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“I was nonverbal until I was four years old. Back in the 50s, I was the kind of kid they used to just put away in an institution. But then you get the milder autism where there's no speech delay, but they're socially awkward. Those kids were around when I was a child. They were just called geeks and nerds.”

Years Kind Children Kids Used Four Speech Institutions Four Years Awkward Autism Delay Nerd Geek Nonverbal Socially Awkward

Author:Temple Grandin

“Most people just give up with time and go, "I'm a victim." The only reason I've got the reputation for delays and spending a long time on things is because I just don't stop.”

People Giving Long Reason Giving Up Long Time Victim Spending Reputation Delay Just Give Up

Author:Kevin Shields

“We have these 100 mms delays, you know, our attention is on our PDA, we're always in a rush. We drive around in these 4,000 pound metal wombs, these 4,000 pound containment systems to protect us from these 6,000 pound cars from smacking us.”

Knows Attention Car Protect Pounds Metals Delay Womb Containment Pda

Author:Peter Diamandis

“Autism reaches out in many different directions. It can be associated with language delays. It can be associated with epilepsy. It can be associated with some degree of intellectual disability, but the two core features of autism, I see, is impairments and social cognition, understanding and in restricted interests and repetitive behaviors.”

“In a perfect world global emissions would have peaked already. In a semi-perfect world we will peak on Dec. 31, 2020. The fact is, that's going to be difficult. We know that it's going to get more and more expensive the longer we delay.”

Knows World Facts Difficult Perfect Expensive Delay Emissions A Perfect World

Author:Christiana Figueres

“Jesus told his followers not to pray in the public square 'as the hypocrites' do, but rather 'enter into thy closet, and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret,' Mr. DeLay not only wants to pray in public, he wants C-SPAN and the nightly news to cover it!”

Want Father Jesus Secret Doors Praying News Scary Followers Squares Closets Delay Hypocrite

Author:Ron Barrier

“Hillary Clinton tweeted "Charlotte should release police video of the Keith Lamont Scott shooting without delay. The Clinton campaign has since announced that Clinton will travel to Charlotte.”

Should Police Clinton Campaigns Video Release Shooting Delay Keith Charlotte

Author:Chris Hayes

“More than 60 percent of small businesses face payment delays. That can cause a serious cash flow crisis. So, as president, I will explore new ways to arm small businesses with the tools to fight back and level the playing field.”

Way Faces Fighting Causes President Levels Fields Serious Arms Percent Flow Tools Crisis Cash New Ways Delay Small Business Payment Playing Fields Cash Flow

Author:Hillary Clinton

“The longer incompetent people delay in doing what they`re doing, we`re always better off whenever incompetent people are delaying what they`re going to do.”

People Delay Better Off Incompetent

Author:Lawrence O'Donnell

“I had invented my own system, my own way of making electronic music at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre, and I was using what is now referred to as a classical electronic music studio, consisting of tube oscillators and patch bays. There were no mixers or synthesizers. So I managed to figure out how to make the oscillators sing. I used a tape delay system using two tape recorders and stringing the tape between the two tape machines and being able to configure the tracks coming back in different ways.”

Way Two Different Able Used My Own Figures Machines Track Studios Different Ways Tape Centre Delay Coming Back San Francisco Patches Tubes Electronic Music Recorders Synthesizers

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“When we had the San Francisco Tape Music Center, we had a couple of Ampex tape machines there, and I could string tape from one machine, past the heads, and over to the next machine to the supply-reel amp, and have another delay there.”

Past Next Couple Machines Strings Tape Delay San Francisco

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“I became interested in the delay, having sounds recorded and played back and then come back. I did many different configurations of sending signals from one track back to another track, or to the same track, or crisscrossing them and so forth. I worked on masking the delays so when I played into the machine, I would make long tones and collect sounds in such a way that you didn't hear the delay, although sometimes you did.”

Way Long Different Sometimes Sound Machines Track Tone Delay Signals Configuration

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“Before that, an 8-bit recording was pixelated; it was really bad. It didn't serve what I was doing, which was recording live sound and delaying it and feeding it back. This is essentially what the EIS system is: a bunch of delays.”

Bits Sound Bunch Delay Feeding

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“Now, I have about twenty per hand and can change the number of delays, change different parameters, the delays to the modulations and so forth. I developed the EIS over the time period that I was just talking about [1991].”

Different Hands Numbers Talking Periods Twenties Delay Parameters Time Periods

Author:Pauline Oliveros

“[Madness] happened so frequently. I think what I was most maddest about - and it's in the book [Speaking Freely: A Memoir] - when the House and the Senate, back in 1984, were debating a bill that would - at least delay and maybe stop some of the ex - summary execution of disabled children - infants. And the Down syndrome kids and other kids had been, in some cases, routinely let die, to use the euphemism.”

Thinking Children Book Use Kids Dies House Cases Happened Madness Bills Memoir Senate Execution Delay Infant Exes Disabled Syndromes Euphemism Summary Down Syndrome Disabled Children

Author:Nat Hentoff

“I think that we should not delay for the sake of delay, but delay until questions are answered.”

Thinking Should Sake Delay

Author:Patrick Leahy

“Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old.”

Years Firsts Use Birth Tools Delay Controversial Contraception

Author:Bill Gates

“None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.”

Want Delay

Author:Jack Kevorkian

“The only thing that matters is here and the only thing that matters is now. And America's inability to delay gratification is because we do not have eternal thinking.”

Thinking Matter America Eternal Delay Inability Gratification Things That Matter Only Thing That Matters

Author:Rick Warren

“Very urgent measures need to be taken, and without much delay, in dealing with the ongoing destruction of the environment.”

Needs Taken Environment Destruction Delay Urgent Ongoing

Author:Noam Chomsky

“With certain projects, there are delays, and with others, things come together very quickly. It can be frustrating but it's not uncommon, and you just have to keep a lot of things juggling and hoping all of these projects will go when all the pieces fall into place. You just have to be ready for whatever catches fire.”

Together Certain Fall Fire Pieces Ready Projects Delay Frustrating Uncommon Juggling Fall Into Place

Author:Barbara Crampton

“The thing is, autism is all different, you know, variables. And you start out with a certain amount of, you know, the point where the differences in the brain are going to just be a personality variant and, like, for very mild Asperger's. But you get into more severe kinds of autism where there's obvious speech delay, obvious abnormal behavior in a two and three-year-old child, you know, the initial neurology is different from case to case. But all children with autism are going to do better if they get really good educational intervention.”

“In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers to the well-being of humanity associated with climate change are ignored despite a strong scientific consensus warning of the adverse, and possibly irreversible, consequences of further delays in reducing the level of greenhouse gas emissions, especially carbon.”

“A right delayed is a right denied.”

Inspirational Political Politics Rights Words Of Wisdom Refuse Civil Rights African American Denial Rejection Rejects Denied Delay Refusal Delayed

Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Delay in justice is injustice.”

Justice Injustice Delay

Author:Walter Savage Landor

“The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.”

Government Action Deals Cost Blow Delay

Author:Vladimir Lenin

“Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.”

Imagination Privilege Procrastination Subconscious Delay

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.”

Should Information Medical Heal Establishment Autism Delay Vaccines

Author:Jenny McCarthy

“While other state governments stiff their vendors, close parks, delay tax refunds, and ignore unacceptably poor service levels, Indiana state employees are setting national standards for efficiency.”

States Government Poor Levels Taxes Standards Setting Settings Parks Employee Efficiency Delay State Government Indiana Vendors Refunds National Standards Poor Service

Author:Mitch McConnell

“The progressive movement needs more crazy and amoral/immoral right-wing politicians and pundits like Tom DeLay and Newt Gingrich and Ann Coulter and Sean Hannity.”

Needs Crazy Movement Politician Wings Progressive Toms Delay Immoral Right Wing Sean Pundits Newts Progressive Movement

Author:Moby

“We have at least 125 communities in Arizona at risk from wildfire, not because of review processes or litigation delays but because of a lack of federal funding on the ground to actually begin the projects.”

Process Community Risk Projects Reviews Delay Funding Arizona Wildfires

Author:Janet Napolitano

“Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

Today Action Change Acting Positive Inspirational Life Future Bad Ass Delay Changing Your Life Memorial Meaningful Life Gamble Don't Change

Book:Simone De Beauvoir Today

Source: Simone De Beauvoir Today

“The greatest remedy for anger is delay.”

Teacher Crazy Anger Philosophical Management Angry Rage Remedy Delay 4th Of July Anger Management Rage And Anger Words Of Anger

Author:Thomas Paine

“Delay is the deadliest form of denial.”

Form Political Politics Denial Procrastination Delay Refusal Express Yourself Criminal Mind Murphys Law Parkinson's

Author:C. Northcote Parkinson

“Baseball calls it a curve ball for a reason: you just don't know where some pitches will land. Your ace could get injured. Your golden glover could err. Your team could sit through a rain delay. Your manager could get ejected. Your bench must be broad and deep enough to overcome.”

Knows Reason Enough Team Land Rain Baseball Overcoming Balls Golden Managers Broads Delay Curves Injured Benches Aces

Author:Christine Pelosi

“I believe that peace with the Palestinians is most urgent - urgent than ever before. It is necessary. It is crucial. It is possible. A delay may worsen its chances. Israel and the Palestinians are, in my judgment, ripe today to restart the peace process.”

Believe May Today I Believe Process Chance Judgment Israel Crucial Palestinian Delay Urgent Ripe

Author:Shimon Peres

“Property is unstable, and youth perishes in a moment. Life itself is held in the grinning fangs of Death, Yet men delay to obtain release from the world. Alas, the conduct of mankind is surprising.”

Men World Moments Mankind Youth Property Release Surprising Delay Alas Fangs Unstable Grinning

Author:Plautus

“If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.”

Ifs President Mistake Delay Foul Compounds

Book:Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001

“Yes, people pull the trigger - but guns are the instrument of death. Gun control is necessary, and delay means more death and horror.”

People Mean Horror Gun Instruments Gun Control Delay Triggers Gun Safety

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“Delay is the enemy of progress.”

Enemy Progress Delay Enemy Of Progress

Author:Eliot Spitzer

“The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.”

Giving May Has Beens States Government Desire Deals Too Much Trade China Canada Investors Inclusion Mechanism Representatives Delay Arbitration

Author:David Suzuki

“Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.”

Truth Is Uncertainty Falsehood Delay Haste Inspection Truth And Falsehood

Author:Tacitus

“For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.”

Ifs Doe Body Seems Opportunity Enjoy Interest Information Fellows Treasure Flight Observation Traveler Delay Airports Delayed Fellow Travelers

Author:Abraham Verghese

“It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put - without delay, and with tenderness - back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.”

World Want Trying Believe Children Has Beens I Believe Justice Injustice Dust Imperfect Tenderness Palestinian Severe Delay Disrespect

Author:Alice Walker

“The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”

Half Periods Consequence Eras Procrastination Delay Entering Soothing Stop Procrastination Appeasement Inconvenient Truth Half Measures

Book:Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

Source: Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches

“The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing.”

Self Desire Quality Supreme Reaching Thrive Reach Out Delay

Book:DUNE

Source: DUNE

“When your dawn theater sounds to clear your sinuses: don't delay. Jump. Those voices may be gone before you hit the shower to align your wits. Speed is everything. The 90-mph dash to your machine is a sure cure for life rampant and death most real. Make haste to live. Oh, God, yes. Live. And write. With great haste.”

Writing May Real Sound Voice Gone Clear Machines Theater Speed Wit Cures Dawn Showers Delay Haste Mph Sinuses

Author:Ray Bradbury

“O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure.”

“He gave her a bright fake smile; so much of life was a putting off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing was ever lost by delay. He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out of one's hands altogether by death.”

Ifs Long Ideas Enough Hands Lost Taken Fake Unhappiness Delay Delayed Another Time Fake Smile

Author:Graham Greene

“The purpose of a doctor or any human in general should not be to simply delay the death of the patient, but to increase the person's quality of life.”

Should Humans Persons Purpose Quality Doctors Increase Patient Delay Quality Of Life

Author:Patch Adams

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