Pet Quotes - Page 15

• When I was growing up in Montana I had two dreams: I wanted to be a paleontologist and I wanted to have a pet dinosaur and so that's what I've been striving for all of my life.

  Jack Horner

  Dream, Growing Up, Two

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• We make a mistake in thinking we own pets - the animals open their lives up and make us a part of them.

  Gary Paulsen

  Mistake, Animal, Thinking

  "Author Interview: Gary Paulsen". Interview with Amanda Lynch, www.thechildrensbookreview.com. January 26, 2009.

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• For the time it takes to make the film, you are treated like a cosseted pet. Then the process is over, and you're hung out to dry. It's like being a mink.

  Kyle MacLachlan

  Dry, Film, Mink

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• At school where you a dunce or a teacher's pet? All of the above. I was stupid so they thought I was cute.

  Dave Grohl

  Cute, Teacher, Stupid

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• I have taxidermy pets that are very close to me. I have a little lizard with a head that comes on and off that I call Nicolas Cage because his face is long. And I have a big diamondback rattlesnake called Rufus, and I have some rats in jars and stuff.

  Mackenzie Davis

  Long, Faces, Cages

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's this pet phrase about writing that is bandied around particularly in workshops about "finding your own voice as a poet", which I suppose means that you come out from under the direct influence of other poets and have perhaps found a way to combine those influences so that it appears to be your own voice.

  Billy Collins

  Writing, Mean, Voice

  "A Brisk Walk". Interview with Joel Whitney, www.guernicamag.com. June 14, 2006.

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• There are so many great animals in our local shelters that people don't really know about. Annually, two to four million animals are euthanized, and we can bring that number down significantly by going to our local shelter and adopting and also by spaying and neutering your pets.

  Beth Ostrosky Stern

  Animal, Two, Numbers

  "Beth Stern: Speaking Up for Our Furry Friends". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Ugh, puppy mills. These commercial breeding facilities are horrendous. The animals are kept in tiny wire cages, with little to no human interaction throughout their lives. They are rarely, if ever, seen medically and are forced to breed over and over again and watch as their babies are taken away from them and sold to pet stores. It is a supply-and-demand business, so the more people stop going to pet stores and choose to adopt instead, the quicker we can put an end to these puppy mills.

  Beth Ostrosky Stern

  Baby, Taken, Animal

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• Seafood is one of my biggest pet peeves.

  Big Sean

  Pet Peeve, Seafood, Peeves

  Source: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• The biggest experiment there - and I was convinced for a really long time that it was going to fail horribly - had to do with this weird thing I do every now and then. Like everyone else, as a reader there are certain things that really rub me the wrong way in fiction - pet bugbears, let's call them.

  Roy Kesey

  Long, Fiction, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• It would have been so perfectly ironic if I had been killed by the dog, because I was petting a dog who was not used to being pet, because I think I'm some kind of dog whisperer, and I think I can make any dog love me.

  Pam Houston

  Dog, Thinking, Ironic

  Source: therumpus.net

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• My children are my greatest gifts and my greatest inspirations. That my husband is the most honest, kind, hard-working, and genuine person, and I honestly don't know how I could ever live without him. That my parents love me and I love and appreciate them. That I hate doing taxes. That my biggest pet peeve is inconsiderate people. That I love laughing, traveling, volunteering, and my friends. That my favorite smell is chocolate chip cookies baking in the oven. That I am blessed.

  Trista Sutter

  Children, Husband, Hate

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• The man was reportedly allowed to bring the turkey onboard as a therapy pet because it was an emotional support animal. It's so cute. It had one of those vests saying support animal, do not pet or baste.

  Mike Pesca

  Cute, Animal, Men

  "Panel Round One". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!" with Mike Pesca, www.npr.org. January 16, 2016.

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• Sometimes people pick up pet worries that they'll entertain themselves with and that was my big one. So as far as thinking about what that means, one of the definitions of insanity is that you lose your ability to communicate to anybody because your frames of reference have become so different from the rest of the world that you can't communicate anymore.

  Brad Warner

  Mean, Thinking, People

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Everyone has values, and values their family, values their health, their sanity, their safety and security, and their families, their parents, their children, their pets, their environments, well-being in general.

  Surya Das

  Children, Safety, Parent

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• If you think about the times in life when you've been the most deeply fulfilled, they're the times that you've felt love. Whether it's watching a sunset, spending time with a pet or being with a partner with whom you feel an intensely deep connection.

  Marci Shimoff

  Sunset, Thinking, Connections

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I've never been in trouble. I've never had detention or anything. I wasn't a teacher's pet though either.

  Arnaz Battle

  Teacher, Trouble, Detention

  Source: prod.www.49ers.clubs.nfl.com

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• My pets are very supportive, as they curl up in their beds underneath my desk.

  Rolonda Watts

  Supportive, Bed, Curls

  Source: happyeverafter.usatoday.com

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• Never get your girlfriend a pet that she didn't know she was getting.

  Emmy Rossum

  Girlfriend, Your Girlfriend, Knows

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• In the beginning, God created man, but seeing him so feeble, He gave him the cat.

  Warren Eckstein

  Inspiring, Cat, Men

  Warren Eckstein, Fay Eckstein (2013). “How to Get Your Cat to Do What You Want”, p.4, Ballantine Books

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• Many of us have to spell words such as "out," "cookie," and "bath" when conversing with other people, lest we unnecessarily excite our pets. And even then they often understand. I've actually had clients who resorted to using a second language around their dogs, but after a while their perceptive pooches caught on. Who says dogs don't understand us?

  Warren Eckstein

  Dog, People, Baths

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• You always worry and you always fear what's next. But you eventually just push forward knowing you can't really do much about getting rid of the anxiety. You see people get pets after their kids leave the house because they're so used to having something around to dote on and worry about.

  Drew Magary

  Kids, Knowing, People

  Source: postgradproblems.com

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• It's always weird to eat something that is a pet elsewhere.

  Nick Kroll

  Elsewhere

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• So much of what a pet is about for us is that it becomes a vessel for yearnings, dreams, illusions, hopes and so forth. It's a projection of the ultimate innocence and purity. That's why it's hard to see a dog in its dogness. That's why, when some harm comes to a dog, it's much harder for an audience to deal with that, more so than dealing with harm that comes to a child or anything human.

  Todd Solondz

  Dream, Dog, Children

  "'Wiener-Dog': Director Todd Solondz Explains Why It Took a Few Years to Make This Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 25, 2016.

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• The fact that you have government-guaranteed student loans has created a whole new sector in the American economy that didn't really exist before - private for-profit universities that sell junk degrees that don't help the students. They promise the students, "We'll help you get a better job. We'll arrange a loan so that you don't have to pay a penny for this education." Their pet bank gets them the government-guaranteed loan, and the student may get the junk degree, but doesn't get a job, so they don't pay the loan.

  Michael Hudson

  Jobs, Government, Promise

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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