Vandana Shiva Quotes
The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.

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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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There's a whole element of human interaction and character interaction that I really enjoy doing.
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The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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My candidacy is one that fits the district and fits the Mick Mulvaney-Jim DeMint philosophy.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
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People think that if you have a huge appetite, then you'll be better at it. But actually, it's how you confront the food that is brought to you. You have to be mentally and psychologically prepared.
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I support gay unions. I think the government should get out of the marriage business completely - leave marriages to the churches. And grant civil unions to gay couples, grant civil unions to a man and woman.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
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We will fight and defend my good name in the European court. We have to be strong and defend Ukraine from this authoritarianism.
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Some players you pat their butts, some players you kick their butts, some players you leave alone.
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Never, dear father, love can be,Like the dear love I had for thee!
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The last thing I think I am is perfect. I'm just trying to do the best job I can. I'm trying to be the best father I can to my kids. I'm trying to do the best job I can running my business.
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Family was real important in putting me on my path. I'm so blessed to come from a home with a mother and a father.
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One of the most persistent of all delusions is the conviction that the source of our dissatisfaction lies outside ourselves.
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The Chipko activists have always been close to my parents, since my father was among the few forestry officials who supported them within the bureaucracy. And I was involved with the Chipko movement in my student days.