Only the most arrogant, shortsighted, and spiritually bereft of our species would say that, at any cost to other species, we need only worry about our own.


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TIMOTHY WEST
With 'Kidnapped,' there didn't seem to be a sure hand guiding it: everything had to be r...
TIMOTHY HUTTON
Electing Barack Obama president was a glorious Jackie Robinson moment for the United States of Ameri...
TIMOTHY NOAH
A more accurate statement would be that I was the first person since Jedi who was permitted to stick...
TIMOTHY ZAHN
When the topic is growing income inequality, it's hard to prettify an imbalance between the rich...
TIMOTHY NOAH
In Washington, the accepted method for passing along information about how the government fails to m...
TIMOTHY NOAH
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
TIMOTHY LEARY
The Kurds were the only people in Iraq who were completely unguarded in expressing their gratitude t...
TIMOTHY NOAH
If one does not wish to take the word of journalists, human rights groups, and the United Nations th...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Yeah, it was a little slick. But some of these guys when they put helmets on turn into idiots, too.
TIMOTHY PETERS
To pine for the days before public education became a practical reality is to pine for an America he...
TIMOTHY NOAH
I was always insecure about the way I looked.
TIMOTHY SPALL
I know what I like when I see it, but no way have I ever become interested in learning about it.
TIMOTHY SPALL
I'm not always fat, but when I'm thin, people don't seem to notice. I'm seen as a fat person no matt...
TIMOTHY SPALL
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
TIMOTHY SPALL
I know I work quite hard at making people like me.
TIMOTHY SPALL
You can make as many films as you like, but if nobody wants to put them on, what's the point?
TIMOTHY SPALL
Algonquin has the resources to turn these systems around. No one wants to see this sale transpire mo...
TIMOTHY EDWARDS
I remember, when we started 'Leverage,' we were all in Chicago, and I read the script for th...
TIMOTHY HUTTON
Honestly, it wasn't (too tense). I know all of the candidates quite well, and I'm not a terribly com...
TIMOTHY PARKER
The embourgeoisement of China's proletariat may be the inevitable result of its industrializatio...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Sharks will scare me. I went out to Malibu a couple of weeks ago. Beautiful, clear day, out in five ...
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT
We live in an era of mind-blowing scientific discovery, virtually none of which ever makes the front...
TIMOTHY NOAH
we sleep better that way ... But the truth is, there are people like him, armed to the teeth, waitin...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,8...
TIMOTHY MURPHY
Stock prices relative to company assets are no better at signaling the likelihood of future earnings...
TIMOTHY NOAH
I would imagine that members were getting weary. Six weeks is a very long time and a lot of people w...
TIMOTHY JONES
This is getting larger and larger.
TIMOTHY JONES
Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that h...
TIMOTHY RADCLIFFE
With its Medicaid expansion, Obamacare may turn out to be the most equality-promoting policy enacted...
TIMOTHY NOAH
Never before in modern times has so much of the world been simultaneously hit by a confluence of eco...
TIMOTHY GEITHNER
An analogy would be when you're scanning the radio dial and you get the same station separated by a ...
TIMOTHY ROBISHAW
Where do you presently live, sir?
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
Like Cupid,
your promises
were just misses.
TIMOTHY JOSHUA
Mr. McVeigh stated that he laid out the plan and that Terry Nichols alone broke into Moore's house a...
TIMOTHY MCVEIGH
If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your ...
TIMOTHY LEARY
The universe is an intelligence test
TIMOTHY LEARY