Jill Abramson Quotes

I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

Jill Abramson

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• I have not been a good father, but no father has loved his children more. Like my father, I decided the best thing I could do for my kids was work and provide. Fortunately, I've been able to do that. Unfortunately, my work was on the road, and that's meant a life of one-nighters.

  

  B. B. King
  • Life
  • Good
  • Work

• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Inspiring

• I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • People
  • Write
  • Interested

• My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Nature

• I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.

  

  Malcolm Wilson
  • Music
  • Try
  • Again

• My favourite outfit was this black lace dress that I found in a vintage shop in Williamsburg, New York.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Black
  • New York
  • Dress

• If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.

  

  Lamar Alexander
  • Money
  • Most
  • Arrested

• The perfection of art is to conceal art.

  

  Quintilian
  • Art
  • Perfection
  • Conceal

• You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Political

• The key to U.N. reform is giving Americans a clearer picture of what the U.N. is and what it isn't, what it can be and what it can't be.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Giving
  • Picture
  • Key

• I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Goal
  • Senate
  • Emissions

• We all have our strengths and our failings.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Our
  • Strengths
  • Failings

• I had this little Bon Iver phase a few years back; 'Flume' was one of my favourite songs.

  

  Flume
  • Years
  • Back
  • Favourite

• If you're not in it you can't win it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Win

• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• You need to make sure you hire people who are capable of being strong team players. Team members should fit the company's culture, be committed to the team, and be capable of being genuinely vulnerable and selfless.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Strong
  • Culture

• What's really good is African drum music.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Music
  • Drum

• I was fat, so I have the right to tell other fat people not only that they should lose weight, but also that they must lose weight because I was fat, and I lost weight, and I saw the difference.

  

  Jean Nidetch
  • People
  • Lost

• The ancients often believed a celestial event like an eclipse to be a bad omen, that the sun or the moon vanishing from the sky was a harbinger of disaster, a sign of devastation or destruction to come.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Bad
  • Sun
  • Moon

• If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

  

  Martin Yan
  • Food

• Everyone from my high school and junior college are now doctors and lawyers. I came from that kind of environment, but I chose to go on another path, even though I did promise my parents that I would get a degree. After that, I could do anything I wanted; that was the deal.

  

  Chin Han
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• I've taught a college journalism course at two universities where my students taught me more than I did them about how political news is consumed.

  

  Jill Abramson
  • Political
  • College