Edward Abbey Quotes
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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We must defend what we have achieved so far.
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At the present moment, the security of coherent philosophy, which existed from Parmenides to Hegel, is lost.
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I don't work out but generally I am fit, which is why I don't work out.
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Some people might not like him because he's my son. But be respectful, go out there and enjoy the game.
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I started a feta cheese company, Euphrates, in upstate New York in 2002.
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I remember having this friend in school who said she didn't like the Beach Boys. And in that moment I knew we couldn't be friends anymore.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I had decent but not great grades in high school because I was highly motivated in some subjects, like the arts, drama, English, and history, but in math and science I was a screw-up. Wooster saw something in me, and I really flourished there. I got into theatre, took photography and painting classes.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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When you have a voice, and you have an opportunity at the world level to be able to speak, it has to be right.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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There have always been revivals. Some have always been successful. And many of them have failed.
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Being a mother has been my greatest teacher and also the most self-sacrificing thing I've ever done.
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If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.
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I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.
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People should be allowed to document evidence of criminal wrongdoing. Where is the expectation of privacy if someone is conspiring to commit crime?
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The moment my doctor told me, I went silent. My mum and dad were with me, then we all went to pieces. I was saying, No, I've got my flight to Sydney in two hours. I'm getting on a plane.
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Why would I make one woman so miserable when I can make so many women very happy?
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
