#demon

My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#ate #chicken #conferences #dad #demonstrating

The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat. ↗

— Vilhjalmur Stefansson

#ages #also #arguing #both #demonstrated

After reading Eminem's autobiography, which I did because I'm so interested in him as an artist, I respect him a lot. Even though he seems angry and mad, he's had to fight so many demons in his life. ↗

— Taryn Manning

#angry #artist #autobiography #because #demons

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling. ↗

— William James

#both sides #bring #closer #communion #demon

Once I completed the Cube and demonstrated it to my students, I realized it was nearly impossible to put down. ↗

— Erno Rubik

#cube #demonstrated #down #i #impossible

I've got billions of sparrows to worry about as well as everything else'. So there's the whole idea that whatever it is that you believe, it can never be valid unless you have some consensus reality demonstration. ↗

— Todd Rundgren

#believe #billions #consensus #demonstration #else

All actors are on the run from some demon or other. ↗

— Julian Sands

#other #run #some

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh. ↗

— Justin Sane

#civil #civil rights #civil rights movement #demonstrated #feminist

We didn't set out to be educators or even scientists, and we don't purport that what we do is real science but we're demonstrating a methodology by which one can engage and satisfy your curiosity. ↗

— Adam Savage

#demonstrating #educators #engage #even #methodology

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude. ↗

— Anton Seidl

#crude #demonstrated #devotion #fact #feeling