Vandana Shiva Quotes
The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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My daughter is my passion and my life.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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People say, 'You should let your hair out; you shouldn't be oppressed - you're not in Malaysia anymore. You should show your curves and be proud of it.' But I am proud - it's my choice to cover up my body. I'm not oppressed - I'm free.
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You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I try to eat healthy. But sometimes, though, I eat cheeseburgers. That's good for the soul. I make sure to balance everything out. I drink tons of water.
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Skepticism is an important historical tool. It is the starting point of all revision of hitherto accepted history.
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Could today's construction worker married to a clerical worker guarantee four children a college education and buy a house? That's what we're fighting about.
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All through my life, I was hated on. When I was in middle school, they used to write in my rhyme book, 'You suck' or 'This sucks.'
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2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.
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Is there something in druggy subjects that encourages directors to make imitation film noir? Film noir itself becomes an addiction.
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I feel like a cup of tea with no milk. I just had one. It was disgusting.
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I started to have almost a realization that a lot of the evangelical leaders I looked up to and found hope in - I started realizing a lot of them just weren't the people I thought they were.
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Often you'll see the same three or four data items together in lots of places: fields in a couple of classes, parameters in many method signatures. Bunches of data that hang around together really ought to be made into their own object.
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The poorest of families, the poorest of children, are subsidizing the growth of the largest agribusinesses in the world. I think its time we recognized that in free trade the poor farmer, the small farmer, is ending up having to pay royalties to the Monsantos of the world.
