hadn't really occurred to me as a viable job - I didn't really know anything about it. -- Thomas Lennon
We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels. -- Margaret Spellings
What I'm attempting in each picture is nothing other than this...to bring together in a living and viable way, the most different and the most contradictory elements in the greatest possible freedom. -- Gerhard
America that has done more to support Israel than any other country cannot be true to our own values if we allow a viable two-state solution to be destroyed before our own eyes. -- John F. Kerry
Don't try to plan everything out to the very last detail. I'm a big believer in just getting it out there: create a minimal viable product or website, launch it, and get feedback. -- Neil Patel
Whenever you make a big decision in life, at least any decision where you have a viable alternative, there is an inevitable uneasy aftermath. Anxiety is merely a sign that you're taking something seriously. -- Emily Giffin
There are viable (and usually better) alternatives to the use of animals for food, sport, clothing, & experimentation. I beg you to discontinue any actions that might cause or condone animal torture, abuse, or destruction. -- Moby
Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost automatically because the characters are now pulling the story. -- Chinua Achebe
It seems to me that nothing would be more foolish than to re-establish the worship of Wotan. Our old mythology ceased to be viable when Christianity implanted itself. Nothing dies unless it is moribund. -- Adolf Hitler
Just as the formation of the family is basic to the formation of the state, so the states themselves are the only units that can form the basic constitution of a viable international organization. -- Leon Bourgeois
This is the basis for the most important critique of microfinance. The poor are not entrepreneurs. The idea that more than a few will turn tiny loans into a viable business is simply unrealistic. -- Ian Smillie
Part of the broader task of Christian scholarship is to help create and sustain a cultural milieu in which the gospel can be heard as an intellectually viable option for thinking men and women. -- William Lane Craig
I'm skeptical of a lot of what falls under the rubric of education.... People are on these tracks. They are getting these credentials and it's very unclear how viable they are in many cases. -- Peter Thiel
...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed -- Jonathon Porritt

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