Elliott Abrams Quotes
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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I have selective hearing.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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Make it absolutely clear to yourself what you want from other people. That is really half the secret for drawing your desire to you in the shortest possible time and with the least amount of effort.
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I was often told that I wasn't a thing. 'She's not pretty enough. She's not tall enough. She's not thin enough. She's not fat enough.' I thought, 'O.K., someday you're going to be looking for someone not, not, not, not, and there I'll be.'
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I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Beware, all too often we say what we hear others say. We think what we are told that we think. We see what we are permitted to see. Worse, we see what we are told that we see.
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Top knots are the easiest thing to create.
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I'm very happy I get to keep working - it's an insanely fortunate thing.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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It was like going to church, except Ozzy Osbourne was there.
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To confront those fears, in a controlled environment, where there's 300 people around you going through the same thing, it's this weird sort of yin and yang.
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I love retweeting things and seeing how many fans are on other people's pages.
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Bipolar indicates that you're not - you don't just experience depression, but the mood swing goes up, and it can go very up.
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My books are not about different components that fit together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle, it's about creating the space around the components, which is almost as important as the components themselves. And that space changes and blends depending upon what the components are.
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I'm extremely ambitious. I don't know why people are afraid to say that. I won't sell my soul to the devil, but I do want success and I don't think that's bad.
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I like the fact that my husband and I have been together for a long time and have a warm and colourful history together.
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I understand from experience that unity is easy to call for, but it takes the right kind of leadership to achieve.
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A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.
