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Pet Quotes

"I used to have this little mouse. I buy birds from the pet store and I let them go."

Ziggy Marley, Jamaican Musician

Pet, Birds, Mouse

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"When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be."

Natalie Portman, American Actress

Pet, Cute, Want

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"I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet."

Paul Rudd, American Actor

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"My parents used to take me to the pet department and tell me it was a zoo."

Billy Connolly, Scottish Comedian

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"It doesn't work if the bad guys kill his mother's uncle's friend's neighbor's pet dog. You've got to make the stakes high."

Steven Seagal, American Actor

Pet, Work, Mother, Friend

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"I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan."

Jimi Hendrix, American Musician

"Gypsy was the name my brother gave a pet turtle he had. I always thought it was so peculiar."

Joel Hodgson, American Entertainer

Pet, Brother, Thought, Name

"Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own."

Frederick Pollock, English Judge

"It's true, you can never eat a pet you name. And anyway, it would be like a ventriloquist eating his dummy."

Alexander Theroux, American Author

Pet, Eating, Name

"My roommate got a pet elephant. Then it got lost. It's in the apartment somewhere."

Steven Wright, American Comedian

"A lover tries to stand in well with the pet dog of the house."

Moliere, French Playwright

"I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane."

Kristin Davis, American Actress

"I have a Lab, it's fun to hang out and hike with the dog, people come up to him, and pet him, it's fun."

George Eads, American Actor

Pet, People, Fun

"I was in New York and I walked into this pet store and came out with a dog."

Beverley Mitchell, American Actress

"Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things."

George Carlin, American Comedian

"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Pet, Christian, Gossip

"I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation."

Whoopi Goldberg, American Actress

"I have some road rage inside of me. Traffic, especially in L.A., is a pet peeve of mine."

Katie Holmes, American Actress

"I worked in a pet store and people would ask how big I would get."

Rodney Dangerfield, American Comedian

"It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young."

Konrad Lorenz, Austrian Scientist

Pet, Day, Exercise, Research

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