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 we help those who need it there will be love everywhere.
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I did a play in Bolton - 'Billy Liar.' I turned it down at first but then thought, 'What the hell else can I do? I'm no good at anything else.'
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The entire life of a good Christian is in fact an exercise of holy desire. You do not yet see what you long for, but the very act of desiring prepares you, so that when he comes you may see and be utterly satisfied.
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You will find in me a loyal head of state who is ready listen and understand, warn and advise as well as to defend the public interest at all times.
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It'd be cool to be a vampire. Vampires are the best beast you can ever be. Call me egotistical, but I love the whole idea of immortality.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
