Famous Quotes & Sayings

Vint Cerf

History is rife with examples of governments taking actions to 'protect' their citizens from harm by controlling access to information and inhibiting freedom of expression and other freedoms outlined in The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We must make sure, collectively, that the Internet avoids a similar fate.

Vusi Mahlasela

I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.

Zac Goldsmith

While big business gain subsidies and political access, small businesses drown in red tape, and individuals now risk being classified as terrorists for complaining about it. Economic globalisation is about homogenising differences in the worlds' markets, cultures, tastes and traditions. It's about giving big business access to a global market.

Isabel Gillies

You see, I am friends with a lobsterman. Because we are friends, which feels lucky anyway, I get access to the most amazing fish. It's like having a backstage pass - a culinary jackpot that feels almost undeserved.

England is a memory now. The gates are flooded and anybody can have access to England and join in.

Libraries are at a cultural crossroads. Some proffer that libraries as we know them may go away altogether, ironic victims of the information age where Google has subverted Dewey decimal and researchers can access anything on a handheld device. Who needs to venture deep into the stacks when answers are but a click away?

Nigel Hamilton

Listening to the stories my colleagues are researching and grappling with - in terms of access to documents, psychological understanding of their subjects, artful composition and determination to extrapolate from an individual's life lessons and insights that we can all learn from - I am each time overwhelmed by joy.

Leila Aboulela

The coverage of Islam in the media is becoming more sophisticated, and there is more access to knowledge.

We are happy to have Intel join the World Congress program. Leaders like Louis are accustomed to making strategic decisions concerning uses of technology in healthcare and will help the Congress open up opportunities for better IT implementation and access across these fields.

We are going to watch his every move. We are going to take his passport. We're going to limit his access to money.

Nina Garcia

I'm all about the high heel; I think it's the sexiest accessory ever made, including lingerie.

Ellen Key

No one who passively endures an injustice against himself has the material in him to struggle for the rights of others. The one who patiently forbears becomes an accessory to the injustice done to others. He who resists the injustice which he himself meets can open up the way to a higher right for others.

Chang-Rae Lee

For me, that's always been one of the great charms of the first person: we gain access to a very personal, private kind of music.

Ethan Zuckerman

When you sign up for Facebook, the service first searches for any mentions of your name and suggests you befriend anyone who has mentioned you in their posts. It then asks to access your e-mail account so you can connect with anyone with whom you regularly correspond.

Erin O'Connor

I worry about how accessible cosmetic surgery has become. Of course, if it has genuinely helped people, and their confidence has grown as a result; who am I to form an opinion?

Edward McKendree Bounds

Man's access in prayer to God opens everything and makes his impoverishment his wealth. All things are his through prayer.

Felicity Jones

It was only after university that I said to myself that I had to take the risk and have a serious go at acting. It's such a bizarre profession, because you have to be totally tough to deal with all those times when you're being turned down, and then really soft in order to access your character's emotions.

Across the Jewish community, the MLK Shabbat Suppers are part of Repair the World's multi-year effort to mobilize Jews across the nation to serve as tutors, mentors, and college access coaches for public school children.

Lael Brainard

Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.

Michael Brown

What we have right now is a situation where, with my having access to the military, bringing in the National Guard troops, securing the area, we'll be able to continue the relief efforts that we have been doing over the last several days, ... We'll be able to ramp those up and continue the evacuation.

We are not looking to block access or control access of our customers to content on the internet in any shape, way or form. It would be counter to our own interests because we have a very large broadband business.

Keahu Kahuanui

Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.

John Perry Barlow

Google, Amazon, Apple. Any number of cloud providers and computer service providers who can increasingly limit your access to your own information, control all your processing, take away your data if they want to, and observe everything you do; in a way, that does give them some leverage over your own life.

John Perry Barlow

The 'Total Information Awareness' project is truly diabolical - mostly because of the legal changes which have made it possible in the first place. As a consequence of the Patriot Act, government now has access to all sorts of private and commercial databases that were previously off limits.

Katherine Jenkins

Oh, stuff the critics. I don't care. Too many people are snooty about classical. Look, I wasn't brought up in a home where we listened to classical music. It was a singing teacher that thought it would be best for my voice. Then I moved into crossover. And if that makes the music accessible to more people, then great.

Jeremy Jordan

When you're performing on Broadway every night, you're so much more accessible to people in the industry. Everybody is going to know who you are.

We must embrace a new agenda based on inclusiveness; a commitment to reconnecting the social and the economic; a relinking of the latter to a plausible redistributive system; and a determination to ensure that everyone has access to justice. All these things are within our reach.

N. R. Narayana Murthy

Effective use of technology is important to deliver healthcare. By leveraging technology, you can bring down lack of access and cost of healthcare.

Nicholas Kristof

When the poor know that their children will survive, when they educate their daughters, when they access family planning, they have fewer children.

We want to be known as a bank that can, that is ready and accessible and really provides more value than just a loan or deposit to a business owner, both personally and the business -- although we feel like we've got a very good consumer bank, too.

We want tickets to be $25, to make it a bit more accessible for kids who might not be able to afford a $200 ticket to another benefit. We'll raise somewhere in the neighborhood of $350,000 to $400,000 for victims of Katrina, and we'll make kids feel like they were part of something larger.

Kent Conrad

You don't need some whole new unfettered access to individual tax returns of people or of companies in order to figure out how the IRS is spending its money,

You don't necessarily have to invest in new infrastructure. A lot of wireless vendors support voice, but you might need to add some new access points. You have to be much more serious about design and deployment and use tools to plan for high capacity usage instead of just data usage.