Jill Abramson Quotes

You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of stories seems overweeningly appealing to a reader with a certain set of sensibilities, and it shouldn't.'

Jill Abramson

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• Sir, I am a republican; and I desire to see this House observe the principles of that democracy which is ever on the lips of its members, and which, I hope, is in their hearts, as I know and feel it is in mine, and mean it shall be in my conduct.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • House
  • Desire
  • Democracy

• The important thing to remember is war does not progress linearly. The future course of events is going to be very difficult to predict with a high degree of precision.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Important
  • Remember
  • War

• Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • History
  • Natural
  • Clever

• The very qualities that make it harder for women to get elected - not being part of the old boy's network - gives them the advantage of having fresh, and yes, clean faces.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women
  • Boy
  • Old

• I've talked to law enforcement officials at the state and local level who say that violence against women is going up. In any case, we think that it's an important issue whether it's going up or not. And we are determined to stop it.

  

  Patricia Ireland
  • Up
  • Important
  • Women

• I respect marriage, and I think it's beautiful that people do it. But for me, more important than anything is having a peaceful life and a peaceful home.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Hands
  • Living
  • Civilization

• I understood from a very young age that school was important and that my parents were making great sacrifices for me. Every morning I saw my father get up and go to a job that he didn't really like. They came to France for the same reasons all immigrants move to another country - so their kids could have a better way of life.

  

  Omar Sy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Great

• One sort of believes in recycling. But one believes in it as a kind of palliative to the gods.

  

  Fay Weldon

• In San Diego there is a highly popular course called How to Marry Money. Note that the marriage is to money-not to a person. I inquired about the percentage of men attending... 'The course is really for women,' the instructor replied, 'it's not relevant to men.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Money

• Music is the space between the notes.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Music
  • Space

• We’re building what’s called a private cloud for them the C.I.A., … because they don’t want to be on the public cloud.

  

  Jeff Bezos

• I could just go a few steps from the house where he stayed in Paris in 1906- 1907 and I'd see the Louvre across the river. From the corner of the Rue de Bac and Lille (sic) you could see Sacré-Coeur. It hung like a great vision in the air above the city.

  

  Edward Hopper
  • Great
  • House
  • City

• There is a horrible misconception that you can either act or not. But experience is everything.

  

  Charlie Cox
  • Experience

• As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • People
  • Long
  • Responsibility

• I was invited to do an all-female improv festival in Portland called All Jane, No Dick. The person running it asked me if I had a female improv team, and I just said yes and then figured out who I would want to bring with me. We had such a fun show together that we decided that we should keep doing it.

  

  Lauren Lapkus
  • Together
  • Fun
  • Team

• So many stories have been told about Black Lives Matter. The beauty of building out a decentralized network, the beauty of building out something that's a hashtag, is that so many people can take it and run with it. The bad part about that is so many folks can take it and run with it - and misuse it and co-opt it.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Bad
  • Black

• Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

  

  James Galway
  • Running

• It is a very strange sensation to inexperience youth to feel itself quite alone the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it; but then the throb of fear disturbs it; and fear with me became predominant when half an hour elapsed, and still I was alone.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Strange
  • Sensation
  • Inexperience

• Ef you take a sword an’ dror it,An’ go stick a feller thru,Guv’mint ain’t to answer for it,God’ll send the bill to you.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • God

• Where do you draw the line between a humble man who knows his own weaknesses but tries to act out virtues he hasn’t quite mastered yet, and a proud man who pretends to have those virtues without the slightest intention of acquiring them?

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Proud
  • Humble

• Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Felt

• Progress without the reasoned freedom to think and act is regression to slavery.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Progress
  • Slavery
  • Regression

• You can verify that in news meetings I sometimes say, 'This is skewed too far to the left,' or 'The mix of stories seems overweeningly appealing to a reader with a certain set of sensibilities, and it shouldn't.'

  

  Jill Abramson