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It's ridiculous that we let broadcast and cable shows compete against each other at the Emmys. They are not the same animal.

Courtney A. Kemp

Animal Ridiculous Same Compete Cable

The logical outcome of evolution is that it makes monsters. We turn into monsters because evolution takes away everything that makes us human in the sense of our moral accountability, our moral absolutes, and our idea of being distinct from the animal kingdom.

Animal Accountability Evolution Moral

An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.

Responsibility Animal Action Better

I also assume that they are not simply the physical properties of things as now conceived by physical science. Instead, they are ecological, in the sense that they are properties of the environment relative to an animal.

James J. Gibson

Science Animal Environment Now Sense

We're the only animal that wakes up and doesn't stretch.

Animal Up Stretch Only Wakes

In my movies, there has been little to do in the way of animal rights. I have never worked in a movie with animals. No horse-riding, no trained dogs, lions, bears. A few actors, but what could I do? We had to have them.

Animal Animals Movies Way Never

I'm a little hibernating animal. Anonymity is one of my favorite things. I mean, that's why I moved to New York when I was like 18, because there, there are just so many people that there's no one and you're just lost. You're completely invisible and I find that very liberating.

Animal New York People You Find New

You see, as I go along, I've come to consider bravery as just about the most pernicious of virtues. Bravery is a horrible thing. The human race has it left over from the animal world and we can't get rid of it.

Animal World You Go Race See

'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.

Chuck Palahniuk

Quality Animal Me Kingdom Lean Amy

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Life Animal Sun Plant Fish You

If you read the whole Vertigo 'Animal Man' series of 89 issues or whatever, each writer has a completely different take on his origin. If you try to put them all together, they contradict one another. I had to pick and choose to make up a new origin that makes sense to new readers.

Together Man Animal You Choose New

I think the decision to make substances like steroids from plants, rather than from animal tissues, was a landmark in the history of medicine as well as the history of chemistry.

History Decision Animal Plants Think

No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and defend animal rights.

Brigitte Bardot

Animal Stand Up Voice Political Need

Why isn't the movie industry forced to open its shooting locations to an organization that is there to advocate for animal actors? The industry isn't allowed to pick and choose which movies using young children it will or won't allow to be monitored. The vulnerable should be protected.

Children Animal Organization Choose

The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.'

Michael Crichton

Food Fight Animal Result Animals

The arteries are found in nearly every part of the animal body, with the exception of the hairs, nails, and epidermis; and the larger trunks usually occupy the most protected situations, running, in the limbs, along the flexor side, where they are less exposed to injury.

Animal Body Nails Side Where Injury

If you like a person you say 'let's go into business together.' Man is a social animal after all, but such partnerships are fraught with danger.

Business Together Man Animal You Go

The restriction of studies of human intellect and character to studies of conscious states was not without influence on a scientific studies of animal psychology.

Edward Thorndike

Character Animal Influence Human

I love sushi. But after too much of it, it just starts to taste like a dead animal that hasn't been cooked.

Love Animal Too Much Sushi Dead

I was one of those kids who found it difficult to eat anything that looked like an animal.

Animal Difficult Eat Anything Kids

'Fecundity' is an ugly word for an ugly subject. It is ugly, at least, in the eggy animal world. I don't think it is for plants.

Animal Ugly Plants World Think Word

When I started researching the eco effects of eating meat, I'd assumed, for no good reason, that environmental irresponsibility would correspond to both animal size and deliciousness: Eating cows would be worst, eating pigs would be a bit less bad, and eating chickens would be basically harmless.

Good Animal Environmental Eating Bad

Think about it: You're trying to raise cash to save an endangered animal. You've got orphaned pandas getting 3 trillion YouTube hits, and you've got seals being clubbed over the head by roughnecks. The money flows in. But what about the poor shark?

Stephen Rodrick

Money Animal Think Trying You Poor

I discovered that funny animal pictures - memes - would get a lot of likes and shares.

Funny Animal Pictures Get Would Lot

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