Elliott Abrams Quotes
American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.

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I was a kid who had asthma and bifocals and wore sweater vests.
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One of the first major storylines that 'All My Children' featured was Erica Kane, a rebellious daughter, and her mother, sort of a matriarchal type, who was trying to guide her daughter to a safer place.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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It's good to have to put yourself in someone else's skin. It's all-consuming.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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In reality, I've always been an actor - since I was a kid. I did theater growing up in New York. I was always in the plays in school. I was either going to be an actor or an athlete or a soldier. Those were kind of the three paths that I always kind of embarked on.
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Family caregiving has become a predictable crisis. Americans are living longer and longer but dying slower and slower.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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But when they have realized that it society rejects them forever, they themselves assume the ostracism of which they are victims so as not to leave the initiative to their oppressors
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Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.
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Let me tell you, there's nothing like pulling up to Fox Studios bumping Jeezy in your Mercedes.
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The history of American democracy, to say the least, has been checkered. Our nation was founded at a time when people of African descent were held in bondage. After slavery was abolished, they were forced to endure legal discrimination for another 100 years.
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I assisted at the birth of that most significant word 'flirtation,' which dropped from the most beautiful mouth in the world.
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American power remains today what it was in the Second World War and the Cold War: the greatest force for freedom in the world.