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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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
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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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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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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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The theory of politics that emerges from the political literature of the pre-Revolutionary years rests on the belief that what lay behind every political scene, the ultimate explanation of every political controversy, was the disposition of power.
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When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder.
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As long as I get to be doing what I love, which is making comedy and that kind of thing, I feel lucky that I get to.
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I'm motivated by creating a level playing field for the world so that the weak have a chance.
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The more prosperous and settled a nation, the more readily it tends to think of war as a regrettable accident; to nations less fortunate the chance of war presents itself as a possible bountiful friend.
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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!
