Edward Abbey Quotes
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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I'm an optimist about other people. I'm not an optimist about myself.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.
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I think that we, as a civilization, need to sit down and figure out how to solve political problems over a table, not over a battlefield.
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The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.
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There are two sides to being pregnant. There is the beautiful, wonderful blessing side. The second side - it sucks!
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I did my thesis on clowns. It's a powerful thing when you've got this little red nose on. It's a mask, the smallest in the world, but it unveils you. You stand up there and do these exercises that free you, let you play, and see what comes out. What comes out is the truth.
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Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream.
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It is a universal principle that you get more of what you think about, talk about, and feel strongly about.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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People have crossed the Himalayas in flip-flops seeking a blessing from the Dalai Lama.
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At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
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I'm very passionate.
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I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.
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The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
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A certain emotional frostiness is the heritage of a culture that puts great stock in WASP values: One does not talk about money sex, religion, and above all, one does not expose one's feelings. If a case can be made for the cultural contouring of personality, the Puritan ethic is the culprit in such rubrics as 'Children should be seen and not heard' and 'Never complain, never explain.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
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The modern era of Cape Cod baseball dawned in 1963 when the league became a showcase for the collegiate elite.
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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
