Barriers Quotes - Page 6

• Raising the minimum wage and lowering the barriers to union organization would carry a trade-off - higher unemployment. A better idea is to have the government subsidize low-wage employment. The earned-income tax credit for low-income workers - which has been the object of proposed cuts by both President Clinton and congressional Republicans - has been a positive step in this direction.

  Paul Krugman

  Philosophy, Cutting, Government

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• Our theme for this year's festivities, Dreams and Challenges of Asian Pacific Americans, speaks to the many generations of Asian Pacific Americans who worked hard to overcome economic hardship, racism and other barriers in their pursuit of the American dream.

  Lucille Roybal-Allard

  Dream, Years, Racism

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• Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

  Benjamin Carson

  Softball, Looks, Obstacles

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• For Australians, climate change is no longer a distant threat. Our rivers are dying, bush fires are more ferocious and more frequent and our natural wonders - the Great Barrier Reef, Kakadu, our rainforests - are now at risk.

  Kevin Rudd

  Fire, Rivers, Risk

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• Whether the people in Haiti, the young kids in Chicago that [are] going through violence, or whether you're in Atlanta or L.A. or Europe - it's not even color barriers for me - I go to where I know there's a lot of turmoil and pain.

  Common

  Pain, Kids, Atlanta

  "A Chat with Common Interview: Adimu Colon". Common Interview, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The racehorses assemble at the starting barrier in all the finery of a mediaeval pageant, the jockeys in silks like figures from a Tarot pack, the bookies in leather and tweeds standing beside their boards each confident that the future has been controlled.

  Kevin Hart

  Sports, Tweed, Tarot

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• Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

  Tom Perrotta

  Broken, Forever, Invisible

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• A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Mountain, Earth, Landscape

  Rebecca Solnit (2001). “Wanderlust: A History of Walking”, p.105, Penguin

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• I'm the prime minister who removed 400 checkpoints, barriers, road-blocks and so on to facilitate the growth of the Palestinian economy.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Block, Growth, Economy

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• I came to the conclusion that in order to end racial barriers, I needed to run for the office of the president and put forth an agenda of social justice and world peace. In addition, I concluded that someone needed to run and challenge the liberal orthodoxy.

  Jesse Jackson

  Running, Order, Justice

  Interview with Michael Bendetson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 8, 2009.

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• Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.

  Aldous Huxley

  Passion, Feelings, Height

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “Brave New World”

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• The biggest barriers to strategic renewal are almost always top management's unexamined beliefs.

  Gary Hamel

  Top Management, Belief, Renewal

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• You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many problems and dread. Every social situation is a potential nightmare.

  Larry David

  Encounters, Nightmare, Problem

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• My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.

  Barack Obama

  Love, Believe, Blessed

  2004 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 27 July 2004, Fleet Center, Boston

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• Places like Hilton Head, with water adjacency and nice climates, are in high demand, and land values are insane. In the case of Hilton Head, which was developed in 1970 on what had been a mosquito- and alligator-infested swampy barrier island, land value has leaped from nearly zero to now unaffordable.

  Susan Orlean

  Zero, Nice, Islands

  "The Too-Big House" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. June 21, 2011.

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• It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.

  Neil Gaiman

  Wall, Wonderful, Given

  "Neil Gaiman Talks DOCTOR WHO Episode “Nightmare in Silver,” Evolving the Cybermen, Creating the Cybermites, His View on the TARDIS and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 8, 2013.

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• I think it's really cool that there are people like Adele on the cover of 'Vogue' and 'Rolling Stone,' and like I think it's really important that people are talking about your body, because if they don't, then you'll never be able to break that barrier.

  Beth Ditto

  Thinking, Talking, People

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• But what a weak barrier is truth when it stands in the way of an hypothesis!

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Way, Weak, Hypothesis

  Mary Wollstonecraft (2013). “Vindication of the Rights of Women”, p.42, Lulu.com

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• I've always loved to prove people wrong. I want to be able to cross color lines, because in music, there really is no barrier.

  Pink

  Color, People, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to understanding. You put aside understanding itself. This universe cannot be seen, cannot be heard, cannot be detected in any way by fixed perceptions. It is the ultimate void where no preordained screens occur upon which forms may be projected. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.

  Frank Herbert

  Beautiful, Order, Imagination

  "Heretics of Dune. Chapter: The Atreides Manifesto, Bene Gesserit Archives". Book by Frank Herbert, 1984.

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• Indeed, the only truly serious questions are ones that even a child can formulate. Only the most naive of questions are truly serious. They are the questions with no answers. A question with no answer is a barrier that cannot be breached. In other words, it is questions with no answers that set the limit of human possibilities, describe the boundaries of human existence.

  Milan Kundera

  Children, Questions And Answers, Limits

  "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Book by Milan Kundera, 1984.

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• I hate to toot my own horn but I just feel that I know people and I know fans and I don't feel there is that Angelina Jolie/Brad Pitt barrier with me. I've always felt from everyone I talk to that the fans feel like I'm tangible and they can talk to me and they know me.

  Hulk Hogan

  Hate, People, Fans

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• I hope we will use the Net to cross barriers and connect cultures.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Culture, Use, Crosses

  "Web inventor: Online life will produce more creative children". Interview with Lila King, www.cnn.com. October 10, 2005.

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• There are words that exist in one language and not in another language. It creates barriers that keep us from understanding each other. I'm often frustrated using words to talk to people.

  Jenova Chen

  People, Understanding, Frustrated

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

  Helen Keller

  Friendship, Sweet, Book

  "The Story of My Life" by Helen Keller, (Ch. 21), 1903.

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