The holidays are also a time when people freak out about their finances. If you don't want to spend the money, why not try some of the other options instead of killing a bunch of animals?
My wife and I started a program called Bears Without Borders. We raise money and hire local artisans to make stuffed animals and distribute them in their communities.
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature.
I think that there are many aspects to the relationship between humans and animals. But briefly, humans appear to have always been fascinated by them from the time of cave paintings and before.
It's easy in a novel to be completely unambiguous about the relationship between animal and daemon simply by stating it outright; whereas you get very few opportunities to do this in an elegant way in a film.
Steve Irwin did wonderful conservation work but I was uncomfortable about some of his stunts. Even if animals aren't aware that you are not treating them with respect, the viewers are.
It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Love can never make you weak, and love is not restricted to opposite sex. I love my parents, I love my animals, and I love my profession.
I used to watch every episode of 'Justice League,' I went to all the movies, I had the Superman lunchbox. I was enamored with animation in general and always wanted to somehow be a part of it.
I'd see movies, comedies, and I loved 'Animal House', I loved all the John Hughes stuff, but I never saw me and my friends totally represented.
Dean Vernon Wormer: The time has come for someone to put his foot down. And that foot is me.
Neidermeyer: You're all worthless and weak! Now drop and give me twenty!
D-Day: We have an old saying in Delta House: don't get mad, get even.
Dean Vernon Wormer: Put Neidermeyer on it. He's a sneaky little shit just like you.
Bluto: Kroger, your Delta Tau Chi name is Pinto. Pinto: Why "Pinto"? Bluto: [belches] Why not?
[During the song "Shout" at the toga party] Bluto: Gator! [He, D-Day, and others begin shaking on the floor]
Otter: Ah, she broke our date. Boon: Washing her hair? Otter: Dead mother.
In short, the animal and vegetable lines, diverging widely above, join below in a loop.
'Rock n' Roll Animal,' the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.
If I could stomach the awful part of being a veterinarian, which involves sticking your hand up animals' behinds, I would be a vet.
Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.