Lewis Carroll Quotes
Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.
Quotes to Explore
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I want my shows to be eerie and mysterious.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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On the one hand, the rich look askance at our continuing poverty - on the other, they warn us against their own methods.
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I don't really think about anything too much. I live in the present. I move on. I don't think about what happened yesterday.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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The first time I went to Iraq was October 2002, when Saddam was still in power, and then, subsequently, in January of 2003, about three-and-a-half months before the U.S. invasion. So, I got to see the before and after of Iraq, basically, before and after the war.
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As a writer, Chris Columbus was a big influence. 'The Goonies' was the first movie I ever saw that kids speak normally and not imagined how kids would talk. Always a big fan of Chris Columbus' dialogue and storytelling.
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I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.
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'Until Friday Night' is the first book in my new young adult series, 'The Field Party.'
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Tourism is a top priority activity for federal government, which is why it invests an average of over 2,500 million dollars a year in infrastructure works and integral projects that promote Mexico's culture and natural attractions.
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I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordinary spectacle. I was incredibly green and had no idea what an undertaking it is. I also have a new respect for models because they are so close to the front row and must be so self-conscious.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
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Judges cannot - nor should they try to - align our legal system with the Church's moral teaching whenever the two diverge. They should, however, conform their own behavior to the Church's standard.
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Man is everywhere a disturbing agent. Wherever he plants his foot, the harmonies of nature are turned to discords.
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Temperance is moderation in the things that are good and total abstinence from the things that are foul.
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It's hard to see how anyone can fail to care about innocent children and animals being blown up by landmines.
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Forbid the day when vivisection shall be practised in every college and school, and when the man of science, looking forth over a world which will then own no other sway than his, shall exult in the thought that he has made of this fair earth, if not a heaven, at least a hell for animals.
