Naomi Klein Quotes
As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
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I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Creation's highest aim and most sublime result is belief in God. The most exalted rank of humanity is knowledge of God.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.
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I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.
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What makes me happy is just curling up in with my mom in her bed and watching a marathon of 'CSI' and 'Grey's Anatomy' episodes with pints of ice cream.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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It may well seem that Plato does suggest techne is the best model for moral knowledge. In other words, it may seem that his goal is to establish an expert or authority in the field of the good-bad, just-unjust.
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My humanity is bound up in yours, for we can only be human together.
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As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.
