"Animal rights activists talk about cruelty and torture, some backing their assertions by publishing out-of-date photographs of 'experiments' banned long ago. This is a misrepresentation. The work we do is performed with compassion, care, humanity and humility. I have never seen an animal suffer pain."

-- Robert Winston

#Pain Quotes #Humility Quotes #Animal Quotes

“The world's problem is not too many people, but lack of political and economic freedom.”

Source : Julian Lincoln Simon (1998). “The Ultimate Resource 2”, p.495, Princeton University Press
“No, she did not have a history of twins, and we had discussed all of this before she got pregnant. What if all three, what if two eggs, what if one - you discuss every scenario.”
“Theres this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didnt want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but thats part of it.”
“Science, like nothing else among the institutions of mankind, grows like a weed every year. Art is subject to arbitrary fashion, religion is inwardly focused and driven only to sustain itself, law shuttles between freeing us and enslaving us.”
“Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand.”

Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber
“You know, for 300 years it's been kind of the same. There are restaurants in New Orleans that the menu hasn't changed in 125 years, so how is one going to change or evolve the food?”
“When we love deeply, love makes us do things we wouldn't otherwise do.”
“To label any subject unsuitable for comedy is to admit defeat.”

Source : "Mr. Strangelove: A Biography of Peter Sellers". Book by Ed Sikov, 1999.

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