Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they ‘educate’ people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement. Peter Singer Read Quote
The primary symptom of a controller is denial, that is I can’t see its symptoms in myself. Keith Miller Read Quote
The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it. Mao Zedong Read Quote
Of course, my sister and my dad, I respect as musicians and look up to them, but people kind of forget that they’re my family, so my first reaction isn’t always, ‘Let me see what my dad and Miley think about this record.’ Noah Cyrus Read Quote
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. Elizabeth Gaskell Read Quote
I’ve had one fall that I kind of hurt my toe pretty badly because I slammed into one of the set pieces. But, you know, you just get up and keep going. The adrenaline’s pumping, and you just carry on! Carmen Cusack Read Quote
Actors are always looking for actor-proof parts. A part so good you can’t screw it up! John Rhys-Davies Read Quote
I’ve always tried to avoid music being direct therapy, and I’ve always found there’s a power when you write something that can have its own interpretation – although I’m not being intentionally evasive. KT Tunstall Read Quote
Is there something we have forgotten? Some precious thing we have lost, wandering in strange lands? Arna Bontemps Read Quote
