Elliott Abrams Quotes

The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

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• At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Society
  • Better

• I have no problem with violence, I have no problem playing horrible people.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • People
  • Problem
  • Violence

• I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Never
  • Him
  • Even

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Cool
  • Statistics
  • Be kind

• Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Political
  • Revolution

• Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• Watergate was unique because it allowed the public to play its democratic role in expressing its outrage at the presidency. And as a result, for the first time in history a president resigned.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Time
  • History
  • Unique

• I love the novels of Didion and Bret Ellis and consider them L.A. writers because they write about L.A.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Write
  • Writers
  • Novels

• In a world where everyone is behaving honestly, any dishonesty constitutes a big infraction. But, in a world where many people are behaving dishonestly, and the news is filled with stories of their infractions, even big infractions can feel small to the perpetrator.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• A great artist is a great man in a great child.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Man
  • Child

• We defended our allies in Europe for 40 years during the worst days of the Cold War - very threatening days of the Cold War - and nothing happened. So deterrence does work.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Work
  • War
  • Cold

• I'm a huge fan of BioWare games. I think they do some of the best character-building. I mean, I have a relationship with Thane from 'Mass Effect' that is as vivid as any crush that I've had on a TV-show character.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Character
  • Think
  • Relationship

• I stopped acting when I was 19. The only time I acted again was during the war, when there were no other Nazis available.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Time
  • War
  • Acting

• Writing's like gambling. Unpredictable and sporadic successes make you more addicted, not less.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Writing
  • You
  • Gambling

• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • People
  • World
  • Fear

• I am not an 'unplug' person. I like being plugged in.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Person
  • Plugged
  • Unplug

• I think the main struggle for women in Hollywood and women in my position is to fight for true representation in the media and accurate representation of our many diverse qualities in stories.

  

  Amber Heard
  • Women
  • True
  • Struggle

• Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.

  

  Kenichi Fukui
  • Real
  • True
  • Earth

• Central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact, regardless of whether we kiss or we wound.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Life
  • Good
  • Kiss

• We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Time
  • Country
  • History

• The presence of jihadis in Syria should be no surprise.

  

  Elliott Abrams