Elliott Abrams Quotes
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When you are studying jazz, the best thing to do is listen to records or listen to live music. It isn't as though you go to a teacher. You just listen as much as you can and absorb everything.
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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We do not have the idea that all children are valuable parts of society. We only have the idea that our own children are.
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Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.
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I am going to keep having fun every day I have left, because there is no other way of life. You just have to decide whether you are a Tigger or an Eeyore.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
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Earth's dispossessed are vulnerable targets for extremists: those who teach that global justice is meaningless; that satisfaction can come only in violence, division, and intellectual isolation.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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I kinda like the idea of having an album that's all me.
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I went to my boss, and I said, 'Look, I'd like to design these ties because I think they could be new.' He said, 'The world isn't ready for Ralph Lauren.' I never forgot that because... I thought that was a compliment.
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The important thing is to be there, score when needed. It's better if the goals are beautiful, better still if they are important.
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Granted, I've changed internally as I've gotten older - I take it easy, I know when to stop and take care of myself, I laugh much more and with my belly and soul - but this comes from the confidence and acceptance that comes with maturity.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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The music business is a crazy game, especially for somebody like me who is really a purist about the art. Trying to balance the pressures of commercialism, it's a tightrope. It's a fine line between sticking to your guns and insanity.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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The one thing I've learned about friends is that the good ones are rare.
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The interesting part is that most of the kids I speak to have grown up watching 'Full House', so they feel like they know me and can talk to me.
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As a 9th grader, I competed with the high school kids and out of 600 people, I finished 10th.
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I've always loved music, very simply, as a vehicle to express myself and that hasn't changed.
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People are going to bash you while you're alive, and they're going to bash you when you're gone.
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I want to be the first guy to reverse a communist revolution.
