In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that give you the upper hand. You read the bull, you learn to read the bull more and more accurately, and this reading of the bull is how you deploy your intelligence against the bull's intelligence. Your accuracy in reading the bull is a weapon, maybe your most important weapon, against all the bull's weapons. On the other hand, you're human, you have the human tendency to read into the bull things which may not actually be there.
I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to i… - Bette Ford
I don't believe that anyone connected with bullfighting would deny that what happens in the ring has an element of suffering and perhaps cruelty to i…
- Bette Ford
Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I w… - Bette Ford
Bullfighting is anachronistic - you enter into a bullring and you're leaving behind the values of the world outside the ring. I suppose that what I w…
I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my tec… - Bette Ford
I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my tec…
Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values. - Bette Ford
Madrid reacting with the forceful protection of bullfighting as an art form is an example of the survival of the old values.
I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure. - Bette Ford
I never took pleasure in seeing a bull die. Relief, but certainly not pleasure.
A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook. - Bette Ford
A bull will try to outwit you. It will stop and hook when the last thing you expect from it is that it will stop and hook.
It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though. - Bette Ford
It's almost impossible to imagine bullfighting abolished from Spain entirely. Values do change, though.
For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger tha… - Bette Ford
For me, bullfighting was this very spiritual engagement with power, with power and death. You're pitting yourself against a force that's stronger tha…
In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that g… - Bette Ford
In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that g…
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