Jill Abramson Quotes

I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

Jill Abramson

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• Indians today are governed by two different ideologies. Their political ideal set in the preamble of the Constitution affirms a life of liberty, equality and fraternity. Their social ideal embodied in their religion denies them.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Life
  • Different
  • Today

• The thing I really like about Twitter is the speed with which information reaches me. You find out things from Twitter long before they're on the news. That, I think, is valuable.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Information
  • Speed

• You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.

  

  Jack Youngblood
  • Life
  • Done
  • Job

• I mean, I was first offered Princess Astra.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Mean
  • First
  • Princess

• No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Writing
  • Equal
  • Close

• We are effectively destroying ourselves by violence masquerading as love.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Love
  • Destroying
  • Effectively

• Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests; build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Economy
  • Down

• Sometimes my family got me in the door. Somebody would say, 'Bruce Dern's daughter - sure I'd like to meet her.' It was a point of interest. But after five minutes of talking about my father, I still had to read for the part.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Family
  • Father
  • Door

• In nature there are few sharp lines.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Sharp

• I had the most magical childhood, running free and going anywhere I wanted to in my head.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Free
  • Running
  • Childhood

• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • World
  • Today
  • Society

• Homophobia is manufactured in high schools, so it's probably useful to keep in mind that it really does bother people.

  

  Zak Orth
  • People
  • Mind
  • High

• In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Live
  • Mind
  • Eyes

• I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies.

  

  Cam
  • Love
  • Amazing
  • Mom

• Then to the lip of this poor earthen Urn I lean'd, the Secret of my Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it murmur'd - 'While you live Drink! - for, once dead, you never shall return'.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Life
  • Live

• English people ... never speak, excepting in cases of fire or murder, unless they are introduced.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • People
  • English
  • Fire

• I'm like a little boy from Virginia. I'm a backpacker. In my head, I'm left of centre. I come from the pool of weirdoes.

  

  Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D.
  • Boy
  • Pool

• I'm actually just an actor.

  

  Allen Leech

• I’m very lucky. I have terrific parents, but some kids have a really rotten time growing up and we should do all that we can to make their lives happier and more secure.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kids

• I try to squeeze in a workout whenever I can, even if it's doing squats with my 7-month-old in the kitchen or jumping on the trampoline with my 5-year-old.

  

  Jennie Finch
  • Kitchen
  • Workout

• To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.

  

  Marquis de Sade
  • God
  • Men
  • Judge

• I like the immediacy of blogs and the democratizing effects of letting millions of voices bloom on the Web.

  

  Jill Abramson