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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.”

People Looks Mother Growing Up Growing Access Pretty Things

“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.”

Mind Certain Boys Source Bears Benefits Intellectual Regard Access Peculiar Wiser Deprived Attainment

Author:John Farrar

“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.”

People Art Ideas Spirit Levels Magic Sea Tradition Access Buried New Orleans Voodoo Haitian

Author:Sam Trammell

“It is a privilege to be recognized by FDLA. I am a staunch believer that as a member of the Bar, we have the great privilege to represent clients in all facets of our practice, and that includes making the commitment to represent clients for whom access to representation and ultimately justice is limited by economics. As all of the “20 for 20 honorees have done, stepping up to meet that commitment is at the heart of what it means to be a lawyer. I hope the inspiring stories and contributions of my fellow honorees will shine a bright light on FDLA and this most important mission.”

“My film isn't about Vietnam. It is Vietnam. It's what it was really like. It was crazy. And the way we made it was very much like the way the Americans were in Vietnam. We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment and little by little we went insane.”

Way Littles Made Film Too Much Crazy Access Insane Made It Vietnam Equipment Jungle

Author:Francis Ford Coppola

“You should have access to ideas and information regardless of your age. If anyone is going to limit or guide a young person, it should be the parent or guardian and only the parent or guardian.”

Ifs Should Persons Ideas Age Young Parent Information Limits Should Have Guides Access Guardian

Author:Judith Krug

“We know that there are children out there whose parents do not take the kind of interest in their upbringing and in their existence that we would wish, but I don't think censorship is ever the solution to any problem, be it societal or be it the kind of information or ideas that you have access to.”

Thinking Knows Kind Children Ideas Problem Wish Parent Interest Existence Information Solutions Access Censorship Upbringing

Author:Judith Krug

“It is clearly absurd that it should be possible for a woman to qualify as a saint with direct access to the Almighty, while she may not qualify as a curate.”

Should May Religion Direct Saint Access Absurd Almighty Clergy

Author:Mary Stocks, Baroness Stocks

“I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life.”

Kind Mother Artist Certain Father Access Artistic Entertainers Milton Nightclubs Smitten Sids Bookmakers

Author:Lainie Kazan

“One doesn't actually meditate on the navel. The chakra is located about two or three inches below the navel, at that point there is an energy access sphere in the middle of the body.”

Two Body Three Energy Meditation Middle Buddhism Access Spheres Inches Chakra Chakra Meditation Navel

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Buddhism is yoga. Yoga started, who knows when? A long time ago, when the first person found that they could still their thoughts and experience eternity and access the higher planes of mind.”

Knows Mind Firsts Persons Long Stills Found Buddhism Higher Long Time Yoga Eternity Access Buddhist Planes Long Time Ago First Person Cosmology

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Access to governance has to be guaranteed with transparent systems that deliver responses and outcomes. The strengthening of democratic governance empowers the population to become active partners in the growth process.”

Process Growth India Democratic Response Population Active Access Partners Outcomes Empowering Governance Transparent Strengthening

Author:Narendra Modi

“Labor should not be about creating monuments on hills or statues in parks. Labors monuments and statues are when a young person can find a job, when a person with disability can get access to the ordinary life that others take for granted.”

Should Persons Jobs Young Creating Ordinary Labor Access Granted Hills Parks Disability Statues Monument Ordinary Life

Author:Bill Shorten

“Background checks, waiting periods, reports of transfers, and access to mental health records have not stopped the legal sale of firearms to legitimate buyers.”

Waiting Records Periods Mental Health Access Backgrounds Checks Reports Transfers Firearms Buyers Background Checks

Author:Colleen Hanabusa

“Mobile phone technology can help to bring financial services to the 80 percent of African women who do not have a bank account and bolster the growth of the world's poorest continent. It's not just about empowering women, it's about economic growth. Unless we can make access to finance easier for women in their businesses, we will be missing out on a significant portion of growth within our economies”

“The only real access that I have to my mind is when I'm writing.”

Writing Mind Real Access

Author:Kay Ryan

“The book is an experience that allows you to witness your feelings without having to surrender to them, to succumb to them, or to be battered by them. It gives you access to a deep knowledge of how you would respond to things you would never, thank goodness, have been required to experience.”

Giving Has Beens Book Feelings Goodness Access Surrender Witness Battered

Author:Michael Silverblatt

“The national debate on health care once centered on improving access to quality care, yet the effect of Obamacare will be the exact opposite, resulting in the shameful degradation of care for the neediest individuals.”

Care Individual Quality Effects Opposites Access Debate Health Care Improving Obamacare Shameful Degradation Quality Care

Author:Fred Upton

“I introduced the Transparency in Government Act, a multi-faceted transparency bill that would bring unprecedented access and accountability to the federal government.”

Government Bills Access Accountability Federal Government Transparency Unprecedented

Author:Mike Quigley

“Hurricane Katrina reiterated the need for [access to] medical records, ... ... But there's going to be a lot more needed than $4 million.”

Needs Millions Records Needed Access Medical Hurricanes Katrina Hurricane Katrina Medical Records

Author:Thomas Carper

“To allow public access to orbit, we would need breakthroughs that would lower the cost by a lot more than an order of magnitude and increase safety by a factor of 100 as compared to every launch system used since the first manned space flight. I think airborne launch will be a significant part of the safety solution.”

Thinking Needs Firsts Used Order Space Cost Solutions Increase Safety Access Significant Factors Flight Breakthrough Magnitude Orbit Airborne Space Flight

Author:Burt Rutan

“Now, tantra is a little bit different than other forms of Buddhism because in tantra what we do is we use the sensorial worlds as access points or pathways to ineffability.”

World Littles Different Use Form Bits Buddhism Little Bit Access Pathways Tantra

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sixty-four percent of managers in the U.S. are afraid to be alone in a room with a woman. Mentoring is all about being alone in a room with someone. Let's start talking about this honestly. The lack of equal access is the silent killer for women and no one wants to talk about it.”

Want Rooms Talking Four Equal Percent Silent Access Honestly Managers Killers Sixty Mentoring

Author:Sheryl Sandberg

“My name recognition has opened doors on the research side. I used to go into crack houses and drug markets and really bad neighborhoods by myself, routinely, and hang out. Sometimes I still do, because I don't want to attract attention. But lately, I've been riding with cops and gaining access to other types of law, like the ATF guys, just because of my name. I guess it's a smarter way to work.”

Way Want Stills Sometimes Law Used Guy House Names Sides Attention Doors Type Drug Research Access Recognition Neighborhood Hanging Out Cracks Riding Cop Smarter Opened Doors

Author:George Pelecanos

“I bet I'm the only person in history who went from being the star of a sitcom to the host of a public-access show in less than a year.”

Years Persons Shows Stars Access Host Sitcom

Author:Chris Gethard

“The thing that I like about public-access is that I am often in the middle of chaos.”

Middle Chaos Access

Author:Chris Gethard

“I stopped drinking almost immediately after I had ready access to liquor, when I got to college. It almost immediately lost its appeal for me.”

Lost College Ready Drinking Access Appeals Liquor

Author:Steve Albini

“The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access.”

Thinking Should Important Ideas Helping Kids Dies Justice Poor Rich Disease Access Unbelievable Vaccines Rich Kids

Author:Bill Gates

“Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet.”

Greater Internet Access Grants Vehicle

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I agree that dreams seem to be involved in laying down memories but I realise that dreaming gives us access to a part of our brain we do not normally have access to.”

Giving Dream Seems Memories Brain Involved Agree Access Realising Laying Down

Author:Amy Hardie

“My interest at the moment is to use my dreaming self (which I also access in shamanic journeying) to engage with the Earth. In my waking rational life I often forget about the Earth, or I get worried or confused by contradictory information. With my dreaming brain I can have access to powerful images of what is going on in the Earth, from day to day.”

I Can Self Moments Use Dream Earth Interest Forget Powerful Brain Information Access Rational Worried Confused Waking Day To Day Contradictory

Author:Amy Hardie

“We forget most of our dreams because we don't have access to those parts of our brain once we are switched to wakefulness. But why we evolved that way is a puzzle to me.”

Way Dream Forget Brain Access Puzzles Our Dreams

Author:Amy Hardie

“The thing that I see disappearing is just the love of old movies among kids. Everything's accessible, so you can get it, but when everything's accessible, that means you have to access it. And if you're not interested, you don't.”

Ifs Mean Kids Disappear Access Not Interested Old Movie

Author:Rob Zombie

“Younger feminists actually care about stuff that came before them, the same way that I totally cared about and loved and felt so lucky to have access to the feminism that came before me. To have younger people take what me and my friends have done, and to say 'We have access to that, but we're going to put that through our own Internet generation filter and we're going to make it into something that speaks to us and is a lot smarter.'”

People Way Done Care Speak Felt Stuff Generations Feminism Internet Lucky My Friends Feminist Access Smarter Filters So Lucky

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“If you offer people a decent service, if you give them you know Internet access, if their phones are not cut off on the trains, you know if you have plugs where they can plug in their computers, and if you have a smiling, cheerful staff; and if you can travel really quickly, then you can make a success out of the rail business.”

People Ifs Knows Giving Cutting Internet Offers Computer Train Phones Access Decent Staff Cheerful Rail Plugs Internet Access

Author:Richard Branson

“Yes, we've cut the maternal mortality rate in half, but far too many women are still denied critical access to reproductive health care and safe childbirth, and laws don't count for much if they're not enforced. Rights have to exist in practice - not just on paper. Laws have to be backed up with resources and political will. And deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.”

“Americas health care system provides some of the finest doctors and more access to vital medications than any country in the world. And yet, our system has been faltering for many years with the increased cost of health care.”

World Years Has Beens Country Care Cost Doctors Access Health Care Finest Medication Health Care System Faltering

Author:Paul Gillmor

“Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.”

Needs Kids Teacher Access Priorities

Author:Michael Bennet

“In one of the accounts of Jesus's death we read that the curtain in the temple of God-the one that kept people out of the holiest place of God's presence-ripped.One New Testament writer said that this ripping was a picture of how, because of Jesus, we can have new, direct access to God.A beautiful idea.But the curtain ripping also means that God comes out, that God is no longer confined to the temple as God was previously.”

People Mean Said Ideas Beautiful Jesus Direct Accounts Access Temples Testament Curtains Confined New Testament Ripped God's Presence

Author:Rob Bell

“You write about what you have access to, and I have been fortunate enough to have a front-row seat on the rich and powerful my entire life.”

Writing Has Beens Enough Powerful Rich Fronts Access Fortunate Seats

Author:Dominick Dunne

“I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.”

Way Book Drug Access Burning

Author:Terence McKenna

“I am fortunate to have access to an array support and services, and I certainly could not do my job without them. But sadly, not everyone has access to the same resources.”

Jobs Support Resources Access Fortunate

Author:James Langevin

“Thanks is part to our education system, we tend to think that we're smarter than the stupid guys in funny wigs who came before us. But that's because we are mistaking technology, progress, and access to information for intelligence. We think that because we know how to use iPhones (but not build them), browse the Internet (but not understand how it works), and use Google (but not really know anything), our educational system is working just great. By the same token, we think that those dumb aristocrats who used horses to get around and didn't have electricity were neanderthals.”

“Here in Silicon Valley, I have taken part in hundreds of conversations trying to convince people to dive in and become entrepreneurs. All too often, innovators with good, safe, jobs are unwilling to put their family's access to health care at risk by walking away from company-backed medical insurance.”

“I tell you what Hispanics in Virginia tell me they want. They want access to the American dream. Thats why they come here to Virginia and to America, so they want more opportunities to start small business, better schools.”

Want Dream School America Opportunity Access American Dream Small Business Virginia

Author:Bob McDonnell

“The Greens have never been on the ballot in Georgia because of restrictive ballot access laws.”

Law Access Georgia Ballots

Author:Cynthia McKinney

“We are excited about Internet access in general. With better access to the Internet, people do more searches.”

People Internet Excited Access Internet Access

Author:Larry Page

“I've always had access to other worlds. We all do because we dream.”

World Dream Access Other Worlds

Author:Leonora Carrington

“If we dont figure out a way to create equity, real equity, of opportunity and access, to good schools, housing, health care, and decent paying jobs, were not going to survive as a productive and healthy society.”

Ifs Way Real Care School Jobs Opportunity Figures Healthy Access Health Care Decent Productive Equity Housing Good School Healthy Society

Author:Tim Wise

“Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.”

Enough Courses Access Publishing Interpersonal

Author:Katherine Dunn

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