Naomi Klein Quotes
When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech and democratic society are called into question.
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I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.
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I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.
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I'm an Oscar nominee. I love saying that. Whatever happens, I'm going to sing that 'I'm an Oscar nominee' part.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that's when you're most beautiful.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I'm just trying to work out how to write music now, because I've never had the opportunity where my number-one priority is writing music. I don't know how my brain works yet.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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I like Jo Nesbo and Hakan Nesser. There are so many good books in the world. I don't want to spend time reading bad crime novels.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.
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The political process does not end on Election Day. Young people need to stay involved in the process by continuing to pay attention to the conversation and holding their leaders accountable for the decisions they make.
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You're not human if you don't feel fear. But I've learnt to treat fear as an emotion that sharpens me. It's there to give me that edge for what I have to do.
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I believe in being with someone for ever. Even though my marriage to Chris didn't work, I still don't consider it a failed marriage - it just came to its natural end. It didn't make me feel like I never wanted to get married again. I like sharing things with somebody.
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The future is taking shape now in our own beliefs and in the courage of our leaders. Ideas and leadership - not natural or social "forces" - are the prime movers in human affairs.
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We're doing our homework to make sure we're prepared.
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'They'll bloody kill you.' 'Maybe they'll turn and run. 'God save Ireland, and why would they do that?' 'Because God wears a green jacket, of course.'
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When we lack the ability to talk back to entities that are culturally and politically powerful, the very foundations of free speech and democratic society are called into question.
