Vegetarian Quotes - Page 32

• We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

  Paul McCartney

  Believe, Kids, Immature

  Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2010.

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• I know vegetarians don't like to hear this, but God made an awful lot of land that's good for nothing but grazing.

  Molly Ivins

  Vegetarianism, Land, Awful

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• Let's call a spade a spade - a lot of times when you are a vegetarian it is a just not very effective eating disorder.

  Lena Dunham

  Eating Disorder, Spades, Eating

  "Downtown’s Daughter" by Rebecca Mead, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2010.

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• I can’t be sure, of course, but I’d compare it to living on tofu and soy milk; we call ourselves vegetarians, our little inside joke. - Edward Cullen

  Stephenie Meyer

  Soy Milk, Tofu, Littles

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• I don't have hardly any caffeine, I don't drink alcohol and I watch my red meat intake. My diet at the minute seems to be verging towards the vegetarian, which is surprising me because I tend to just listen to what my body is fancying.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Alcohol, Red, Meat

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• As for us, we were never concerned with the Kantian-priestly and vegetarian-Quaker prattle about the sacredness of human life.

  Leon Trotsky

  Quaker, Human Life, Sacredness

  Leon Trotsky (2014). “The Defence of Terrorism (Routledge Revivals): Terrorism and Communism”, p.60, Routledge

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• I'm a vegetarian, I'm not strict. I eat fish. And duck, but they're nearly fish aren't they.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Ducks

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• I tried eating vegetarian. I felt like a wimp going into a restaurant. "What do you want to eat sir? Broccoli?" Broccoli's a side dish, folks. Always was, always will be, OK! When they ask me what I want, I say: What do you think I want? This is America. I want a bowl of raw red meat right now.

  Denis Leary

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Denis Leary: No Cure for Cancer". Documentary, Comedy, www.imdb.com. 1993.

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• I sometimes find the vegetarians are more conditioned and more dogmatic than anything else, more than the religion. It's terrible, you must chew the food I don't know how many times, this you mustn't eat and this you must do, goodness me!

  Irina Tweedie

  Sometimes, Goodness, Terrible

  Source: www.goldensufi.org

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• But vegetarians can eat this...Because intestines aren't even meat, Liz. They're just sh$*.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Liz, Meat, Intestines

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• Many vivisectors still claim that what they do helps save human lives. They are Iying. The truth is that animal experiments kill people, and animal researchers are responsible for the deaths of thousands of men, women and children every year.

  Vernon Coleman

  Children, Animal, Men

  "Why Animal Experiments Must Stop". www.animalliberationfront.com. 1991.

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• To the greatest extent possible, I try to make choices that involve the least amount of cruelty and environmental damage. I'm interested in sustainable agriculture, environmental issues, human rights, and my interconnectedness in the web of life. It is a great pleasure for me to find products and practices that have a positive effect on living beings and the environment, rather than a negative one.

  Vesanto Melina

  Rights, Practice, Web Of Life

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• How self-centered, how arrogant... Imagine the awesome privilege of living in a society where you get to choose what you eat at each and every meal. When I was a kid, I was a vegetarian and a vegan for long stretches... I was a commodity cheese-atarian.

  Sherman Alexie

  Kids, Self, Long

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• But when, at the end of my sophomore year, I became a philosophy major and started doing my first seriously pretentious thinking, I became a vegetarian again. The kind of willful forgetting that I was sure meat eating required felt too paradoxical to the intellectual life I was trying to shape. I thought life could, should, and must conform to the mold of reason. You can imagine how annoying this made me.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Philosophy, Thinking, Years

  "Eating Animals". Book by Jonathan Safran Foer, books.google.ru. March 4, 2010.

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• I am sure vegetarians must also account for a lot of gases. Look how many beans they eat.

  Antony Worrall Thompson

  Looks, Beans, Accounts

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• Meat!" he said scornfully. "I'm a vegetarian." You eat cheese enchiladas and aluminum cans," I reminded him. Those are vegetables.

  Rick Riordan

  Vegetables, Meat, Aluminum Cans

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• It's a pretty amazing to wake up every morning, knowing that every decision I make is to cause as little harm as possible. It's a pretty fantastic way to live.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Morning, Health, Knowing

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• I vowed never again to experiment with such sensitive creatures.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Vivisection, Animal Rights, Animal Testing

  Christiaan Barnard (1979). “The best medicine”

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• Leandros's favorite place had turned out not to be vegetarian, but vegan, which was for people who preferred their suicide slow.

  Rob Thurman

  Suicide, People, Favorite Places

  Rob Thurman (2011). “Blackout: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.63, Penguin

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• My wife is a vegetarian. When my wife is with me, I eat vegetarian. When she's not, I eat meat. I'm just being honest.

  J. B. Smoove

  Wife, Just Being, Meat

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• Check out my web site, wtp.org, to see what fast food did to 2 people in England.

  Jerry Brown

  People, England, Fast Food

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• I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.

  Michael Stipe

  Sex, Crazy, Sick

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Olympia was a town crawling with music. I was new to the whole punk scene. The culture shock continued; Olympia had bagels! We didn't have bagels in Arkansas. You could order vegetarian food all over town! It was so crazy to me - a place with so many vegetarians, the restaurants made special dishes for them?

  Beth Ditto

  Crazy, Order, Special

  Beth Ditto (2012). “Coal to Diamonds”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• When are we left-wingers going to learn that we are losing the cultural and political battle with conservatives because we are fractured into narcissistic special-interest groups? Why should an antiwar protestor be so concerned about her dietary identity? The political opinions of vegetarians and meat-eaters are, after all, equally important. And what does it tell us about vegetarians that it would never occur to meat-eaters to carry a sign that reads "Pacifist Pork Chop Lover for Peace" or "Backyard Rib Barbecuer for International Nuclear Disarmament"?

  Sherman Alexie

  Political Opinions, Nuclear Disarmament, Unity

  "Lefties Need to Love, Love, Love the White Working Class". Article by Sherman Alexie, www.thestranger.com. April 17, 2003.

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• I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

  John Ruskin

  Beautiful, Hurt, Animal

  John Ruskin, John D. Rosenberg (1964). “The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from His Writings”, p.415, University of Virginia Press

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