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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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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I love songs, and I love to tell stories, and so a lot of times, if you really want a good story, you got to flip the radio dial over to country.
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Going into Portland, I was just trying to not step on anybody's toes, stay quiet, and play my game. I think I was just trying to figure out the kind of sequences I was going to see as a hitter and learn from that.
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In 1958, Anne and I returned to Australia, where I got a very attractive research position at the Australian National University in Canberra. But soon I felt very isolated because at that time game theory was virtually unknown in Australia.
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Most people do surprisingly poorly when dealing with a relative who is hurting, depressed, or anxious - we get defensive and try to solve the problem rather than finding the truth in what the person is saying.
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Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.