Elliott Abrams Quotes

George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.

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• The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.

  

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• What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.

  

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• Tone can be as important as text.

  

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• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

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• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  

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• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

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• I was a huge fan of comedy in high school.

  

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• I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.

  

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• It's weird how people were always asking us, 'Are you real? Are you joking?' That seems like something Americans care about a lot. You can't answer the question 'Are you real?' If we're anything, we're documentary fiction.

  

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• Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

  

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• Most men say they can cook pasta, but I think you should find a little bit of an unusual angle on your pasta and make that your signature dish.

  

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• I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.

  

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• My parents were really loving, open people to be around. I don't remember them ever telling me this profession is difficult. There was never, 'Uhhh, what else are you interested in?' They were just, 'Great. Done. Go for it.'

  

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• If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

  

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• When you're trained for battle, the idea is that it will be man against man.

  

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• I've found all of my apartments on Craigslist. I've got good Craigslist luck. I just sit on my couch and really focus on it, and I've gotten really lucky that way.

  

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• And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

  

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• If you create open technology that people can use, adapt and play with, it builds capability and they teach themselves.

  

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• There is one respect in which beasts show real wisdom... their quiet, placid enjoyment of the present moment.

  

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• I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.

  

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• Ezra Klein gets under my skin. He seems to spout the party line.

  

  Mickey Kaus
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• I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.

  

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• George McGovern and his supporters committed what, in a two-party system, are capital crimes: they did not compromise, they took hard ideological positions, they alienated a large portion of their party's traditional supporters, and they lost - very, very badly.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Lost
  • Party