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“Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.”

Bigs Issues Source Limits Empathy Edges Friction

“The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.”

Ifs Writing Literature Fiction Limits Science Fiction

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

“I am a gay writer, absolutely. And in no way does that fact limit the reach or importance of what I write.”

Way Writing Doe Facts Gay Limits Importance

Author:Garth Greenwell

“Then President [Barack] Obama went on to argue that a citizen`s Second Amendment rights can be restricted without being infringed, just like any other rights. There are limits on your free speech and on your right to privacy. But he also made another nuanced Constitutional argument, that the rights enshrined in the Second Amendment must be balanced alongside the others rights guaranteed by the Constitution.”

Made President Rights Citizens Limits Speech Argument Constitution Arguing Barack Privacy Amendments Balanced Free Speech Second Amendment President Barack Obama Right To Privacy

Author:Melissa Harris-Perry

“I'm interested in the self. And in the limits and transformations of self. And in self presentation. And in doubt. And in playing with the audience's expectations. But I don't like dressing up like on Halloween.”

Self Audience Doubt Limits Expectations Transformation Halloween Dressings Presentation Dressing Up

Author:Rachel Zucker

“The law limits anyone from serving as president of the United States for more than eight years. And in my opinion, eight years is also long enough for an individual to serve as a representative for a specific congressional district.”

Years Wells Long States Enough Law Individual President United Opinion United States Limits Eight Serving Representatives

Author:Michele Bachmann

“I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room”

“100 million dollars used to be the limit of what a movie might cost; now they routinely cost 300 million. Sooner or later, spectacle is just going to have to find a new way to exist.”

Way Might Used Millions Cost Limits Dollars Used To Be Sooner Or Later New Ways Million Dollars

Author:Matthew Specktor

“The body can limit our ability to experience life to the fullest, especially if we identify ourselves as being only our bodies.”

Ifs Body Ability Limits

Author:Lee L Jampolsky

“Major labels limit you, but I also learned my tricks from getting around that.”

Limits Majors Tricks Labels

Author:Dawn Angelique

“I'm interested in the limits of personality, in the possibility of change, and the saving power of art. Do powerful works of art raise our consciousness to such a degree that we refrain from sliding into moral hazard? Do we take note? Or are we doomed to repetition?”

Art Powerful Consciousness Moral Possibility Personality Limits Degrees Raises Notes Saving Works Of Art Doomed Repetition Refrain Hazards Possibility Of Change Moral Hazard

Author:Adam Ross

“Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad principle limits all our functions and applies to all subjects.”

Giving Government Political Liberty Principles Subjects Citizens Limits Authority Function Constitution Instruments Broads

Book:The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-August 1867

Source: The Papers of Andrew Johnson: February-August 1867

“I'm not saying we're going to win. I am saying rebellion becomes a way to protect your own dignity. Corporations are, theologically speaking, institutions of death. They commodify everything - the natural world, human beings - that they exploit until exhaustion or collapse. They know no limits.”

Knows World Way Humans Winning Natural Human Beings Protect Limits Dignity Institutions Corporations Rebellion Collapse Exploits Natural World Exhaustion

Author:Chris Hedges

“I try not to limit myself. The actors that inspire me are the comedians and the people able to shape-shift into different roles and into different media. That ensures your longevity as an artist and prevents you from getting bored with yourself and, hopefully, prevents people from getting bored with you.”

People Trying Different Able Artist Actors Roles Media Inspire Shapes Limits Hopefully Comedian Bored Longevity

Author:Gugu Mbatha-Raw

“I was charging forward too hard, into too many war zones, working too long, drinking too heavily, pushing forward, pushing forward. And who knows, had this not happened, maybe I would have been one of the casualties as a journalist covering the war. Who knows, maybe I would have been captured and tortured somewhere along the line, because I always pushed things to the limit.”

Knows Long Has Beens War Hard Lines Happened Limits Drinking Journalist Zone Pushing Captured Covering Casualties Charging War Zones Pushing Forward

Author:Brad Willis

“I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.”

People Two Different Real Facts Choices Party Principles Watches Offers Limits Majors Alternatives Status Quo Flavor Sidelines Fray Challenging Status Quo Challenging The Status Quo

Author:Gary Johnson

“I can't see a problem with imposing fines on drivers who violate traffic safety laws. The speed limit is the speed limit. A red light means stop. These things haven't changed since people got their driver's licenses.”

People Mean I Can Problem Light Law Havens Changed Fine Limits Red Safety Speed Drivers Traffic License Imposing Red Lights Speed Limits Licenses

Author:Robert James Thomson

“If you're driving more than 50 mph through a neighborhood where the speed limit is 25 mph, I question whether you should keep your driver's license. You're a menace to society.”

Ifs Should Limits Speed Driving Neighborhood Drivers License Menace Speed Limits Mph

Author:Robert James Thomson

“Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.”

Want Trying Limits Pretending

Author:James Hunter

“You can build a brain the size of a room, theoretically. You could also build a silicone based life form and it could be sentient. There's no limit to the height that you can reach in terms of design once we figure out how to design things, theoretically.”

Form Term Rooms Brain Figures Design Limits Size Height

Author:Neill Blomkamp

“So in 1924, Eleanor Roosevelt really gets a sense of what the limits of the battle and the contours of the battle are going to be. The men are contemptuous of the women, and the women really need to organize. She writes an article which becomes an article she writes in different ways over and over and over again: Women need to organize. They need to create their own bosses. They need to have support networks and gangs so that they are a force.”

Men Way Needs Writing Different Force Support He Man Battle Limits Different Ways Boss Articles Organize Gang Eleanor Contemptuous

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“I think that Eleanor Roosevelt really learned about the limits of power and influence from Arthurdale. She could not make some things happen. And she particularly learned that she could not, just because she was nominally in charge, she could not change people's hearts and minds; that a very long process of education would result before race was on the national agenda. And it really did move her into the racial justice arena with both feet. She came out fighting.”

People Thinking Mind Heart Long Happens Moving Fighting Process Justice Results Race Feet Influence Limits Things Happen Agendas Heart And Mind Arena Eleanor Racial Justice

Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook

“And they are much more skeptical of the very idea of having immigration limits, whereas the public - again, independents and Democrats, as well as Republicans, although not necessarily all in the same proportions - have a much stronger sense of the American government and American law having responsibility to Americans specifically rather than to people around the world. So the polarization is up versus down, not really right versus left.”

“God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.”

God Given Sides Exercise Limits Intelligent Intelligence Intellect Graves

Author:Francis Bacon

“I would like to release an album that I truly believe in, thus it is hard to put a time limit on it. I want to really go deeper and discover myself again through music.”

Want Believe Hard Limits Albums Deeper Release Time Limit

Author:Erin Willett

“Skateboarding and that whole industry just became so far away. I was trying to find that ultimate place, that place of contentment but I couldn't. I didn't find it in pushing the dark things of life to the limit either.”

Trying Whole Dark Industry Limits Ultimate Contentment Pushing Far Away Skateboarding Dark Things

Author:Christian Hosoi

“There's time limits on how long people's attention spans will work. There's six weeks in each territory that you're really famous, then you, thank god, disappear again.”

People Long Attention Week Limits Six Disappear Territory Thank God Attention Span Time Limit

Author:Sia Furler

“It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a really big issue: how political correctness defines the limits of what you can do. In that sense, it was super-exciting and maybe the most magical project we did, but at the same time fraught with mixed feelings.”

“Characters to me are like sonnets, they have limits that you obey which allow a force to enter in, an invention that makes the novel possible. Change the limits and the force leaves. The novel becomes impossible.”

Character Force Novel Impossible Limits Invention Sonnet Possible Change

Author:Alexander Chee

“I hate when a show has an age limit. Like a little tiny child is standing outside, like, 'Hey, I wanted to go but I couldn't.' That sucks.”

Children Littles Shows Age Wanted Hate Limits Standing I Hate Tiny Hey Standing Out

Author:Vince Staples

“It's a beautiful thing to build your own fan base and pay the bills knowing that you're staying true to your music at the end of the day. I look at life like this, the sky's the limit!”

Looks Ends Beautiful Pay Knowing Sky Fans Limits Bills The End Of The Day Staying Beautiful Things Stay True Sky's The Limit

Author:Rahki

“I wanted to see what it means to think about taking responsibility for one's own desires and choosing to foreground desire as an ethical principle. I also wanted to find ways of asking what the limits of agency are for subjectivities that are not unmarked or hegemonic.”

Thinking Way Mean Wanted Desire Responsibility Principles Limits Asking Agency Ethical Taking Responsibility Subjectivity Foreground Ethical Principles

Author:Richard Marshall

“However, within the limits of the human, it is important to recognise our common humanity. I think that a perspective based on common human needs has the most chance of being accepted and this does not depend on any particular metaphysical outlook.”

Thinking Needs Humans Doe Important Humanity Chance Common Particular Perspective Depends Limits Accepted Metaphysical Outlook Recognise Human Needs Common Humanity Being Accepted

Author:Alison Assiter

“Donald Trump creates scapegoats in Muslims and Mexican immigrants. He calls for the use of torture. He calls for killing the innocent children and family members of terrorists. He cheers assaults on protesters. He applauds the prospect of twisting the Constitution to limit First Amendment freedom of the press. This is the very brand of anger that has led other nations into the abyss.”

“I'm really open to different kinds of music, I don't like to limit myself to pop.”

Kind Different Limits Pops Different Kinds Different Kinds Of Music

Author:Mark Indelicato

“I also think the reason I like to do a one-man show is you're not limited into the confines of a role. There's so many facets to actors and I think it's important to push those limits, as far as what a person can do.”

Thinking Men Persons Important Reason Shows Actors Can Do Roles Limits One Man Facets

Author:Jason Graae

“There's sometimes a little bit of a trap to limit yourself for an audience.”

Littles Sometimes Bits Audience Limits Little Bit Traps

Author:John Debney

“In reality, there's a limit to putting a record out yourself. When it comes to working with major record companies in the context of them owning anything, though, that will never happen. Ever. In my life.”

Reality Happens Company Records Limits Majors Record Companies

Author:Kevin Shields

“The other effect that I worry about is the effect on the parent, that the moral teaching of humility and of the limits to our control that parenthood teaches- - that that will be lost and that we will begin to think of children more as consumer goods than as gifts that we can't fully control and for which we aren't fully responsible.”

Thinking Children Lost Parent Moral Teach Worry Teaching Effects Humility Limits Responsible Consumers Goods Parenthood

Author:Michael Sandel

“The sort of formality that goes into my artwork I would not expect from everybody in the world. I'm sort of pushing that point to its limit, in my mind, but I think there's absolutely nothing wrong with using a laptop so long as we have some understanding of how it works a little bit.”

Thinking World Mind Littles Long Bits Understanding Limits Little Bit Pushing Absolutely Nothing Artwork Laptops Formality

Author:Tristan Perich

“There are limits to what we can do. That's for sure. That is true. One of the downsides of a growing economy [is that] we're accommodating a lot more people. They're buying houses and the market is growing. That is part of the downside of that, but I think that all of us do have to decide to act on it.”

People Thinking House Can Do Economy Growing Limits Buying True Ones Growing Economy Buying A House

Author:Christy Clark

“We've excused all houses up to $750,000 from our property-purchase tax. We have more to do. There are other measures we intend to take to try and address housing affordability. There are things we can do. There are limits to it and we can't do it by ourselves.”

Trying House Can Do Limits Taxes Property Addresses Housing Affordability

Author:Christy Clark

“I'm always trying to encourage people not to limit themselves in the same way that many of our parents stayed with one job forever.”

People Way Trying Jobs Parent Forever Limits Always Trying

Author:Carrie Brownstein

“I think there's a certain limit to the number of times you can raise hairs on the back of peoples' heads before it gets kind of saccharin.”

Thinking Kind Certain Numbers Hair Limits Raises

Author:Mat McNerney

“The fact of playing an instrument and singing... that I can try to make my dream of singing and becoming a professional musician come true is linked probably to the fact that I traveled a lot, which gave me an open mind and an ability to push my limits.”

Trying Mind I Can Facts Dream Ability Becoming Limits Musician Singing Instruments Traveled Linked Open Mind

Author:Rokia Traore

“Music has the potential and the capability to create something much bigger... it has the capability to be completely free, to do anything. And I think you limit that idea when you put yourself in front of it, in a way.”

Thinking Way Ideas Fronts Limits Bigger Capability

Author:Karin Dreijer Andersson

“I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism.”

Knows Feels Long War States Government United United States Limits Decided Terrorism Long Ago State Government United States Government

Author:Barack Obama

“'m constantly depressed by the Mexican gang members I meet in East L.A. who essentially live their lives inside five or six blocks. They are caught in some tiny ghetto of the mind that limits them to these five blocks because, they say, "I'm Mexican. I live here." And I say, "What do you mean you live here - five blocks? Your granny, your abualita, walked two thousand miles to get here. She violated borders, moved from one language to another, moved from a sixteenth-century village to a twenty-first-century city, and you live within five blocks?"”

“A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as the gap from one end of the band to the other widens. But at some point you reach the limits of elasticity of the band and it snaps. The same thing happens with human systems.”

Feels Humans Ends Hands Happens Arms Band Limits Increase Things Happen Tension Muscles Gaps Snaps Stretching Analogies Rubber Elasticity Rubber Bands

Author:John L. Casti

“Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology.”

Way Term Powerful Technology Sky Limits Accomplish Sky Is The Limit

Author:Ramez Naam

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