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I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea. -- Jon Huntsman, Jr.
Guinea pigs are quite difficult to draw, I think, because they're so furry. -- Quentin Blake
I have two Iceland horses, a very hairy dog called Looney, and a guinea pig. -- Cornelia Funke
All of us are guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. -- Tennessee Williams
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million. -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau
My last passport, I had North Korea, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea... I had, like, every war-torn country in there. -- Shane Smith
The airheads of Congress will keep their own plush healthcare plan - it's the rest of us guinea pigs who will be thrown to the wolves. -- Camille Paglia
Every unwanted animal ends up on my farm: alpacas and horses and dogs and cats and chickens and ducks and parrots and fish and guinea pigs. -- Salma Hayek
I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using myself as a human guinea pig. -- Marilu Henner
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander, but it is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the Guinea hen. -- Alice B. Toklas
I argued that the Bush administration, and the Coalition officials more recently, didn't understand Iraqi society. They thought it was a blank slate, that they could use Iraqis as guinea pigs. -- Juan Cole
To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. -- William Blake
I think we were the first picture to cut on Final Cut Pro. So we were the guinea pigs, because we got a deal on the system. But with that comes all sorts of technological problems I couldn't begin to describe. -- Griffin Dunne
A dear friend of my early childhood has worked as an anthropologist in Papua New Guinea for much of her life, and from the tiny island where her main work has been focused, she has brought me many funny and beautiful stories over the years. -- Michael Leunig
We're going to be focusing our science on things that will take us farther and longer into space. For many of those experiments, the crew members are human guinea pigs, which is fine; that's part of my job. I don't mind being a human guinea pig. -- John L. Phillips
Thanks to capitalism, the importance placed on beauty has never been so manipulated. We are the guinea pigs force-fed ads that tell us how pathetic we are: that we will never be loved, happy or valuable unless we have the body, the face, the hair, even the personality that will apparently be ours, if only we buy their products. -- Beth Ditto
I should wish [Alain Robbe-Grillet] to realize that Guinea exists. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
In Guinea I could read [Franz] Kafka. I re-discover in him my own discomfort. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. -- G.K. Chesterton
Why is it that you white people developed so much cargo and brought it to New Guinea, but we black people had little cargo of our own? -- Jared Diamond
I enjoyed being president, but the campaign against Guinea worm [horrible disease] has opened up a completely new career that is challenging and unpredictable and adventurous - and very gratifying. -- Jimmy Carter
In '73 I photographed the cannibals in New Guinea. They treated me OK but they didn't make you feel relaxed... I managed to escape unscathed though, I'm pretty good at that. -- David Bailey
An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax. -- David Letterman
When they were in Papua New Guinea, God just totally grabbed a hold of Will's heart and totally changed him. And within three months he was saved and he's never looked back since. -- Michael Scott
I would like to go to Kalimantan island in Sumatra to see the carvings and longhouse sculptures. I've also always wanted to look at the wood carvings along the Sepik River in New Guinea. -- Antony Gormley
In certain savage tribes in New Guinea, they put the old people up in the trees and shake them once a year in the spring; if they don't fall out they let them live another year. -- John Dos Passos
If you rush to take a drug, do so with the full knowledge that you are being a Guinea Pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will be known about the side effects. -- Robert S. Mendelsohn
My art collection is dominated by tribal art from Nigeria where I taught school, from New Guinea where we've travelled, and by Canadian Haida pieces. My own art is either on exhibition or owned by other people! -- Robert Bateman
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs sparked a rising wave of consumer indignation. But...it takes a major catastrophe to carry legal and enforcement action over the hump of lethargy and inaction....Today, nearly forty years later, the situation is worse, not better. -- John Fuller
We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same. -- Maya Angelou
Guinea has managed to go 42 days consecutively without any new Ebola infections. And that comes after neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia, the other two West African countries that were hardest hit by Ebola, have been through the same cycle of zero Ebola cases. -- Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent]. -- Fannie Lou Hamer
When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command! -- Herman Melville
The jingling of the guinea helps the hurt that Honor feels. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I have a cat. When I was younger, I had a guinea pig. -- Alison Goldfrapp
The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. -- Robert Burns
We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress. -- Tennessee Williams
I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South. -- Nat King Cole
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. -- Samuel Johnson
Whenever I go to an opera, I leave my sense and reason at the door with my half-guinea, and deliver myself up to my eyes and my ears. -- Lord Chesterfield
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. -- Samuel Johnson
What is sauce for the goose may be sauce for the gander but is not necessarily sauce for the chicken, the duck, the turkey or the guinea hen. -- Alice B. Toklas
I positively think that ladies who are always enceinte quite disgusting; it is more like a rabbit or guinea-pig than anything else and really it is not very nice. -- Queen Victoria
The labs were happy that I was brave enough to attempt to program it and the $5 million computer was left entirely to my use. I was their human guinea pig. -- Philip Emeagwali
The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum. -- Charles Caleb Colton
From the practical point of view, the susceptibility to infection of the guinea pig proved to be the most useful step forward. Today, all laboratories use this animal for preserving the virus. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Somehow I got to be one of five or six actors that the directors would use as guinea pigs at this directing colloquium, where people pay to listen to and watch the directors direct. -- Beth Henley
When the sun rises, do you not see a round disc of fire somewhat like a guinea? O no, no, I see an innumerable company of the heavenly host crying Holy, Holy, Holy is the Lord God Almighty. -- William Blake
If I was good each week, my father would take me to a different pet store each Saturday. I had a snake, horny toads, turtles, lizards, rabbits, guinea pigs... I kept my alligator in the bathtub until it got too big. -- Dick Van Patten
My mother was an English teacher who decided to become a math teacher, and she used me as a guinea pig at home. My father had been a math teacher and then went to work at a steel mill because, frankly, he could make more money doing that. -- Freeman A. Hrabowski III
The Carter Center has the only existing international taskforce on disease eradication. Which means a total elimination of a disease on the face of the Earth. In the history of the world, there's only been one disease eradicated: smallpox. The second disease, I think, is gonna be guinea worm. -- Jimmy Carter
U.S. failures when it comes to the Gulf of Guinea are many: a failure to address the longstanding concerns of a government watchdog agency, a failure to effectively combat piracy despite an outlay of tens of millions of taxpayer dollars, and a failure to confront corrupt African leaders who enable piracy in the first place. -- Nick Turse
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. -- Bernard de Mandeville
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I treat my writing like a day job, like my main job, even if for many years I was doing other jobs to pay the bills. I worked as a copy editor. I was a medical guinea pig. I was an eBay power seller of ladies' handbags. I was an assistant to a bookie at the horse races. I bartended. I did anything I could to make ends meet. -- Miguel Syjuco
To produce that identity among young people required guinea pigs. -- Junot Diaz
Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume. -- Rudyard Kipling
I'm some sort of guinea pig in a home economics crash course for werewolves. -- Kat Kruger
One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament. -- David Lange
I'm feeling like Billy the Kidd, skinny B.I.G. You literally live like a guinea pig -- Roc Marciano
And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo. -- Kenny Baker
If penicillin had been judged by its toxicity to guinea pigs, it might never have been used by man. -- Peter Singer
Better live a crossing-sweeper than die and be made to talk twaddle by a "medium" hired at a guinea a seance. -- Thomas Huxley
I had a dream about you starting a pet store. You didn't have any customers yet, and I was your guinea pig. -- Ryan Lilly
Great Britain would spend her last guinea to keep a navy superior to that of the United States or any other power. -- David Lloyd George
Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig. -- Aaron Sorkin
The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs. -- Marjane Satrapi
My voice sounded like one of the guinea fowl that screeched in our trees as it pooped, but I never let that stop me. -- William Kamkwamba
What happens a lot in film, though not so much in the theatre, is that you get stroked and sort of massaged, like a little guinea pig. -- Cate Blanchett
I've got a mission to help people improve and massively change their lives and create breakthroughs, so I'm always looking for them and I'm the first guinea pig. -- Tony Robbins
In those days [the 1790s],the students paid their professors directly for the lectures-typically about three guineas a class (a guinea was worth slightly more than a pound). -- Joshua Kendall
At the time when I was conducting my research there was no known method for taking the guinea pig's temperature. I demonstrated a technique which is now widely used. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
Noah must have taken into the Ark two taxes, one male and one female. And did they multiply bountifully! Next to guinea pigs, taxes must have been the most prolific animals -- Will Rogers
One sparrow is worth a thousand gulls, When it sings. The gull sits on chimney-tops. He mocks the guinea, challenges The crow, inciting various modes. The sparrow requites one, without intent. -- Wallace Stevens
The discovery that I soon made that the guinea pig was also susceptible to infection made it possible for me, from the third year on, to preserve the virus on this animal. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
First generation Indian immigrants are mass guinea pigs. When a race that subsisted on plants for centuries subsists on a meat-dominated diet, it scares me to know what's in store for them -- Siddharth Katragadda
Researchers found a frog in new guinea that is so tiny, they believe it's the smallest vertebrate on the planet. It has the tiniest backbone of any living creature, except members of Congress. -- Jay Leno

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