Vandana Shiva Quotes

Governments have a favorite phrase: 'lean and mean.' But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

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• It's better to spend a lot on a getup you love than a fraction of that on something, or even five of those somethings, that you'll never bother to take out of the shopping bag. By the way, this advice also applies to discount love interests. And half-price sushi.

  

  Patricia Marx
  • Way
  • Advice
  • Shopping

• My interests are not really with television, per se.

  

  Gale Harold
  • Television
  • Interests
  • Per

• Material interests are not the only guiding light.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Light
  • Interests
  • Material

• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Literature
  • Theater

• The BBC should not have a cheerleader. It should have somebody who runs the organisation in the interests of the public and that should be a chairman.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Public
  • Interests
  • Chairman

• Sports can't be run by governments.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Sports
  • Run
  • Governments

• My mum was very conscious about fashion and my dad was born into the tailoring tradition, so fashion has always been my life, although now, really, I wear the same thing - just in different weights - light and heavy cashmere in winter and cotton in summer.

  

  Domenico Dolce
  • Life
  • Different
  • Light

• The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.

  

  Jeannette Rankin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Important

• My background is in dance. No, I'm kidding. I was actually really uncoordinated as a child, when it came to dance, but I did play a lot of sports, and I do some break-dancing from time-to-time. No, I really don't.

  

  Beth Riesgraf
  • Time
  • Sports
  • Dance

• I think they need to get a more reliable way of watching television on the laptop. Because I travel so much, if I want to watch my favorite sports team it might not be showing in that place, so I want a reliable way to watch whatever I want to watch on my laptop.

  

  John Roger Stephens
  • Team
  • Sports
  • Travel

• I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.

  

  Jeremy Piven
  • Chicago

• We are on the lookout for criminal and terrorist activity but we do not - nor will we ever - monitor ideology or political beliefs. We take seriously our responsibility to protect the civil rights and liberties of the American people, including subjecting our activities to rigorous oversight from numerous internal and external sources.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • People
  • American
  • Political

• I would just love to have gone and stood in the Kop.

  

  Kenny Dalglish

• The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.

  

  Lorde
  • Up
  • Teen
  • Throw

• Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.

  

  U Thant
  • Humanity
  • Governments
  • Systems

• The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.

  

  Yehuda Amichai
  • Time
  • Literature
  • Phrase

• Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Own
  • Budget
  • Governments

• When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • Faith
  • Interests
  • Ruler

• Far from being a truly independent guide to moral conducts, the…holy books are… like a Rorschach Test: which passages people choose to emphasize reflects as much as it shapes their moral character and interests.

  

  Elizabeth S. Anderson
  • Independent
  • Interests
  • Guide

• But so many Christians are like deaf people at a concert. They study the programme carefully, believe every statement make in it, speak respectfully of the quality of the music, but only really hear a phrase now and again. So they have no notion at all of the mighty symphony which fills the universe, to which our lives are destined to make their tiny contribution, and which is the self-expression of the Eternal God.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Universe
  • Quality
  • Christians

• Nature has a way sometimes of reminding Man of just how small he is. She occasionally throws up terrible offspring's of our pride and carelessness to remind us of how puny we really are in the face of a tornado, an earthquake, or a Godzilla. The reckless ambitions of Man are often dwarfed by their dangerous consequences. For now, Godzilla - that strangely innocent and tragic monster - has gone to earth. Whether he returns or not, or is never again seen by human eyes, the things he has taught us remain...

  

  Raymond Burr
  • Sometimes
  • Ambition
  • Consequence

• Governments have a favorite phrase: 'lean and mean.' But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Interests
  • Governments
  • Phrase