Jules François Felix Fleury-Husson (Champfleury) Quotes
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The attractive lady whom I had only recently been introduced to dropped into my lap... I chose not to dump her off.
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I didn't feel very attractive as a child and actually I wasn't.
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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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Congress must make it clear that common animal waste will not expose farmers to liability under Superfund, while ensuring continued action to clean up legitimate hazardous waste sites around the nation.
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If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
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I don't feel like I have to dress up to go to the deli.
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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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I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
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Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.
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Hunters and trackers learn not only to understand intellectually a bunch of facts about the animal they follow, but to feel their way into the very being of the 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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Minimal is the word I'd use to describe how I live and dress, and it's also how I sing. I'm not a big fan of overemoting.
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I'd like to make over Marilyn Manson and just dress him really normally to see what he looks like. That'd be really weird!
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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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'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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Man is by nature a political animal.
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Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
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When I was young, I made all of my own clothes.
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I'm the kind of person who will set time aside to do something and then do everything but that thing.
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The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal.
