Vandana Shiva Quotes
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Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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It's what happens in other major championships - I just lose my head a little bit.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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All I did was ask for rights. I didn't attack anyone. I didn't harass anyone. I didn't oppose the system or the country or the authority. All I said is, 'Why can't I drive?'
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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For me, temptation is life and I have a gargantuan appetite for everything.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
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When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
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If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.
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The only thing I miss on stage is the falsetto.
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Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.
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'You say you're supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. Nonsense, I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist.' - Pat Robertson, The 700 Club, January 14, 1991
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Uniformity is not nature's way; diversity is nature's way.
