Vandana Shiva Quotes
Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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I encourage all men - and all women who love their men - to make sure to get out every year, from the age of 50 on, and have PSA and DRE tests. With early detection, you can have an early cure.
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'Big Bang' is unbelievable; I'm blessed, but it's not the only thing in my life.
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When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.
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Let's be cautious about dreaming up extreme scenarios. The situation in Iraq is still salvageable.
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Fashions fade, style is eternal.
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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou has passed through.
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Before vampires were aesthetically appealing, they were physical anomalies and ostracized outsiders whom we banished to the dark, and they didn't have the appeal that they do now.
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I started the class late. The teacher said I would have to learn as much in half a year that the others learned in a year. I did it.
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Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
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Our church has been legal since late 1960s. I've been involved since 1972. I was ordained in 1975.
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It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.
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I was always in hospital as a kid: I had a tumour on my knee, lots of broken bones. I loved climbing trees.
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Worst part is the post project low that seems to happen after being on a project that you love. I don’t hate things, but I really really passionately dislike going from being around a 'film family' every day and loving every minute of it, then after the film is over you rarely see each other again and if you do its very few and far in between.
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And at the time the Republican Congress and a Senate candidate by the name of Mitt Romney - crowd boos No, no, no - Don't boo, vote. Vote! Voting's the best revenge.
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Within your magic web of hair, lies furledThe fire and splendour of the ancient world;The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;The songs that turned to gold the evening airWhen all the stars of heaven sang for joy.
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The urge for retribution depends upon our not seeing the underlying causes of human behavior.
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Dreams of doing goodFor good-for-nothing people.
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Mr Raj had been purely Orientally and fancifully complimentary (‘So great a man, his lingam as long and thick as a tree, the father of whole villages’).
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The worst thing about touring is the travel.
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Interest groups are not the same as individuals. Through false nostalgia for the New Deal, you are taking the younger generation hostage. They are the ones who are going to have to pay far greater taxes. They are the future's forgotten men.
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The satisfactions of agreement are immediate as sugar - a melting of the granular, a syrup that lingers, shared not singular. Many prefer it.
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In a way, the debate about Margaret Thatcher in Britain has just gotten fossilized in this notion that she is either this she-devil who wrecked the industrial base of the country and ruined the lives of millions, or she is the blessed Margaret who saved the nation and rescued us from our post-war decline.
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Biopiracy (is) biological theft; illegal collection of indigenous plants by corporations who patent them for their own use.
