Chandra Talpade Mohanty Quotes
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
Quotes to Explore
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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I admit the last couple of years shows were not up to par.
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Environmentalism is a form of pagan fundamentalism. These green wackos are fanatics like al-Quaida. Just like them.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
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My mobile phone battery runs out all the time because all the messages come straight to me.
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I like directors who have worked as actors. They know the experience.
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I take very seriously my responsibility as Secretary-General to make sure that the United Nations is doing everything it can to uphold the universal prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.
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What I do on stage has utterly no purpose.
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Denke dir ein Endliches ins Unendliche gebildet, so denkst du einen Menschen.
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An artist cannot be partially sincere any more than art can be an approximation of beauty.
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God was conceived of a most pure Virgin … it was fitting that the virgin should be radiant with a purity so great that a greater purity cannot be conceived.
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I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.
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I remember seeing 'Spinal Tap' at a young age and being like, 'That's how you perform comedy.'
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Pictures artists staged their own images or copied or cut out others already in existence. The viewer took them in separately, in sometimes paradoxical waves: an original image, then the manipulations of it, then the places where image and idea intersected. This created a crucial perceptual glitch that irony and understanding filled.
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Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe.
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The assumption that seeing is believing makes us susceptible to visual deception.
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I've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution.
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We have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life
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I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.
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Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
