Elliott Abrams Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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The toute ensemble was such as to make polished society blush, when compared with these savages.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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I don't take fancy vacations. I buy all my jewelry at Claire's. I can't remember the last time I went out to a fancy dinner. My family lives in a modest two-bedroom apartment, and my kids share a bedroom. But I do have one extravagant vice: shoes.
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What I say or do here won't matter much, nor should it.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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Mike D'Antoni was a cool coach, but he was just a bad person. He can coach. He was just mean for no reason.
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We all assume that if you're weak and poor, you're never going to win. In fact, the real world is full of examples where the exact opposite happens, where the weak win and the strong screw up.
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I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
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Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through 'playing' people who are absolutely nothing like me.
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I try to stay consciously away from the roles of the girl who throws herself at the leading man, because I've done it a lot and I want to move on. I ticked that box.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I'm very conscious of other people's opinions and of people not liking me.
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Literature must rest always on a principle, and temporal considerations are no principle at all. For, to the poet, all times and places are one; the stuff he deals with is eternal and eternally the same: no theme is inept, no past or present preferable.
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With Saturday morning cartoons, you've got to start at 6 A.M., right?
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You just learn to cope with whatever you have to cope with. I spent my childhood in New York, riding on subways and buses. And you know what you learn if you’re a New Yorker? The world doesn’t owe you a damn thing.
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I wrote a spec script that people really liked: a political serial based on Jeffrey's Toobin's 'A Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy.' It was the first thing I had ever written with any political subject matter in it.
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Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas.
