Ingrid Newkirk Quotes
It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I see my daft surname as a positive thing. It first dawned on me that I had a comical name when someone called me 'Fishface' on my first day at school. I've heard all the fish jokes since then, many times over.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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The Supreme Court is not elected, and it is therefore not a proper arbiter of social policy.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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My life has been a dream. If someone had to write a story about it, it would seem a little unreal. It's the kind of story I would read and say, 'Nah, that's not possible.'
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An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.
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I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.
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I'm always singing and dancing and getting up in people's faces.
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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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I love yoga and hiking - I think that's the perfect combo.
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People like to hear me say, 'You love me, Chandler Bing. You just don't know you love me.'
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Deep inside, I was hoping I'd win: The competition was tough, but I learned from other's mistakes.
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I wanted to weave a green thread through the Conservative party; that's my job, and I signed up imagining that I would be in a very small minority within my party, possibly even on my own, battling away on these issues.
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Each member of the band has varied influences, and the same diversity is reflected in our fanbase.
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A science fiction movie? I don't know. I think I have made one already... Chasing Amy. Because you go ask any lesbian, that'll never happen. Even if, and probably especially because, the dude is Ben fucking Affleck.
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I think her Grandmother Hall gave her a great sense of family love, and reassurance. Her grandmother did love her, like her father, unconditionally. And despite the order and the discipline - and home at certain hours and out at certain hours and reading at certain hours - there was a surprising amount of freedom. Eleanor Roosevelt talks about how the happiest moments of her days were when she would take a book out of the library, which wasn't censored.
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Governments are composed of human beings, and all of the frailties that humans possess are absorbed into these governments and become active within these governments. Hatred, anger, jealousy, fear, greed, distrust and the whole host of afflictions that humans must bear, lurk just beneath the surface of civility displayed by 'government.'
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
