I don't drink, I don't smoke and I don't party. Stephanie Mills More Quotes by Stephanie Mills More Quotes From Stephanie Mills The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away. Stephanie Mills safe-environmentearth-dayenvironmental 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. Stephanie Mills eroticwantneeds This is something I love to do. I've never had any other job. I love singing and entertaining. Stephanie Mills singingsightjobs 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. Stephanie Mills technologyunderstandingspiritual 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. Stephanie Mills banalityadvertisingopposites 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. Stephanie Mills humanityinspireart 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. Stephanie Mills boredomdelightneeds It would be more concerned with the Whole than the parts and has to proceed from the premise that death and pain, short life spans, and no bread without sweat must be accepted. Stephanie Mills short-lifesweatpain Most women don't like good men. They say they want a good buy, but most women always wind up with the bad boy. Stephanie Mills windmenboys Lifestyle and livelihood are pivotal moral issues. Stephanie Mills lifestyleissuesmoral Solitude is rich but seldom hilarious. Stephanie Mills richsolitude Given all that history has shown us of the consequences of technology - from the atlatl spear to the A-bomb - why have so few groups of human beings managed to resist the incursions of technology? Or be choosy about the extent to which they'll employ a technological innovation? Stephanie Mills innovationgroupstechnology I enjoy being single, but I loved being married. Stephanie Mills being-singlemarriedwedding Everything that's old is new, and everything that's new is old. Stephanie Mills Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart. Stephanie Mills delightdespairheart Agrarian Anabaptists, Christian Scientists, and Samurai are among the rare examples of renunciation stemming from an unwillingness to sacrifice the spiritual qualities of community life. Evidently there is no separate salvation. Stephanie Mills sacrificespiritualchristian 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. Stephanie Mills technologyfirewould-be 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. Stephanie Mills artistreasonyears 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. Stephanie Mills ongoingpurposeculture Individuals can refuse to use a given technology, but unless they live in total isolation will have to engage with people whose psyches have been shaped by a multitude of technologies. And there is no escaping the pervasive ecological effects. Stephanie Mills psychescapingtechnology
