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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When dictatorship is a fact, revolution becomes a right.
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Exercise is roughly equivalent to an oil lube and a filter for a car. You don't have to do it, but when you do, it makes the car run a lot better.
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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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I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
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Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration.
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People always want to ask me about my drug problem - I never had a drug problem; I had a self-esteem problem!
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In America, people know there are always 10 people better than them who are after their job. In France, they know that too - but no one is going to get their job till they go to their grave.
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The great tides and currents which engulf the rest of men do not turn aside in their course and pass the judges by.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
