Vandana Shiva Quotes
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
Quotes to Explore
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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My short stories have always pushed twenty pages. That's no length for a short story to be. You either do them short like Carver or you stop trying.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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For me personally, I try to use my size to my advantage where I can either slip by guys or try to create more space for myself.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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I don't know what I was expecting or what I was dreaming about the xx accomplishing.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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I was writing a book about sustainable energy, and a friend asked me, 'Well, how much energy do you use at home?' And I was embarrassed. I didn't actually know.
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Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.
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All I ever wanted to do is to write stories that people will enjoy and feel at home with.
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I listen to a lot of non-classical music at home, but I don't get many opportunities to sing it.
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It's definitely hard to say good-bye to a character that you've played for a long time.
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We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
