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.
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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.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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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.
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I would love to go to the Himalayas and cross over into Nepal to do the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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I probably wanted to be Pam Grier growing up.
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If somebody wants to kill people, they don't need a gun to do it.
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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.
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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.
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The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.
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Ginger: Get off it, Mo. If I can't ogle, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
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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: ...
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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.
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Each nation feels superior to other nations. That breeds patriotism - and wars.
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There is a virtuous fear, which is the effect of faith; and there is a vicious fear, which is the product of doubt. The former leads to hope, as relying on God, in whom we believe; the latter inclines to despair, as not relying on God, in whom we do not believe. Persons of the one character fear to lose God; persons of the other character fear to find Him.
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Invitation is the sincerest flattery.
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I trained as a journalist in America where paying sources is frowned upon. Now I work in the U.K. where there is a more flexible attitude.
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
