Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
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Snobbery just inhibits you.
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I love surfing more than cricket, more interesting and you meet great people.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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It's true that I have always been very comfortable with numbers.
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And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.
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People just kind of associate me with kicking some ass.
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An artist's sphere of influence is the world.
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One day I hope to open my own day-care center. My passion for kids is through the roof.
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One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.
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There is increasing social concern about our use of nonhumans for experiments, food, clothing and entertainment. This concern about animals reflects both our own moral development as a civilization and our recognition that the differences between humans and animals are, for the most part, differences of degree and not of kind.
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Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
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To really be conscious of how long the journey is, be patient, push yourself, persevere, and always be working on your craft while waiting for your break. That's what I'm still working on, having done this for 20 years now.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I don't care what people are saying about me, good or bad, in blogs or on Twitter or in the media. There will always be people who don't like you and don't like your books. Ignore them.
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Throw a stick, and the servile dog wheezes and pants and shambles to bring it to you. Do the same before a cat, and he will eye you with coolly polite and somewhat bored amusement.
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I never take anything for granted. I may slip any minute.
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Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
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I think the family movie is very important to everybody right now.
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I am a Quaker. And as everyone knows, Quakers, for 300 years, have, on conscientious ground, been against participating in war. I was sentenced to three years in federal prison because I could not religiously and conscientiously accept killing my fellow man.
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And to me, it was interesting, some of the people I had interviewed who knew the insides to this program said that they also, to create anxiety and upset in the soldiers, they take Bibles and they trash them.
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I'm inspired by almost everything I come across in life, and one way or another they find themselves sneaking into my stories.
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My goal is to make a movie that no one would sort of expect me to make.
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Just as a fisherman cannot catch fish unless his line is in the water, a wildlife photographer cannot shoot great wildlife images unless he or she is out there with camera in hand and the knowledge of what to do then the 'magnificent moment' occurs.
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It still goes. But Pat is the nicest cattle I've ever seen.
