Elliott Abrams Quotes

The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

Elliott Abrams

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• If you find diseases before they've really emerged, you can control them early on, before you get a major epidemic.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Control
  • Find
  • Early

• This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Work
  • Control

• Being on TV sucks. It's a lot of work. You memorize scripts and then you show up and they change everything. I'm a control freak. When I'm doing stand-up, I say what I want and then I get instant feedback.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • Work
  • Change

• Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Trying
  • Man
  • English

• I struggle with control.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Control
  • Struggle

• I give the children education.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Children
  • Education
  • Give

• I want to encourage women to take control of their health.

  

  Laila Ali
  • Women
  • Control
  • Health

• Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Control
  • Passion
  • Anger

• International institutions are composed of governments. Governments control their own military forces and police.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Control
  • Military
  • Police

• I want to be in control of how my music is released and how I create it. What people don't talk about when they talk about major labels is how many artists get dropped or funding gets dropped when they don't recoup quick enough.

  

  Verite
  • People
  • Music
  • Control

• The identification of the genes which determine biological phenomena and the study of the control they exert on these phenomena has proven to be the most successful approach to a detailed understanding of the mechanism of biological processes.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • Control
  • Understanding
  • Study

• I think the biggest thing is voice. Whose voice is it? Who gets to control the narrative?

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Think
  • Control
  • Voice

• I've tried a few times to depart from what I know I can do, and I've failed. I've tried to work outside the studio, but it introduces too many variables that I can't control. I'm really quite narrow, you know.

  

  Irving Penn
  • Work
  • Control
  • I Can

• Getting married and then having children just centered me and grounded my values. It was like a whole new world. It started happening in New York with a little play called Cruise Control, where I relaxed, and then I kept getting work in Hollywood till this series happened.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • World
  • Work
  • Children

• When it comes down to it, the reason that science fiction endures is that it is, at its core, an optimistic genre. What it says at the end of the day is that there is a tomorrow, we do go on, we don't extinguish ourselves and leave the planet to the cockroaches.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Science
  • Day
  • End

• I like drums, really, if they're under control.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Control
  • Like
  • Really

• The Israeli lobby has clout in the U.S., which means that re-arranging the region and controlling its resources one way or another, will serve Israel through its control over the American administration.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • American
  • Control
  • Will

• I tend to gravitate toward conflicted characters, and a character who is exploring chaos theory and population control and the difficulties of love and family is pretty rich.

  

  Ed Stoppard
  • Family
  • Love
  • Character

• 'Be comfortable with who you are', reads the headline on the Hush Puppies poster. Are they mad? If people were comfortable with who they were, they'd never buy any products except the ones they needed, and then where would the advertising industry be?

  

  Charles Edwards
  • People
  • Mad

• It is as a free French woman who has been able to enjoy, her whole life, the very precious freedoms fought for long and hard by our mothers and grandmothers, that I want to warn about a new form of social, human, and moral regression imposed on us by the migrant crisis.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • Life
  • Long
  • Free

• I love you Sarah. For all eternity, I love you.

  

  James K. Polk

• The cautious seldom err.

  

  Confucius
  • Seldom
  • Cautious
  • Err

• The Iranians don't want the same thing we do in Iraq, not really; they want to control Iraq... the Ayatollah hates the United States; the Iranians are enemies of the United States.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Control