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.
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My interests are not really with television, per se.
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Material interests are not the only guiding light.
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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.
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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.
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Sports can't be run by governments.
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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.
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The most important accomplishment, I believe, was my voting against the First World War.
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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.
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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.
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I'm just a stage actor from Chicago.
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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.
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I would just love to have gone and stood in the Kop.
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The phrase 'teen hottie' literally makes me want to throw up.
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Governments, systems, ideologies come and go, but it is humanity which remains.
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The phrase I like to use to describe my sense of time-a play on comparative literature - is comparative time.
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Every line in the government's budget has its own constituency.
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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.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight.
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How was your day? If your answer was "fine," then I don't think you were leading.
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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...
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Governments have a favorite phrase: 'lean and mean.' But they've been made very, very fat for corporate interests.
