Vandana Shiva Quotes

I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.

Vandana Shiva

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• Any conception of human well-being you could plausibly have, the Taliban patently fails to maximize it.

  

  Sam Harris
  • You
  • Human
  • Wellbeing

• The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Soul
  • Beauty
  • Bread

• I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.

  

  Candy Crowley
  • Good
  • May
  • Think

• I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Art
  • Funny
  • Inspiration

• I feel completely fortunate to have this outlet for something I don't really feel like I have a choice in, to make music. I've got to make it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Feel
  • Choice

• I sometimes think if I had gone to Oxford or Cambridge and looked like a handsome young guy who could be in an Evelyn Waugh novel or something, I'd be a massive movie star. But there's a longevity to what I do. It's more reliable. Someone isn't deciding that I'm the next big thing.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Country
  • Hate
  • Win

• When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • People
  • New York
  • Subway

• I think good things are happening to me and will continue. I am not optimistic about the rest of the species, but I'm so blessed, it's almost scary. I'm sorry to disappoint you, but I have a wildly sunny disposition. I love to laugh.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Blessed
  • Scary
  • Laugh

• What drew me to this job is that Univision is a brand unlike any other in all of media. Univision has the highest brand affinity of any brand, and that includes Microsoft and Apple and some of the iconic brands in all of industry.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Job
  • Media
  • Brand

• The people decide who's No. 1, the best in boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • People
  • Best
  • Boxing

• Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Reading
  • Author
  • Chicago

• I went to university in Colorado and studied art history. I did some photography classes there, although it felt really pretentious.

  

  Pamela Hanson
  • Art
  • History
  • Photography

• Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

  

  A. Bartlett Giamatti
  • Time
  • Why
  • Always

• When I first got an outbreak of hives, I tried everything to find relief. I felt like no one understood what I was going through.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Find
  • First
  • Everything

• I am not the ruler of Gujarat, I'm a servant of Gujarat. The environment in which I grew up, sewa is treated as a dharma, not power.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Up
  • Power
  • Environment

• Then I turned round and saw the British Union Jack under which I had been sitting and it was then that I realised that my poor country, India, did not even have a flag of her own - and it was this that triggered off my complete breakdown.

  

  C. V. Raman
  • Country

• It's great to engage with the mainstream media to get messages out, but the most empowering tool is to create records of our lives, and our own images, which are not filtered through judgements, biases, or misunderstandings.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Great
  • Empowering

• Every tub must stand upon its bottom.

  

  Charles Macklin

• If you want to change the world's spirit, I will suggest that only poetry can do this.

  

  Andrei Voznesensky
  • Change
  • Poetry
  • Spirit

• The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy The books that people talk about we never can recall And the books that people give us, oh, they're the worst of all.

  

  Carolyn Wells
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Worst

• I think we will become disenchanted with the glamour of globalization.

  

  Vandana Shiva