Jill Abramson Quotes
I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
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There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If you look at a range of stories, you find many stories about marriage, sexual initiation, abandonment. The plots often revolve around what to me seem to be elemental fears and desires.
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Two things form the bedrock of any open society - freedom of expression and rule of law. If you don't have those things, you don't have a free country.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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I've personally backed off from direct political involvement.
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Each person is living for himself; his own happiness is all he can ever personally feel.
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I'm not confident in my own ability to resist the titanic force of my own ego.
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The cliche of what a rock star is - there's something elitist about it. I never related to that. I'm an entertainer. I think of it as, you're performing for people. It's not a self-glorification thing.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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It's actually kind of cool that women have taken to me. Because now I have a whole different demographic when it comes to the audiences. I have women who come out and support my movies, and that is a huge demographic for me, which is great because some actors don't have a female base at all.
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I curate my T.V.-watching quite carefully.
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I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.
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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
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Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!
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It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.
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Nowadays, everybody assumes, when they wake up in the morning, if they have a question, it will get answered. Because they have the internet. No matter what the question is, someone will answer their question.
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My relationship and the bond with the people in Montreal was kind of special and doesn't happen very often.
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What the world is saying to us human beings is, 'Don't stick to the old ways, learn to think anew.' And that's what musicians do every day.
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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(imitating Norman Bates) Mother, are you there? I love you! I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel!
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My mother was sarcastic and delightful and, trust me, quite remarkable.
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Not joy is the mother of dissipation, but joylessness.
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It [the Sudetenland] is the last territorial claim that I have to make in Europe.
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I have an older sister who sounds, unfortunately, exactly like me, and we sound like our mother did.
