Elliott Abrams Quotes

If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

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• I'd love to be 'People Magazine''s Sexiest Man Alive, but I think that that's a ways off. I have to stop wearing sweat pants, and then we'll work on that.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Work
  • Man

• Body experience... is the centre of creation.

  

  Barbara Hepworth
  • Experience
  • Body
  • Creation

• There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Women
  • Culture
  • Passion

• I've seen descriptions of advanced TV systems in which a simulation of reality is computer-controlled; the TV viewer of the future will wear a special helmet. You'll no longer be an external spectator to fiction created by others, but an active participant in your own fantasies/dramas.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Future
  • Reality
  • Special

• Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Music
  • Meditation

• In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Movies

• If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.

  

  Rafael Cruz
  • Work
  • Country
  • Together

• I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Invest
  • Shoe
  • Trendy

• In France the music schools are a bit old fashioned. I was more excited about doing my own stuff or to play with my friend in my band, than studying the piano.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Music
  • Friend
  • Play

• Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Bad
  • Nature
  • Thought

• I grew up in the projects in Queens, and we were really poor.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Up
  • Poor
  • Projects

• I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Struggle

• That is our first amendment, freedom of speech. But I also believe that we have an obligation to the youth to be somewhat responsible in what we say on records. But I think that comes with age. I think that comes with artists growing up and becoming assured of who they are as people.

  

  Ja Rule
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Success

• Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Joy
  • Value
  • Courage

• Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Peace
  • Compassion

• No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.

  

  Adam Smith
  • People
  • Happy
  • Society

• Tranquilizer in tha trunk put yo ass to sleep man, Birdman Junior got the world in my wingspan.

  

  Lil Wayne
  • World
  • Sleep

• I was a fan of the Marx Brothers. One of them had this character where he pretended not to be able to talk, but then he wrote this autobiography called 'Harpo Speaks!' He wrote about how he quit school at nine years old to become a professional.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • School
  • Character
  • Professional

• What mankind can dream

  

  C. Walton Lillehei
  • Dream
  • Technology
  • Research

• The 'Net is a waste of time.

  

  William Gibson
  • Time
  • Technology
  • Internet

• God has a timetable when seemingly miraculous happens.

  

  Cliffie Stone
  • God
  • Miraculous
  • Timetable

• Attachment parenting, Sears writes, "immunizes children against many of the social and emotional diseases which plague our society," producing children who are "compassionate," "caring," "admirable," "affectionate," "confident," and "accomplished" ("faster than a speeding bullet," "more powerful than a locomotive," and "able to leap tall buildings in a single bound" seem to have been left off the list!).

  

  Emily Matchar
  • Parenting
  • Diseases
  • Attachment

• If Iran gets a nuclear weapon, its influence and that of Hamas and Hezbollah are strengthened.

  

  Elliott Abrams