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“The main obstacle is the entrenched power of the legacy polluters.”

“While I was thinking about that, the military, I read a book called On Killing, about the obstacles people have to pulling the trigger in combat. So sometimes you just absorb all this stuff without realizing you were doing research.”

People Thinking Book Sometimes Stuff Realizing Military Research Killing Obstacles Combat Pulling Triggers Pulling The Trigger

Author:Charlie Brooker

“The for-profit health insurance industry is the main obstacle to delivering high quality, universal healthcare for all. It should be replaced with a single-payer system, a public program that guarantees everyone coverage.”

Should Quality Industry Program Universal Profit Obstacles Guarantees Healthcare Replaced Coverage Delivering High Quality

Author:Kshama Sawant

“That could be a high water mark for the Green Party in its history. What two states, I can only guess, aren't you going to be on because of horrendous obstacles to getting on the ballot.”

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Author:Ralph Nader

“[Indira Gandhi] answered cautiously at first. Then she opened up like a flower and the conversation flowed along without obstacles, in mutual sympathy.”

Firsts Flower Conversation Obstacles Mutual

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“Merit clears away obstacles.”

Obstacles Merit

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“Why do some people, when they want to practice, keep coming against problems and difficulties, and obstacles - inner obstacles and outer obstacles? It's because of the lack of merit.”

People Want Problem Practice Difficulty Obstacles Merit

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“In this life you have obstacles.”

Obstacles This Life

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“If you go to any nunnery and ask them what the main obstacle is, they'll always say low self-esteem and lack of confidence. It will take time. But the difference between the first girls from Ladakh who became nuns, to the girls we have now, is very encouraging.”

Ifs Firsts Self Girl Asks Differences Self Esteem Lows Obstacles Esteem Take Time Low Self Esteem Nun Lack Of Confidence Ladakh

Author:Tenzin Palmo

“I run my own film school, the Rogue Film School, and I do it over three and a half days, eight hours non-stop everyday; alone, single-handedly. But the difference is in the Rogue Film School I do have real human beings in front of me from all over the world, and of course there's this course as well, they can ask, talk about their problems and obstacles, finances, anything, you just name it. Whereas in the Masterclass, you are speaking to cameras.”

“The script is the musical score, and everyone has to play off that score. Even I have to interpret it. The producers are there to eliminate obstacles to that interpretation.”

Play Musical Scripts Obstacles Producers Score Interpretation

Author:Rebecca Miller

“Obamacare is his. The stimulus is his. The economy is his. And yet Barack Obama still treats it as though it's being run by others and he's still fighting them and he's running into obstacles.”

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Author:Rush Limbaugh

“A lot of the time [in the U.S.], I was thinking about how spending time is always questionable or is always the biggest obstacle in my life.”

Thinking Obstacles Spending Spending Time Questionable Biggest Obstacles

Author:Ai Weiwei

“The obstacles are great and the suffering is great and people have got to make a living.”

People Suffering Obstacles

Author:Leonard Cohen

“We asked for a delegation [of the Red Cross] in March 2013 when the first attack happened in Aleppo in the north of Syria ; they delayed it till just a few days before al-Ghouta when they sent those team, and the team itself said in its report that he did everything as he wanted. There was not a single obstacle.”

Firsts Said Wanted Happened Team Red Crosses Obstacles Reports March Als Syria Delayed Delegation Red Cross

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“I'm constantly struggling with the futility and even sinfulness, from an antinatalist point of view, of creativity. And that struggle itself seems part of the creativity, though I sometimes suspect that it's nothing but a burden and an obstacle.”

Sometimes Seems Views Creativity Struggle Burden Obstacles Point Of View Suspects Futility Sinfulness

Author:Quentin S. Crisp

“Not everyone is going to end up being a founder of a company, but the skill of being entrepreneurial, having ideas and going through with them - that skill is so important. Everyone should be imbued with it. Because once you have that, once your brain has been wired for that, all these problems, obstacles, all these things start looking like things you can hack.”

Should Has Beens Important Ideas Ends Problem Brain Company Skills Obstacles Founders Entrepreneurial Hacks

Author:Alexis Ohanian

“When your location is a snowy mountain in the winter the obstacles are pretty extreme.”

Mountain Winter Obstacles Extremes Location Snowy Snowy Mountains

Author:Travis Rice

“Boston didn't always have the best reputation, nor did I, growing up in Boston, as a kid with challenges and obstacles in front of me.”

Kids Challenges Growing Up Growing Fronts Obstacles Reputation Boston

Author:Mark Wahlberg

“I think Muslims in particular are facing similar obstacles African Americans did, historically.”

Thinking Particular Obstacles African American

Author:Ibtihaj Muhammad

“When you understand the purpose [of life], then you can deal and journey through the obstacles, the rejections, the stops and starts, highs-and-lows with a different lens because you know that you're moving in what you're supposed to do.”

Knows Different Moving Purpose Deals Journey Lows Obstacles Rejection Purpose Of Life Lenses Moving In Highs And Lows

Author:Aisha Hinds

“I don't look at obstacles as obstacles. I look at them as things that were put there for a reason. You can approach these things negatively or positively. I think those that approach it with a negative mindset only get a negative outcome.”

Thinking Looks Reason Approach Negative Obstacles Mindset Outcomes Positively

Author:Kevin Hart

“When obstacles have been put in front of me, I just get around them and move past them and laugh at them.”

Has Beens Past Moving Laughing Fronts Obstacles

Author:Kevin Hart

“All revolutions in history have obstacles.”

Revolution Obstacles

Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“The trouble is that the risks that are being hedged very well by new financial securities are financial risks. And it appears to me that the real things you want to hedge are real risks, for example, risks in innovation. The fact is that you'd like companies to be able to take bigger chances. Presumably one obstacle to successful R&D, particularly when the costs are large, are the risks involved.”

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Author:Kenneth Arrow

“It's perfectly natural to desire more troops when engaged in a military operation facing serious obstacles, and the more troops you have, probably, the [lower the] risk of causalities.”

Desire Natural Risk Military Serious Obstacles Operations Engaged Troops Causality Military Operations Perfectly Natural

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“Now I don't have to explain to the world about India's position. The world is unanimously appreciating India's position. And the world is seeing that Pakistan is finding it difficult to respond. If we had become an obstacle, then we would have had to explain to the world that we are not that obstacle. Now we don't have to explain to the world. The world knows our intentions. Like on the issue of terrorism, the world never bought India's theory on terrorism. They would sometime dismiss it by saying that it's your law and order problem.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“If you take a look at education, the kids that get good grades are said to humiliate those who don't. And what, then, do we do? Slow them down. We put obstacles in their way. We do not devise public education systems that are designed to deal with their superior learning ability. We retard it so that they don't learn any more, any faster than the lowest common denominator - and that really is the nub of it. The Democrats' equality and sameness is all going to be defined by the lowest common denominator.”

“We can't have close to 90 percent of those prenatally diagnosed with an intellectual disability being aborted; 90 percent not going to school; more than 90 percent reporting discrimination in the healthcare system; and 90 percent unemployed, and tell ourselves that we're doing a good job. The obstacles to leading a full life for the vast majority of people with intellectual disabilities are far beyond what they should be, and far beyond what we should tolerate. So yeah, I want change.”

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Author:Timothy Shriver

“The game of chess is a metaphor for life... it teaches you strategy and it teaches you the value of knowing where you are, where you want to get to and what obstacles are in the way that you need to navigate in order to get there.”

Way Want Needs Values Order Games Teach Knowing Strategy Metaphor Obstacles Chess Where You Are Navigate

Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“Every time I overcome an obstacle, it feels like success. Sometimes the biggest ones are in our head - the saboteurs that tell us we can't.”

Feels Sometimes Overcoming Obstacles Saboteurs

Author:Lupita Nyong'o

“Women have come a long way, but it never fails to sadden me when I see younger women saying we have to overcome some obstacles.”

Way Long Failing Overcoming Obstacles Long Way

Author:Nancy Pelosi

“In Liberia, our main obstacle is infrastructure: the lights, the water, the roads. Companies can't operate without those things. And even though we have commitments from our partners, it takes time to turn commitments into cash.”

Light Turns Water Company Commitment Obstacles Partners Cash Take Time Infrastructure It Takes Time

Author:Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

“I don't think poverty provides that much of an obstacle to education as one thinks. I think the bigger obstacle to education is the fact that it's a very hard thing to do for a first-generation schoolgoer. Because not to have parents at home who can help you, motivate you, is a problem even when the parents are in the abstract very keen on children being educated.”

Thinking Firsts Children Hard Facts Helping Problem Home Parent Poverty Generations Bigger Obstacles Educated Things To Do Abstract Hard Things

Author:Amartya Sen

“Poverty is not really as much of an obstacle to educational expansion as it's sometimes made out to be.”

Made Sometimes Poverty Obstacles Educational Expansion

Author:Amartya Sen

“The fanatical Communist refuses to believe any unfavorable report or evidence about Russia, nor will he be disillusioned by seeing with his own eyes the cruel misery inside the Soviet promised land. It is the true believer's ability to "shut his eyes and stop his ears" to facts that do not deserve to be either seen or heard which is the source of his unequaled fortitude and constancy. He cannot be frightened by danger, nor disheartened by obstacles, nor baffled by contradictions because he denies their existence.”

“My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.”

Done Obstacles Despite Intimate Things Done

Author:Kofi Annan

“I don't think that anyone should ever give up on whatever it is that they dream of. Obstacles will come their way, but everything is a learning experience and it all works out for the good anyway.”

Thinking Way Giving Should Dream Giving Up Work Out Obstacles Learning Experience

Author:Tiffany Villarreal

“I think the obstacle for women is that their lives are intertwined with the lives of men. Change at the very deepest level of one's daily life and one's being is required if women are to be really equal.”

Ifs Thinking Men Levels Equal Obstacles Daily Life Very Deep Intertwined

Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“The difference between me and Tiny Lister is that he has never been the greatest actor, he hasn't been able to do a lot of big talking parts in movies, or even... he kind of has one emotion. He never looks at his career as an obstacle, he only looks at the positives. He's done... he knows, he has an opportunity. I mean, you see in a script, "Tiny Lister" type, you know you've made your mark. I mean on Friday After Next, that's what everyone expected me to be the new Tiny because it was that sort of part to fill that role, but if you look at the movie, there was a lot more there.”

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Author:Terry Crews

“Going against Jim Brown wasn't any different than going against Jim Taylor and any of the other guys. He's just an obstacle that we have to overcome. We just couldn't put anything together.”

Different Together Guy Overcoming Obstacles Other Guys

Author:Lenny Moore

“Skateboarding has always been and continues to be creative and rebellious. Art and design are an extremely important part of skateboard culture, even if it's not recognized by the more elitist or pretentious members of the art world. Skateboarding itself requires creative adaptation to the streets and obstacles. My background as a skateboarder helped me to be a better street artist because I was already conditioned to look at the terrain opportunistically.”

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Author:Shepard Fairey

“Despite the obstacles of race and class, I was always taught that I could accomplish anything I set my mind to. African-American writers, for me, were a beacon, a guiding force.”

Mind Obstacles Accomplish American Writer

Author:Clarence Major

“As writers and readers, we're drawn to conflict. It's that ancient theory of plot that's written on the whiteboard during every fiction workshop, characters who want something overcoming obstacles as a way to create narrative momentum and suspense. So there's that, that trauma gives us more plot.”

Giving Character Conflict Overcoming Ancient Obstacles Trauma

Author:Leslie Pietrzyk

“In this system called America, white privilege reigns supreme but to me, I have to embrace what I am and how special we are as a people. I have to know that God put me here for a real reason and He blessed me with divine privilege and there's a divine system that I can tap into that can help me overcome any obstacle that stands in my way.”

People Real Reason Helping Special Divine Overcoming Blessed Embrace Obstacles My Way Help Me

Author:Charlamagne Tha God

“Business success is not determined by government policy. It's not determined by regulation. The people succeed in business have to overcome all the obstacles put in their way by people like Democrats and Obama. That's what Trump knows, how to overcome these guys, how to get the things they put in his way out of the way, while they don't even know it's happening. And that would go for much of the political commentariat, too, folks, that are totally immersed in politics and know nothing else, other than they swear allegiance to free markets, but that's about it.”

People Political Guy Policy Succeed Overcoming Democrat Obstacles Determined Swear Free Market

Author:Rush Limbaugh

“Divorce is the hardest obstacle I've had to overcome in my life. I would like to believe that most people don't get married anticipating divorce. When I reached that crossroad, I felt like such a failure. After years of therapy together, I realized that staying together was emotionally destructive. My husband didn't want the divorce, but I did. So there was a lot of bitterness initially. Although we are still divorced, we still call each other "family." It was a journey to get there, but it's a beautiful place to be.”

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Author:Regina King

“Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with. Surrendered people understand that they can't always change a situation, especially when the door is shut. They don't try to force it open. Instead, they pay attention to their own behavior, look at the situation at hand, and find a new, different, and creative way to get beyond the obstacles.”

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Author:Judith Orloff

“There are no a priori obstacles to the scientific knowledge of the mind, but the scientific knowledge of the mind is not all the knowledge of the mind that there is. This is not an objection to science, it is just a distinction between different kinds of knowledge.”

Mind Kind Different Obstacles Different Kinds

Author:Tim Crane

“The Iraqis are committed to their rights as much as they are committed to the rights of others. Without peace they will be faced with many obstacles that would stop them from fulfilling their human role.”

Committed Obstacles Fulfilling

Author:Saddam Hussein

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