Naomi Klein Quotes
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
Quotes to Explore
-
Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
-
A lot of people still disregard something like yoga. I would have as a young player. I would have been too busy playing golf or something.
-
Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
-
I can tell you, all the intelligence services in the world were running my name through their databases to see did anyone by this name come in the country? When? Do we know anything about it? Where did she stay? Who did she see?
-
My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.
-
Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
-
There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
-
I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
-
When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
-
I am a crazy Maverick fan. I would go there if Dallas was a great entertainment center.
-
Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
-
Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
-
My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.
-
Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
-
Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
-
Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
-
An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
-
I had been impressed by the fact that biological systems were based on molecular machines and that we were learning to design and build these sorts of things.
-
I lived in Brooklyn from 2007 to 2012 but for the last few years have resided in Austin, Texas, where my world - especially the world of downtown - is predominantly white.
-
I've never understood why some people hesitate before diving into unfamiliar tasks or activities. I couldn't imagine wanting more instructions about anything.
-
I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
-
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.
-
Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important. That's not how we were meant to govern.
-
I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
