Naomi Klein Quotes
Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
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I think that my parents' divorce gave me a very strong sense of self-reliance and independence. I realised that I needed to make sure I could support myself because you don't know what's going to happen in the future.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I don't think I've ever sent a text to Gordon Brown because I'm confident that he would absolutely have no idea how to receive it. He barely managed to master WordPerfect 4.1.
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I like the term 'misunderstood.' But I am a bit of a bad boy.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.
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The man who interprets Nature is always held in great honor.
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I'm not going to just say nice things about everybody unless I mean it.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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We use the same possessive pronouns for everything, but do we own our lives or sisters or husbands in the same way we own our shoes? Do we own any of them at all?
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
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A stronger yuan could lead to greater Chinese asset accumulation in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
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Thus, the poet's word is beginning to strike forcefully upon the hearts of all men, while absolute men of letters think that they alone live in the real world.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Nothing can prepare you for the yawning chasm of time that passes in Canada before the healthcare system actually does any healthcare.
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Jazz shouldn't have any mandates. Jazz is not supposed to be something that's required to sound like jazz. For me, the word 'jazz' means, 'I dare you.'
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People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.
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I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
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I get my competitiveness from my mom.
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Before I had Toma, I was one of those people who had no interest in other people's kids. I was. 'Don't hand me that baby!'
