Elliott Abrams Quotes

Reformist kings can save their dynasties now by helping their countries move smoothly into democracy, or they will end their years in exile like the Russian aristocrats of a century earlier.

Elliott Abrams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DemocracyEndKingsNowWillYears

It's such an enormously challenging process to make any kind of television. It's stressful and works towards getting the best out of creative people.

Jeph Loeb

BestCreativePeopleProcessKind

Every edit is a lie.

Jean-Luc Godard

LieEditEvery

I remember passing through New York in college and thinking, 'I'm going to come back here.' The energy just made me think of Europe - everyone walking, seeing the delis and flowers outside. It just felt very familiar. I loved it right away.

Stephanie Szostak

New YorkFlowersCollegeMeEnergy

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling

SonManLosingWorldYouWill

Anytime I'm given scripts where I'm sort of the fantasy girl, it's hard for me because that's not real and I don't think it's a great thing to put out there consistently.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead

GirlGreatMeThinkFantasyHard

Ted Cruz, if he's elected president, the first thing he will do is return Don't Ask Don't Tell and roll back same-sex marriage laws. Which is law - hello - you can't really take it away. It's really terrifying the direction we're going in now.

Martina Navratilova

MarriageLawDirectionYouBackNow

This kind of stuff, it wasn't the cool thing when I was growing up. Now, pop culture is comic books, super-hero movies, anime, manga, and I've been doing it for a long time.

Mike Daniels

TimeCultureCoolGrowing UpDoing

We may very well be faced with the choice of retaining the AAA credit rating or abandoning some of our key infrastructure projects, which are about jobs for the future. I will choose jobs in that equation every time.

Jay Weatherill

FutureTimeKeyCreditChooseWill

If you're going to do Shakespeare, do Shakespeare. There's a reason why he's been performed for hundreds of years. His words affect people on a very deep level. He's the true humanist. That all comes through his text, his words.

Christian Camargo

WordsPeopleDeepYouTrueWhy

My dad and his sister, who is no longer with us, used to dance on the streets for money. They had nothing.

Courtney A. Kemp

MoneyDanceSisterNothingStreets

Mr. Olsen in the fifth grade made me want to be a writer. He said, 'Chuck, you do this really well. And this is much better than setting fires, so keep it up.' That made me a writer.

Chuck Palahniuk

MeBetterYouSaidWantUp

I definitely have had fights with best friends. Some of them have led to me and said friend not being friends anymore, but it always turned out to be for the better. I think if you fight with someone, and you can just never reconcile, that just goes to show that maybe you shouldn't have been friends in the first place.

Lili Reinhart

FriendBestFightMeThinkBetter

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