Exposure Quotes

• A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Running, Loneliness, Being Alone

  "Wild Women Talk Back : Audacious Advice for the Bedroom, Boardroom, and Beyond". Book by Autumn Stephens (p. 15), 2004.

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• It is not your qualifications but your exposure in life that makes you who you are.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Meditation

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Strength

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Everyone's perspective of themselves and others is based on the limitations of their exposure.

  Kamala Harris

  Perspective, Limitation

  "The Lenny Interview: Kamala Harris, the Senate Hopeful, Going After Revenge Porn". Interview with Doreen St. Félix, www.elle.com. October 23, 2015.

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• Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.

  Helen Keller

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• Never give up. Never stop being creative in finding ways to get exposure. Also, prepared anytime and all the time. You never know who you will run into.

  Christina Milian

  Running, Giving Up, Creative

  "Christina Milian: Being compared to the Kardashians is a compliment". Interview with Dorothy Cascerceri, www.foxnews.com. February 17, 2015.

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• We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.

  David P. Gardner

  Learning, Tradition

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• Exposure to a diversity of disciplines has been exceptionally helpful to me.

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Discipline, Diversity, Helpful

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• We pay a price when we deprive children of the exposure to the values, principles, and education they need to make them good citizens.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Children, Principles, Needs

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• You can run but you can't hide

  Emily Giffin

  Running, Escaping, Marine Corps

  Emily Giffin (2008). “Love the One You're With”, p.353, Macmillan

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• There is an unseemly exposure of the mind, as well as of the body.

  William Hazlitt

  Mind, Body, Candor

  'Sketches and Essays' (1839) 'On Disagreeable People'

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• If you're here for four more years or four more weeks, you're here right now. I think when you're somewhere, you ought to be there. It's not about how long you stay in a place, it's about what you do while you're there, and when you go, is that place any better for your having been there?

  Jerry Stahl

  Thinking, Years, Long

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• There is a lot of music in the world that I love that does not always get the appropriate exposure.

  Moby

  Doe, World, Appropriate

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• Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.

  Helen Keller

  Death, Spiritual, Courage

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Be open to your dreams, people. Embrace that distant shore. Because our mortal journey is over all too soon.

  J. Christopher Stevens

  Dream, Journey, People

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• One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.

  Andrew Schneider

  Change, Two, People

  "'Northern Exposure' ('Cicely')". Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, May 18, 1992.

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• We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us.

  J. Christopher Stevens

  Wish, Obi Wan Kenobi, Littles

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• There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Running, Marine Corps, Safe

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• I don't want my work to be an exposure of my feelings.

  Jasper Johns

  Feelings, Want

  "Abstract Expressionism (World of Art)". Book by Davind Anfam (p. 202), 1990.

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• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Danger, Constant

  "De Providentia", IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 158-160), 1922.

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• Men are confused. They're conflicted. They want a woman who's their intellectual equal, but they're afraid of women like that. They want a woman they can dominate, but then they hate her for being weak. It's an ambivalence that goes back to a man's relationship with his mother. Source of his life, center of his universe, object of both his fear and his love.

  Diane Frolov

  Mother, Hate, Confused

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• You are the earth. We are sky and earth united.... You are my husband. You are my wife. My feet shall run because of you. My feet shall dance because of you. My heart shall beat because of you. My eyes see because of you. My mind thinks because of you and I shall love because of you.

  Andrew Schneider

  Running, Husband, Heart

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• Hee Haw was probably my biggest exposure to live music at a young age, because there wasn't any live music around my town and no one in my family played instruments.

  Alan Jackson

  Age, Towns, My Family

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• Of all the strange 'crimes' that human beings have legislated out of nothing, 'blasphemy' is the most amazing -- with 'obscenity' and 'indecent exposure' fighting it out for second and third place.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Fighting, Religion, Strange

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.225, Penguin

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• So many of my rookie mistakes could have been avoided by first-hand exposure to other, more experienced technology entrepreneurs.

  Kathryn Minshew

  Mistake, Technology, Hands

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