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Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.

Mining is like a search-and-destroy mission.

Encouraging underground uranium mining on the Colorado Plateau um, the federal government was the only purchaser of uranium ore to try to manufacture uh, atomic bombs.

It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.

Coal mining is tough. Acting is just tedious.

My mother's a secretary; my father's an electrician in a mining company.

Writing is like mining for gold hidden in the hillsides of your mind.

The mining industry might make wealth and power for a few men and women, but the many would always be smashed and battered beneath its giant treads.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

Arizona, our beautiful state, was built on mining.

Art is a kind of mining," he said. "The artist a variety of prospector searching for the sparkling silver of meaning in the earth.

But Big Oil and Big Coal have always been as skilled at propaganda as they are at mining and drilling. Like the tobacco industry before them, their success depends on keeping Americans stupid.

There are as many forms of memory as there are ways of perceiving, and every one of them is worth mining for inspiration.

Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.

Art, of course, is a way of thinking, a way of mining reality.

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

It's a mining town in lotus land.

Well I'm not convinced that expanding uranium mining is in the best interests of the country and the best interests of its environment.

I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate.

There are always advancements that are happening with mining technology and the ability to detect gases or methane within the mine. Those things are moving forward every day.

There's a lot of money to be made by strip-mining and drilling the dirtiest oil on the planet. But why should the rest of us pay the price?

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat.

We are a very big mining country and historically have been exporters of raw minerals. There is no particular reason why we should not be processing those further.

You can guarantee that mining uranium will lead to nuclear waste. You can't guarantee that uranium mining will not lead to nuclear weapons.

Mining in BC's Sacred Headwaters is like drilling for oil in the Sistine Chapel

The search which takes place in my studio might best be described as a mining operation, a vertical dig in which a number of discoveries are apt to surface from a single shaft.

I think that most manufacturing and mining should be under the purview of state authorities.

Contemporary art photography, or, more specifically, what I would term mainstream art photography, represents for the most part the mining of an exhausted lode.

I'm really quite hard to scare so it was about mining times when I have jumped, and what creeps me out.

Every time you get a script and you have a scene, you start mining out how many layers there are within it.

My familiarity with the successful use of very long steel ropes for mining purposes naturally suggested their adaptation to the new purpose of deep sea work.

Corporations [gained] direct access to what we may think of as our humanity, emotions, and agency but, in this context, are really just buttons.

The commencement of coal mining at Parsa Kente is a milestone event in coal mining sector.

I come from a coal-mining, working-class background. My father was a coal miner.

American movies are often very good at mining those great underlying myths that make films robustly travel across class, age, gender, culture.

The joke is that U2's new record only looked like a virus. Enjoy mining bitcoins for me losers.

What strip mining is to nature the art market has become to culture.

Everyone knows that we're doing a science experiment with Earth. And the No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, No. 4 contributors to it are the mining and burning of coal.

Because the public lands belong to all Americans, this 1872 Mining Act should be repealed.

It was a dark, blustery afternoon in spring, and the city of London was chasing a small mining town across the dried-out bed of the old North Sea.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

Gathering news in Russia was like mining coal with a hat pin.

Expect URZ stock to perform well as mining begins at Nichols Ranch.

Lunar mining is absolutely critical for the development of fusion sources. I'm a very strong proponent of the development of nuclear power, of fusion power.

My father, a mining engineer and colliery manager, gave his brood many advantages not least of which, for me, was his love of singing which gave music a central place in our lives.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

We played every bar, party, pub, hotel lounge, church hall, mining town - places that made Mad Max territory look like a Japanese garden.

Although to be fair, cherry picking isn't quite what we do. Cherries are sweet and delicious. What we do is more turd mining. And I'll thank you to give our work the respect it deserves!

I mind the unmindful, but I mind my own mind too. Mine your mind, and mine the minds of others. Mind.. you are mine!