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

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

  Irene Rosenfeld

  Discipline, Diversity, Helpful

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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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• I had been coming to America very frequently for many, many years, so I had plenty of exposure - and maybe the best kind of exposure, because I think first impressions are very important. Maybe I notice stuff that is just subliminal to people who live here all the time.

  Lee Child

  Thinking, Years, America

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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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• 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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• Well, I had a lot of help from my father with the soldering and so on, and he was very good at math and was fascinated with computers, and so I was fortunate enough to have a bunch of exposure going all the way back to high school - this was in the 1960s.

  Mitchell Kapor

  Father, School, Math

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• So one reason the science educators panic at the first sign of public rebellion is that they fear exposure of the implicit religious content in what they are teaching.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Religious, Teaching, Uprising

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• What I took back, because of my exposure to the Jewish music of the 30s and the 40s in my upbringing with my father, was that kind of theatrical songwriting. It was always a part of my character. This desire to make people laugh...Songwriting is best. It's the hardest-finest-tightest. It also requires the most discipline.

  Pete Townshend

  Father, Character, Discipline

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• The money is in a different league these days, of course, but I have special memories of the 60s and 70s which players today don't have. There wasn't the same celebrity attitude and media exposure. We had a bit more freedom.

  Peter Shilton

  Memories, Attitude, Player

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• At the age of 12, I developed an intense interest in mathematics. On exposure to algebra, I was fascinated by simultaneous equations and read ahead of the class to the end of the book.

  John Pople

  Book, Class, Age

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• I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Igor Stravinsky, Robert Craft (1966). “Themes and episodes”

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• A very receptive state of mind... not unlike a sheet of film itself - seemingly inert, yet so sensitive that a fraction of a second's exposure conceives a life in it.

  Minor White

  Mind, Photographer, Film

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• I have got up at truly deplorable hours in the morning to confront Vancouver's Jack Webster on television because I have been told that is the place to get exposure for ideas.

  Barbara Amiel

  Morning, Ideas, Style

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• The happy story right now is the full page in Vanity Fair, which gives me a great deal of exposure.

  Jackie DeShannon

  Vanity, Giving, Stories

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• The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

  Helen Keller

  Strong Women, Fear, Avoiding Pain

  Let Us Have Faith (1940)

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• There are stars out there who would die to have this much exposure.

  Clay Aiken

  Stars, Dies

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• I believe I became one of the first singers to be launched via television exposure. I guess I was a new kind of musical stylist for a new kind of media.

  Brenda Lee

  Believe, Media, Musical

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• They often ask me to shoot for them. But I say no. I think an old guy like me ought not take pages away from young photographers who need the exposure.

  Helmut Newton

  Thinking, Guy, Needs

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• Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

  George H. Mead

  Yawning, Hands, Evil

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• Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's probably a combination of heredity and noise exposure.

  George Kennedy

  War, Loss, Umpires

  "Movies, Hearing Loss and Hearing Aids". audiologyonline.com interview, www.audiologyonline.com. May 2, 2005.

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