Stephanie Mills Quotes

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• The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

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  Safe Environment, Earth Day, Environmental

  Stephanie Mills (1990). “In Praise of Nature”, p.97, Island Press

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• This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining.

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  Jobs, Sight, Singing

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• Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

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  Erotic, Needs, Want

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.200, Island Press

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• Be it sculpture, poetry, or narrative fraught with terrible insight... art does endure. It troubles and pleases, inspires, and reminds us that humanity is ever capable of adding to the sum of the world's grave beauty.

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  Art, Inspire, Humanity

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.129, Island Press

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• As the ongoing industrial crusade to turn all earthly life to commercial purpose relentlessly impoverishes the biosphere and human culture, our living images of graceful possibility dwindle.

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  Culture, Purpose, Ongoing

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• There is ugliness of mass production and consumerism, the banality of advertising. Although it claims to do just the opposite, it's predicated on disempowering and effacing persons.

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  Opposites, Advertising, Banality

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old.

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• A person with friends need never be bored. There is always more to fathom and enjoy in the complexity of others, and always the possibility of finding a way to delight them.

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  Boredom, Needs, Delight

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.122, Island Press

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• Seeing is a gift that comes with practice.

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  Practice, Vision, Seeing

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.151, Island Press

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• I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.

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  Artist, Years, Reason

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• It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.

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  Responsibility, Artist, Discipline

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press

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• It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.

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  Eccentric, Easy

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.33, Island Press

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• Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy.

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  Boys, Men, Wind

  " CNN Live Today", www.cnn.com. April 3, 2002.

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• I enjoy being single, but I loved being married.

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  Wedding, Being Single, Married

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• Enjoying the least things - a chill glass of water, a moment of play with the cat, the sight of sunlight caught in the frost spangling the locust twigs - is a form of prayer.

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  Prayer, Cat, Glasses

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.30, Island Press

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• A life alert to simple pleasures, with perception cultivated and attuned to beauty, and a large capacity for friendship can serve us well come what may.

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  Simple, Perception, May

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.206, Island Press

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• If a technology is elegant, biodegradable, made from renewable materials and employs a minimum of muscular, water or wind energy, is responsive, beautiful in its way, and challenging to the user in that it develops the user's senses and strength - it may comport with nature.

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  Beautiful, Technology, Wind

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Any prediction worth its weigh would consider the spiritual, material, and unintended consequences of introducing a new technology to the world. It would proceed from the kind of understanding Chellis articulated: Life is Whole.

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  Spiritual, Technology, Understanding

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious.

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  Solitude, Rich

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.123, Island Press

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• Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues.

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  Issues, Moral, Lifestyle

  Stephanie Mills (1989). “Whatever Happened to Ecology?”, Random House (NY)

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• Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

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  Heart, Despair, Delight

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.205, Island Press

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• Respecting beings, places, and life ways would be a basis for a worthy systemic analysis. And such an analysis would be inherently conservative, assuming that technology - from the fire stick to the silicon chip - is apt to do more harm to the Whole than good.

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  Technology, Fire, Would Be

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• My spirituality is parochial, terrestrial. I do qualify as a W.I.T.C.H. , but my irrecular practice and impromptu rituals don't aim at producing any dramatic results except, perhaps, in me.

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  Practice, Spirituality, Dramatic

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• The impermanence of the universe is manifest, inescapable. I know that, yet I am immoderately attached to this life, these pleasures, this place.

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  Pleasure, This Life, Impermanence

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.17, Island Press

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• Time clocks rob the world of wild possibility. That's what they're for.

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  World, Possibility, Clock

  Stephanie Mills (2003). “Epicurean Simplicity”, p.132, Island Press

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