Elliott Abrams Quotes
It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you.
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All of a sudden I'm an actor, and I spend a decade trying to fit in and realising that I didn't, really. Sometimes in the right circumstances, with the right people, it felt OK. But other times it was a bit more jobbing. I didn't fit the mould, somehow.
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The Prophet defeated the enemies of Islam even when he and his followers were small in number.
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In North Germany, a troublesome ghost is bagged, and the bag emptied in some lone spot or in the garden of a neighbour against whom a grudge is entertained.
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I've been around - having gone to Princeton, and I went to Oxford after that - some pretty fancy characters in my life. And they're just as nutty as the rest of us - sometimes worse.
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One day there were two out in the ninth, and I hit a pop fly so high that the fans got tired of waiting for it to come down. So they all went home and listened to it drop by turning on the radio.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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The motivation is important for me to act it, but I don't necessarily want the audience to know my motivation.
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My dad was a designer for Upper Deck, and I had hundreds of Ken Griffey Jr. cards. Hundreds. I could have paid for college with them.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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I want to do that. That's my goal. I want to become a legend.
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What matters most is the win.
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Don't put my name on it. These are simply documents I make.
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Keep doing what you do, and people that enjoy what you do are gonna buy your music and love on you.
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You try to pull away the experiences until you get to the core of humanity, and you find that light that exists in everybody. It's that light that I'm searching for in all of my work - is that connective thing, that ether that enters all of us - you know what I mean? That's a part of God.
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I would rather be a servant in the House of the Lord than to sit in the seats of the mighty.
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I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.
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It was simply impossible to support Carter for reelection in 1980 and easy for me to support Reagan. The Reagan campaign was happy to have Democratic support, and the Reagan administration was happy to have Democrats in it; they took the view that, after all, Reagan himself had been a Democrat, so it was not a strike against you.
