Elliott Abrams Quotes
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The real rulers in Washington are invisible, and exercise power from behind the scenes.
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I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount.
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My family don't watch a lot of what I do. Films are a bit too arty-farty for them, certainly the ones I do!
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Well, the infrastructure part of the stimulus has worked. There's absolutely no question about it. We can demonstrate in Pennsylvania and other states around the union how it's produced good, paying jobs both on the construction sites and back in American factories. It has worked.
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I think music, in my opinion, is not about motivation in the way it's - it's not a running base. It's art. And my whole philosophy of music is different. It's almost like cooking and serving to people, seeing them smile and enjoying the food, really.
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As long as you're fully present in what you're doing at the moment, you're doing it.
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I tend to agree with many aspects of President Obama's policies.
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In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.
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If you had told me I'd be making 62 tomorrow, I'd say you were lying.
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I had smoked pot and drank every day for two years. I was taking Vicodin by the handful. Valium, Xanax, Dilaudid, Lorcet, Lortab, Perocet, you name it. It's so easy. It's L.A., you know? You just get it from people.
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We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.
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I approach these questions unwillingly, as it wounds, but no cure can be effected without touching upon and handling them.
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In a government that has lost all shame, that fears its own shadow, the majority tramples the minority, legislation is racist and the democratic space is under constant threat.
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Everything that feminism stands for is everything American, white, red and blue democratic. It is all the same stuff. So, I am boggled that I should have to give up this term that encapsulates what I want for my children, for my world, culture, brothers and sister because someone else thinks it means I don't shave my armpits.
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You'll go mad trying to figure out what people want. I don't bother. I write the stories I want to read.
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Not observation of a duty but liberty itself is the pledge that assures fidelity.
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It is of the greatest importance that people and governments in many more countries than ours should realize that it is more dangerous to have access to nuclear arms than not to possess them.
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The Tour de France is a wicked sport in the way that it's not just man against man or woman against woman; it's not flesh against flesh. It's flesh against machine.
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My, oh my, how 'Sometimes When We Touch' has travelled since I solemnly wrote my first version at the age of 19.
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Love is only known by him who hopelessly persists in love.
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The biggest thing politically within fashion is that the clothing should be displayed on different body shapes.
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I never heard anything so brilliant in my life as I did that first time I heard Ornette. He played like some revolutionary angel. Soon, we were rehearsing in his place, music scattered everywhere, and he was telling me to play outside the chord changes, which was exactly what I had been wanting to do. Now I had permission.
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After 9/11, we did see Palestinian terrorism in the context of all terrorism.
