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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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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Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,Adorns and cheers our way;And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.
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Our professor was Marty Scorsese. Marty was a graduate student, or Mr. Scorsese, which is what I had to call him, and still do when I see him 'cause he gave me a C.
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As a child, I always liked dressing up and getting into character, and actors are lucky in being able to retain that playfulness, though we do seem to find it hard to grow up.
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The private sector is motivated by profit and efficiency and the US government often is not.
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If the United States were to cut and run from Iraq, we would send a message of weakness that would embolden our terrorist enemies across the globe. A failed Iraq would destabilize the entire region and undermine U.S. national security for decades to come.
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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.
