I’d like to see animals removed from the entertainment business. Chimpanzees and apes won’t perform unless you beat them. Circuses keep elephants in chains 90 percent of the time.
BOB BARKERI am very fortunate, in that the television viewers of our country have decided that Bob Barker can stay.
More Bob Barker Quotes
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Nothing gives me quite so much joy as when people tell me they’ve had their pets spayed or neutered.
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I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you’re in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s.
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Elephants need freedom of movement. In circuses, they live in cramped quarters, which is not the life intended for them by nature.
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A person who has never owned a dog has missed a wonderful part of life.
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Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered.
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I became a vegetarian out of concern for animals, but I wasn’t a vegetarian long before I realized there’s something to that.
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Change isn’t always good. Sometimes changing things is a terrible mistake.
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I can’t believe you’re a professional golfer. I think you should be working at the snack bar.
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We must educate the public. The average person has no idea of what’s going on in factory farms, in laboratories, circuses, roadside zoos or rodeos.
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Many people have the idea that game shows are easy to come up with. And nothing could be further from the truth
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You can’t fool television viewers with dancing girls and flashing lights
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Look at how many of them say no animal testing. I’ve talked with people who work in the cosmetics departments, and they tell me, Without that, you can’t sell them. And that’s wonderful!
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Some are beaten daily, forced to do ridiculous tricks and robbed of every shred of dignity.
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For years, they were doing horrible things to animals in the manufacture of cosmetics, and testing of the most barbaric types; today, if you go into a drugstore and go down the [cosmetics] aisle.
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I’ll tell you one thing, in what I do for a living, there’s no substitute for experience. I don’t care how much natural talent you may have… In the type of show I do, you can depend on surprises.
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