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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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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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.
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I was rapping in 1939. It's old. The roots are complex. And kids don't know.
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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.
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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.
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I haven't had an orthodox career.
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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.
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I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.
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Being positive may be a character defect of mine.
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One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.
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Science fiction is not formulaic.
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E cada instante é diferente, e cadahomem é diferente, e somos todos iguais.
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It is a fact that no man improves much after the age of 60 and after 65, most suffer a really alarming decline. I could give some examples, but at the advice of my publisher will refrain from doing so.
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It's been a quiet week in Lake Wobegon, my home town, out on the edge of the prairie...
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They'd complain to my other neighbor, who was very close to my mom, so we always got the message: I'm too loud. But we didn't really care. They can't tell me what to do in my house!
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Sunday is a likely day to write a poem. Because poetry is a piece of language flying around: you'll find notebooks, something on your phone. It's about finding them and getting them off that crumpled piece of paper and onto my computer.
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I would like to do a duet with Kelly Clarkson. I just think she's wonderful!
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We are a big economy, and we must, therefore, show that we can manage it, but not only manage it, but that can transform it so that this economy works for all of our people so that everyone feels that they have a stake in this economy.
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Television tends to be a more difficult medium for me to get my head around sometimes when it comes to certain things I get offered.
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People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.
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I learned this from Mike Wallace. Listen, be a good listener. You don't have to fill space. Just sit there and listen.
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As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
