Ingrid Newkirk Quotes
PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
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I have worked with some great directors.
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It can be frightening to turn your back on what others think is right. But I'm not the same as a lot of people - I'm quite artistic and quite eccentric sometimes. If you honour that, you fit into yourself better - and people accept you for what you are.
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Since the moment I could hold a pencil, I have spent nearly all day every day writing. And there is not an age group that I have not written for. You can read me from birth 'til death.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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I really don't know the secret to it, but I'd like to think my desirability is a combination of my personality, my image, and, most importantly, the kind of films I do.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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The hard work definitely paid off and hard work always does.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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When it is a question of God's almighty Spirit, never say, 'I can't.'
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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I’m not a Christian because I’m strong and have it all together. I’m a Christian because I’m weak and admit I need a Savior.
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We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.
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The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
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In any aircraft you fly, you always think about what can go wrong, and you plan for it in advance. You always have back-up plans.
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PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.
