Elliott Abrams Quotes

There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.

Elliott Abrams

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• It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Life
  • Choice
  • Embrace

• For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Time
  • Important
  • Money

• I tried to get a baseball movie made a couple of years ago and I don't think it didn't happen because I was a woman, but because sports movie don't sell internationally.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • Movie
  • Woman
  • Sports

• But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Music
  • Music Industry

• Everything has positive and negative consequences.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Positive
  • Negative

• I don't claim any great experience or expertise.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Expertise

• Somehow I feel a little bit odd in Tiananmen Square because I was a soldier, in a uniform, watching those leaders and tanks, and I was part of them.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Feel
  • Soldier
  • Uniform

• When I write notes in my journal, I'm just trying to scribble down as much as possible. Later on, I decide whether to follow some of those first impressions or whether to abandon them.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Trying
  • Down
  • Journal

• Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Rock
  • Guilt
  • Rock And Roll

• I had an instinctive feeling that the people who have little or no school training should have something coming into their homes weekly which dealt with their problems in a simple, helpful way... so I wrote in a plain, common-sense way on the things that concerned our people.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • People
  • School
  • Feeling

• You see, another reason for nationalization was that private ownership meant fragmentation.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • You
  • See
  • Ownership

• I'm not afraid of a big studio film; I trust my instincts. But for me, it's not really about box office. It's about looking back on your work and not having to apologize for it.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Work
  • Trust
  • Looking Back

• There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Support
  • Risk
  • Yourself

• The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.

  

  Kate Fleetwood
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Myself
  • Opinion

• Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Remember
  • Small
  • Friendship

• When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Work
  • You
  • Puzzle

• I think 'Heroes of Cosplay' will show a lot of the positive things, like how much effort it takes to make a costume. These people on the show aren't taking shortcuts. As long as that effort gets through to the viewers, we will be inspirational. Then there will be people who watch the show that want to get in and hands-on make outfits.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Long
  • Positive

• People striving for approval from others become phony.

  

  Ichiro Suzuki
  • People
  • Others
  • Striving

• Consciousness is unquantifiable, a ghost in the machine, barely considered real at all, though in a sense this flickering mosaic of awareness is the only true reality that we can ever know.

  

  Alan Moore
  • Real
  • True
  • Reality

• The man who is gloomy, taciturn and lives in a world of doubt seldom achieves more than a bare living. There have been a few who have groaned their way through to a competence, but in proportion to that overwhelming number of souls who carry cheer through life, they are as nothing - mere drops in the bucket.

  

  Douglas Fairbanks
  • Life
  • World
  • Doubt

• Even after I played ten years of ball, I still felt like I had to play well or somebody might take my place. They had plenty of players in the minor leagues who were good enough to come up and take your job, and I think that kept us going all of the time. I hustled and put that extra effort in all of the time.

  

  Bobby Doerr
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Fashion is very much emotional. When you see it, or when you wear the right clothing, or you wear whatever, it's supposed to make you feel something. You're supposed to feel some type of emotion, and I feel like I try to do that when I'm on a red carpet.

  

  Zendaya
  • Fashion
  • Emotional
  • Red

• There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.

  

  Elliott Abrams