Colleen Goudreau Quotes

#1. We don't "crave" animal-based meat, dairy, and eggs, but we do crave fat, salt, flavor, texture, and familiarity.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#2. Don't do nothing because you can't do everything. Do something!

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#3. Artists paint not for their own enjoyment but to share their vision with others.

John Kurtz

#4. I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against.

Ben Stein

#5. Feeling anger is necessary; it's what we do with anger that will make or break us.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#6. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#7. One life matters - especially to the one whose life it is.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#8. 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

#9. If you want to remain always happy,
Always perfect and always fulfilled,
Then always keep inside your heart
A pocketful of sweet dreams.

Sri Chinmoy

#10. To do a musical takes a tremendous amount of energy because you have to act and sing at the same time. And everything has to be precise. Because you can't forget the lyrics because the band keeps playing, you know, and you're under a certain amount of pressure.

Alan Alda

#11. Choosing to laugh doesn't undermine the serious work we have to do. It enables us to do it.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#12. It seemed to me I was living in an insane asylum of my own making. I went about with all these fantastic figures: centaurs, nymphs, satyrs, gods and goddesses, as though they were patients and I was analyzing them. I read a Greek or Negro myth as if a lunatic were telling me his anamnesis.

C. G. Jung

#13. There is a stereotype that vegans talk about being vegan all the time. The irony is, once people find out I'm vegan, I quickly become their confessor, counselor, and sounding board.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#14. They're not fat pigs; we're mad scientists.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#15. What's the point of having beliefs and values if we don't stand up for the former and live by the latter?

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#16. May our daily choices be a reflection of our deepest values, and may we use our voices to speak for those who need us most, those who have no voice, those who have no choice.

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#17. Why is it that the people who seem to have the most to say aren't doing anything at all?

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#18. The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

Alan Lomax

#19. How often do we talk just to fill up the quiet space? How often do we waste our breath talking about nonsense?

Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

#20. There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.

Norton Juster