Jill Abramson Quotes
Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.
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Look at how hard it was to get to where I am. It doesn't make sense to give it up.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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To transform yourself is to transform your destiny.
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I love science fiction. I always have, ever since I was a kid. I love a lot of science fiction writers. William Gibson is one of my favorite writers.
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I have had an amazing career for a man who hits things for a living.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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With the 'Old Kingdom' trilogy, at least half the readers were older adults rather than younger adults. I wrote them for myself with no particular audience in mind.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.
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What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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I am honoured to have been chosen for an Amitabh Bachchan film.
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A woman always has her man, but the man unconsciously leans on his roots, his heritage. He feels like an orphan without his parents.
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On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
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If people knew every transaction of a gun was going to be recorded somewhere, I think they'd be more responsible with who they transferred their weapon to.
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I never liked the philosophy that you can have everything and be everything and that something is wrong if you don't want that. I'm terrible at multitasking and find it hard to believe that no one protests this general trend of using the rhetoric of self actualization to sell you faster and faster phones and computers, BlackBerrys, etc.
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There's one right place to put the camera. I'm a big believer in that. You'd think you could put it anywhere. Nope.
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Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
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Although I believe the Web has greatly increased the distribution of quality news, I do worry about those who don't have Internet access.
