Val Plumwood Quotes
Reason in the western tradition has been constructed as the privileged domain of the master, who has conceived nature as a wife or subordinate other encompassing and representing the sphere of materiality, subsistence and the feminine which the master has split off and constructed as beneath him.
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Since 1989, we have been deploying on an average of every 18 months.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I think the world looks down on Republicans for their socially conservative views, which includes religion in government.
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I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.
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It would be easier to make money in other sectors, but since I was a kid, I liked cars.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.
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I'm never happy with what I've written. You imagine, before you start, there's a cathedral, and the moment it starts on the page, it's a garden shed. And then you just try to make it the best shed you can.
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A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
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I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
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It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.
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My relationship with everyone in Jamaica is good.
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One who has loved truly can never lose entirely.
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The producers and writers of dance music are becoming the stars, not so much the DJs.
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The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.
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Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky; The May-thorn greening in the nook; The minnows sporting in the brook; The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers; The song of birds amid the bowers; The crystal of the azure seas; The music of the southern breeze; And, over all, the blessed sun, Telling of halcyon days begun.
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I'm not super-conservative, but a bit of tradition is nice.
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Reason in the western tradition has been constructed as the privileged domain of the master, who has conceived nature as a wife or subordinate other encompassing and representing the sphere of materiality, subsistence and the feminine which the master has split off and constructed as beneath him.
