Naomi Klein Quotes
I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
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I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
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What matters is that you are doing what you think is right based on the standards which you hold.
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I know from my own experience that great films and great actors can have a really big influence on you. There is a place for art in the world, and if you're lucky enough to be good at something and to keep being given work, it's not such a bad thing.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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I used to sit in front of McDonald's and ask people for dollars to get me a cheeseburger. It was bad.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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I certainly think cameras ought to be in courtrooms.
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If I recall correctly, I think I signed my first contract with Tor in 1983.
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In boxing, there are no bad guys or good guys. Just people trying to make a living and trying to live up to their pride and to try to become someone.
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People consider Black Star a great album, and I think it's a classic album. But the fact is, both me and Mos Def have made better albums since Black Star.
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In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get.
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I think I'd like to be one of those eccentric 80-year-old women.
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Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.'
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Big will always be a part of my life. But I'm still on this Earth, so I have to live my life for now and the future.
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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If I am mad, then who on the face of the earth is sane? If you are sane, then there is no madman in the world.
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I'm almost incapable of lying. I'd be a terrible spy.
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'You're stupid,' is not something even his most severe critics usually say to President Barack Obama.
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The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics.
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While posing as the pursuer of thieves, and the restorer of stolen goods, the government is actually the biggest thief of all. In fact, progressives have turned a large body of Americans-basically, Democratic voters-into accessories of theft by convincing them that they are doing something just and moral by picking their fellow citizens' pockets.
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I think there has been this really bad habit of environmentalists being insufferably smug, where they are sort of saying, 'This is the issue that beats all other issues,' or, 'Your issue doesn't matter because nothing matters if the earth is fried.'
