"When you start with a necessary evil, and then over time the necessity passes away, what's left?"

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Source : Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.429, Macmillan

Matthew Scully

#Evil Quotes #Passing Away Quotes #Necessary Evil Quotes

“Everything hurts, every single thing including the weight of him and I'm crying because it hurts and he's telling me he's sorry over and over again, and I figure somewhere down the track we'll work out the right way of doing this but I don't want to let go, because tonight I'm not looking for anything more than being a part of him. Because being a part of him isn't just anything. It's kind of everything.”
“I prefer writing originals.”

Source : "Talking With Tony Gilroy". The Washington Post Live Online discussion, www.washingtonpost.com. September 27, 2007.
“I liked science. It was about the only thing that stayed the same wherever we moved.”

Source : Ellen Klages (2007). “Portable Childhoods”, p.96, Tachyon Publications
“I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.”
“The last 10 to 20 years youâ€™d think that it has been all about VCs making money, because thatâ€™s all we hear about. But really it is all about VCs failing and failing to return capital and being f**king idiots. VCs are stupid. They are absolutely stupid. Does anyone want to challenge that statement? Does anyone think that VCs are not stupid?”
“I realized that many men are happy to play a supporting role to another man, but they are much less happy to play a supporting role to a woman. People are saying we need more females in our industry and we need more female-driven stories, but that takes the men of bankable star quality to come forward and play supporting roles in those films, because ultimately that's what the women have always done. We've always lent our name value to male-centric stories, and now we're going to have to ask the men to swallow their pride, because it seems that it's about pride.”
“By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content.”
“Who knows but life be that which men call death, And death what men call life?”

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