Vandana Shiva Quotes
You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.
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Not all ideas will be accepted, but every idea deserves its own space, and every idea deserves to be expressed.
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Everywhere I go, I will make a good payday. But we got to choose the right opponent and the right time and the right venue.
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Beauty at 70 years old isn't the same as beauty at 20 years old, but it is stunning nonetheless.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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In terms of Hurricane Sandy, I really do see some hopeful grassroots responses, particularly in the Rockaways, where people were very organized right from the beginning, where Occupy Sandy was very strong, where new networks emerged.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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The bonds we create in the household are the most important and lasting. Savor them; they're sacred.
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I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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The joy is in the getting there. The beginning years of starting your business, the camaraderie when you're in the pit together, are the best years of your life. So rather than being so focused on when you get big and powerful, if you can just get the juice out of that... don't miss it.
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Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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I feel like, throughout 'True Romance,' I was unsure of myself in terms of songwriting. Even though it was my voice, I feel there were a lot of other voices on that record, too.
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I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant.
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When I got pregnant, I started singing again. It was my saving grace. I literally mean having this amazing human life, and our relationship in the sense of mother and child, redeemed my soul.
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I'd wanted to be an actress my whole life, that was my goal, that was all I cared about.
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You cannot insert a gene you took from a bacteria into a seed and call it LIFE. You have not created life, instead you have only polluted it.
