Accessibility Quotes - Page 2

• Strong women- precious jewels all- their humanness is evident in their accessibility. We are able to enter into the spirit of these women and rejoice in their warmth and courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Strong Women, Humanness Is, Jewels

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• By sending the contradictory message that the famous are just plain folks on Mount Olympus, America has forged a relentless tension between loftiness and accessibility. Stir in the fact that the inborn talent and intelligence needed to achieve fame are immune to distributive tinkering by government programs and you have a definition of fame certain to produce envious rage: somebody screwed democracy.

  Florence King

  Equality, America, Government

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• The division into whig and tory is founded in the nature of men; the weakly and nerveless, the rich and the corrupt, seeing more safety and accessibility in a strong executive; the healthy, firm, and virtuous, feeling confidence in their physical and moral resources, and willing to part with only so much power as is necessary for their good government; and, therefore, to retain the rest in the hands of the many, the division will substantially be into Whig and Tory.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Strong, Men, Hands

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.422, Cambridge University Press

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• Whatever it is that you're successful at, that has to be the No. 1 goal. In my case, it's accessibility. So all of my products have to be usable, accessible, affordable.

  Rachael Ray

  Successful, Goal, Cases

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• The rules that I adhere to are the rules of minimalism. And those rules kind of force writing to be more filmic... to have the immediacy and accessibility of film so that the reader really has to fill in a lot of the details.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Writing, Details, Kind

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

  Immanuel Kant

  Determination, Communication, Mean

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• It isn't that information is exploding, but accessibility is. There's just about as much information this year as there was last year; it's been growing at a steady rate. It's just that now it's so much more accessible because of information technology. The consensus is that a Web crawler could get to a terabyte of publicly accesible HTML. A terabyte is about a million books. the UC Berkeley library has about 8 million books, and the Library of Congress has 20 million books.

  Hal Varian

  Book, Technology, Uc Berkeley

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• The accessibility and effective immortality of actual information is a magnificent phenomenon, a beautiful extension of human consciousness. It is too bad people find so many ways to abuse the internet, but that's just how things are.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Beautiful, People, Abuse

  "One of Obama’s Favorite Writers Redefines Spirituality". Interview with Gregory Barber, www.motherjones.com. October 25, 2015.

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• Advertising is fundamental to the accessibility, affordability and dynamism of the internet, helping to pay for much of the content and services we all enjoy and use for free.

  Nick Stringer

  Business, Use, Fundamentals

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• We must recognize that the attempt to set forth the temporal course commonly referred to as the "evolution of mankind" is merely an attempt to structure events for convenient accessibility. Consequently, we must exclude from our discussion as far as possible such misleading notions as "development" and "progress."

  Jean Gebser

  Progress, Events, Development

  Jean Gebser (1985). “The Ever-Present Origin”

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• It was a magic caused by the collision of modern methods and old ones; modern history and ancient; accessibility and isolation. And it was a magic which could only strike spark about that time. A few years earlier, from the point of view of aircraft alone, it would have been impossible to reach these places; a few later, and there will be no such isolation.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Views, Years, Magic

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• I am fourth-generation deaf, which means everyone in my immediate family is deaf. So I grew up always having 100 percent accessibility to language and communication, which was wonderful and something so many deaf people dont have.

  Shoshannah Stern

  Communication, Mean, People

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• I've tried to get better about weighing what I think the accessibility of an idea is against the cost of executing it. I've tried to be smarter about that, because if you're not smart about that, you're going to be unemployed. But I'm still mystified about what works for people. And I'm not talking about my movies, I'm talking in general. I'm mystified by the stuff that doesn't work. I'm mystified by what's going on in the critical side, too.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Smart, Thinking, Talking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• What I like about popular culture is its accessibility, and I've covered popular songs because they are amazing things.

  Robert Wyatt

  Song, Culture, Covered

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. November 14, 2014.

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• I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

  Steven Van Zandt

  Rocks, Trying, Rock N Roll

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I’ve never wanted to be called an artist. The term itself seems old-fashioned. It’s a term that does not relate to modern times. And it’s too confining. What I love about fashion is its accessibility and its democracy. Everyone wears it, and everyone relates to it.

  Miuccia Prada

  Fashion, Art, Doubt

  "An improbable conversation: new Met exhibition attempts to mix and match Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada" by Grace-Yvette Gemmell, www.politico.com. April 11, 2012.

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• The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Book, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• As soon as I moved to New York, I experienced Hurricane Irene and then Hurricane Sandy hit me in quite a big way. I had 12 days without any electricity or any water. The thing that I realized the most from it was that we've become so dependent on technology. There's so much accessibility to information that suddenly when everything is cut off, you're completely lost, and you start asking deeper and more profound questions - how short life is, and how grateful we should be for things.

  Archie Panjabi

  New York, Short Life, Grateful

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• I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the strength of comics [is how they] really allow you to transcend those last barriers between a reader absorbing the information of an experience, and a reader being able to project themselves into the [experience of the] people about whom they're reading.

  Nate Powell

  Reading, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.salon.com

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• This is a corny actor thing to say, but the first step is that you can't judge the character that you're playing. If it's built in three-dimensional fashion, you'll just play a character who's going out and seeking the best version of their life that they can find. That gives the character an accessibility that everyone can identify with.

  Tommy Dewey

  Fashion, Character, Play

  Source: collider.com

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• I've always said as a political scientist that "culture" is what we use when we can't explain things. I think it's more about accessibility. Part of the problem is that this is an expensive game [golf]. I know in a couple of places where there are black members, and they come from pretty much the same socioeconomic level that the white members come from.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Couple, Golf, Thinking

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• The biggest thinker that's influenced my feminism is definitely Bell Hooks, who's a feminist cultural critic, because of her accessibility but also just because she's a genius.

  Jessica Valenti

  Feminist, Feminism, Genius

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I think accessibility is what often denies horror its deserved attention. So it all depends on the execution and whether mainstream audiences can accept it.

  Bryan Fuller

  Thinking, Execution, Attention

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think it's because Po [from Kung Fu Panda] is such a geek, and he is so relatable. He is so excited by life and is excited to learn new things. I think that accessibility is something that we all can relate to, there are so many things we wish we could do but don't have the means to achieve it.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  Mean, Thinking, Kung Fu Panda

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• contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

  Nick Hornby

  War, Fighting, Reykjavik

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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