Ingrid Newkirk Quotes

Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

Ingrid Newkirk

• Women
• Love
• Experience
• Freedom
• Attention
• Desire
• Pain
• Slavery

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• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
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• I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.

  

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• When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.

  

  Illeana Douglas
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• I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
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• I have changed so much as an actor over the years.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
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• The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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• Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.

  

  Daniel Cormier
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• Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

  

  Yann Martel
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• No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven here today to make sure all their kids are doing good.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Up
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• My instinct about a human being is paramount. For me, when a director has walked into my room or an assistant that I have hired, who has later gone on to become a director, is purely based on human instinct, be it Ayan Mukerji, Karan Malhotra, Punit Malhotra or Tarun Mansukhani. I am very susceptible to human energy and energy of spaces.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Energy
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• It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Democracy
  • Religion

• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
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• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  

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• On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn't believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.

  

  J. D. Vance
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• I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

  

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• We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?

  

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• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

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• I've always worked closely with the designers and whoever's making the costumes. Comfort is the last thing you want on your mind when you're competing. In an ideal situation, you'll have something where you'll put it on and you're fine and you don't have to worry about it at all.

  

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• I had a happier experience of the city as an actress than I had had as a model.

  

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• Knowledge is freedom and ignorance is slavery

  

  Miles Davis
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• The best feeling is when you are remembered for the character you play on the screen and people associate you with that character. There is no better feeling than that feeling.

  

  Deepika Padukone
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• Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Women
  • Love
  • Experience