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 that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.
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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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On a show like 'Oz,' I was wearing Dickies and a cut-off shirt and a gold cross.
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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I meant that the Chinese people are not aware of their own entrapment. They believe they live in a free society, but don't realize how much they are being monitored and controlled, how much the information they receive is restricted and warped, until they step out of line, that is, and feel the heavy hand of the state fall on them.
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Man is, beyond dispute, the most excellent of created beings, and the vilest animal is a dog; but the sages agree that a grateful dog is better than an ungrateful man.
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Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.
