Ingrid Newkirk Quotes
Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day, but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always - always - more willing to laugh at themselves.
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I'm not looking to shock anyone.
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Kurt Russell is so dreamy. Plus, he's great to work with, really respectful.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.
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God is everywhere.
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Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.
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We are a people in a quandary about the present. We are a people in search of our future. We are a people in search of a national community.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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In college, I took an acting class as a lark. I was surprised by how much it interested me. It seemed like something I could do my whole life and always try to get better at.
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I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
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I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
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I wear my personality on my sleeve, for sure, and my look is constantly changing because so am I.
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I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.
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I like to help others and count it as my greatest pleasure in life to see a person free himself of the shadows which darken his days.
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You don't get to the highest levels of the sport without having the basics in order.
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Climbing's always been a massive hobby of mine up until, kind of, recent times when I've had family, but no, it's been a driving passion in my life, and, uh, I've always wanted to climb the Matterhorn. It was the mountain that, sort of, inspired me to climb, as a youngster.
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A lot of them [Germaqn actors] could come in and we could speak for the next nine hours in English and there would be no problem. It was - but it was - English wasn't the language for them to read poetry in. And there is a - there's a poetic quality to my dialogue.
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Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.
