Norm Phelps Quotes

If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.

Norm Phelps

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• What was past was past. I suppose that was the general attitude.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Past
  • Attitude
  • General

• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Think
  • Vanity

• I had no future with the Dodgers, because I was too closely identified with Branch Rickey. After the club was taken over by Walter O'Malley, you couldn't even mention Mr. Rickey's name in front of him. I considered Mr. Rickey the greatest human being I had ever known.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Future
  • Taken
  • Name

• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • History
  • Culture
  • Literature

• People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Think
  • Television

• The hardest thing to do and most miserable films are comedies.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Most
  • Miserable
  • Hardest

• Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Nothing

• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  

  C. Everett Koop
  • You
  • Care
  • Safe

• I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Money
  • Pride
  • Stars

• When we were in Sweden, there was a fan that hid in a bin. I think one of the security guards saw and tried to take her out, and she went a bit crazy and started tackling them.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • She
  • Think
  • Crazy

• If I'm really honest, I'm not a huge fan of scary films.

  

  Imogen Poots
  • Scary
  • Honest
  • Really

• I think abortion is murder.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Think
  • I Think
  • Abortion

• Does Sex Matter? Of course it does. But does it matter enough to Matter? That's a different question.

  

  Vera Rubin
  • Different
  • Question
  • Sex

• An actor cannot be a censor. I'm there to interpret.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Actor
  • Cannot
  • Censor

• In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Women

• The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.

  

  W. H. Auden

• I think it's just a nerve-wracking thing to sing in a movie in general.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Movie

• I mean, people who say that the Tea Party isn't a grassroots movement, I think, are incorrect. I think in some respects, it is a grassroots movement.

  

  Matt Taibbi
  • People
  • Party
  • Tea

• The more species we look at, the more, frankly, we find that humans are not exceptional here.

  

  Eric Lander
  • Humans
  • Species

• On the one hand, society needs a common faith and vigorous institutions with the power to coerce; and on the other, the individual as a human soul or as the bearer of a new and possibly saving heresy, must be free. It is difficult enough to reconcile these two needs, but the problem holds another hazard: the need of action under the pressure of time.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Time
  • Power
  • Soul

• Being satisfied with the status quo means you are not making progress.

  

  Katsuaki Watanabe
  • Progress
  • Satisfied
  • Status Quo

• I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Life
  • World
  • Men

• If we are not able to bring the churches, the synagogues, [and] the mosques around to the animal rights view, we will never make large-scale progress for animal rights in the United States.

  

  Norm Phelps
  • Progress
  • Animal
  • Rights