Elliott Abrams Quotes
I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change.
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R. C. Buford has been a huge help to me with his support.
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How I see my career is very much as an entrepreneur in the field of philanthropy.
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The markets are much more interested in America's long-term trajectory than they are in feeling that there is an acute short-term crisis.
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Children have adopted a consumerist attitude - I dare you to entertain me.
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When you have a half slice of chocolate pie, it's as if you owe yourself the other half - what's known in medical circles as a 'caloric deficit.'
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All writers, in all viewpoints, must choose which information and scenes will be presented, and in which order. In that sense, the author is always represented as a point of view in a work of fiction. His hand can always be detected by the discerning.
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I like to argue with the radio.
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I'm old enough to remember when the air over American cities was a lot dirtier than it is now.
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.
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Action is character.
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We need to encourage young women to find what they love to do. That is a very valuable pursuit - more so than the pursuit of a boyfriend. When you have that core, you bring that core to every aspect of your life.
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City government can and must help San Franciscans prepare for emergencies in order to avoid tragedy where possible and minimize loss of life and property when emergencies occur.
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Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.
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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.
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While the forces of repression need to win every time, the progressive elements need only triumph once.
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My social and political interests are part of my career. I cannot separate them. My songs reflect the human condition. The role of art isn't just to show life as it is, but to show life as it should be.
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‘…I prefer to think of young women less as human beings than as pimply parcels of televisual reflexes.’
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Poets know their own poems in a way and to a depth that is unique.. even if they mumble a bit ..their delivery will still have important things to tell us.
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By 2007, 85% of Americans cited climate change as an important issue, compared with just 33% in prior years. The phrase we invented, 'An Inconvenient Truth,' became a part of the lexicon.
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Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current
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I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change.
