Vandana Shiva Quotes
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.Vandana Shiva
Quotes to Explore
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
Ted Deutch -
For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
Eddie Murray -
There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
Kailash Satyarthi -
People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I like my house to be unique to me. Sure, I've bought plenty of things out of a catalog, but the way I put them together in my home is special. You might have bought your sofa at a major home decorating store, but the rug you found at the flea market is so unique, it takes your room from 'carbon copy' to 'simply yours' in no time.
Nate Berkus -
Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
Gabrielle Reece
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
Olga Kurylenko -
I shall always be a priest of love.
D. H. Lawrence -
I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.
Adam Pally -
No two wars are identical.
Kate Adie -
When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
Oprah Winfrey -
I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
Rachelle Lefevre
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When you're never home and traveling, you don't play videogames.
Olga Kurylenko -
My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
Vince Vaughn -
IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
Wit is an explosion of the compound spirit.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
Naya Rivera -
I'm determined not to start dressing like I'm 45 years old now that I'm a mum.
Abbey Clancy
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Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong.
James Surowiecki -
You need to know enough philosophy so that the methods of logical analysis are available to you to be used as a tool. One of the most depressing things about educated people today is that so few of them, even among professional intellectuals, are able to follow the steps of a simple logical argument.
John Searle -
Viewing our planet was so compelling. Words like beautiful and awesome just don't do it justice. I felt that I was looking at a paradise. I was looking at heaven. I can't imagine any place being more beautiful than our planet and how lucky we are to be able to live here.
Michael J. Massimino -
I always tell younger actors that if they want to learn the ropes, there's no better place to do it than right here in the U.K.
David Harewood -
Iris Johansen's lovers weathered the sack of city states and the vagaries of the French Revolution; Judith McNaught's heroines endured amnesia, social ostracism and misunderstandings so big they deserved their own ZIP code.
Lauren Willig -
When the forest is destroyed, when the river is dammed, when the biodiversity is stolen, when fields are waterlogged or turned saline because of economic activities, it is a question of survival for these people. So our environmental movements have been justice movements.
Vandana Shiva