Edward Abbey Quotes
Concerning river runners: If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.
Quotes to Explore
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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Art lies by its own artifice.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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As more ad spending shifts online, the ability to have expertise and to innovate quickly will become critical.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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When I was a child, I did always feel that people were hiding things, and that they weren't expressing their true feelings. When adults are too complicated, and cover their emotions with layers of well-intentioned subterfuge, the child isn't seeing reality clearly enough and gets upset.
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A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that was not a chef's book about improvising but a real home cook's book with a real home cook's pantry, supermarket ingredients, that sort of thing.
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The sweetest thing a guy said is that I look pretty with or without makeup.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.
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When I was in school, sport was given utmost importance. I think it's fantastic for character building, for team playing, and I think it's a great profile for a nation. One in every six people on Earth is an Indian, and I look forward to the day when we can compete with the heavyweights of the sporting world and do well in the medal tally.
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I can't live without activity; I can't be sedentary.
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In hip-hop, there's not a lot of love. There's not a lot of love being spread. It's always like 'I'm stuntin' on you raps, or I'm better than you raps.' It's not a lot of 'Yo man, I idolize you raps.'
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Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.
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It's fun to be sarcastic, but now I'm able to express myself in a way that's much more sincere.
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I feel blessed to keep my adventurous passion at peak while doing a daily soap.
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Those who write against vanity want the glory of having written well, and their readers the glory of reading well, and I who write this have the same desire, as perhaps those who read this have also.
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A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.
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Concerning river runners: If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.
