Chandra Talpade Mohanty Quotes
Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.

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Growing up on a farm was the best. I remember loving that expanse of space. The sky at night was so clear, I could see every star.
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Growing up, I didn't feel cool; I didn't fit into any crowd.
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I think one's history and past is important at a certain time in your life, especially as an artist, just to try to hone in on that.
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
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My baby will be growing up in Liverpool, so we have another Scouser.
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Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest group of all was The Beatles.
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What 'Floating Worlds' does draw on is Holland's artistry in bringing the past to life in her historical fiction and depicting the people who inhabited that past.
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Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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I think the potential for the program at the risk of sounding self-serving is large, some would say even limitless, so I'm excited about it and I think it can even pass next year.
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In the past, I used to counter any such notions by asking myself: 'Would you really want President Hattersley?' I now find that possibility rather cheers me up. With his chubby, Dickensian features and his knowledge of T.H. Green and other harmless leftish political classics, Hattersley might not be such a bad thing after all.
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I have had shoulder injuries in the past, but usually it's from training.
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Growing up, you'd see Michael Jordan on everything from Gatorade to shoes - everything. Obviously, that's something pretty cool for an athlete to aspire to.
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It was Toto that made Dorothy laugh, and saved her from growing as gray as her other surroundings. Toto was not gray; he was a little black dog, with long silky hair and small black eyes that twinkled merrily on either side of his funny, wee nose.
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Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.
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Risk played a really important role in making me the person I am.
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Possessing these books has become all important to me, because I have become jealous of the past.
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Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else - I wanted to follow in their footsteps. They gave people a different perspective of how women were supposed to look like and be.
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Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
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Paul Simon is the king!
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I love clothes so much, I always have. It's awesome to have designers invite me to their shows and openings and send me samples of their work.
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I'm a big consumer of media and content online.
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Radical changes of identity, happening suddenly and in very brief intervals of time, have proved more deadly and destructive of human values than wars fought with hardware weapons.
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Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.