Edward Abbey Quotes
'The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for - for what? Someday we'll know.'
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It's hard to find an emblem of cultural, national pride that burns as bright as Israel's success in classical music.
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean, don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever. I view these guises with profound contempt.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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You want your coach's blessing.
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I love my sleep.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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I will say that Marvel is 100 times more secretive than 'Game of Thrones.' Like, they're not even on the same playing field.
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The joy of winning is not as dramatic as the losses were, because I expected us to win.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and killing it.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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Get your priorities straight. No one ever said on his death bed, 'Gee, if I'd only spent more time at the office.'
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.
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Chicago '68 was a relatively small demonstration for its time, but I've talked to millions of people who claim they were there because it felt like we were all there. Everyone from our generation was there and was at Woodstock.
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When I met scientists, I found them to be as various as any other group of people.
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'The city itself swung slowly toward us silent as a dream. No sign of life but puffs of steam from skyscraper chimneys, the motion of the traffic. The mighty towers stood like tombstones in a graveyard, leaning against the sky and waiting for - for what? Someday we'll know.'
