Ingrid Newkirk Quotes
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Offset's the animal out the group. But he ain't no bad guy.
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I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.
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All creative people have to have vulnerability because those nuances are what move people. So I'm deeply insecure - but I'm good at hiding it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I know there are some people in British Columbia who are still holding a vigil for '3rd Rock'.
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Any talk of me engaging in a conspiracy against Pakistan is completely baseless.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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My dad's not a big talker.
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And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.
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I graduated from the University of Whatever.
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So I had a couple of years of playing trumpet. I really enjoyed it, but it was not the kind of instrument you could whip out at a party. Let's face it.
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If you live in a place that you perceive to be a crowded place, you appreciate government; you see it as this thing that protects you against crime, that keeps order, that makes sure that nobody puts a massage parlor next to your house, that keeps other people's dogs from pooping on the sidewalk.
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I have worked with the biggest actors from the beginning. I am hoping God will bless me to work with other big actors.
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Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.
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Be larger than your task.
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I grow the vegetables my family eats. I grow enough, and we seldom buy from the market.
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I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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I used to almost not look forward to recording, because it was like, 'Okay, what am I going to have to sacrifice?'
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The past is dead, and nothing that we can choose to believe about it can harm or benefit those who were alive in it. On the other hand, it has the power to harm us.
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Jamaican reggae is the style of music I always reach for when ranting to friends about how you could listen to one style of music exclusively for the rest of your life - and it would all be great and varied and worth hearing.
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They are men and women who tend to believe that the human being is perfectible and social progress predictable, and that the instrument for effecting the two is reason; that truths are transitory and empirically determined; that equality is desirable and attainable through the action of state power; that social and individual differences, if they are not rational, are objectionable, and should be scientifically eliminated; that all people and societies strive to organize themselves upon a rationalist and scientific paradigm.
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I know it's illegal trespassing, but I don't think it's wrong.
