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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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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Occupy Wall Street is meant more as a way of life that spreads through contagion, creates as many questions as it answers, aims to force a reconsideration of the way the nation does business and offers hope to those of us who previously felt alone in our belief that the current economic system is broken.
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I think the music industry really suffered from music being available online because it made young people feel, "why should you pay for music, if it's so readily available for free?"
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My tutor was a film director on the side, and she introduced me to film. She then put me in one of her short films, and it came out of that. That's when I fell in love with the process of making a film. After that, I was about 15 and I was like, "This is what I've gotta do." So, I started taking acting lessons, and then I applied to college to do acting. I got an agent, and it all just happened.
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In matters of dress we wish neither silk nor rags," President Hinckley said. "We seek for the clean look, call it a wholesome look, the bright and happy look of young men and women who walk with a sense of who they are, of what is expected of them, and of what they may become.
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America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
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I never play video games! I'm so bad at it. I have, like, no manual dexterity.
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There's beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
