Peter Singer Quotes

If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.

Peter Singer

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When I'm gone, they'll say, 'I always thought he was straight, but he wasn't - he was crooked.'

Jimmy Savile

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It's an old-fashioned, very outdated, non-functioning idea that we can drain all the resources from directly around us and skyrocket to the top of a skyscraper, and that's success. We have to understand that when one has to leech from others to that degree, then that's something we need to watch and stop.

Jimmi Simpson

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Who lives long and who dies prematurely, is the defining issue of our time. And I submit to you, there's a significant race dimension, it is basically class-driven.

Jesse Jackson

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I never sing out loud because I'm afraid people will go, 'Shut up!'

Joel Edgerton

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You can't create a political movement out of pabulum.

Robert Reich

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What one does in the studio is to pose a series of problems to oneself. I've got to look for some deeper meaning, for some reason for this thing to be in the world. There's enough stuff in the world.

Anish Kapoor

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Actually, I look the same in real life as I do in the movies.

Andy Lau

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At the end of the day, I'm really proud of the work I did to help kids get an equal opportunity, and a lot of them have.

Steve Scalise

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To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Simone Weil

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A lot of people these days are not music lovers - they just want to be famous which is a very different thing to what I grew up believing in.

Shirley Manson

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McGeorge Bundy was a brilliant man who'd had a meteoric academic career and was the youngest man ever to be dean of the Harvard faculty. But he was also arrogant and looked upon all sorts of people and politicians as not to be taken all that seriously.

Robert Dallek

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I'm tired of biting my tongue.

Robin Wright

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