Vandana Shiva Quotes
Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
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I realize that things happen for a reason.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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The Old Firm clubs are not easy clubs to manage and sometimes I think frustration comes in that, in the end, make you happy to be leaving.
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Real parent engagement means establishing meaningful ways for parents to be partners in their children's public education from the beginning - not just when a school is failing. The goal should be to never let a school get to that point.
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Getting a great idea with song writing is a lot like love. You don't know why this one is different, but it is. You don't know why this one is better, but it is. It sticks in your head, and you can't stop thinking about it.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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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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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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One thing that has made us so successful is that we've never taken outside investment. That means we can concentrate on what our customers want - not what the stockholders or the VCs want.
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I have never read any Tolstoy. I felt badly about this until I read a Bill Simmons column where he confessed that he'd never seen 'The Big Lebowski.' Simmons, it should be pointed out, has seen everything. He said that everyone needs to have skipped at least one great cultural touchstone.
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Hitch your wagon to a star.
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Of what good is democracy if it is not for the poor?
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I am absolutely and inherently self-destructive in that I am always making sure I'm doing what I want to do.
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Architecture is restricted to such a limited vocabulary. A building is either a high-rise or a perimeter block or a town house.
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Water must be free for sustenance needs. Since nature gives water to us free of cost, buying and selling it for profit violates our inherent right to nature's gift and denies the poor of their human rights.
