Vandana Shiva Quotes
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I thought I was too intellectual to read something like 'Sweet Savage Love.'
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I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?
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It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.
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I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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Winning excuses everything.
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I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.
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I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.
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'MMMBop' took about a year to actually get completed. The chorus idea had really been around for a long time, and then we built the song around it.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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I think, in general, independents don't have a lot of access to really good scriptwriters or actors or actresses, so they're very limited in what they can do.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.
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I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.
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I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin',' I want to make them dance and be happy.
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If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
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When any one of our relations was found to be a person of a very bad character, a troublesome guest, or one we desired to get rid of, upon his leaving my house I ever took care to lend him a riding-coat, or a pair of boots, or sometimes a horse of small value, and I always had the satisfaction of finding he never came back to return them.
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At a certain point, I had to be like, 'I will not do any more auditions with a Middle Eastern accent.'
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I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude.
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Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
