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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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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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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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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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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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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This is the only thing I know.
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Naqi suspected that the ability to turn drunkenness on and off like a switch must be one of the most hallowed of diplomatic skills.
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I do not feel any artist can produce great art without putting great personality into it. It is always a piece of you that goes on the screen or the canvass.
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I never liked my last name or my first name, but it's not as bad as Frigidaire, so it's fine.
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Then they started pulling me in and I was very resistant. All the other actors would be saying write more, more dialogue for me, and I'd always be saying 'No, less, less'.
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But if our hopes are betrayed, if we are forced to resist the invasion of our soil, and to defend our threatened homes, this duty, however hard it may be, will find us armed and resolved upon the greatest sacrifices.
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Protestations of indifference to higher office are hard to take seriously when the 'non-candidate' is busily engaged in testing the waters.
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If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless.
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I trust myself, the way I prepare. I feel like I know what I'm doing.
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I have twins. They are 4 years old. They know the word 'concert,' so they know father's job is 'concert,' and they prefer concert over father.
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We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise.
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If you can make a movie, make one. If you can sing a song, sing it. If you can write a play, write it. If you want to run for office, run. But do something to make this world a better place.
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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.
