Naomi Klein Quotes

What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.

Naomi Klein

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• I think it's always best to be who you are.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Think
  • You
  • Best

• After my primary school education, I started gathering little children by visiting parents to ask if they wanted somebody to care for their kids by teaching them the Bible. I have never attended any seminary school or Bible college in my life.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • Children
  • School

• We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Give
  • Take
  • Noble

• Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Truth
  • Enough
  • Belief

• I would be a fool to put my feet down in a position where I can't accommodate metamorphoses.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Fool
  • Down
  • Feet

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Pretty
  • Funny
  • Dad

• Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Myself
  • Winning
  • Gold

• I've written everywhere - in hotel rooms, cafes, airports, and planes all around the world. Now I have a home office, and the wi-fi is really bad down there, which is great. If I make a date with myself to write from, say, 6 A.M. to 10 A.M. on a Saturday, the fact that no emails come in helps me focus.

  

  Zoe Foster Blake
  • World
  • Great
  • Home

• It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.

  

  Camryn Manheim
  • Way
  • Play
  • Dreams

• There is no better high than discovery.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • High
  • Better
  • Discovery

• The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and demand. The United States depends on foreign sources of oil for 62 percent of our nation's supply. By 2010, this is projected to jump to 75 percent.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Jump
  • Nation
  • Oil

• I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Man

• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • Tired

• Polenta is to northern Italy what bread is to Tuscany, what pasta is to Emilia-Romagna and what rice is to the Veneto: easy to make, hungry to absorb other flavours, and hugely versatile.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Easy
  • Hungry
  • Bread

• 'Idol' was groundbreaking television. I am very fortunate to have won the show at the time. 'Idol' changed my life, and I am thankful.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Life
  • Time
  • Thankful

• As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Crime
  • Bed

• If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • People
  • Want
  • Stop

• It's never been for love of money. I thank God for it because it makes me a living. But I sing because I love it, not because of the dollar signs.

  

  George Jones Mr. President (band)
  • God
  • Money

• Most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

  

  Ernst Mayr
  • History
  • Problems
  • Scientific

• It doesn't matter if it's a small role: if I know I can pull it off and have a good team, I will do it.

  

  Disha Patani
  • Good
  • Small
  • Team

• Growing up, I didn't know my parents were famous. I just thought they knew everybody. Everyone was always saying, 'Hi, Billy,' 'Hi, Christie.' I thought they were just popular.

  

  Alexa Ray Joel
  • Parents
  • Popular
  • Growing Up

• There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Chicago
  • Hometown

• What haunts me is not exactly the absence of literal space so much as a deep craving for metaphorical space: release, escape, some kind of open-ended freedom.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Freedom
  • Space
  • Deep