Edward Abbey Quotes
When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
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I have played Blair Cramer for 20 years, I feel a personal investment in the success of 'One Life to Live.' I love the show, I'm a fan of the characters, and I have invested in the journey these fictional characters have traveled.
Kassie DePaiva
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
Nancy Mitford
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I don't go along with going to Moon first to build a launch pad to go to Mars. We should go to Mars from Earth orbit. We have already been to the Moon; we've already practiced.
Wally Schirra
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I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
Natalie Dormer
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Women basically want the same thing - a good passionate story, a great fantasy - and for our partners to do the laundry and the washing up.
E. L. James
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I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything.
Maggie Smith
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The best part of touring, still, is touching people's hearts and igniting my band and igniting the people into what you call a spiritual revelation is sound and emotion.
Carlos Santana Santana
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We have morons representing us. People who go up and vote for a bill that they have never read - I mean, are we crazy? Are we insane to hand over our government to those kinds of people?
Wayne Rogers
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Being a stunt coordinator, I have to take care not only of myself but I have to make sure everyone is safe.
Jackie Chan
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I probably wanted to be Pam Grier growing up.
Octavia Spencer
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If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
Ice T
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The point is, is that the aim of our work must be not to just have a few do well, but to have everybody have a chance, everybody who is willing to work for it have the ability to dream big and then reach those dreams.
Barack Obama
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Things are only mannequins and even the great world-historical events are only costumes beneath which they exchange glances with nothingness.
Walter Benjamin
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The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.
Sam Harris
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Ginger: Get off it, Mo. If I can't ogle, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
Alison Bechdel
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I shall call Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs) a certain number of realities which present themselves to the immediate observer in the form of distinct and specialized institutions: ...
Louis Althusser
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein
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My sister died and my mum was really distant, as you do - you don't expect your offspring to die before you. I thought I was bulletproof up until that stage.
Max Walker
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We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.
Opal Tometi
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What about Santa's cookies? I suppose 'parents' eat those, too?
Will Ferrell
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Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
David Crystal
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Conquering something new becomes fun, even if that thing you're conquering isn't what you'd normally do.
Charlie Clouser
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
Edward Abbey