Elliott Abrams Quotes

I first met Kim Dae Jung when he was a Korean dissident whose life was threatened by the military regime ruling in Seoul. I was Ronald Reagan's Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights, and Kim was directed to me because the East Asia Bureau at the State Department had long shunned him.

Elliott Abrams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 24, 1948

Topics

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If the condition of grief is nearly universal, its transactions are exquisitely personal.

Meghan O'Rourke

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I'll accept bad taste in a minute, as long as there's some great comedy minds and performances.

Mel Brooks

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I'll die before I'm 25, and when I do I'll have lived the way I wanted to.

Sid Vicious

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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.

Robert A. Heinlein

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I think I was first choice for the part. I don't know - that's what they always tell you anyway. I didn't have to do any audition for the part. Sam saw me in Dinner and the whole thing slipped into place.

Louise Jameson

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I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love to do those for the rest of my career - they are so fun and witty.

Louise Jameson

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Skydiving is a rush. Doing it naked could be more of a rush, but it's nothing I would ever consider.

Jud Tylor

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Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.

Jordan Peterson

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I am not quite Martha Stewart, but I do like cooking and gardening.

Dennis Basso

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Any teammate of mine that had a kid and a boy that was capable of playing baseball, I think I set a terrific example of 'Don't do this' and 'Don't do that.' And that's one of the things that I'm most proud of.

Bob Uecker

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I work fitfully, in hope rather than in expectation, invent methods which last a week, and fill notebooks with tiny, illegible writing which often defies my own attempts to decipher it.

Anthony Minghella

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For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.

Alice Walker

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