"You know, the Emancipation Proclamation was like giving freedom to domestic animals."
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"To go on being an actor, you need sheer animal energy. If you can't restock your energy, you have to hide your lack of it."
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"It is like sitting in a traffic jam on the San Diego Freeway with your windows rolled up and Portuguese music booming out of the surround-sound speakers while animals gnaw on your neck and diseased bill collectors hammer on your doors with golf clubs."
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"Sportswriters are a rude and brainless subculture of fascist drunks, a gang of vicious monkeys jerking off in a zoo cage... more disgusting by nature than maggots oozing out the carcass of a dead animal."
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"I have a special relationship with animals. I contribute to harmony and balance among all the living creatures of the earth."
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"If the creatures with fur/feathers/fins are our brothers in a lower stage of development then their very weakness and inability to protest, demands that man should refrain from torturing them for the mere possibility of obtaining some knowledge which he believes may be to his own interest."
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