"When Steve Wise told me that he intended to argue in court before a judge that an animal could be a "legal person," it seemed like a novel, possibly far-fetched idea, but the more I thought about it, the more I became intrigued."

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Source : "Sundance 2016 Women Directors: Meet Chris Hegedus – ‘Unlocking the Cage’". www.indiewire.com. January 23, 2016.

#Wise Quotes #Animal Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell.”
“Hell is both sides of the tomb, and a devil may be respectable and wear good clothes.”
“(To someone at New York University) If you consistently take an antagonistic approach, however, people are going to start thinking you're from New York.”
“Pat Fox out to the forty(yard line) and grabs the sliothar(ball), I bought a dog from his father last week. Fox turns and sprints for goal, the dog ran a great race last Tuesday in Limerick. Fox to the 21 fires a shot, it goes to the left and wide......and the dog lost as well.”
“You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.”
“1977 was also, of course, the year that Derek Jarman made his iconoclastic film Jubilee, which was so much part of the punk movement.”
“The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.”
“It takes courage to dream big and then to allow nothing to prevent you from realizing that dream.”

Source : Tony Dicicco, Colleen Hacker, Charles Salzberg (2003). “Catch Them Being Good: Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Coach Girls”, p.67, Penguin

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