Charlene Spretnak Quotes

It is important to note that we did not emerge into patriarchal religion from a dark, chaotic, immature period of primitivism; Goddess-centered cultures, including Minoan Crete, were highly evolved.

Charlene Spretnak

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• I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.

  

  Harry Caray
  • People
  • Life
  • Fun

• In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

  

  Zygmunt Bauman
  • World
  • Free
  • Attention

• During the time I was on The Hardy Boys, I was also watching other people's careers. I thought the next step was to be a movie star. I kept saying no to projects, and offers stopped coming in. I was no longer hot.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Time
  • Movie

• If a woman gets tough in negotiations, she's difficult, whereas a man would be considered a brilliant businessman.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • She
  • Man
  • Woman

• You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Horse
  • Airplane
  • Lovely

• There is no such thing as writer's block for writers whose standards are low enough.

  

  William Stafford
  • Enough
  • Standards
  • Block

• It's probably listening to country music that got me to start playing a lot cleaner, not as distorted.

  

  Joe Perry Aerosmith
  • Music
  • Country
  • Play

• And no one shall work for money, and no one shall work for fame, But each for the joy of the working, and each, in his separate star, Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of Things as They are!

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Money
  • Joy
  • Fame

• It’s equally as important to me to be a good friend, and a good sister, and a good daughter. I’m very close with my family and friends.

  

  Winona Ryder
  • Friend
  • Daughter
  • Sister

• Don't underestimate the importance of happiness. As long as you're happy, who cares what you do?

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Happiness

• Most of the energy consumed is for heating, cooling, and transport. By massively deploying green gas, we could decarbonize all that.

  

  Isabelle Kocher
  • Energy
  • Gas
  • Transport

• The benefits of feminism have been unequally distributed, because the move toward gender equality and gender neutrality has been countered to a large extent by the increase in economic inequality.

  

  Stephanie Coontz
  • Move
  • Feminism
  • Inequality

• I meet almost no one that goes to an African-American church or thinks, "I'm going to do that." Now there are whites in African-American churches. They're interracially married. They're highly committed. Maybe there's a professor or two, or a student.

  

  Michael Emerson
  • Church
  • Married
  • Student

• Human beings have fabricated the illusion that in the 21st century they have the technological prowess to be independent of nature. Bees underline the reality that we are more, not less, dependent on nature’s services in a world of close to seven billion people.

  

  Achim Steiner
  • People
  • Nature
  • Dependent

• Real love, no matter how unworthy the object, is a glorious adventure. It bursts the shackles of selfishness. One's world is bigger, broader; one's sympathies are amazingly more tender. No matter what the result, if you haven't really loved, you haven't really lived.

  

  Emilie Loring
  • World
  • Love
  • Adventure

• I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • World
  • Family
  • Learn

• I think it's harder to learn a language without having a goal.

  

  Romain Duris
  • Thinking
  • Language
  • Harder

• It is important to note that we did not emerge into patriarchal religion from a dark, chaotic, immature period of primitivism; Goddess-centered cultures, including Minoan Crete, were highly evolved.

  

  Charlene Spretnak
  • Cultures
  • Evolved
  • Goddess-centered