Vandana Shiva Quotes
Today the environmental movement has become opposed to issues of justice. You can see this in the way issues are framed. It's a permanent replay of jobs-versus-the-environment, in nature-versus-bread. These are extremely artificial dichotomies.
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I've listened to female vocalists my whole life. That's what I love. I still listen to guys' vocals and don't get taken aback a lot.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I can't help but care about the rights of the people I used to shower with.
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I don't really love to perform in music. Some people like it more, but it's not my thing so much, but just the writing, when you get the lyric, and the lyric just goes just the right way, or you find the right bridge that takes you to the solo, and those moments are tremendous, and it's difficult to portray.
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My government has the challenge of addressing the issue of gas. The issue of gas cannot be addressed today without the participation of all Bolivians alike.
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So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.
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I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
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The modern Muslim state has never presented itself as secular. Muslim nationalist forces, trapped by a militant and colonialist West unable to share or export its humanism, were driven to build up a rampart, to entrench themselves within the past.
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I think I became a Catholic to annoy my father.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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In my day, I wasn't the best footballer, but I was the best goalscorer for two or three years.
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I often reread books I have written.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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In my blood there is no Jewish blood. In their callous rage, all anti-Semites must hate me now as a Jew. For that reason I am a true Russian.
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'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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The nature of God is a circle of which the center is everywhere and the circumference is nowhere.
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My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
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Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems.
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Nothing in the last few years has dazzled me more than Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall,' which blew the top of my head straight off. I've read it three times, and I'm still trying to figure out how she put that magnificent thing together.
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I was a schoolteacher; I taught seventh and eighth grade, and I tried to write fiction on the side.
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Today the environmental movement has become opposed to issues of justice. You can see this in the way issues are framed. It's a permanent replay of jobs-versus-the-environment, in nature-versus-bread. These are extremely artificial dichotomies.
