Dan Abrams Quotes
Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
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When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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Letters are like wine; if they are sound they ripen with keeping. A man should lay down letters as he does a cellar of wine.
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Being grown up and in a serious relationship, I've learned so much. I'm happier than I've every been.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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Information is a negotiator's greatest weapon.
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When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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We should teach the students, as well as executives, how to conduct experiments, how to examine data, and how to use these tools to make better decisions.
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Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.
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What I try to keep an eye on is I don't work for the party bosses in Washington. I work for 26 million Texans.
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Some people lose sense of what their music was when their life starts to get better.
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There's nothing more marvelously wintery than orange root veg mash; some butter is all it needs.
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Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination.
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People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.
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Humans have spent (10k+) years learning to fight and debate with the other side, and almost no time learning to listen and empathize.
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Executives are waking up to realize that they can do a lot better, save money, make better decisions if they optimize and start thinking geographically and have a location strategy.
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I embrace old age. Look, I'm never going to dunk on LeBron James, and I've learned to accept that. I got a pretty good life, and I'm very fortunate, and I have my blessings.
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My approach to recording and all that is pretty organic. It just has to do with all the songs I wrote; go in and record them.
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I learned a lot from Clint [Eastwood], who's an extremely economic director. I learned a lot from Michael Winterbottom, who really gave a lot of trust in the actors and allowed them to live in the space instead of trying to manipulate and make it too set and too staged. Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot of being an actors' director and what that is. I've learned a lot from pretty much everybody. Hopefully I've picked up something from everybody I've worked with.
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Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
