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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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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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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The idea that Americans favor politicians who either remind them of themselves or can imagine what their selves are like because they too have struggled and sung the blues, is, like very best theories of human behavior, immune to falsification by mere evidence.
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And indeed this theme has been at the centre of all my research since 1943, both because of its intrinsic fascination and my conviction that a knowledge of sequences could contribute much to our understanding of living matter.
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I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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He gave us the lakes for our Northern boundary, and the rivers stretching to the seas upon whose waters floats our commerce to the nations of the world; while man has done all that can be done by science to bind us together.
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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.
