Gary L. Francione Quotes
We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
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I've had a pretty charmed life, so there's nothing that I need to take too seriously right now.
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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My aim is to change the social norms of Pakistan; women here look up to me. I started very early, worked on myself, and the effect is for all to see.
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I want to be judged on my own merits.
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Feminists have confused opportunity with outcome.
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We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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I find Shakespeare terrifying. When Simon Russell Beale does a speech, I understand every word of it, but if I did the same speech, people would be going, 'Huh? What?'
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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I still enjoy doing the things I've always done, like going to a monthly dance party at a club downtown.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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My mom is painfully sweet; she's from Nebraska.
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Dancing doesn't have a language.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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I tend to be on the quiet side. I think I would have been bigger if I had a big mouth.
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Playing King George, for me, was a lesson in stillness and timing.
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I don't know whether crime is dictating business or business is dictating crime.
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I always thought I looked kind of like Keith Richards, and sometimes I think I look like Michael Jackson in his mug shot. But as I think Keith Richards is pretty great-looking, I'm embracing that part of me.
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Joy is the best makeup.
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We eat animals because they taste good. And if that's O.K., what's wrong with wearing fur? We need as a society to think seriously about our institutionalized animal use.
