Elliott Abrams Quotes
There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.
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It's not complicated to embrace life. You just have to make the choice.
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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.
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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.
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But anyone who knows anything about the music industry knows it's not only about the music.
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Everything has positive and negative consequences.
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I don't claim any great experience or expertise.
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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.
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Most of modern rock and roll is a product of guilt.
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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.
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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.
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There are individuals who can support you, but frequently, you have to risk putting yourself out there - and sometimes you just have to push.
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The Forest of Arden, where I grew up, is where 'As You Like It' is set. It was idyllic.
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Not to flatter myself, but I know that you can influence people's opinion as a musician, and I don't want to.
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Remember that a gesture of friendship, no matter how small, is always appreciated.
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When you work with somebody, either the puzzle piece fits, or it doesn't.
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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.
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People striving for approval from others become phony.
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My last son is leaving to go to college; my grandchildren are being born. My mother is living with me.
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I spent some time back in Mexico at 16 because my parents thought it would be prudent for me to learn Spanish, because I held a Mexican passport.
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If you look at coastlines, if you look at that them from far away, from an airplane, well, you don't see details, you see a certain complication. When you come closer, the complication becomes more local, but again continues. And come closer and closer and closer, the coastline becomes longer and longer and longer because it has more detail entering in.
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I had been plunged into a different world. I found myself spending half my time answering weird questions on book tours in the Midwest. People would stand up and explain to me the situation in their office and ask me whether they should resign or not.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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Tonight I'm happy. I will worry about tomorrow when tomorrow comes. But I'm getting there.
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There is no softer target in GOP primaries than the United Nations and foreign-aid spending.
