Satish Kumar Quotes
If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.
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My own being can be judged by the depths I reach in making these historical origins my own.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Being evil is easy.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Human rights, no matter whom they affect, are something that should matter to all of us. It's always been a part of my life.
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Living in New York for 10 months was incredible; it was everything I thought it was going to be and more.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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I got a scholarship to Seattle University and I was writing arrangements for singers and everybody. But the music course was too dry and I really wanted to get away from home.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.
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I have both sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation, which are both debilitating conditions.
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I am very concerned that federal and state air quality programs do not consider public health in regulating certain classes of industrial air emissions.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Things don't spiral out of control when we surrender them; they spiral out of control when we try to control them!
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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You need to take your gut feeling as an important data point, but then you have to consciously and deliberately evaluate it, to see if it makes sense in this context.
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If we had kept the vision of interconnectedness, we would not have created the kind of environmental crisis facing the world today.
