Elliott Abrams Quotes

Denmark has long been regarded as one of the world's most attractive nations, for citizens and tourists alike. My own visits there, years ago as a student, were delightful.

Elliott Abrams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Having your book edited is like watching your cat being operated on. It's uncomfortable and someone is probably going to get hurt. Most likely the cat. But in the end, things work out for the best and your cat is better it. And then your cat gets released in hardcover, and you have to read all of his reviews.

Jenny Lawson

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I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.

Jenny Lewis

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In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'

John Delaney

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Before the rise of the nation-state, between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, the world was mostly tribal. Tribes were united by language, religion, blood, and belief. They feared other tribes and often warred against them.

Robert Reich

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I've never been good at making smart career decisions or doing the right strategic thing, and yet somehow it's all led me to exactly the kind of career that I would have dreamed of having - if only I'd been smart enough to dream something like that.

Michael Cerveris

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I had a very normal, very typical American childhood. My father worked for the government at the Pentagon and my mother was an educator, so we had a very average upbringing, but that's helped me in my writing because I'm writing about ordinary things.

Jeff Kinney

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The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they are people who have not found in institutional religion a God big enough to be God for their world.

John Shelby Spong

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Well, I think Barkley and I were the only two who were working with Church for a Ph.D.

Stephen Cole Kleene

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I'm lucky enough to have some celebrity light around me. I can go on a platform and say what I think to represent these voices that can't be heard.

Trudie Styler

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The opposite of courage in our society is not cowardice, it is conformity.

Rollo May

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The reversal of a Supreme Court opinion is possible.

Mike Rounds

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We must laugh before we are happy, for fear of dying without having laughed at all.

Jean de la Bruyere

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