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" The customer is always right: 'It's my money. You have to listen to me'. "
Naomi Klein
Customer
Me
Always
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" This is what he has been selling on the 'The Apprentice', through his self-help books, how to - you know, 'Trump 101' or the 'Art of the Deal' or, really, back to 'Art of the Deal'. So almost the more he gets away with, the more he is reinforcing his brand. "
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Art
" Trump would have been unelectable were it not for the groundwork laid by Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, two liberal heroes. "
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Would
Two
" Nike was the essence of sports, transcendence through sports. "
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" The way in which people talk about climate is just so wonky and so abstract and such a boys' club that it makes a lot of women just roll their eyes or feel that they are somehow not qualified. I certainly had to fight that feeling in myself in order to write about it. "
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Women
Feel
Eyes
" I want to act, if I can, as a bridge for people who read 'Shock Doctrine' or 'No Logo'. People who are sitting out for whatever reasons. "
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Bridge
People
Sitting
" What you want to do is you want to own as little sort of hard infrastructure as possible, and your real value is your name and how you build that up. "
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Name
Build
Want
" The Trump Organization is paid millions of dollars by these developers for the privilege of putting the Trump name on those towers. "
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Organization
Towers
Privilege
" The more hardcore conservative you are, the more tightly identified you are with defending the interest of capital as an interest of the system based on hyper-competition, the more likely it is that you vehemently deny climate change. Because if climate change is real, your worldview will come crashing down around you. "
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Down
You
Real
" Maybe Trump himself will be voted out through impeachment, right? "
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Out
Will
Trump
" The divestment movement is a start at challenging the excesses of capitalism. It's working to delegitimize fossil fuels and showing that they're just as unethical as profits from the tobacco industry. "
Naomi Klein
Working
Capitalism
Start
" What we know is that the environmental movement had a series of dazzling victories in the late '60s and in the '70s where the whole legal framework for responding to pollution and to protecting wildlife came into law. It was just victory after victory after victory. And these were what came to be called 'command-and-control' pieces of legislation. "
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Victory
Legal
Law
" If David Duke got the percentage of the vote that Le Pen got, we would be terrified, as well we should be. "
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Should
Would
Pen
" The Trump family's business model is part of a broader shift in corporate structure that has taken place within many brand-based multinationals, one with transformative impacts on culture and the job market, trends that I wrote about in my first book, 'No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies'. "
Naomi Klein
Job
Family
Business
" As I explored Trump's inextricable relationship with his commercial brand, and its implications for the future of politics, I began to see why so many of the attacks on him have failed to stick - and how we can identify ways of resisting him that will be more effective. "
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Brand
Relationship
Politics
" The growth in emissions is coming from the developing world. So if we are going to get out of this, it's going to come out of a process of cooperation and collaboration. That's why it really requires a paradigm shift. "
Naomi Klein
Collaboration
World
Growth
" In the midst of the pain and panic of the Great Depression, as many as 2 million people of Mexican descent were expelled from the United States. "
Naomi Klein
Great
Mexican
Pain
" For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism. "
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Sea
Racism
Me
" One shouldn't gamble with what is irreplaceable and precious. "
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Gamble
Precious
Irreplaceable
" One of the ideas that I wanted to highlight, which is actually a very bipartisan idea - it's not just about conservatives - is this worship of wealth, the CEO saviour. "
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Wealth
Ideas
CEO
" I think there's a couple of things going on. One is that Trump's relationship with his base is not the traditional relationship of a politician and the people who elected him, and the constituency, which is a relationship of some accountability, right? The idea is that the politicians are working for the people. They're public servants. "
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Politicians
Relationship
Think
" The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity. "
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Like
Fast Food
Fast
" He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible. "
Naomi Klein
Possible
Name
Building
" Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise. "
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Among
Compromise
Generation
" I think people are just incredibly depressed and hopeless about the prospects for change. "
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Hopeless
Think
People
" Since the 1980s, we've been living in this era, really, of corporate rule, based on this idea that the role of government is to liberate the power of capital so that they can have as much economic growth as quickly as possible, and then all good things will flow from that. "
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Good
Growth
Living
" It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again. "
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Time
Long Time
Book
" A new bubble will replace the old one. A new technology will come along to fix the messes we made with the last one. In a way, that is the story of the settling of the Americas, the supposedly inexhaustible frontier to which Europeans escaped. "
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Way
Bubble
Fix
" I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties. "
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Back
Drawing
I Can
" Here in Canada, the people who oppose the tar sands most forcefully are Indigenous people living downstream from the tar sands. They are not opposing it because of climate change - they are opposing it because it poisons their bodies. "
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People
Here
Indigenous People
" 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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Globalization
Power
Think