Vandana Shiva Quotes
I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. Ive seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life.
Quotes to Explore
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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All I want is an education, and I am afraid of no one.
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I am trying my best to strike a balance. How many hours a day can I work? I work for 12-15 hours a day; it gets very strenuous. I balance between Telugu, Tamil, and Hindi.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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We have to tell people who need help that it's OK to ask for it.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
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I love to travel. This is the time for me. When will I do it if not now?
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I think that marriage of music and picture is so vital, especially in a film that's almost exclusively exteriors.
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I don't want my faith level to go up or down. And so I don't fear.
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I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and I love nature, and I feel like that grounds me and keeps my mind clear.
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We are all the same person trying to shake hands with our self.
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The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'
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Love is an attempt at penetrating another being, but it can only succeed if the surrender is mutual.
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I have no doubt I was someone very interesting in a past life.
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As every parent knows, children begin life as uninhibited, unabashed explorers of the unknown. From the time we can walk and talk, we want to know what things are and how they work - we begin life as little scientists.
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Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.
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The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.
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Disagreement does not necessarily have to be overcome. It may remain an important and constitutive feature of our relations to others and also be seen as something that is merely to be expected in the light of the best explanations we have of how such disagreement arises.
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I absolutely get thrills from taking on these big guys and recognizing how, behind all their power, they are so empty. I just keep going at it. Each of these balloons does deflate. Ive seen a lot of balloons get deflated in my life.
