Edward Abbey Quotes

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

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• I talk every day about doing the right thing.

  

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• Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.

  

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• The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.

  

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• Athletes these days are too robotic. People like to see performances filled with emotion. In my career I tried to be amusing, to differentiate myself from the other champions.

  

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• I could hum Beatles songs before I could talk - not very well, but sort of.

  

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• I don't know why I survived Iraq and I don't know why I made it home, but I do know that this is my second chance at life and I can do whatever I want now.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
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• I adore this adventure, I adore working with youth. For me it's a daily challenge, working to help these youths realize their dreams.

  

  Patrick Roy
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• The second day of a diet is always easier than the first. By the second day you're off it.

  

  Jackie Gleason
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• I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

  

  Orson Welles
  • People
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• Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.

  

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• It's amazing that we have lead females on television and a couple of them over 40. Thank you very much. And being beautiful and strong and sexy and everything that you hope for.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Hope
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• Ah, County Guy, the hour is nigh,The sun has left the lea.The orange flower perfumes the bower,The breeze is on the sea.

  

  Walter Scott
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• I did not count the days or the weeks or the months. Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.

  

  Yann Martel
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• So for those of you who haven't read any of my five best-selling books: Liberals are driven by Satan and lie constantly.

  

  Ann Coulter
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• My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

  

  Bob Feller
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• I am not somebody who likes to give advice, or anything like that, unless it's my closest friends or family.

  

  Penelope Cruz
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• Throughout my life, I have talked to Heavenly Father regularly through prayer. I am very grateful to my parents for teaching me that Heavenly Father lives and that He always listens to us. He listens to me, and He listens to you. I know that He will always be there for you.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
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• I'm the black sheep: I got into telly.

  

  Bradley Walsh
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• If any successes has come to me, it came because I insisted on thinking things through. That's all I was capable of doing in life, was thinking pretty hard about trying to get the right answer, and then acting on it. I never learned to do anything else.

  

  Charlie Munger
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• I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House.

  

  Karen Allen
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• There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Man
  • Greed

• Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'

  

  John McAfee
  • Fear
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  • Jealousy

• We live in a world filled with language. Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human community. Writers are either polluters or part of the clean-up team. Just as the language of power and greed has the potential to destroy us, the language of reason and empathy has the power to save us. Writers can inspire a kinder, fairer, more beautiful world, or invite selfishness, stereotyping, and violence. Writers can unite people or divide them.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • People
  • Up
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• Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Greed