Vandana Shiva Quotes

The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence."

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• Being the first to cross the finish line makes you a winner in only one phase of life. It's what you do after you cross the line that really counts.

  

  Ralph Boston
  • Life
  • Finish
  • Winner

• Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Space
  • Heroes

• This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Work
  • She
  • Bad

• Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Fear
  • Hair

• I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Boy

• For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • Me
  • Relationship
  • Excitement

• Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

  

  Samuel Alexander
  • May
  • Same
  • Perception

• I don't think any relationship responds well to pressure.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Relationship
  • Pressure
  • Well

• I was this 5-7 pudgy kid in high school... I wasn't a popular kid. I was an outcast.

  

  Barry Zito
  • School
  • High
  • Popular

• It rests in the hands of the common person as well as those with the power to shape humanity's course toward a world where every child, woman and man's most basic needs are met.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Power
  • Man

• People have to do what they want to do.

  

  J Mascis
  • People
  • Want

• 'Crystal Fairy' was one of the first movies I did after I recommitted to the idea of acting.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Acting
  • Movies
  • Crystal

• Though not a true cereal but a fruit, buckwheat seeds resemble cereal grains and are often used in a similar way to rice, barley, bulgar or quinoa, usually as a side dish.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • True
  • Way
  • Fruit

• There are hits and misses, and as an actress, we are mentally ready for all that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Ready
  • Actress
  • Hits

• There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • American
  • City
  • Single

• The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Successful
  • Rich

• Great American sport. Horseshoes is a very great game. I love it.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Great
  • Game
  • Sport

• For 8 years now I've been addicted to cold turkey. When I tell people I'm quitting cold turkey, they say,'What are you quitting?', I'm fucking quitting cold turkey.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Cold

• When I was 12, I was taking batting practice with an aluminum bat at Tiger Stadium. I don't know where it landed exactly, but upper deck somewhere. Yeah, people were surprised.

  

  Prince Fielder
  • People
  • Practice
  • Tiger

• I do not think that Caitlyn Jenner's transition was easy. Coming out and transitioning as a public figure - even for someone like her - is an extraordinarily difficult task to undertake. I might not agree with her on a couple of points, but I will refuse to say that her transition was easy.

  

  Chelsea Manning
  • Couple

• Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Powerful

• That's what I like about film-it can be bizarre, classic, normal, romantic. Cinema is to me the most versatile thing.

  

  Catherine Deneuve
  • Film
  • Romantic
  • Normal

• The spinning wheel became the symbol of Indian independence. So we always say, "if the spinning wheel was the symbol of our first independence, then the seed is the symbol of our second independence."

  

  Vandana Shiva