Vandana Shiva Quotes
We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
Quotes to Explore
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I get depressed at airports.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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The fact is, society is made more hospitable by every individual who acts as if 'do unto others' really was a rule.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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A people cannot long retain their freedom, whose government is incapable of protecting them.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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You are where you are today because you have chosen to be there.
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I live with my family on the top of a hill in the country, and during the days, my house is quiet, save for the occasional excitement of the FedEx truck heading up the driveway. I write.
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Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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You always know when something works it's a result of everything firing on all cylinders.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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What I love to say when people ask me about being a Christian, I always say, 'Christians aren't perfect.' They're probably some of the worst people on the planet. They just know that they need Jesus. That's the only difference.
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Still often interventionist, convinced of our importance in the world, even those of us born long after 1900 live in a country that is much more Victorian than we think.
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We decided to try in vitro, because both Peter and I felt we couldn't handle another failure. When I miscarried after that, we had to come to terms with the possibility that this wasn't meant to be.
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Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.
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In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.
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Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be called scientific natural history, which makes available the groundwork - the foundation work - of what is actually on the Earth.
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We are either going to have a future where women lead the way to make peace with the Earth or we are not going to have a human future at all.
