Vandana Shiva Quotes

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

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• An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.

  

  Ice T
  • Control
  • Party
  • Rock

• Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • May
  • Reality
  • Professional

• I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Good
  • Job
  • Afraid

• As long as the dollar remains in high esteem as a trade currency, America can continue to spend more than it earns. But when the day arrives - as it certainly must - when the dollar tumbles and foreigners no longer want it, the free ride will be over.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Long
  • America
  • High

• Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Music
  • American
  • Name

• I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Kids
  • Know
  • Old

• I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • World
  • Free
  • Mad

• I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.

  

  Dan Byrd
  • People
  • Kind
  • Early

• I've got a place in Portugal, which I like very much, but I've just been working in Malaysia for five weeks. My family had a chance to come over and we really loved it, particularly the island of Pangkor.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Family
  • Chance
  • Loved

• I haven't had an orthodox career.

  

  Sally Field
  • Career
  • Had
  • Orthodox

• For me, good service is efficient and discreet; it's that critical balance. As soon as the client sits down, the communication flow has to start. Customers need to feel that the waiters are supervised - that there's a system in place.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • Good
  • Service
  • Balance

• You know, I think anybody who has been in relationships has access to heartbreak - I don't think we have to go far to find it, whether we inflicted the heartbreak or whether we were the recipient of it.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Think
  • Know
  • Relationships

• I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.

  

  H. G. Bissinger
  • Life
  • Small
  • Texas

• Being positive may be a character defect of mine.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • May
  • Character
  • Positive

• One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Fun
  • Know
  • Sushi

• Science fiction is not formulaic.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Science
  • Fiction

• E cada instante é diferente, e cadahomem é diferente, e somos todos iguais.

  

  Carlos Drummond de Andrade

• Religion is...a conspiracy of...priests to gain control over the people...

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People
  • Control

• There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Society

• Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • People
  • Change
  • Mask

• Kids today look at me like I'm Neil Young.

  

  Matthew Shafer
  • Kids
  • Today

• I am grateful for all my victories, but I am especially grateful for my losses, because they only made me work harder.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Work
  • Victories
  • Losses

• As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

  

  Vandana Shiva