Edward Albee Quotes
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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I told as much of my life as I could to encourage people: to encourage others to get to where they should be, where they want to be.
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I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect.
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I'll never retire. I'm just using up somebody else's oxygen if I retire.
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I do believe in happy-ever-after.
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But actors should act. You should see them most often rather than just not.
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I know my football. And I adore football players. The crashing noise of a tackle, the huddle grunting, and the roar of the crowd are music to my ears.
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I want to get so famous that I don't have to wake up in the morning. It'll probably never happen.
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I love penguins.
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Nothing changes like changes, because nothing changes but the changes.
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I'm drawn to melancholy characters. I don't know what that says about me. Characters who are filled with shame. I think shame is interesting.
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I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.
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'Dancing with the Stars' was a really great experience. People were definitely surprised that I'm a fighter, or they couldn't believe I'm a professional fighter, but I feel like I'm going to get that for a while. I'm excited to bring a new demographic over to MMA and the UFC.
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Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country.
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A variety of factors contribute to the price of gasoline in the United States. These factors include worldwide supply, demand and competition for crude oil, taxes, regional differences in access to gasoline supplies and environmental regulations.
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He isn't insane, he's simply as trapped in his life as I am in mine. That makes us friends.
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How to explain? How to describe? Even the omniscient viewpoint quails.
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I have always had a hidden wish, a frustrated desire, to run a hotel.
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I have been doing some writing on the side a little bit with artists that I'm really excited about. Kind of more up and coming people. But, I'm focusing more on my own project. It's a full time job being an artist!
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The music that I made in my band wasn't the expression of everything I was into. Bands are based on compromise.
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If you can figure out where you fit into any particular story, you'll be okay. When you're not quite sure where you fit in, you try to be too many parts of the story. You gild the lily. I see it all the time.
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The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
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I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humour.
