Carol J. Adams Quotes
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My favorite animal is a polar bear. They're going extinct, and I really don't want that to happen.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.
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Freedom is living without chains.
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The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
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Twenty years ago I wanted to move to a nice place so our Charley would grow up a nice boy and learn a profession. But instead we live in a jungle, so he can only be a wild animal. D'you think I picked the East Side like Columbus picked America?
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With every animal, you have to build its confidence around people because people do some crazy and stupid things.
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I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
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Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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I am a literary animal. For me, everything ends in literature.
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Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.
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A cow is a very good animal in the field; but we turn her out of a garden.
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'You only blinched inside,' said Pooh, 'and that's the bravest way for a Very Small Animal not to blinch that there is.'
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We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.
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Here was irrefutable proof that he was using the Holocaust to speak of the extermination of animal life. Doomed creatures that could not speak for themselves were being given the voice of a most articulate people who had been similarly doomed. He was seeing the tragic fate of animals through the tragic fate of Jews. The Holocaust as allegory.
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Louis deliberately chose someone who hadn’t been to university because theories of animal behaviour at that time were very rigid, and Louis didn’t want someone whose mind was biased in that way. Wise man. But still I had the responsibility to prove myself. I remember looking up at the hills and wondering, 'Can I do it?'
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You can always tell about somebody by the way they put their hands on an animal.
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I am ready for love but I'm not desperately seeking it.
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A nice blend of prediction and surprise seem to be at the heart of the best art.
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Sin carries in it its own misery.
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Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.
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A colleague once nicknamed me - half mocking - the 'magical stranger' because I get people to tell me things.
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Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.
