Jewel Staite Quotes
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
Ramez Naam -
Trials by the adversarial contest must in time go the way of the ancient trial by battle and blood.
Warren E. Burger -
Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
Daniel Boulud -
Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
Daisy Ridley -
Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
Ban Ki-moon -
The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.
Nawal El Saadawi
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When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.
Gary Weiss -
I've never had a cold Christmas, as I always spend it back home in Australia.
Mallory Jansen -
I am extremely proud of my rags-to-riches story. It's fun to be a misfit or an underdog if you acknowledge your gifts and befriend your obstacles.
Kangana Ranaut -
A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
Patrick MacGill -
You don't have love without sacrifice; you can't have sacrifice without love.
Karen Kingsbury -
I have such bad memories, sitting in the back of a classroom, being told, you know, everybody is going to read a paragraph, and skipping ahead to my paragraph and being mortified and trying to read it enough times so that I wouldn't stutter and stammer, getting called on, even in high school.
Vince Flynn
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Truth is slippery, not because it is difficult to grasp, but because we prefer our preconceptions, our beliefs, our myths.
Jack McDevitt -
The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
Jack McDevitt -
Poetry is for the inner ear
Vachel Lindsay -
Policies should take account of the emotional dimensions of human behaviour rather than assuming rational action.
Nayef Al-Rodhan -
I have often been called a political opportunist simply because I've had friendships with those from varied spheres of the political scenario. It's risky to even have hi and hello relations now with persons from a particular domain. But I think it has got more to do with that spectrum than it has to do with the people in it.
Amitabh Bachchan -
For seventeen months I have cried aloud calling you back to your lair. I hurled myself at the hangman's foot. You are my son, changed into nightmare. Confusion occupies the world, and I am powerless to tell somebody brute from something human, or on what day the word spells, 'Kill!'
Anna Akhmatova
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I get no kick from champagne. Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all, So tell me why it should be true That I get a kick out of you?
Cole Porter -
I have an aggressive streak of my own.
Patty Jenkins -
My general take on American music since 1969 is that it's just getting stiffer and people are getting more uptight - audience, performance, and palace guard.
Iggy Pop -
The idea of taking up art as a calling, a profession, is a mirage. Art enriches life. It makes life worth living. But to make a living at it-that idea is incompatible with making art.
John French Sloan -
I've never been a particular fan of any genre.
Jewel Staite