Edward Abbey Quotes

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

Edward Abbey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 29, 1927 - March 14, 1989

Topics

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I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

Andrew Jackson

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I remember where I'm from. It's like, 'Dude, you used to work at Pizza Hut.' I still have the hat.

Maxwell

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One of the big problems we had during the financial crisis was the intermingling of banks and holding companies and complex securities.

Steve Mnuchin

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I'm a Chicago Cubs fan. I grew up in Libertyville, Illinois, and attended my first game at Wrigley Field when I was four.

Tom Morello

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I really believe that we have the power to manifest our own fates.

Michael Trucco

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It's always the small people who change things. It's never the politicians or the big guys. I mean, who pulled down the Berlin wall? It was all the people in the streets. The specialists didn't have a clue the day before.

Luc Besson

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Ambiguity is very interesting in writing; it's not very interesting in science.

Janna Levin

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In the best of all worlds, the producers would take some responsibility for the kinds of things they're putting out. Unfortunately, they don't.

Dick Van Dyke

ResponsibilityBestOutThingsTake

Nobody just leaves medical school, especially given it's fiercely competitive to get in. But I had a sister who was a doctor, another who was a pharmacist, a brother who was an engineer. So my parents already had sensible children who would be able to make an actual living, and I think they felt comfortable sacrificing their one strange child.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Efficiency innovations arise in industries that already exist. They provide existing goods and services at much lower costs. They are not empowering. Efficiency innovators become the low cost providers within an existing framework.

Clayton M. Christensen

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I believe that it's an author's job to cast his imagination into the far spaces. Your life should - and I think it's inescapable that it will - inform your work. I'm all for using anything that can make your art better, but your intuition should be an equal partner.

Brent Weeks

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Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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