William C. Roberts Quotes

When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

William C. Roberts

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• I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Myself
  • Like
  • Others

• It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • People
  • Past
  • Best

• The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Teach
  • Evolution
  • Debate

• Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Problem

• CEOs and employers at for-profit corporations should not be able to prevent women from access to health care simply because of their own personal religious objections.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Women
  • Health
  • Religious

• I've never changed my life since I was 4 and went to the YMCA with a gym bag. I still have that philosophy. In fact, I still have that gym bag.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Life
  • Philosophy
  • My Life

• I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Time
  • Home
  • House

• 'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start firing in a different way. You start taking on things that sometimes I feel are out of our control. That's what basically fuels my creative side.

  

  Raine Maida
  • Different
  • Control
  • Reading

• My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Work
  • Always
  • Project

• You have to build your credentials as a candidate, not just as a woman. You also have to be willing to exercise power. We've been educated to be mothers, peacemakers, but we must learn that we can't please everybody.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Power
  • Woman
  • Exercise

• The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Small
  • Leadership
  • Situation

• 'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Love
  • Three
  • Without

• But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Confidence

• To hear, one must be silent.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin

• I believe I drank too much wine last night at Hurstbourne; I know not how else to account for the shaking of my hand today. You will kindly make allowance therefore for any indistinctness of writing, by attributing it to this venial error.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Today

• Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,Che la facesse di menzogna rea.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• I ski every three years or so. I don't have the ingrained confidence that others do, but I'll happily toddle about a green or blue run.

  

  Cherie Lunghi
  • Confidence
  • Green
  • Blue

• I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Time

• When I was sectioned for six months, that was one of the worst experiences of my life, not being able to go out and have freedom. Having experienced it, it's almost inexplicably awful.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Able
  • Worst
  • Illness

• My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Biology
  • Diseases
  • Fascination

• One does not lash hat lies at a distance. The foibles that we ridicule must at least be a little bit our own. Only then will the work be a part of our own flesh. The garden must be weeded.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Distance
  • Garden
  • Flesh

• These days, many people are unwilling to see their dog as an animal. Let's face it: they are cute, but they will bite. Not only do I look at dogs as animals, I look at myself as an animal, which explains why, since I got my permit, I drive with my head out the window.

  

  Taylor Negron
  • People
  • Why
  • Myself

• Isn't it strange that religious prejudices - beliefs none possess, not even the saints, so they have lamented - divide brothers and sons from their fathers. You see, I except mothers and sisters; the female is not a religious animal. If she were, the world would have ceased long ago.

  

  George A. Moore
  • World
  • Long
  • She

• When we kill animals to eat them they end up killing us because their flesh...was never intended for human beings, who are naturally herbivores.

  

  William C. Roberts
  • Animal
  • Kill
  • Herbivores