Edward Abbey Quotes
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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I wear the Jewish star, but I'm not - I haven't converted to Judaism, and I'm not - I'm not - I'm not Jewish in the conventional sense because the Kaballah is a belief system that predates religion and predates Judaism as an organized religion.
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I don't regret doing any of my films. All of them have been great learning experiences, and they have contributed to making me what I am today.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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Elvis and I were very good friends. We were such good friends that, on the day that he passed, I was the first one his father called, to let me know what had happened.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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What we want to do is put a price on greenhouse gases. Because if they're more expensive, businesses will find a way to be more efficient or switch to solar or hydro or wind power. So that will reduce emissions.
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Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?
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A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
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Essentially what photography is is life lit up.
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All of us, the government, parliament, local authorities and the society must demonstrate determination and readiness to use knowledge and capabilities... toward full European integration.
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Yeah, I'm very impressed with Lifetime, this is the first time I've worked with them. I really like the kind of programming that they're into, so I'm hoping that I will.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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Estuaries are coastal bays, harbors, sounds and lagoons, places where rivers meet the sea.
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do.
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People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.
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My message is: You don't have to give up being popular, fun, or fashionable in order to be smart; they can go hand and hand. Doing math is a great way to exercise your brain; being smart is going to make you more powerful in life.
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Maybe it was all those wild times that kept me young.
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A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
