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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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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The first interview I gave to the press was in 1987 when some people thought a previous machine at Cern, called LEP, might have enough energy to produce the particle.
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I just am a snob when it comes to humor.
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I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there... I told the stewardess liquor for three... Who are the other two?...Oh, there are no other two...
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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.
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The way I look at . . . on the one hand, yeah, I would have loved to been able to play my last game (being aware of it). But on the other side, I'm so fortunate to play as long as I did play. So fortunate to play with the players and the teams that I did play with. And that's what I've got to look at. In the long run, I was very, very lucky.
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I just don't understand how Kerry or Obama or anybody else thought Assad was going to change.
