Edward Abbey Quotes
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The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.
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I wanted to become a college coach. I got game films of all the good college coaches - Pete Newell at California, Eddie Donovan with St. Bonaventure, Ken Loeffler at LaSalle.
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Again, in Wag the Dog, war has to be declared by an act of congress. But if you go to war, you don't have to declare war. You're just at war and we did that, which is not legal.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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I used to do all my programming on a BBC computer. It was limited to 16 tracks, and you used the keyboard, not a mouse, to input, but I was using it so long, I got quite fast at it.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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A culture produces ideas which are being explored, which of interest to that culture at that moment. And I think one of the things a writer can do is to take those ideas and go a bit further with them.
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I have no ties to my dad. I had no communications with him; it didn't shape who I am or anything like that. I'm actually a product of my mom.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
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It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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You have to do whatever jobs you can to pay the rent.
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While we may be of different faiths, we have a strong sense of faith, family, community. We hold the values of freedom and human rights very high and I think that those are all a part of a very strong quilt that binds us together.
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I was a great base umpire, but I was the most mediocre plate umpire to ever come into the major leagues.
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It is not the accumulation of extraneous knowledge, but the realization of the self within, that constitutes true progress.
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When I worked at Microsoft, I got to go and visit a bunch of different companies. Probably a hundred different companies a year. You'd see all the different ways they'd work. The guys who did Ventura Publisher one day, and then United Airlines the next. You'd see the 12 guys in Texas doing Doom, and then you'd go see Aetna life insurance.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
