Protective Quotes - Page 9

• My family was always very supportive. Whether you're an actor or not, everybody hears the horror stories of people going to L.A. and trying to be an actor, and their dreams are crushed, and they end up working for the IRS. So they were always protective to the point that they wanted me to have a backup plan, which is understandable, but there was always something inside of me that knew: backup plan, schmackup plan.

  Zachary Levi

  Dream, Horror Stories, People

  RELEVANT magazine Interview, relevantmagazine.com. April 30, 2003.

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• Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.

  Mitch Daniels

  States, Personal Freedom, Private Sector

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• Protective coloration...you learn to use it to get along in the world if you want. Only I got sick of living in the box the world prescribed; it was far to small to hold me. So I knocked down a few walls.

  Bruce Coville

  Wall, Sick, Use

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• More and more products are coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. These days you have to open almost every consumer item by gnawing on the packaging.

  Dave Barry

  Packaging, Coming Out, These Days

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.43, Ballantine Books

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• Adolescence is a time when children are supposed to move away from parents who are holding firm and protective behind them. When the parents disconnect, the children have no base to move away from or return to. They aren't ready to face the world alone. With divorce, adolescents feel abandoned, and they are outraged at that abandonment. They are angry at both parents for letting them down. Often they feel that their parents broke the rules and so now they can too.

  Mary Pipher

  Children, Moving, Divorce

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• Reforming public education, cutting property taxes, fixing adult and child protective services and funding our budget can all occur when Democrats and Republicans engage in consensus and cooperation - not cynicism and combat.

  Rick Perry

  Children, Cutting, Fixing

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• Once you have kids, you think like a parent. You get a lot more protective.

  Trey Parker

  Kids, Thinking, Parent

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• In the '60s, people were still very protective of each field that they belonged to. Avant-garde artists didn't know about rock or pop or jazz. And the jazz people of course didn't want to know about any other music. They were all just kind of protecting their territory.

  Yoko Ono

  Artist, Rocks, People

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• I realised how paranoid and guarded and not trusting - walled-in - I had become. Not consciously so, but just this armour that I kind of have, protective armour. It's not for my friends or family, but for being.outside in the world, always on guard.

  Jennifer Aniston

  World, Kind, Paranoid

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• I supply my own angels and demons. I exist on a stony beach, which lowers itself in waves toward a protective ocean. A dog barks; a child cries; the day sinks and becomes night. You can never scare me. No human being will be able to scare me ever again. I have a prayer that I repeat to myself in absolute stillness: May a wind come to stir up the ocean and the stifling twilight. May a bird come from water out there and explode the silence with its call.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Beach, Dog, Prayer

  Ingmar Bergman (1990). “Images: my life in film”, Arcade Publishing

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• When you see the abyss, and we have looked into it, then what? There isn't much room at the edge -- one person, another, not many. If you are there, others cannot be there. If you are there, you become a protective wall. What happens? You become part of t

  Elie Wiesel

  Wall, Knowledge, Rooms

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• I hate this bizarre policy of protective exclusion, because it effectively writes me off the page.

  Sara Gruen

  Hate, Writing, Pages

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.112, Hachette UK

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• Writing a song is like playing a series of downs in football: Lots of rules, timing is crucial, lots of boundaries, lots of protective gear, lots of stopping and starting.

  Christine Lavin

  Football, Song, Writing

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• The intention behind the protective use of force is to prevent injury, never to punish or to cause individuals to suffer, repent or change.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Suffering, Use

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• I like protective men, the type who'll put an arm around me so I can be smothered.

  Katie Price

  Men, Hands, Arms

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• Our way of living together in America is a strong but delicate fabric. It is made up of many threads. It has been woven over many centuries by the patience and sacrifice of countless liberty-loving men and women. It serves as a cloak for the protection of poor and rich, of black and white, of Jew and Gentile, of foreign and native born. Let us not tear it asunder. For no man knows, once it is destroyed, where or when man will find its protective warmth again.

  Wendell Willkie

  Life, Strong, Black And White

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• I've discovered the best skincare, MV Organic Skincare. I love their Energising 9-Oil Cleanser, Rose Hydrating Mist and Rose Soothing & Protective Moisturiser

  Melissa George

  Oil, Rose, Mist

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• Maybe there are only atheists in foxholes. If the faithful truly and fully believe in a protective deity, why would they dive into a foxhole to protect themselves from the bullets whizzing by ? A part of their brain knows damn well that if they do not protect themselves, the bullets will hardly discriminate between those who claim faith and those who reject it.

  J. Anderson Thomson

  Atheist, Believe, Faithful

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• Silence is a protective coating over pain.

  E. Lockhart

  Pain, Silence, Silence Is

  E. Lockhart (2014). “We Were Liars”, p.45, Delacorte Press

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• The Spider is an ode to my mother. She was my best friend. Like a spider, my mother was a weaver. . . Like spiders, my mother was very clever. Spiders are friendly presences that eat mosquitoes. We know that mosquitoes spread diseases and are therefore unwanted. So, spiders are helpful and protective, just like my mother.

  Louise Bourgeois

  Mother, Clever, Friendly

  "Giant spider takes up residence at Tate", www.theguardian.com. October 3, 2007.

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• Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Wall, War, Eye

  FaceBook post by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o from Aug 09, 2013

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• I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut. He was a minister for 15 years…I come from a big family not in terms of money, but reputation and grew up in a protective mountain environment…My father slapped me for the first time at 15 and I told him, ‘If you slap me I will slap you back’. I felt raising your hand on anybody is inappropriate and always had a high regard for my self. My dad asked me to leave the house and I did so without a single penny in my pocket.

  Kangana Ranaut

  Dad, Father, Self

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• The censor is always quick to justify his function in terms that are protective of society. But the First Amendment, written in terms that are absolute, deprives the States of any power to pass on the value, the propriety, or the morality of a particular expression.

  William O. Douglas

  Expression, Freedom Of Speech, Firsts

  "Memoirs v. Massachusetts, 383 U.S. 413". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. March 21, 1966.

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• My parents were very protective. I couldn't even cross the street without them getting all excited, and placing bets.

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Parent

  "E=MO²". Comedy album, 1985.

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• The right raw materials can...double or triple the protective power of the immune system.

  Joel Fuhrman

  Raw Materials, Immune System, Materials

  Dr. Joel Fuhrman (2011). “Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body's Defenses to Live Longer, Stronger, and Disease Free”, p.4, Harper Collins

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