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.
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I really, really loved making 'This Is My Life' and 'Now and Then.'
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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Economic growth and human development need to go hand in hand. Human values need to be advocated vigorously.
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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.
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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.
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Ether is the token of the Ethereum network, which is focused on disrupting contract law.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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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.
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An old building is like a show. You smell the soul of a building. And the building tells you how to redo it.
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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.
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I've been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show 'Billy Elliot' there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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I will concede to you one thing - 'Hustler' is offensive, even to the point of being iconoclastic. That's our purpose - to be offensive.
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What I like most about Bolano is his courage.
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Mere chance … alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
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Beyond a power play by the oil industry, there is no conceivable explanation for barring courts within any state from considering cases related to oil leases and energy production off its own coastlines.
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Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
