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.
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I don't like to rate myself; others can do that.
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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.
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The public debate about evolution itself, as opposed to whether to teach it, is something else. It is boring, demeaning, and insufferably dull.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Before and after emancipation, the Negro, in self-defense, was propelled toward the white employer. The endowments of wealthy white men have developed great institutions of learning for the Negro, but the freedom of action on the part of these same universities has been curtailed in proportion as they are indebted to white philanthropies.
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'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.
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My system for staying young is to work a lot, to always have a project on the go.
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People are saying, 'Big Data is the new oil.'
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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.
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The role of leadership is to transform the complex situation into small pieces and prioritize them.
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'Portlandia' - love it. I can consume three episodes of it without even realizing I'm watching TV.
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But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right.
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To hear, one must be silent.
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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.
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Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,Che la facesse di menzogna rea.
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I am not concerned about getting reelected. I can make the unpopular but necessary decision. Your focus from day one is on your legacy rather than political considerations.
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Like most Americans, I live in the line of fire of a shooting match that is going on over Reagan's legacy. It's between shrill and extremist voices who alternately conceive of him either as an icon of all that's great and good or a representative of everything that's gone wrong with this country. And obviously neither is the case. He is just a man.
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I live in New York full time. I can't live in L.A., because I fear people think I'm a vagrant there.
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I think animals should be free. There's so much other food out there that doesn't have to involve you in that cycle of pain and death.
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Without animal research, polio would still be claiming thousands of lives each year.
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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.
