Jill Abramson Quotes

There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

Jill Abramson

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• Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Made
  • Tolerance
  • Liberal

• It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Live
  • Fight
  • Victory

• It's good to kind of get away from the star treatment.

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Good
  • Kind
  • Star

• In my early 20s I was so miserable doing construction, I wanted something that paid money. I liked nice stuff. I liked cars and architecture, and things that cost money. I wanted to not swing a hammer, and make money... and not do stuff that was dirty. I attempted to get into comedy. I started to do stand-up, but I wasn't very good at it.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Up
  • Good
  • Money

• I hardly ever go to the movies.

  

  Dana Brunetti
  • Movies
  • Go
  • Ever

• The science shows that the best way to use money is to take the issue of money off the people. Pay people enough so that money isn't an issue, and they can focus on doing great work.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Football

• I've always wanted to be a very commercial director, or I had dreams of making these movies into blockbusters. And with each movie, they tell me it's not that way.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Movie
  • Way
  • Me

• The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Pain
  • Brain
  • Body

• The process of delving into the black abyss is to me the keenest form of fascination.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Black
  • Process
  • Form

• I don't necessarily like wearing lipstick; I just think it's funny to do. I think the darker the better, but it's whatever my girlfriend Kiera has in her purse.

  

  Mac DeMarco
  • Funny
  • Better
  • Girlfriend

• I'm not really a femme fatale.

  

  Carla Bruni
  • Really
  • Femme Fatale
  • Femme

• Nowadays, to be a good world-ranked decathlete, you need to be good at everything.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • World
  • Good
  • You

• I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.

  

  Walter Becker China Crisis
  • Music
  • Book
  • Know

• Nihilism, then, is the end process of rationalism. It is man's self conscious will to destroy his past and control his future. It is modernity at its extreme.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Future
  • Past
  • Control

• The story of the Fall always fascinates me as a play ground, but I cannot find any profound meaning in it, because of my 'liberal' view of human nature: I cannot believe in a state of original innocence, still less in a profound meaning in it, and I am always minimising the conception and the extent of Sin and the sinfulness of sex.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Believe
  • Nature
  • Fall

• One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Witty

• Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this State, against every aggression either foreign or domestic, and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former.

  

  James Madison
  • Support

• People always say, 'Who is your audience?' and I could never put a finger on it - and I wouldn't want to put a finger on it.

  

  Cassandra Peterson
  • People
  • Never
  • Audience

• We will not import crime, terrorism, homophobia, and a brand of anti-Semitism that sets synagogues ablaze.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Crime
  • Terrorism
  • Brand

• I thought music could take you to a place where you didn't even feel ownership of it, you just felt lucky you were there. It's like church without God, or something. It's about feeling, hope and catharsis and things that are nurturing.

  

  Wesley Schultz The Lumineers
  • Music
  • God
  • Hope

• The spirit, if it could be seen with mortal eyes, would appear in bodily shape like a full-grown person with individual endowments that make it a counter-part of the body in which it [resides,] "that which is temporal in the likeness of that which is spiritual." (D&C 77:2.) It was that which came from God and entered at birth into the infant body prepared by its mortal parents. The spirit was of the "Lord from heaven." The physical body was "of the earth, earthy," (2 Cor. 15:47) or in other words, composed of the elements of which the things in the physical world are composed.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • World
  • God
  • Parents

• There's a way to do networking that isn't overly brown-nosing.

  

  Jill Abramson