Rats Quotes - Page 7

• People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat.

  Paul Palmer

  Race, People, Sometimes

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• On 'Lab Rats,' I read the script probably three or four times before we ever even do a table read because I want to be completely prepared. And I want to know exactly which beats I have to hit and where I need to make something comical. Some lines need a little more than others do just to get the point across, to get the joke to be funny.

  Billy Unger

  Three, Needs, Four

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Animal liberationists do not separate out the human animal, so there is no rational basis for saying that a human being has special rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Animal, Boys

  Vogue, September 1, 1989.

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• I just don't have the desire no more, I don't have the stomach to do it no more. I don't even kill insects in my house. I just don't kill anything no more. I used to kill pigeons, rip their heads off, 'You dirty rat pigeon!' I don't even have the heart to kill an animal no more. I just changed my whole life in general. That probably could have changed the way I fight.

  Mike Tyson

  Rip, Dirty, Heart

  "Tyson's love for the fight game turns to disgust". Interview with Dan Rafael, www.espn.com. June 11, 2005.

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• I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.

  Mike Rowe

  Rivers, San Francisco, Guy

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• Why is the sky blue? Why is water wet?
  Why did Judas rat to the Romans while Jesus slept?

  Ghostface Killah

  Jesus, Rap, Blue

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• But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.

  Jonathan Swift

  Time, Thinking, Self Improvement

  Letter to Bolingbroke, 21 March 1730, in Harold Williams (ed.) 'The Correspondence of Jonathan Swift' vol. 3 (1963) p. 382

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• A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all animals.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Dog, Animal, Boys

  Washingtonian magazine, August 01, 1986.

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• Isn't it amazing that the Germans call their city halls 'rat houses'? That's what we should call our city halls!

  Drew Carey

  Cities, House, Political

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• Based on my time living with rats and mice in Washington, D.C., I have always assumed that animals will escape such fires, since their senses of smell, wariness of such dangers, and ability to move through almost invisible holes is so impressive, but I think that we should not dismiss the possibility that they, also, will be harmed. These reflections do not, of course, rule out burning meat trucks. And they don't mean that when the next slaughterhouse or vivisection lab burns down, I will denounce those who carried out the burning, or that I will feel anything other than joy in my heart.

  Bruce Friedrich

  Moving, Heart, Mean

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• General Systems Theory, a related modern concept [to holism], says that each variable in any system interacts with the other variables so thoroughly that cause and effect cannot be separated. A simple variable can be both cause and effect. Reality will not be still. And it cannot be taken apart! You cannot understand a cell, a rat, a brain structure, a family, a culture if you isolate it from its context. Relationship is everything.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Taken, Simple, Reality

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• You can win the rat race but you're still a rat.

  Banksy

  Inspirational, Winning, Race

  Banksy (2005). “Banksy: wall and piece”, Random House UK

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• Weird heroes and mould-breaking champions exist as living proof to those who need it that the tyranny of 'the rat race' is not yet final.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Hero, Race, Champion

  1969 'Those Daring Young Men In Their Flying Machines Ain't What They Used To Be!', in Pageant, Sep.

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• The water bath has a platform which the rats learn to find because they don't like to get wet. Then you remove the platform. But you don't tell the rats.

  Susumu Tonegawa

  Water, Baths, Platforms

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• The insane asylum on Blackwell’s Island is a human rat-trap. It is easy to get in, but once there it is impossible to get out.

  Nellie Bly

  Islands, Insane, Asylums

  Nellie Bly (2015). “The Collected Works of Nellie Bly (Annotated)”, p.87, Golgotha Press

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• Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

  David Baldacci

  Book, Kids, Rocks

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• I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

  Bob Geldof

  Fun, Nice, Thinking

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• Rat is a lot like duck, except with a wonderfully nutty flavor.

  Cody Lundin

  Ducks, Survival, Flavor

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• What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

  Matt Goldman

  Inspirational, Funny, Rivers

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• I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.

  B. F. Skinner

  Lying, Men, Differences

  B. F. Skinner (1990). “The Behavior of Organisms: An Experimental Analysis”, p.466, B. F. Skinner Foundation

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• Only a rat can win a rat race.

  Michael Franti

  Winning, Race, Rat Race

  Song: Sometimes

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• Come, fix upon me that accusing eye.
  I thirst for accusation. All that was sung.
  All that was said in Ireland is a lie
  Breed out of the contagion of the throng,
  Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Eye, Saving

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

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• All I can do is say I smell a rat. I don't know where it is or what kind of rat it is, but as an artist, I can express how. But I couldn't responsibly stand up and tell people which way to go, because then I'm just as guilty as the people who are telling everybody else what to do and where to go.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Artist, Smell, People

  "Maynard James Keenan". Interview with The A.V. Club, music.avclub.com. November 30, 2006.

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• Multi-taskers often think they are like gym rats, bulking up their ability to juggle tasks, when in fact they are like alcoholics, degrading their abilities through over-consumption.

  Clay Shirky

  Thinking, Gym Rats, Tasks

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• He says-him as was here just now-'When Tom shut up the house, mate, to go to rack, the beds was left, all made, like as if somebody was a-going to sleep in every bed. And if you was to walk through the bedrooms now, you'd see the ragged mouldy bedclothes a heaving and a heaving like seas. And a heaving and a heaving with what?' he says. 'Why, with the rats under 'em.'

  Charles Dickens

  Sleep, Sea, House

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Christmas Stories from "Household Words" and "All the Year Round"”, p.259

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