John Abbott Quotes
I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.
Quotes to Explore
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The Saudi government's denial of basic rights to women is not only wrong, it hurts Saudi Arabia's economic development, modernization and prosperity.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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If you think Wall Street has a short memory, you're dead wrong. No, the folks who work on Wall Street, regulate Wall Street - and, above all, invest in its wares, notably its hedge funds - don't have a bad memory. They don't have any memory at all.
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I am obsessed with proportion, and how proportion is perceived.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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I bring spiritual books with me while travelling. I like books about thoughts and how you see the world.
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A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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Ever since I was little, I would just make stories up in my mind. It was based on people I saw in the street or someone I would talk to, or I would hear a specific voice.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.
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[Religion is a way of reconstructing] what has come to feel like a crumbling moral framework in the life of our nation.
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If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.
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Putin stands for the opposite of a universal ideology; he has become an arch-nationalist of a pre-Cold War type, making mystic appeals to motherland and religion.
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There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
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The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
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I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.
