Edward Abbey Quotes
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I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I started making music for fun, but I had two parents who were very much in the business. I didn't run around trying to get the spotlight. I was very shy. I never sang in front of people 'til I was about 17 years old.
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I was fortunate enough to hook up with Quincy Jones and had a lot of success. But the music of the '80s really changed when the '90s hit. For me to chase that dream or career of music, I started a family, started on 'Melrose Place,' so it was something I didn't have the time or energy.
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The most important thing is to not waste your money.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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Do what you are not supposed to do, like wear white shoes all year round.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
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U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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I have fallen in love with Chicago. The community here is loving, supportive, and welcoming.
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Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not.
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The economic and social theories used by those who take part in the social struggle ought to be judged not by their objective value but primarily for their effectiveness in arousing emotions. The scientific refutation of them which can be made is useless, however correct it may be objectively.
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Plato … teaches the separation of the human soul from its 'home' in the realm of pure essences. Man is estranged from what he essentially is. His existence in a transitory world contradicts his essential participation in the eternal world of ideas.
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Many people love in themselves what they hate in others.
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All living things on earth are kindred.
