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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There are many things I love in this world. Music, acting, and animals are at the top of that list.
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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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In the conversation about women in leadership, male voices are noticeably absent.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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Christianity makes of life a moral drama in which we play a starring role and in which the most ordinary events take on a grand significance.
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I think the most important thing about the Emmys stuff is just to enjoy it. It can get really stressful in weird ways, and I have definitely experienced that. This year, I really just want to have it be a fun celebration!
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The moment you have children and a mortgage you want things to work; you're locked into the human project and you want it to flourish.
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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.
