Playing Fields Quotes - Page 3

• Americans are fighters. We're tough, resourceful and creative, and if we have the chance to fight on a level playing field, where everyone pays a fair share and everyone has a real shot, then no one - no one can stop us.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Real, Fighting, Creative

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• Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

  Jesse Ventura

  Business, Government, Hands

  Jesse Ventura (2000). “I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up”, p.30, Villard

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• In the 1960s we were fighting to be recognized as equals in the marketplace, in marriage, in education and on the playing field. It was a very exciting, rebellious time.

  Marlo Thomas

  Fighting, Equality, Guitar

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• The Internet has become a remarkable fount of economic and social innovation largely because it's been an archetypal level playing field, on which even sites with little or no money behind them - blogs, say, or Wikipedia - can become influential.

  James Surowiecki

  Innovation, Littles, Fields

  "Net Losses". www.newyorker.com. March 20, 2006.

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• Sometimes I think the playing field is certainly not even. You know, it's just not.

  Rod Stewart

  Thinking, Fields, Sometimes

  "GMA:Rod Stewart Interview". abcnews.go.com. February 7.

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• Several technological and political forces have converged, and that has produced a global, Web-enabled playing field that allows for multiple forms of collaboration without regard to geography or distance - or soon, even language.

  Thomas Friedman

  Distance, Political, Collaboration

  "Why the World Is Flat". Interview with Daniel H. Pink, www.wired.com. May 1, 2005.

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• As a source of innovation, an engine of our economy, and a forum for our political discourse, the Internet can only work if it's a truly level playing field. Small businesses should have the same ability to reach customers as powerful corporations. A blogger should have the same ability to find an audience as a media conglomerate.

  Al Franken

  Powerful, Media, Should Have

  "The Most Important Free Speech Issue of Our Time". www.huffingtonpost.com. December 20, 2010.

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• Fashion is such an insider's club, but slowly, the playing field is evening out. Through social media, everyone can have a front-row seat.

  Nicola Formichetti

  Fashion, Media, Clubs

  "Merging Physical and Digital in Fashion" by Nicola Formichetti, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2011.

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• I have always thought you could take the measure of a man by his sports manners - that is to say, the way in which he conducts himself on the playing field, or even over a game of chess or cards.

  Graydon Carter

  Sports, Men, Games

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• I don't think healthcare's a right. The only right you have is the ability to go out on an even playing field and work, and then purchase health insurance, or whatever it is.

  Adam Carolla

  Thinking, Fields, Healthcare

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• We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.

  Derrick Bell

  America, Greed, Levels

  Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.5, A&C Black

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• [Science is] a great game. It is inspiring and refreshing. The playing field is the universe itself.

  Isidor Isaac Rabi

  Science, Games, Fields

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• In a global arena, what our businessmen need in order to be competitive is transparency and a level playing-field.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Order, Levels, Fields

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• It is not the role of government to use the taxation and welfare system as a tool to level the playing field.

  Joe Hockey

  Government, Roles, Tools

  "Joe Hockey says 'we can't promise equality' as he dismisses budget critics" by Lenore Taylor, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2014.

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• Winning is an approach to life. The place it starts is not on the playing field or in the business organization; nor is it competitive. We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Buddhism, Winning

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• We don't need a flat tax, but a flattening tax, to truly level the playing field.

  Jello Biafra

  Needs, Levels, Fields

  Address to the US Green Party, 2000.

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• Being an actor: that's a pretty big net. That's a big playing field. The Screen Actors' Guild is filled with many, many, many, many people and vastly different careers.

  Timothy Olyphant

  Careers, People, Different

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• I don't think that a company should own a studio and the network, and program for their own network. It hurts the creativity - it is not a level playing field

  Scott Bakula

  Hurt, Creativity, Thinking

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• It will level the playing field, ... It will give American workers choice, confidence and also control.

  Elaine Chao

  Giving, Choices, Levels

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• Kyoto protocol is not a simple environmental issue, where you can say scientists are not unanimous. This is about international relations, this is about the economy, about trying to create a level playing field for big businesses throughout the world. You have to understand what is at stake, and that is why it is serious.

  Margot Wallstrom

  Simple, Kyoto Protocol, Issues

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• Why do we place such a disproportionate emphasis on sporting achievement? Why doesn't success in other fields receive similar attention... Maybe it's because in a country that prides itself on being egalitarian, sport is intellectually and socio-economically an equal playing field. In fact, the more humble your background, the better, the underdog-turned champion is a narrative that resonates powerfully. We're far less interested in the stories of our best doctors, writers, lawyers, engineers, teachers or social workers. Their triumphs do not capture our collective imaginations.

  Mia Freedman

  Sports, Country, Teacher

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• One of the most awesome things about sports, particularly team sports, is that everything you need to do to be successful on the playing field carries over directly into life. In a team sport you have to learn how to work together, to set goals, and then work toward those goals in a productive way. You learn to be responsible and you learn how to not only depend on others, but also be independent so you can support others.

  Sheila Cornell-Douty

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.

  John Gregory Dunne

  Stupid, People, Trying

  John Gregory Dunne (2007). “Nothing Lost”, p.29, Vintage

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• The values learned on the playing field-how to set goals, endure, take criticism and risks, become team players, use our beliefs, stay healthy and deal with stress-prepare us for life.

  Donna de Varona

  Sports, Stress, Team

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• There is no level playing field. Any time our society says that a powerful chemical company has the same right as a low income family that's living next door, that playing field is not level, is not fair.

  Robert D Bullard

  Time, Powerful, Doors

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