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"Hagrid looked down at his umbrella and scratched his beard. 'Shouldn'ta lost me temper,' he said ruefully, 'but it didn't work anyway. Meant ter turn him into a pig, but I suppose he was so much like a pig anyway there wasn't much left ter do."
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
"It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question."
"Nail polish or false eyelashes isn't politics. If you have good politics, what you wear is irrelevant. I don't take dictation from the pig-o-cratic style setters who say I should dress like a middle-aged lady. My politics don't depend on whether my tits are in or out of a bra."
"When in doubt, pig out!"
"Today's pig is tomorrows bacon!"
"You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig."
"But I will place this carefully fed pig Within the crackling oven; and, I pray, What nicer dish can e'er be given to man."
"Studying cows, pigs and chickens can help an actor develop his character. There are a lot of things I learned from animals. One was that they couldn't hiss or boo me."
"I am firm; YOU are obstinate; HE is a pig-headed fool."
"I am very proud to be called a pig. It stands for pride, integrity and guts."
"If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?"
"Have an objective to give your bender a theme. For instance, stalking and killing a wild pig with a bowie knife."
"All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs."
"The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it."
"Well-being and happiness never appeared to me as an absolute aim. I am even inclined to compare such moral aims to the ambitions of a pig."
"The concept of marriage must have been thought up by an unimaginative pig."
"Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything."
"Gays, lesbians, straights, feminists, fascist pigs, communists, Hare Krishnas - none of them bother me. I don't care what banner they raise. But what I can't stand are hollow people. When I'm with them I just can't bare it, and wind up saying things I shouldn't."
"My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig."
