Ingrid Newkirk Quotes
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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You can be revered for all sorts of qualities, but to be truly charismatic is rare. Elizabeth Taylor was, for me, one of those rarities.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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I hate competition.
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All diseases run into one, old age.
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My granddad was a hard worker, and my dad is, too. It was instilled in me as a kid. I never got pocket money; I had to earn it. I had two paper rounds before school, not just one. Wherever I worked, whether it was at football, in the pub, I'd do whatever was asked of me - and more.
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Anything can become a musical sound. The wind on telegraph wires is a great sound; get it into your machine and play it and it becomes interesting.
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I take a lot of pictures.
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You get to a point where everything is so important. One day you have 'Letterman,' and the next day you're at the MTV Movie Awards, and the next day you have a sold-out show for over 15,000 people. You can't cancel anything, because it's just too much to let everyone down, which is an interesting thing about being in a bigger band.
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Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.
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Living through the heat in Louisiana was awful.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I'm a darned good listener.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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I had a lot of fun with my costume designer.
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If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.
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'Remember literature, Charlie? It involved getting drunk and getting laid.'
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Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.
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Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
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Everyone I look up to is bringing me into the tech world. You'd be surprised by all the music people in it, invested in it.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
