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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I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
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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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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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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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The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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On refusing to make alterations to one of his plays: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?
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I'm a terrible cook. I am not allowed to go in the kitchen anymore after I almost burned down the apartment in New York.
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There isn't an injury known to man that Bryan Robson hasn't had.
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Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used.
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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.
