Carol J. Adams Quotes
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I would often take this bus and go to a nearby village where I had hordes of animal friends. I was hardly around four or five years old then. The conductor was so used to seeing me hop on to the bus and get down at the same place, that he never asked any questions. The strangest part is, he never asked for a ticket either!
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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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If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether.
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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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Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
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It animal research is immoral even if it's essential.
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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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You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
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I mean, if somebody said to me, junior year of college, you can go anywhere, your old man's paying for it, I'd have been gone in a flash. But I had to work. Every summer my mother would say, 'Get that job and hold on to it until August 30.'
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We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created.
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Everywhere animals are in chains, but we image them as free.
