Vandana Shiva Quotes
Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.
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I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.
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I've never had a couch that needed to be cleaned or learned how to couch-clean in general. That feels too grown-up.
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I had really bad obsessive-compulsive disorder. At its worst, I was compelled to leave my house at three o'clock in the morning and go out in the alley because I just knew that the paper-towel roll I threw in the recycling bin was uncomfortable, like it was lying the wrong way, and I would be down in the garbage.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.
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Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.
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The fate of the world in the balance. A hurricane of enemies swirling around us. It’s almost enough to make a guy feel alive again.
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Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.
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That's the thing with celebrities: the media can't ignore them.
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Diversity creates harmony, and harmony creates beauty, balance, bounty and peace in nature and society, in agriculture and culture, in science and in politics.
