Vandana Shiva Quotes
Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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It's great to play someone who's so unafraid of being who she is.
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What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I have a paranoia that 'Ablutions' is the best thing I'll ever do.
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We are in a world that is quite extremist and extremism makes more noise. Normality does not sell.
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When I have clarified and exhausted a subject, then I turn away from it, in order to go into darkness again.
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25 years ago, when I started in New York, I had the pleasure to cook for Andy Warhol. At the time, I could have traded art for food - I should have done so, because I could get his work for nothing!
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I sign on to any project because of the director: because they won't change, and you've got to feel confident that you're in good hands, in their vision.
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Ninja is super-ambitious - more than I am.
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I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
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The great thing about 'Battlestar' was that it was basically 'Star Wars' but once a week, as opposed to waiting for three years for the movie to come out. I was a huge 'Battlestar' fan.
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I love being a writer. I don't really want to do anything else!
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
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What's interesting about books that take place in the future, even twenty years in the future, is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future, just like there is now.
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I hope popchips will be the Vitaminwater of the snack aisle.
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Yet our interests, the interests of the Russian Federation, include the normalisation of relations with Japan, which is not at the bottom of the agenda. The whole range of what will be proposed for a solution, the entire range of matters related to the normalisation of our relations and what that would bring after normalisation, this is the whole range of issues to be discussed and decided, and those decisions should be of a practical nature.
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If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
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I ran for Congress in 2012 because I had had enough. Enough of career politicians, enough of political gamesmanship, and enough of the lack of leadership in Washington.
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Globalisation has in effect made the citizen disappear, and it has reduced the state into being a mere instrument of global capital.
