Jill Abramson Quotes
I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.
Quotes to Explore
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.
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Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
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I have always believed that one should not be scared of losing, I think that really is the key.
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But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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The goal seems to me at times just to be business first.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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Press conferences aren't the best thing to do, but it's part of the job.
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.
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Personally, I've learned about perseverance: when you hear the word 'No,' and when you hear rejection, that it's not always final. And that timing is everything, and you have to stay the course and just keep working hard and know that, when your time comes, that it will be sweet and that it will be the perfect time.
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Investing is about predicting the future, and the future is inherently unpredictable. Therefore, the only way you can do better is to assess all the facts and truly know what you know and know what you don't know. That's your probability edge.
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
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Most new jobs created by global digital opportunities make people more independent. Fewer people will work for one company at a time or in the same country all the time. More will work remotely across borders.
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I have to pay attention to work on the weekends and always have my iPhone with me, but I don't mind.
