"I'm no shrinking violet. I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat. And I'm extremely competitive on a tennis court. . . But that experience at the slaughterhouse overwhelmed me. When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal! I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was firsthand experience of man's cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism."

Source : Peter Burwash, John Tullius (1983). “Peter Burwash's Vegetarian Primer”, Atheneum Books

Peter Burwash

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“I wouldn't be honest if I didn't say my mom. Apart from the fact that she's my mother, she's a brilliant comedian and a force as a producer. She paved the way for women to produce and star in their own films, and to balance that with being the matriarch of our family is really inspiring.”
“All any girl needs, at any time in history, is simple velvet and basic diamonds.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I will not let the non-knitters of the world decide how normal I am.”

Source : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.41, Storey Publishing
“Louis Armstrong is quite simply the most important person in American music. He is to 20th century music (I did not say jazz) what Einstein is to physics.”

Source : Geoffrey C. Ward, Ken Burns (2000). “Jazz: a history of America's music”, Knopf
“There has to be a better use for titanium than golf clubs.”

Source : "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, 2003.
“I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.”
“But every single damn thing matters! Only we don't realize. We just tell ourselves that art runs on one track and life, our lives, on another, and we don't realize that's a lie.”

Source : "Last Evenings on Earth". Book by Roberto Bolaño, 2006.
“You can't always be demanding solidarity from others and then refuse to show it yourself.”

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