Gary Yourofsky Quotes
Since most people only pay lip service to the injustices of the world, because one cannot affect the outcome of an atrocity like the Darfur genocide, veganism is your only chance to stand up for what's right several times a day, every day, for the rest of your life!
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Sometimes people think drawing and painting is mucking about when actually it is a highly skilled activity.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.
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Yeah, I don't like, um, I'm not interested in rock 'n' roll piano. I find it a little grating.
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Even a genius cannot completely resist his Zeitgeist, the spirit of his time.
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You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem with that at all.
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I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.
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When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.
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One of the best parts of being a writer means that researching all kinds of cool stuff actually counts as work!
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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I am not thinking that because people say I am great that I really am great. I am just doing a job, just like everybody else. The only difference is that a lot more people see what I do.
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In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to be strong and make my own choices and do what's best in my life, so if you're dating someone who doesn't want you to be the best person you can be, you shouldn't be dating them.
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I'm a big routine guy. I have to have everything in threes.
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Personality is the glitter that sends your little gleam across the footlights and the orchestra pit into that big black space where the audience is.
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I am actually a bit chubby, and I eat everything. I eat in a way - if my parents fed me the way I choose to eat as an adult, they would've lost custody.
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When I wrote my first book, 'Koolaids,' I felt rejected and not wanted.
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Once you get into a part, and someone sees you, you get asked to do it again.
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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Since most people only pay lip service to the injustices of the world, because one cannot affect the outcome of an atrocity like the Darfur genocide, veganism is your only chance to stand up for what's right several times a day, every day, for the rest of your life!
