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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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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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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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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When I started out in 1960, I thought it might possibly last a couple of years. I never expected it to last 42. I take great satisfaction in that longevity.
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I was very political when JFK ran.
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Everybody asks me questions about the inside of James Franco's mouth.
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I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.
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Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.
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If you can get over this initial distrust that people have of strangers, you can do remarkable things.
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Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.
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Nature doesn't like empires. It doesn't like accumulation in one place, it doesn't like monoculture. It's always trying to make diverse species. It wants to spread everything out. And we're constantly trying to hold everything in.
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Failure to critique US empire allows feminist projects to be used and mobilized as handmaidens in the imperial project.
