Boundaries Quotes - Page 7

• We`re a humane country. We got to make sure that we find the intelligence. We have do it [protecting our boundaries] in a humane way following the law.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Humane Way, Law

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There are probably 400 to 500 people, water protectors, north of the 1889 boundary, that was the result of an illegal annexation of treaty territory by the United States against not just the Standing Rock Nation, but the entire Lakota Nation and members of the Great Sioux Nation, the Oceti Sakowin. And so, other tribal governments are weighing in and supporting a fight on the ground, as they have a right to do.

  Chase Iron Eyes

  Fighting, Rocks, Government

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• As soon as there are no more classes, as soon as boundaries between classes are effaced, as soon as only a few but non-fundamental differences between various strata of the socialist society remain - there can no longer be nourishing ground for the formation of parties struggling among themselves.

  Joseph Stalin

  Struggle, Party, Class

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• Because national borders are eroding, because of the growth of non-state actors. It's a different kind of a world. We are tied down by a tiny little country - Iraq. It's amazing, given the disparity in military economic strength. It's a world where most of the big problems spill over national boundaries, and there are new kinds of actors and we're feeling our way as to how to deal with them.

  Brent Scowcroft

  Country, Military, Iraq

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• I think my mom gave me the borders, the - gave me a very clear understanding of what the perimeter was. And I had to find my fun within those boundaries.

  Mahershala Ali

  Mom, Fun, Thinking

  "In 'Moonlight,' Actor Mahershala Ali Found Characters He Recognized". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 16, 2017.

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• A lot of black men have problems being emotionally vulnerable because of the boundaries and parameters that have been put onto them by society.

  Daniel Kaluuya

  Men, Black, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Take an expansive view of the consumers needs and expand beyond your current boundaries.

  Michael J. Silverstein

  Views, Needs, Currents

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It's complementary. It's fairly clear where the boundaries are. When I start telling you the contents of his head, I am making it up. But I try to make it up based on what is on the record. So even my wildest speculations [on Thomas Cromwell] will have a root somewhere.

  Hilary Mantel

  Roots, Trying, Records

  Source: newrepublic.com

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• Where did the concept of "without borders" come from? No one had that concept until you saw Earth from space, illustrated not by a mapmaker who's color-coding political boundaries; it's illustrated by nature itself and there's land, there's ocean, there's atmosphere.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Ocean, Color, Land

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I am tired of fighting state by state, county by county, city by city, for fractions of equality. I am tired of compromises and I am tired of the strategy that divides us from each other. It is time for us to unite across state boundaries in a truly nationwide movement to win full, actual equality, which can only come from the federal government. That's not my opinion. That's a fact.

  Cleve Jones

  Tired, Fighting, Winning

  Source: www.bilerico.com

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• The most obvious difference between writing novels and memoirs is that my memoirs are true stories, and explore certain experiences I've lived, and thus operate within the boundaries of memory and fact.

  Danielle Trussoni

  Memories, Writing, Differences

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I'm drawn to making movies about contemporary life. The reason I choose institutions is because they provide a limit, a boundary.

  Frederick Wiseman

  Limits, Reason, Institutions

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is an arc of spontaneous revolts, beautiful in their creative beginnings, which traverses boundaries and borders and creates new solidarities and imaginations but which under the whip of the forces of order and strategies to buy-off sectors of the revolt becomes fragmented.

  Nigel Gibson

  Beautiful, Order, Imagination

  "Frantz Fanon and the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Nigel Gibson". Interview with Yasser Munif, www.middleeastdigest.com. August 17, 2012.

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• The time is coming when we will go beyond narrow religious confines and embrace a spirituality that will include the best of all religions and transcend narrow boundaries.

  Deepak Chopra

  Religious, Spirituality, Embrace

  Source: www.seventeen.com

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• I think good things come out of having tension with the people that you work with. You've got to be arguing in order to produce something interesting. If everyone's just agreeing with each other, you're not going to push the boundaries.

  Felicity Jones

  Thinking, Order, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• A lot of the experiences I write about could be described as grasping for boundaries, trying to find the limits of things.

  Melissa Febos

  Writing, Trying, Limits

  Source: therumpus.net

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• At a glance, addiction, sex work, mad passion, and all forms of extreme behavior might look like pushing or trying to obliterate boundaries when, more honestly, they are a search for them. I want to find the endpoint, the place where my own powers end, so I can yield to something that I'm certain is bigger than me.

  Melissa Febos

  Sex, Passion, Yield

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.

  Robert Plant

  Term, Generic, Americana

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• I like Alexander McQueen's work a lot: he's always pushing boundaries, and he's rough around the edges.

  Sam Taylor-Wood

  Pushing Boundaries, Rough, Mcqueen

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• I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.

  Florence Welch

  Worry, Waiting, Insane

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• I refuse to totally grow up. I've always been someone who says and does things that push politically correct boundaries.

  Robbie Williams

  Growing Up, Doe, Grows

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• I ran straight through the boundaries a married couple should live by.

  Tiger Woods

  Couple, Married, Should

  "Tiger Woods announces divorce: 'Our marriage is irretrievably broken'" by Helen Pidd, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2010.

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• The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true, inner selves and the outside world is pervasive, but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.

  Julian Baggini

  Thinking, Self, Ideas

  "I think, therefore iPod" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. August 3, 2008.

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• Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.

  Hanna Rosin

  Gracious

  Hanna Rosin (2008). “God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being on the edge, become a part of the edge and thus a part of the boundary, the definition which gives the whole its shape?

  Lucy Grealy

  Giving, Doe, Shapes

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