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.
Larry King -
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.
Jack Ramsay -
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.
Val Kilmer -
I listen to 'deep dish house'.
T. J. Miller -
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.
Vince Clarke Depeche Mode -
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.
Samuel Johnson
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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.
Adam McKay -
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.
Kate Grenville -
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.
M.I.A. -
When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
Gail Sheehy -
Women's Lib? I couldn't stand it.
Taylor Caldwell -
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Kate Atkinson
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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.
Owen D. Young -
I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
Dakota Goyo -
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.
Edmund Hillary -
It was kind of exciting being on the radio. Not everybody was on the radio.
Sam Donaldson -
Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
Kate Winslet -
I'm quite good at taking in information so I voraciously inhale Wikipedia - which may have some things wrong in it, but I think is generally more information than we had before. Last tour we didn't have Wikipedia. And then Discovery Channel and History Channel. I can take it in and retain what I think are the most important facts.
Eddie Izzard
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Now is now. It can never be a long time ago.
Laura Ingalls Wilder -
I have always let the lack of Indian actors in the industry drive me, not hold me back. I remember an agent in L.A. telling me a few years ago that an Indian actor wouldn't ever make it in Hollywood, but my ethnicity has helped me.
Archie Panjabi -
No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When a man is trying to sell you something, don't imagine that he is polite all the time.
E. W. Howe -
Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
Edward Abbey