Natalia Reyes Quotes

You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.

Hollywood is the perfect conduit for the urgent message about climate change. We raise awareness all the time. We routinely take a film that nobody knows about and get 80 percent of the public to know about it in just 30 days. That's called marketing. We need to harvest Hollywood for climate change awareness.

The big thrillers may make people aware of the violence in the society, and I guess that serves a purpose.

I don't do the media because of 'Woo-woo, Julia Butterfly,' as I call it. I'm not into promoting me. I'm into talking about why I've done what I've done, why I continue to do this work and why other people should care.

Beyonce may be a gifted entertainer, but no one should really care what she thinks about any serious issue confronting our nation.

It is not possible to have a strong, functioning business in a world of increasing inequality, poverty, and climate change.

We really owe it to our world to infuse our entertainment with messaging.

We don't have time to play politics with people's lives or the planet's future.

We've set up groups in schools across North America. They apply and receive a curriculum about different issues facing the world - from environment to health to sustainability. Then, the students take actions from fundraisers to awareness raisers, and some of them even go overseas and volunteer.

I have been talking about social issues on YouTube for a long time now. I think it's very important in terms of being able to reach people around the world and people who have never been exposed to certain topics or are maybe misinformed about certain things.

My focus isn't Hollywood; my focus is using Hollywood as an example. Because what happens here does happen everywhere. It's just a really concentrated and tense version here.

I have children, so I'm constantly worrying about the world they are going to inherit.

In many ways, I consider those to be my formative years, because when you're in school, you have a distant relationship to the world in that most of what you're learning is from books and lectures. But at Amnesty, I came face to face with realities in a very direct and harsh way.

The goal must be to expand ourselves beyond one field of focus and use our improved access to information to solve the very real and extreme economic, environmental, and resource challenges we face as an interconnected, global society.

I used to sort of consider myself a feminist, an environmentalist, and I still have some of that in me, but I've done so many offensive comedies, I'm now worn down to a little nub of... nub of an activist.

As big a deal as the Super Bowl is, it's not the most important thing going on in the planet.

All of us who care about the world going forward would like to engage the government more.

The Impact Channel and OurPlanet were created to increase awareness of environmental and social causes within the MySpace community.

With many serious challenges facing our country - pressing issues like climate change, income inequality, and education - Trump has expressed neither the inclination nor the ability to take on these problems.

In 1980, a young Senator Al Gore held the first Congressional hearings on global warming.

When you show people on the big screen that could be our next-door neighbour or our cousin, it does have an impact on our lives.

Being a model and an actress, I feel we a have a responsibility towards society.

There was just this stage where I realised that people were listening to what I was saying and I could actually say something I believe in and, like... why wasn't I doing that? It's not because I think I have a responsibility as a pop star or whatever; it's because I think I have a responsibility as a human being.

Fixing global warming is more important than astronomy.

Diddy and Ciroc are moving culture forward, while communicating the importance of social responsibility.