Edward Abbey Quotes
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
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It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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China's energy is very much focused on coal, and the economy is very focused on heavy industry, which is carbon intensive, so restructuring won't be easy.
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I just really want to do good work and work with some great people, people who challenge me.
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I love sitting down and talking to people. CNBC gave me a chance to do it in a way that I liked. They gave me a chance to also develop the skills to learn from my mistakes.
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Nobody knows what a woman feels or experiences but another woman. We are the nurturers and there are times when we need to be nurtured.
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Verjuice may not be the easiest thing in the world to find, but you should be able to track some down in good delis and online.
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No not pigeon holed me as an actor, or as a character, or as to what I could do - but what I would do... and the fact is the things you don't do are almost as important as as the things that you do.
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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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The phrase ‘marriage market’ is used metaphorically and signifies that the mating of human populations is highly systematic and structured.
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Charlotte once ran away from me, outside the studio, and I grabbed her dress to stop her, to keep her near me. A yellow cotton dress I loved because it was too long for her.
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The North American world blinds us with its energy; we cannot see ourselves, we must see you.
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Instead of needing lots of children, we need high-quality children.
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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.
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I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
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Smart people don't learn... because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.
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You never know with politicians what they are really saying. And I don't say that in a negative way-they have an appalling job.
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Being able to tell people's stories - this is the most exciting job in the world to me.
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Fear is that passion which hath the greatest power over us, and by which God and His laws take the surest hold of us.
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Honoured sir, poverty is not a vice, that's a true saying. Yet I know too that drunkeness is not a virtue, and that's even truer. But beggary, honoured sir, beggary is a vice. In poverty you may still retain your innate nobility of soul, but in beggary--never--no one. For beggary a man is not chased out of human society with a stick, he is swept out with a broom, so as to make it as humiliating as possible; and quite right, too, forasmuch as in beggary as I am ready to be the first to humiliate myself.
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There's beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
