Ingrid Newkirk Quotes
Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.
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As a kid, I kind of spent my life being amazed by being tricked. I love being tricked. I still love it today.
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I think everybody has to be better, right from me out. Everybody has to step up their games for us to be successful here. I've been lucky to be on some good teams over the years and that's what it takes, everybody contributing night after night.
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Each time I seem to go through one of life's huge things, I want to play music.
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I purposefully try to make films in that grey area, where things are morally ambiguous. It's like life: good people do horrible things, and bad people do good things, and there's beauty in horror and horror in beauty.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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I can't give a decent toast to save my life.
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The first thing I do when I get up, I have breakfast.
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I like a quiet life.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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The thing that makes writing so difficult is you don't have the element of serendipity. At least with a photograph, you can set up the camera, and something might happen. You might be a lousy photographer, but you can get a good picture if you just take enough of them.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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In my music and my life, I'm honest with my feelings, and people appreciate that. That's just the way I am.
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I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.
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Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.
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When writers stop to sharpen pencils or get up and make coffee to procrastinate, they still stay in their heads with their characters. But when you zip over to read email or check your Facebook page, you get zapped out of the fictive dream. It's brutal on my writing.
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I'm not particularly interested in painting, per se. I'm interested in a painting that has that mysterious life to it. Anything that doesn't partake of that magic is halfway dead - it returns to its physical elements, it's just paint and canvas.
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And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out.
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You're the reason why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love.
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With everything I do, I just try to be myself.
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Advertising is much like war, minus the venom.
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Animal hoarding was a dirty secret until hoarders appeared on our TV screens and showed how they are compelled to collect so many dogs, cats or parrots that the animals end up in cages only inches bigger than their own bodies. For life.
