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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Students, Impossible, Programming

  Edsger W. Dijkstra (2012). “Selected Writings on Computing: A personal Perspective”, p.130, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Shockingly, a University of Pennsylvania study says the number of young people addicted to gambling - largely due to increased exposure to the Internet and Internet gambling - grew by an alarming 20 percent between 2004 and 2005 alone.

  Spencer Bachus

  Numbers, Gambling, People

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• I had an older brother who was very interested in literature, so I had an early exposure to literature, and and theater. My father sometimes would work in musical comedies.

  Francis Ford Coppola

  Brother, Father, Musical

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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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• I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

  Giovanni Ribisi

  Philosophy, Media, People

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• With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

  Conrad Hall

  Art, Eye, Light

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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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• 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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• 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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• I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey

  Parker Stevenson

  Children, Memories, Dad

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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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• It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Fear, Cybernetics, Psychological

  Maxwell Maltz (2015). “Psycho-Cybernetics: Updated and Expanded”, p.88, Penguin

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• I'd always dreamt of acting but, in Adelaide, we don't have exposure to the opportunities that make stardom a possibility.

  Teresa Palmer

  Opportunity, Acting, Adelaide

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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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• 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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• 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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• The Oscar changed everything. Better salary, working with better people, better projects, more exposure, less privacy.

  Kathy Bates

  People, Salary, Oscars

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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