Elliott Abrams Quotes
Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been reading and wanting to be in some other world. This is the perfect job for me.
-
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
-
I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
-
I've always liked working really hard and then doing nothing in particular. So, consequently, I didn't overexpose myself; I guess I maintained a kind of mystery. I wasn't ambitious.
-
I want young people to be hesitant to glorify war and to demand of their leaders justification for the sacrifices they ask of our citizens.
-
I have got prostate cancer, and I have to keep monitoring that. It's no problem, it's under control and I'm very cool about it, but other people are dying from it.
-
I feel fine about getting older because I'm in good shape. I'm 64 and I feel good.
-
For very long, I wasn't able to find a place for myself in movies. After my initial success, I didn't know how to capitalise on it.
-
I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
-
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
-
At times, training at home is a distraction, so training in Big Bear was a really good change.
-
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
-
I don't mind Ryan Bader thinking he deserves a title shot.
-
At the base of Ron Paul support, in my opinion, are people with brains.
-
I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not.
-
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
-
High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
-
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
-
This is a very screwed-up business. Record labels don't sign a lot of bands these days. We just want to find a home and stay there and make records and do our thing and not have to look over our shoulder.
-
Apartment stacked to the ceiling with newspapers, we call him crazy. If a woman has a trailer house full of cats, we call her nuts. But when people pathologically hoard so much cash that they impoverish the entire nation, we put them on the cover of Fortune magazine and pretend that they are role models.
-
I distinguish between maniacs and crazy people; a maniac will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo. A crazy person will beat nine people to death with a steel dildo, but he'll be wearing a Bugs Bunny suit at the time.
-
Have you seen anything strange about him?Strange? He insists on inhabiting an melting earth - isn't that strange enough without splitting hairs?He seems to be two different people. His personality switches from second to second. I heard something about it a long time ago.....what was it again?
-
The counterweight to the dominion of evil can consist in the first place only in the divine-human love of Jesus Christ that is always greater than any possible power of evil.
-
Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never spent much time in Washington.
