Chandra Talpade Mohanty Quotes
Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
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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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'Instagram' Direct is a really interesting feature because it's grown significantly since we launched it. People continue to use it to communicate more privately.
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I was the sort of kid who spent a Sunday afternoon prying little trees out of the foundation of his parents' house. I should have given in to the inevitable truth that this was the sort of person I would become, in the end, but I kept fighting it.
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I have always felt very fortunate to be have good people. You know, talent will carry you for so far but the values of the people around that should make the difference.
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now I bring full-flavoured wine out of a barrel found Where seven Ephesian topers slept and never knew When Alexander's empire passed, they slept so sound.
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Take on jobs, projects and challenges that frighten you. It's the best way to get rid of fear.
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Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
