Access Quotes - Page 31

• Women have gained access to the institutions, but not enough power to overhaul them.

  Ellen Goodman

  Enough, Institutions

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• Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality.

  Deepak Chopra

  Law, Silence, Meditation

  Deepak Chopra (2010). “The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success: A Practical Guide to the Fulfillment of Your Dreams”, p.17, Amber-Allen Publishing

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• I like it when very little children think for themselves, because they do not have access to car keys or credit cards or crack pipes, but they have some really funny lines.

  Roseanne Barr

  Children, Thinking, Keys

  Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Money buys access; access buys influence.

  Elizabeth Drew

  Influence

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• Laughter lifts our spirits, surprises and sometime shocks our expectations, allows us to cross boundaries, reorders our priorities, and gives us access to ideas and associations we rarely ever thought to have.

  Jean Houston

  Laughter, Ideas, Giving

  Jean Houston (1996). “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, Harpercollins

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• We all have within us a deep sense of what we need, and what is right and true for us. To access this we need to pay attention to our feelings and our intuition. We need to learn to listen deeply to ourselves and to trust what we hear. And we need to risk acting on what we feel to be true. Even if we make mistakes, we must do this in order to learn and grow.

  Shakti Gawain

  Mistake, Order, Feelings

  Shakti Gawain (2011). “Creating True Prosperity”, p.114, New World Library

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• And how can we ever again succeed in educating children to become moral men and women if, in America's public schools, we consciously deny them all religious instruction, and deny them access to that primary source of morality, God's own word. The Bible is the one book from which they are expressly not allowed to be taught.

  Pat Buchanan

  Religious, Children, Book

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• The cool thing about the Internet is that it's allowing women more access to their own history.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Internet, Backlash, Cool Things

  "Kathleen Hanna on Bikini Kill, growing up, and being a feminist icon". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. November 20, 2012.

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• I think the [fan] access is complicated, because it brings wonderful things into my life, and it brings really negative things into my life. I just try to keep the negative stuff at arm's length. Laugh at it and walk away.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Thinking, Laughing, Trying

  "Kathleen Hanna on buffalo chicken, Destiny's Child, and the sketchy things she did to McDonald's apple pies". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. February 10, 2015.

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• I think it's very, very important that people outside the capital cities, not just Sydney and Melbourne but also Brisbane Perth Adelaide and so on, have the greatest access to the best cultural experiences they can in both the performing arts and the visual arts.

  George Brandis

  Art, Thinking, Cities

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB.

  Antonis Samaras

  Country, Doe, Greece

  "Everybody Knows We Are Serious". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 14, 2012.

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• To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  Book, School, Film History

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I think translation is an impossible job, and I admire the people who do it in a way that brings poetry to us that we wouldn't have access to.

  Joan Larkin

  Jobs, Thinking, People

  "Road Trip". Interview with Ali Liebegott, logger.believermag.com. October 25, 2013.

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• The public feels that if it's on the Internet and you can access it, you deserve it. You haven't committed any kind of crime. We may even have to rename piracy. But in any case, we have to confront it.

  Morgan Freeman

  May, Kind, Internet

  "Freeman lobbies against piracy". Interview with Farah Nayeri, www.deseretnews.com. June 4, 2005.

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• I don't personally believe in an arrived state of enlightenment. I feel that being human is a constant practice of return. We have moments of clarity, and then we're confused. We have incredibly sensitive periods of being awake, and then we're numb. Being human is a very universal and a very personal practice of learning how to return when we can't get access to what we know.

  Mark Nepo

  Confused, Believe, Practice

  "Journey to the Sacred: An Interview With Mark Nepo". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 13, 2013.

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• Stand up for who you are. Respect your Self and ignite the divine sparks in you. Access your powers. Choose your rights and work together with others to bring blessings into the lives.

  Amit Ray

  Blessing, Rights, Self

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• From the consumer point of view, there may be questions about whether you'll have to be an AOL subscriber to get Time magazine, ... That combination of media with the access is one through which you may be able to block access to your competitors' subscribers.

  Charlene Li

  Block, Views, Media

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• Nowadays, all students have access to and indeed most own computers and are comfortable with the software used to compose music. There are probably too many musical options for them now and the trick is to limit the number of musical ideas so as to develop structure and continuity in their work.

  Jon Appleton

  Numbers, Ideas, Musical

  "Appleton Leaves Dartmouth". www.dartreview.com. October 27, 2005.

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• I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those [underprivileged] kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.

  Eula Biss

  Kids, Son, Decision

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• Clean water and access to food are some of the simplest things that we can take for granted each and every day. In places like Africa, these can be some of the hardest resources to attain if you live in a rural area.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Water, Rural Areas, Granted

  "Helping East Africa: The Basic Necessities and the People Who Go Without" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 2, 2011.

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• We struggle with eating healthily, obesity, and access to good nutrition for everyone. But we have a great opportunity to get on the right side of this battle by beginning to think differently about the way that we eat and the way that we approach food.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Struggle, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Eating With a Spiritual Compass" by Marcus Samuelsson, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2011.

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• Breast cancer alone kills some 458,000 people each year, according to the World Health Organization, mainly in low- and middle-income countries. It has got to be a priority to ensure that more women can access gene testing and lifesaving preventive treatment, whatever their means and background, wherever they live.

  Angelina Jolie

  Country, Cancer, Mean

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• A lot of people have no access to beauty. When I was growing up, my mother had only a few pretty things to look at.

  Bette Midler

  Mother, Growing Up, People

  "Oprah Talks to Bette Midler". Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. January 2001.

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• Always bear in mind that boys are naturally wiser than you. Regard them as intellectual beings, who have access to certain sources of knowledge of which you are deprived, and seek to derive all the benefit you can from their peculiar attainments and experience.

  John Farrar

  Boys, Intellectual, Mind

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• There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.

  Sam Trammell

  Art, New Orleans, Sea

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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