Mike deGruy Quotes

If you're a wildlife filmmaker and you're going out into the field to film animals, especially behavior, it helps to have a fundamental background on who these animals are, how they work and, you know, a bit about their behaviors.

Mike deGruy

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• In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • You
  • Wish
  • Animals

• I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Help
  • Ideas
  • Animals

• I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Up
  • Animal
  • Animals

• One of the things that's frustrated me as a deep-sea explorer is how many animals there probably are in the ocean that we know nothing about because of the way we explore the ocean.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Deep
  • Sea
  • Ocean

• I love shooting guns. Not at people or animals, but I love shooting blanks!

  

  Maggie Q
  • People
  • Animals
  • Guns

• Animals aren't any better equipped to survive an emergency than humans are. Few people missed the fact that after Hurricane Katrina, people died because buses and emergency shelters wouldn't allow their animals.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • Better
  • Animals

• If all consciousness is subject to essential laws in a manner similar to that in which spatial reality is subject to mathematical laws, then these essential laws will be of most fertile significance in investigating facts of the conscious life of human and brute animals.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Animals

• I have no neighbours other than animals and Joshua Trees.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Animals
  • Trees
  • Neighbours

• Making lasting gifts for animals in our estate plans is perhaps the single most important thing we can do to ensure animals have the strongest possible voice for their protection.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Important
  • Single
  • Voice

• I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • World
  • Animals
  • Over

• Actually, I don't like dogs. I'm from Morocco, and people there don't like animals.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • People
  • Animals
  • Dogs

• Animals in the wild are lean, and I think we should be too.

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • Think
  • Animals
  • WIld

• In Los Angeles, you drive around, and you're coming back from a club or something, and all of a sudden, you'll encounter a coyote. And they're very lean, hungry-looking animals.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Animals
  • Drive
  • Los Angeles

• At PETA, we often say that the issue of how animals are treated isn't just about them; it's about us, how we behave.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Say
  • Animals
  • Often

• I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Promise
  • Animals
  • Behavior

• I didn't really want to be a filmmaker, growing up. Other than Spike Lee's movies, I would think, 'Where is a place for me?' We were so damn poor that it just seemed too far beyond.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • Want
  • Movies
  • Filmmaker

• We are seeing the cells of plants and animals more and more clearly as chemical factories, where the various products are manufactured in separate workshops.

  

  Eduard Buchner
  • Animals
  • Seeing
  • Plants

• What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Different
  • Travel
  • Wanted

• My main message to folks who love animals is that you can do something every day to help them.

  

  Alison Eastwood
  • Help
  • Animals
  • Message

• I chose to present myself as one who comes from among the people, and I can be touched by their pain because I have my own.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • People
  • Pain
  • Myself

• Be who you are. It's easy to feel like you have to blend in, but it takes courage to live your life with conviction and embrace the person that you are.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Life
  • Live
  • Courage

• I make war on the living, not the dead.

  

  Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
  • War
  • Living
  • Not Dead

• There's only so much planning you can do when it comes to pregnancies, y'know.

  

  Floor Jansen Nightwish
  • Planning
  • Pregnancies

• If you're a wildlife filmmaker and you're going out into the field to film animals, especially behavior, it helps to have a fundamental background on who these animals are, how they work and, you know, a bit about their behaviors.

  

  Mike deGruy
  • Animals
  • Filmmaker
  • Background