Vandana Shiva Quotes

Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

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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.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• 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.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Live
  • Women
  • Reality

• Did any artist ever bring more pure joy to more people than Fred Astaire?

  

  Jack Kroll
  • People
  • Joy
  • Artist

• It should be known that Israel is based on treachery.

  

  Bashar al-Assad
  • Should
  • Israel
  • Treachery

• I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

  

  Jack Germond
  • Politics
  • Loved
  • Politicians

• 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.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Time
  • Different
  • Career

• Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.

  

  Rachel Blanchard
  • American
  • Mother
  • British

• I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• I guess because people are more aware of who I am, they're going to wonder about my personal life.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • People
  • Life
  • Wonder

• '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.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Song

• 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.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Children
  • Love

• 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.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Good
  • Think
  • Limited

• Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Popular
  • Should

• I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me... All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • You
  • Respect
  • Me

• I had a very normal childhood, and my mother cooked very normal food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Childhood

• If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

  

  Ted Allen
  • Me
  • Forgive
  • Forgive Me

• It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

  

  Malcolm Cowley
  • Would
  • Copy
  • Chapel

• What is problematic about Obamacare is that it is killing millions of jobs in this country and has killed millions of jobs. It has forced millions of people into part time work. It has caused millions of people to lose their insurance, to lose their doctors, and to face skyrocketing insurance premiums. That is unacceptable.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I'm very much in favor of focused responsibility, and so in the main areas that I'm worried about, I try to have a single person who is basically the key person in that area.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Single
  • Responsibility
  • Try

• If the race is to be freed from its crippling burden of good and evil it must be psychiatrists who take the original responsibility...

  

  Brock Chisholm
  • Responsibility
  • Race
  • Burden

• What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.

  

  Gail Caldwell
  • Enough
  • Stories
  • Leaving

• I was so intimidated by the thought of improvising back in the '80s when I was in Chicago. I think the opportunity only even came up once that I can recall, and I turned down the offer. It was to go improvise in some club in the suburbs or something. Good God, I couldn't think of anything more frightening than to get up there without a plan.

  

  Neil Flynn
  • Plan
  • Club
  • Improvising

• Patriarchy is based on appropriating rights and leaving responsibility to others.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Responsibility
  • Leaving