Peter Singer Quotes

I'm a Utilitarian, so I don't see the rule against lying as absolute; it's always subject to some overriding utility which may prevent its exercise.

Peter Singer

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ExerciseLyingAlwaysSeeMayRule

I do as many fun activities as possible. A lot of hiking, beach bike riding and walking. And cardio barre, which is a dance-based workout at a ballet barre. It's a full-body workout for one hour on Monday, Wednesday and Friday in a studio.

Jillian Rose Reed

BeachBikeFunMondayFridayRiding

I was born in Begusarai in Bihar. Then I spent 10 years in Kolkata and later hopped from Kathmandu to Delhi and, finally, Mumbai.

Sriti Jha

BornMumbaiYearsI Was BornDelhi

I've never thought it was a good idea to act back-to-back.

Rupert Friend

GoodThoughtNeverGood IdeaAct

As I stood there absorbing Hammett's novel, the slot machines at the back of the shop were clanking and whirring, and in the billiard room upstairs the perpetual poker game was being played.

Ross MacDonald

GameBackRoomPokerBeingMachines

I don't trip on that much. I just like to enjoy life and be happy.

Roy Ayers

LifeEnjoy LifeHappyBe HappyEnjoy

It does not help when an administration, in response to American attacks on American soil and American individuals, the administration ends up asking Americans to give up their First Amendment rights for which our service members are fighting.

Louie Gohmert

ServiceFightingAmericanHelpSoil

You have to live life to the fullest. I don't want to slow down. I want the giving to be stepped up. So the older I get, the less I will be involved in the business side, the more in the philanthropic side.

Jorge M. Perez

LifeLiveLive LifeBusinessSlow

I was interested in the idea of celebrity... some very untalented people getting very successful and making a lot of money for not a lot of work, sometimes.

David Thewlis

WorkMoneyPeopleSometimesIdea

People really are our most important resource, and people who don't realize that and choose not to live that way, choose not to lead that way, are paying a price for that in many of our companies, many of our organizations.

Chesley Sullenberger

LivePeopleChoosePriceImportant

I grew up in New York City, and both my parents worked. On weekends, we'd go out to the country, and on Sunday nights we'd come back. Sometimes we were a little cranky - it was a long drive. But we could always look forward to one thing: my mother's ziti and meat sauce.

Christa Miller

MotherNew YorkParentsCityDrive

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

Chris Van Allsburg

FaithPowerChildrenImagination

I have no ax to grind. I was lucky. I played. How many guys play high school, college football never play pro football?

Art Donovan

FootballSchoolCollegeHigh School

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