"my own relationships with the animals in my life are absurdly complex: Some I love, some I eat, and the scraps left over from the ones I eat, I feed to the ones I love."
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"The standard approach has been to pump up the dosage of chemicals ... Twenty percent of these approved-for-use pesticides are listed by the EPA as carcinogenic in humans."
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"You talk to some people who are opposed to same sex marriage, and they'll say, 'If we allow that, what's next? Will people want to marry animals?'...You have to wonder about people who go straight to that idea --- and they think WE'RE weird!"
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"I care passionately about equal rights [and] animal rights."
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"First of all, I don't think they have to go that high. That is not necessary, to be that high in the air. I think they're showing off, those pilots. I think we could just go really fast just a few feet off the ground. Just high enough to miss the animals."
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"I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment."
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"Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals."
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"I don't want to be a tiger, tigers play too rough. I don't want to be a lion, cause lions ain't the kind you love up."
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"I saw three shrimp in the water, two were old and gray. I swam a little closer, and I heard the third one say, good-bye Mama."
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"The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot."
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"not all bears have their own television series. Some of them are unemployed wild animals."
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"Poached eggs are good, poached animals are not."
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"It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick."
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"But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start."
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"I spend a hell of a lot of time killing animals and fish so I wouldn't kill myself. When a man is in rebellion against death, as I am in rebellion against death, he gets pleasure out of taking to himself one of the godlike attributes; that of giving it."
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"I was a weird animal in high school, doing no work and getting straight A's."
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"I find more and more, as I grow older, that I prefer women to men, children to adults, animals to humans.... And rocks to living things? No, I'm not that old yet."
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"In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food."
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"Here was something that I did all the time, and thought nothing of it, and it turns out the rest of the world thinks it's completely reprehensible. That's when I knew I needed to change, so I started making rules. The first one was; Don't mess with animals."
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"Scientific physiology has the task of determining the functions of the animal body and deriving them as a necessary consequence from its elementary conditions."
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