Ingrid Newkirk Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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Some say I was disappointed when President Obama won, and that is absolute nonsense.
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Stage and film are just two wildly different animals. Why compare the two?
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I hear a lot of 'Top Model' girls say they are dismissed by clients because they recognize them, but it never happened to me.
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It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.
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No one put pressure on me to go to the Olympics; once I'd got the qualifying mark, I just couldn't say no.
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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
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Women can really be who they are. I'm about to say the F word, feminist. Often that word has such a negative connotation.
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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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Money often costs too much.
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What I say is that, if a fellow really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.
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I am a Yankees fan. I should say - have been to more Yankees games than Mets games.
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I have always loved animals since I was very young.
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I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
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Variety improves the things that we do too often, but it rules the things that we don't do often enough.
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It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.
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I think it's fair to say I'm attracted to playing characters who are rather intense.
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Rather than a big figure, I guess you could say I'm more of an influential minority symbol.
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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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If it's anything I can't stand, it's yes-men. When I say no, I want you to say no, too.
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I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
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I felt a sense of fulfillment that an action plan, which I'd laid on the table on the 2nd of February 1990, had been fulfilled, had been properly implemented within the time frame which I envisaged.
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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.
