Desmond Morris Quotes
The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.
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I love my work but do not know how I write it.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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I've always performed. I've done plays at home.
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Perhaps things are not things but words: metaphors, words for other things.
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We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.
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The really clever people now want to be lawyers or journalists.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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The intensity of being in front of all these incredible musicians and tremendous conductors in these elaborate halls can be overwhelming.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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We never have business meals at El Bulli. If it's about business, you're probably not paying much attention to the food.
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You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.
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Every American, I think, should be able to fill out their taxes on a postcard.
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To me, success in the job is setting a vision, guiding an organization through change - which is exactly what I did at Digitas, and I'm very proud of that - and bringing people together and with you. That, to me, is what it takes to be successful.
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I wouldn't say I'm a hostile person.
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I am not being facetious when I say that the real enemies in this country are the Pentagon and its pals in big business.
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We go to the theater to be entertained, but if what is left after you watch the movie is a sort of eye-opening perspective on some social issues, then it can be a really powerful piece of art.
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I like to have something to base a role on.
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Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party's political strategy for a while.
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The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing cowards by a whip-cracking trainer, is primitive and medieval. It stems from the old idea that we are superior to other species and have the right to hold dominion over them.
