Vandana Shiva Quotes
The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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I've been accused of having very long ingredient lists, and I guess there's some truth in that.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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Millions of people are married. I've never picked up a paper and seen a headline that says, Man Gets Married!
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Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make life so, right in the middle of it we die, lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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I've been a fan of Burberry for a very long time and they've been so supportive of me for many years.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I'm the eldest at 51, and if the Stones can drag themselves around once more, then there's a few more albums in us.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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It's interesting because I think class is a heavy, heavy part of 'Moonlight,' and I think, in a certain way, through the sum of all these parts, it's become a commentary on the black experience in America.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I applaud anything that can take a kid away from a PlayStation or a Gameboy. That is a miracle in itself.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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The difference between a white man and an Indian is this- A white man wants to leave money to his children. An Indian wants to leave forests.
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What I want most is for my son to be proud of me.
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The virtue of frugality lies in a middle between avarice and profusion, of which the one consists in an excess, the other in a defect of the proper attention to the objects of self–interest.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
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The idea of engineering is an idea of mastery. And today the role that we are being asked to play is a role based on informed humanity.
