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 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

• 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

• Money, like vodka, turns a person into an eccentric.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Money

• We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

  

  James Hillman
  • Free
  • Risk

• I ended up performing one time at BET. I performed my record, like, four times, and the crowd was going super crazy. And Busta just happened to be there; he pulled me to the side and asked, 'Are you signed to anybody?' So we went to the studio a few days later, spoke, and then became business partners.

  

  O. T. Genasis
  • Up
  • Time
  • Business

• If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

  

  Leslie Charteris

• Through violence, you may murder the hater, but you do not murder the hate.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Violence
  • Murder

• With 'Mad Men,' people who grew up or were living in that time, they love to talk about what it was really like.

  

  Cara Buono
  • People
  • Time
  • Like

• No charges have been filed by the L.A. district attorney's office, and for that I am appreciative. I have said it before, but we all make mistakes, and the day will come soon enough where you no longer read of mine in the tabloids.

  

  Scott Stapp

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

  

  Jill Abramson