Victoria Moran Quotes
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'Make your plate look like a Christmas tree,' I tell people, 'mostly green with splashes of other bright colors.'
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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You're supposed to be using your gifts and fulfilling your dreams, at every age.
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I don't eat animals. I rescue strays and take injured pigeons to the wildlife rehab. I carry spiders and wasps outside in a cup covered with a 3x5 card. It would only follow that I'd take pause when contemplating the abrupt and apparently brutal ending of a tiny human being's life, or even a potential human being's life.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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I was a fat kid who didn't discover the joys of active play at the time of life when we're supposed to be imprinted with a love of movement. That means that I'd rather be called for jury duty than go to the gym, but I go anyway.
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I know that as a vegan, I'm in a minority. People love their meat. It's up there with sugar and TV and maybe even coffee on the list of inalienable American rights.
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I am an urban vegan. I love the glossy pages of 'Vogue,' even though I won't purchase the leather shoes and bags I see there, and being reminded that the fur trade even exists breaks my heart.
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What I have to work with is the life that's ahead of me right this minute.
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Enjoy your food, enjoy your life.
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Our culture has long mistrusted the body. It's been seen as a confusing blend of God's handiwork and the devil's playground. It is, rather, a vortex of intelligence.
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We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.
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Every year when I put away my winter clothes and get out my summer clothes, they fit. And I haven't been on a diet since the Reagan administration.
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I'm not perfect, but what's wonderful about eating a plant-based diet is, I don't have to be.
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You want to live a life in which the things you have traded your hard-earned money for are quality items that really do uplift your life.
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Because love encompasses everything, nothing is unimportant, including tonight's dinner menu. Think about it for a minute. If you were pure love, the loving parent of all life, how would you want people to eat?
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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I could be a vegan in sackcloth and flip-flops, but I find fabulous boots with periwinkle cuffs a far preferable option.
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I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.
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98 percent of the animals raised for food suffer horrifically on factory farms before being slaughtered. Every time you eat a vegan meal, you're voting for something different.
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Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
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Your body has something in the neighborhood of 40 trillion cells - quite a consulting committee. Call on it when you're confused or undecided. Relax quietly and ask your body what it has to say.
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You never know what a man-or a woman-has inside: how much grit, how much courage, how much willingness to change. When someone draws on those qualities, you're looking at a person of substance. And power. And promise. This world needs more of those.
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Nothing fills us with deep and lasting joy the way that doing a good turn for someone else does. Saving somebody's life, human or animal, is that 'good turn' in spades.