Elliott Abrams Quotes
In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
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I'll always love rap, no matter what's going on.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
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I've always had wanderlust to try and do different things, but I always return to the music of the Carter family.
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.
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Romantic love can be terrifying. We experience another human being as enormously important to us. So there is surrender - not a surrender to the other person so much as to our feeling for the other person. What is the obstacle? The possibility of loss.
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In business, I think the most important thing is to position yourself for long-term and not be too impatient, which I am by nature, and I have to control myself.
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The United States came out of the 1990s, if anything, in an even greater position of hegemony and preeminence than it was at the beginning of the 1990s.
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If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble.
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In 2007, early in the improbable presidential candidacy of Barack Obama, the young first-term senator began a series of foreign-policy speeches that seemed too general to provide a guide to what he might do if elected.
