Ingrid Newkirk Quotes
I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.
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I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.
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I am forced to say that I have many fiercer critics than myself.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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Gossip can be entertaining: occasionally, I've heard the most fascinating things about myself I never knew.
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Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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I love iTunes as much as anybody. It's very convenient and very easy. But there is nothing like the vibe that you get when you walk into a record store. And I think a lot of people are still thrilled to spend a half hour there and go through the bins and make some purchases.
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No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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One of the things we tell ourselves as African-Americans is if we work hard, play by the rules, we do start back a little ways, but if we can be twice as good, somehow we can escape history and heritage and legacy.
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To be known by God is the highest goal of human existence.
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Music is the exact opposite of anxiety. It's there to relieve anxiety, to calm you down. And to just get the noise out of your biological system. So that, it's not going to make your immune system stronger than normal. What it does, in my view, is allow your immune system to work with the full force of normality.
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Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power - the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.
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Trends, like horses, are easier to ride in the direction they are going.
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I am just trying to make the best possible case for the animals. That is clearly what I have been put on earth to do. Even after I am gone I will try to continue.
