Harry Kroto Quotes
Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.
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Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as torture if it were inflicted on humans.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.
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The harming of animals for any reason is shameful, but torturing them for mere vanity is senseless. Slaughtering animals for their fur or harming them for cosmetic purposes is disgusting and not worth the perfect shade of lipstick.
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One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!
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When I need to cry, I think of very sad things, mostly about animals.
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I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.
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Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.
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Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.
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I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
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We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans - because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That's why we paint, that's why we dare to love someone - because we have the impulse to explain who we are.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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Many animal rescue organizations hit with a hard-core, heartbreaking message. Their videos and stories can become difficult for average people to watch. By taking a more positive, heartwarming approach to animal rescue, I've been able to engage people and keep them engaged for years. Instead of selling the agony and misery - and sadly, there is no shortage of that - I start with the happy endings. I work backwards so the first message they get is joy and success due to their involvement. Opening the mind with humor and joy gets the rescue message in that much deeper.
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There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.
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Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.
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I start writing when I overcome my disgust with literature.
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
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Information for you. It will be graphic. The pill didn’t agree with.
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Human beings are just animals who will just eat and take advantage of any source of energy until it runs out, and then there'll be catastrophe.
