Jill Abramson Quotes
I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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We are two brothers: I am a doctor; my brother is an engineer.
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What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.
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For the first time I go to La Scala, for each thing, for each rehearsal, my knees were shaking. But the audience was very fine with me.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.
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I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.
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Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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In fact, I have the privilege of traveling around our country and meeting people all over the country who are making a huge difference in the lives of their neighbors and themselves. That's what I'm really fortunate to be able to do.
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Going out for a meal, especially for young urbanites, is less about socialising over enjoyable food than about enjoying food as a way to socialise.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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It must be horrible having people scared to talk to you. But I think it's kinda cool that I don't really know anyone in that way.
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You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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It happened in Miami, in Coral Gables, a great big ol' Cuban wedding. It was pretty intense.
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I think, when I was younger, I believed in - and yearned for - conventional beauty. I thought there was a spectrum from ugly to beautiful, and that you could objectively plot everyone you saw along it.
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Through rationality we shall become awesome, and invent and test systematic methods for making people awesome, and plot to optimize everything in sight, and the more fun we have the more people will want to join us.
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I've pretty much stopped using a laptop because I'm not line-editing a lot of things anymore.
