Edward Abbey Quotes

Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

Edward Abbey

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• Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Media
  • Destroy
  • Heroes

• John Boehner is a friend.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Friend
  • John

• You should always care about what you're eating because it's your body, and you should always want to eat healthy foods, but dieting tactics in Los Angeles are really confusing. There are so many different weird diets out there.

  

  Laura Slade Wiggins
  • Different
  • Care
  • Body

• We have not yet seen what man can make of man.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Man
  • Make
  • Seen

• But I'm not an idiot. At the end of the day, I've learned a lot.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Day
  • End
  • End Of The Day

• If I am elected president we will secure the border and we will end the illegal immigration.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • President
  • Immigration
  • Illegal

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Car
  • Successful

• When I am stressed, my No. 1 reliever is my music.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Music
  • Stressed

• That's a term that I really like - 'permissionless innovation' - because anybody who has an idea and has a solution can tap into or can leverage the Bitcoin blockchain.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Like
  • Innovation
  • Solution

• Every actor wants more offers, but I get enough and I do like to be busy.

  

  Sam Neill
  • Enough
  • Actor
  • Busy

• Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • High
  • Cells
  • Solar

• At the end of the day, I'm not some evil guy.

  

  Thebe Neruda Kgositsile
  • Guy
  • Day
  • Evil

• Migration is as natural as breathing, as eating, as sleeping. It is part of life, part of nature. So we have to find a way of establishing a proper kind of scenario for modern migration to exist. And when I say 'we,' I mean the world. We need to find ways of making that migration not forced.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • World
  • Nature

• Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.

  

  Dan Webster
  • Body
  • Nothing
  • Legislative

• If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • God
  • Live
  • Blessed

• I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

  

  Gail Collins
  • House
  • Health
  • Car

• Be not affronted at a joke. If one throw salt at thee, thou wilt receive no harm, unless thou art raw.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Art
  • Joke
  • Salt

• We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Time
  • May
  • Peace

• The reason I keep making movies is I hate the last thing I did. I'm trying to rectify my wrongs.

  

  Joaquin Phoenix
  • Trying
  • Hate

• Each of us, deep down, believes that the whole world issues from his own precious body, like images projected from a tiny slide onto an earth-sized screen. And then, deeper down, each of us knows he's wrong.

  

  Chad Harbach
  • Life
  • World
  • Earth

• I was in a university prep school in Canada, and the way that particular place worked was, you chose at a very young age what you were going to do with the rest of your life. Mine was law.

  

  Leslie Hope
  • Life
  • School
  • Age

• Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.

  

  Edward Abbey