Jill Abramson Quotes
I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
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Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
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I think that each woman, whatever age, needs to recognize something good in her body. Someone has beautiful legs, someone has beautiful hair, someone else has beautiful decolletage or a beautiful waist or beautiful hands. Everyone has something great.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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You have to try things you're really afraid of, even if you pee yourself a little bit.
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Conflict is always the right thing to do when it matters.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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Life is just a set of experiences. As long as there are new experiences for me in a corporate job, I don't think I have to be an entrepreneur.
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It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words, like 'What about lunch?'
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Experience has shown me that standing by oneself reading from one's book isn't especially compelling - unless you're David Sedaris.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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I tended to write poems about both social and spiritual problems, and some problems one doesn't really want to solve, and so the problems themselves are solved. You certainly don't want to solve problems in poems that haven't been solved in the world.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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I think I avoid stepping into sentimentality by trying to be as truthful as possible with performances.
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We esteem, honor, and love the apostles more than the other saints, because they served God more faithfully and because they loved Him more perfectly.
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Let me be as weird as I fuckin' like. It's my fuckin' life.
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Perhaps His experiment went spectacularly wrong, sir. Perhaps He's just baffled. Seeing the mess, not knowing how to put it right. Perhaps not wanting to put it right. Perhaps He only had enough power left for one final intervention. So He made it. Whoever He is, whatever He is, I hope he burns in His own Hell.
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My particular demigod is the Sonics point guard Gary Payton, who is one of the most notorious trash-talkers in the National Basketball Association. He's not really bad. He's only pretend bad - I know that - but he allows me to fantasize about being bad.
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It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.
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Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.
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Christians should take a stand on six literal days, a young earth, and global flood even if it causes division. Either God means what He says, or we may as well not believe any of the Bible.
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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
