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• We don't need to do anything new. We simply need to protect Social Security so that when people reach a certain age and are no longer earning an income, they have a safety net through which they are not going to fall.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Fall, Safety, People

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• SAFETY NET-ISM: The belief that there will always be a financial and emotional safety net to buffer life's hurts. Usually parents.

  Douglas Coupland

  Hurt, Emotional, Safety

  "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture". Book by Douglas Coupland, 1991.

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• It’s innate in me to be a Democrat — a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There’s not a lot of those anymore. I’m not saying I’m right or wrong. That’s just the way I feel. The issues that matter to me are the social safety nets for people, health care, middle-class concerns. We need to take care of the middle class and the poor in our country. The chasm is getting larger between haves and have-nots, and that’s something we need to close down a little bit.

  Tim McGraw

  Country, Issues, Class

  "Celebrity Candidate Casting Call" by Chris Weigant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 18, 2006.

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• There is no safety-net to protect against attraction.

  Algernon Charles Swinburne

  Wise, Wisdom, Safety

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• Nerves are always a big problem for me, which is why I loved doing American sitcoms. Because you know when you do the take in front of the audience that you're going to do it again afterwards. A minute after you finish, you just go and do it again. So, there's that sort of safety net. And then if you made a little mistake or two, they'll go pick it up, so there's nothing to worry about.

  John Cleese

  Mistake, Two, Safety

  Interview with Tracy Smith, www.cbsnews.com. October 25, 2015.

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• Independent travel does that, bringing temporarily together these wandering ships that would otherwise pass in the night. Relationships were mostly brief and sometimes downright fleeting. The barriers and masks of settled existence melted away, allowing strangers to become fast friends, if only for a day. We travellers needed that, having deliberately stepped away from the social safety net of family, school, work and community.

  John Haines

  School, Independent, Night

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• Safety nets for the poor and disadvantaged are a must for any compassionate nation, but encouraging folks to go on the dole when not absolutely necessary is disgraceful.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Safety, Goes On, Poor

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• Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Drama, Thinking, Safety

  "Orphan Black's Tatiana Maslany Is Scared Of Comedy". Interview with Meghan O'Keefe, www.vh1.com. July 16, 2013.

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• When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes for someone else to make the end product essentially. My scripts are just directions for the artist to draw pages and the pages are what is seen. I kind of feel like it's a safety net, you're able to hide behind the art to a certain extent, and in television you're able to hide behind the actors and the production, but with novels, your words are it

  Robert Kirkman

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: www.complex.com

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• We need economic policies in the U.S. that produce jobs, first of all, but good jobs, second of all. Believe it or not, Germany, a country characterized by high wages, strong unions, a social safety net, and so forth is the second largest exporter (after China) in the world. The idea that the only way to succeed is by eliminating vacations, sick days, worker protections, and so forth is simply belied by the competitiveness rankings produced by the Economist magazine's intelligence unit and by the World Economic Forum.

  Jeffrey Pfeffer

  Country, Strong, Believe

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I try to master every facet of a character in order to build a safety net for myself, so I can go on to take more risks to create someone really distinct.

  Jim Parsons

  Character, Order, Safety

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the idea is you're working at a job solely to pay the bills because you have ambitions to do something else, if you're not actively trying to do that other thing, you've gotta make sure you're doing that. Sometimes you've gotta take away your own safety net. But if you feel miserable in a day job, in any job, get out of that. Look for something else. Stay in that job until you have the other thing set up, and then go to that other thing. But sometimes you've just got to jump out with a parachute and trust that you're going to land someplace safe.

  Paul F. Tompkins

  Ambition, Safety, Trying

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I like writing teen characters because they’re vulnerable to the newness of things; and vulnerability makes emotional responses raw, vital and unguarded. Lacking a context of consequences, choices are riskier and stakes higher. Life is lived without a safety net. As an author and reader, I find that a mighty charge to drama.

  Allan Stratton

  Drama, Writing, Character

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• Here's why I think the public service jobs are almost unavoidable: When we have downturns in the economy - and we will, for we haven't repealed the business cycle - unemployment will build, yet we no longer have any safety net. What are we going to do? Unless we decide to pull out all the stops and lower interest rates immediately and risk turning a recession into wild inflation, we're going to have to figure out some way of providing some more, not job security, but employment security.

  Robert Reich

  Thinking, Safety, Risk

  Source: www.strategy-business.com

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• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin.

  Salman Rushdie

  Safety, Effort, Trying

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Every day, you'll have opportunities to take chances and to work outside your safety net. Sure, it's a lot easier to stay in your comfort zone.. in my case, business suits and real estate.. but sometimes you have to take risks. When the risks pay off, that's when you reap the biggest rewards.

  Donald Trump

  Business, Real, Opportunity

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• Go for broke. Always try and do too much. Dispense with safety nets. Take a deep breath before you begin talking. Aim for the stars. Keep grinning. Be bloody-minded. Argue with the world. And never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on the thousand and one things--childhood, certainties, cities, doubts, dreams, instants, phrases, parents, loves--that go on slipping , like sand, through our fingers.

  Salman Rushdie

  Dream, Stars, Writing

  Salman Rushdie, Michael Reder (2000). “Conversations with Salman Rushdie”, p.11, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Effort and pain may not be avoided. Physical and psychological breakdowns occur. The support of a like-minded group, dedicated to The Art of Suffering, provides a safety net. An individual will push harder and risk more in the company of trustworthy peers.

  Mark Twight

  Art, Pain, Safety

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• Eighty percent of the people in the world have no food safety net. When disaster strikes — the economy gets blown, people lose a job, floods, war, conflict, bad governance, all of those things — there is nothing to fall back on.

  Josette Sheeran

  Jobs, War, Fall

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• Historically, musicians know what it is like to be outside the norm - walking the high wire without a safety net. Our experience is not so different from those who march to the beat of different drummers.

  Billy Joel

  Safety, Wire, Musician

  FaceBook post by Billy Joel from Jul 25, 2012

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• I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, West Indies, Rocks

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• Why worry about minor little details like clean air, clean water, safe ports and the safety net when Jesus is going to give the world an "Extreme Makeover: Planet Edition" right after he finishes putting Satan in his place once and for all?

  Arianna Huffington

  Jesus, Air, Safety

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