Quotes
Authors
Bruce Friedrich

"Every time I sit down to eat, I cast my lot: for mercy, against misery; for the oppressed, against the oppressor; and for compassion, against cruelty. There is a lot of suffering in the world, but how much suffering can be addressed with literally no time or effort on our part? We can just stop supporting it, by making different choices."

Source : "Resolved: Eating Animals Is Indefensible" by Bruce Friedrich, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 5, 2010.

Bruce Friedrich

#Compassion Quotes #Choices Quotes #Effort Quotes

“I'm one of those people who're good at everything but I'm not great at anything. I thought I'd be a chef or a teacher.”
“I had never done any sort of yoga before, and this epiphany was a little more esoteric. I walked into the yoga room and there was a voice from my soul that said out loud, This is it! I just knew. I just knew in that moment - I couldn't even straighten my legs. I couldn't sit cross-legged on the floor. I couldn't put my legs up the wall in the most gentle, restorative yoga pose, and yet, I knew.”
“Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“If Québec separates I will go with it, my loyalties are with Québec”
“I still regard myself as an amateur today and I hope that's what I'll stay until the end of my life. Because I'm forever a beginner who discovers the world again and again.”
“I bounce off four walls, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, because I only sleep those four hours a day”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Alcohol and drug addiction are problems, and we should use outside agencies that know the business. They do business all over the country. Why don't we contract them to do it? See, we should be in certain businesses.”
“If you wish to collect complimentary material for a record of yourself, never appeal to your relations. They may be proud of you as an asset to the family name, but they have a gift for remembering your gawky period privately, the follies and faults you committed and have forgotten. You may have come up in the world with a laurel on your brow, but if you go back home forty years later wearing two laurels on your brow, and a noble expression, they will miss the point.”

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