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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'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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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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Se non volea pulir sua scusa tanto,Che la facesse di menzogna rea.
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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.
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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.'
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There's so much of, it could have been a very critical examination of what happened, and really the emotional lives of the people involved sort of carry the characters forward.
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I make sure that I take good care of me.
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A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect.
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Once I had a steel job for half of a day. I never went back to collect my pay.
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In the '70s and '80s there was an attempt in K-12 to teach science through art or art through science. The challenge today is how do you build the ethos of art and design into the academy of science.
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If something is very important to you, you will always find a way to do it.
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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.
