Barriers Quotes - Page 32

• Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.

  Kim Jee-woon

  Challenges, Around The World, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• There is no barrier to Indiana Jones growing older. It's not an age-based character. We can't bang him up as much as we used to, maybe. But I guess I can pretend to have the capacity as well as I pretended before.

  Harrison Ford

  Character, Age, Indiana

  "Star Wars Archive: Harrison Ford, Solo Artist". Empire Magazine Issue #156, www.empireonline.com. June 2002.

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• We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kings, Ignorance, Europe

  Thomas Jefferson, J. Jefferson Looney (2014). “The Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series, Volume 10: 1 May 1816 to 18 January 1817”, p.285, Princeton University Press

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• When the frontier between God and man, the last inexorable barrier and obstacle, is not closed, the barrier between what is normal and what is perverse is opened.

  Karl Barth

  Men, Lasts, Normal

  Karl Barth (1968). “The Epistle to the Romans”, p.53, Oxford University Press, USA

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• I feel that I helped the working class by just saying there are no barriers, which I consider to be true.

  Michael Caine

  Class, Just Saying, Being True

  "The Prestige - Michael Caine interview". Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Generosity, Grace, Showers

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• The way that music is approached in the temple is very call and response; it breaks down that barrier between performer and audience.

  Taraka Larson

  Way, Temples, Breaking Down

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Each time a barrier falls for one person, the doors of opportunity open wider for every other American.

  Jesse Jackson

  Fall, Opportunity, Doors

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• Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth, one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge, but eventually comes back to where one started.

  Stephen Hawking

  Strong, Fall, Space

  Stephen Hawking (2009). “A Brief History Of Time: From Big Bang To Black Holes”, p.46, Random House

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• They're very sociable occasions and there's no barriers between us and the audience. It's customary that after our performances, we go out into the foyer and spend an hour or so signing autographs for the fans and having our pictures taken with them.We strongly believe that going out front to meet the fans is just as important as playing the gigs - and we all love a good natter!

  Ric Sanders

  Taken, Believe, Important

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• I think for a lot of people, the financial barrier is the biggest leap (that) you have to take. A lot of people don't want to stick their necks out and take that risk which is totally understandable. Until you are ready to totally bet on yourself and put all of your chips on the table, it doesn't happen.

  Chris Gethard

  Thinking, People, Risk

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• Things that I see in the future. I see... it could be quite incredible if we can master a few problems, like the air and the water thing might be nice. I see governments dissolving these barriers are all falling down for economic reasons. They're all so interbound.

  Robin Williams

  Nice, Fall, Government

  Source: blankonblank.org

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• I got a chance to be in a society where the barriers between classes - social and economic - are not insuperable, where money is not everything all the time. Americans have been manipulated into a space by those who profit from the arrangements of that system. People feel a conscious disease - a dis-ease or an unease - but I don't think they know what causes it.

  Randall Robinson

  Thinking, Class, Space

  Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

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• I believe that the racial injustice which existed such a short time ago probably would have persisted longer if the color barrier had not been broken in baseball.

  Harrison Ford

  Baseball, Believe, Color

  "PUM One on One with Harrison Ford". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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• Sadly, this picture [ Joy] does not go from strength to strength. It sinks into a morass of tedious obstacles to this woman's success. Joy the person may be able to surmount all barriers, but the film with her name on it is not so fortunate.

  David O. Russell

  Names, Joy, Doe

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• Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.

  SonReal

  People, Hip Hop, Singing

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• If you're going to make a big wave, you have to be totally unified with everything that's happening... Maybe in the moment of having to know everything all at once you burst through the barriers of trying to put things in order.

  Nick Carroll

  Sports, Order, Trying

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• There's no psychological barrier anymore that stops a young person or an older person from taking heroin.

  Mike DeWine

  Psychological, Heroin, Young

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• It's great to see a relatable, accessible young woman out there, doing things and breaking the barriers for what would be considered an action movie.

  Todd Lieberman

  Would Be, Action, Young

  Source: collider.com

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• Jesse Owens had to be a very strong person. There were a lot of protests, but I think that he knew, despite the pressure on both sides, the pressure to go and the pressure not to go, he had to do it for himself. Unknowingly, he changed the world and broke so many barriers by doing so, by being a leader.

  Stephan James

  Strong, Thinking, Leader

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• Sometimes only poetry can say it. I think there's just this deeper language, and away of putting your world back together again and breaking through barriers.

  Laura Nyro

  Thinking, Together Again, World

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• Judgements like "right" and "wrong"; only build barriers and encourage shame within individuals.

  Rebecca Walker

  Judgement, Shame, Individual

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• Man, you learn so much just like with anything else. If you do something long enough, you learn. You make mistakes. You run into roadblocks and barriers. You overcome obstacles. You fall down. I mean you have to fall down to learn to stand up.

  Chuck Ragan

  Running, Mistake, Fall

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Tonight, we can say with pride that, in America, there is no barrier too great and no ceiling too high to break.

  Hillary Clinton

  Pride, America, Ceilings

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We did everything we could to break down barriers that restrain poorest.

  Boris Johnson

  Breaking Down, Break, Poorest

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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