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

• 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

• Be crumbled. So wild flowers will come up where you are. You have been stony for too many years. Try something different. Surrender.

  

  Rumi
  • Try
  • To Be
  • Surrender

• Apostolic preaching is not marked by its beautiful diction, or literary polish, or Cleverness of expression, but Operates “in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.

  

  Arthur Wallis
  • Expression
  • Preaching
  • Diction

• The 1970s was the decade of developments in the new area of information economics. Search theory, which emphasized the need to gather information, was joined by models that featured asymmetric information, the case in which information differed across individual agents.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Information
  • Search
  • New

• When we look at the universe, what we see by eye or with our telescopes is only five percent of the universe. The rest, 95 percent is dark. Dark meaning, first of all, not visible to our instrument. Second, dark also indicates our ignorance. We don't know what's the composition of this part of the universe.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Universe
  • Rest
  • Dark

• There's still racism. Western Europe... has taken the native cultures of the Americas, the African cultures, the Asian civilization and lumped them together into The Others.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Racism

• Our oil-based society depends on non-renewable resources. It requires relentless probing into vast reaches of pristine land, sacrificing vital bioregions, and irreplaceable cultures. The possibility of catastrophic climate change is substantially increased by the 40 million barrels of oil burned every day by vehicles. We must all move shoulder to shoulder in a unified front to show this administration that the true majority of people are willing to vote for a cleaner environment and won't back down.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • People
  • True
  • Society

• The most important thing I have to say to you today is that hair matters. Pay attention to your hair, because everyone else will.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Attention
  • Hair

• 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