"My employer uses twenty-six years of my life for every year I get to keep. And what do I get in return for the enormous thing I am giving? What do I get in return for my life?"

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Source : Michael Ventura (1993). “Letters at 3am: reports on endarkenment”, Spring Pubns

Michael Ventura

#Life Quotes #Years Quotes #Giving Quotes

“If I cry on telly, I'm genuinely crying. If it's a gritty scene it can come naturally.”

Source : Source: www.mirror.co.uk
“Seriously, many people have told me they can't eat turkeys anymore after getting to know them. I think in the wider world, when the stories air on the media, they help banish the idea that birds, other than parrots, are somehow lesser.”

Source : "Animal Advocate and Author Karen Dawn: The Welfare of Animals and the Earth". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Virtue is increased by the smile of approval; and the love of renown is the greatest incentive to honourable acts.”
“People joke about me that I talk in voiceovers. I have that sort of inflection. But I do talk in voiceovers. I have done it my whole life.”
“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....”
“I never plan anything-life is a roller coaster ride - I just hang on for dear life.”
“We used to go to the pictures every Saturday night but we had to leave a little bit early and get home and watch Match of the Day - and my wife still complains she missed the last five minutes of every film we saw.”
“It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that is, not liked but . . . how to put it . . . was interested, or whatever.”

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