Guinea Pigs Quotes

• I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice.

  Queen Victoria

  Nice, Pregnancy, Thinking

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• Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

  Anatole France

  Love, Inspiring, Dog

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

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• We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

  Tennessee Williams

  God, Meaningful, Work

  "The Theatre of Tennessee Williams". Volume II,

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• Why can't the world be simpler, like it is for guinea pigs? They only have a few rules: Crying will get you attention. If it fits in your mouth, it's food. Scream if you don't get your share.

  Cynthia Lord

  Pigs, Attention, World

  Cynthia Lord (2006). “Rules”

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• I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig.

  Cornelia Funke

  Dog, Horse, Pigs

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• I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe.

  Griffin Dunne

  Cutting, Thinking, Pigs

  "Griffin Dunne is 'Famous'". Interview with Anthony Kaufman, www.indiewire.com. August 21, 2001.

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• We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig.

  John L. Phillips

  Jobs, Pigs, Space

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• I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.

  Nat King Cole

  Hurt, Fear, Pigs

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• I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs.

  Juan Cole

  Pigs, Use, Administration

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• The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig.

  Philip Emeagwali

  Pigs, Brave, Use

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• Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct.

  Beth Henley

  Pigs, People, Directors

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• The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves.

  Camille Paglia

  Pigs, Healthcare, Guinea

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• I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig.

  Marilu Henner

  Doctors, Pigs, Class

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• Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals

  Will Rogers

  Taken, Inspiration, Animal

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs.

  Salma Hayek

  Dog, Horse, Cat

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• Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products.

  Beth Ditto

  Hair, Pigs, Personality

  "What would Beth Ditto do?" by Beth Ditto, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2007.

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• All we want is to be treated like human beings, and not to be patronized, or experimented on like guinea pigs.

  Winona Ryder

  Pigs, Want, Guinea

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig.

  Tony Robbins

  Pigs, People, Firsts

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• If a potato can produce vitamin C, why can't we? Within the animal kingdom only humans and guinea pigs are unable to synthesize vitamin C in their own bodies. Why us and guinea pigs? No point asking. Nobody knows.

  Bill Bryson

  Animal, Pigs, Asking

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• 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction....Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better.

  John Grant Fuller

  Dark, Years, Pigs

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• To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs.

  Junot Diaz

  Pigs, People, Identity

  Interview with Matthew Rothschild, progressive.org. March 8, 2008.

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• Magnus, you were trying to flirt with your own plate." "I'm a very open-minded sort of fellow!" "Ragnor is not," Catarina said. "When he found out that you were feeding us guinea pigs, he hit you over the head with your plate. It broke." "So ended our love," Magnus said. "Ah, well. It would have never worked between me and the plate anyway.

  Cassandra Clare

  Flirting, Pigs, Trying

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything.

  Pam Brown

  Sister, Sibling, Thinking

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• If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man.

  Peter Singer

  Animal, Men, Pigs

  Peter Singer (1975). “Animal liberation: a new ethics for our treatment of animals”

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• It's a very specific body. Even great reviews will be like: chubby, portly, overweight. . . . Sometimes I'm like, 'Ugh, how did I make myself the guinea pig for this?' But on the other hand, hating my body has not been my cross to bear in this life. Which I feel very lucky about.

  Lena Dunham

  Hate, Hands, Pigs

  "Lena Dunham's Glamour April Issue Cover-Shoot" by Jonathan Bernstein, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2017.

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