Ingrid Newkirk Quotes
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In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
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You won't do any more housework? Then you go to the bin.
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When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I worry about people who sell out to chase fame because when they get it, it might not be so satisfying.
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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When I saw 'Pretty In Pink' at the cinema at the age of 11, I just thought it was a period piece from maybe 100 years previously. I had no idea that was what everybody was supposed to be wearing.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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We made more money feeding molasses, urea, and corn cobs to cattle than we ever did feeding dent corn.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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I'm no ethnomusicologist. There is a connection between the five-note scale used both in traditional Chinese music and the blues, but I don't really understand it. All I know is, whenever I play with Chinese musicians, we seem to belong to the same musical gene pool.
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If you have had the same dishwasher for 10 years or more, don't bother repairing it. The average dishwasher is expected to last nine years, and you've most likely squeezed as much life out of it as you can.
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I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.
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Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of the earth.
